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NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission

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404 points voxleone | 2 comments | 21 Oct 25 12:58 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bahmboo ◴[21 Oct 25 19:15 UTC] No.45660320[source]▶
"The president and I want to get to the moon in this president's term" - Sean Duffy NASA administrator.

A scary way to set a schedule on a complex project with lives at stake. They don't care though.

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jm4 ◴[21 Oct 25 20:02 UTC] No.45660957[source]▶
The silver lining is that they are operating under the assumption that he will leave office at the conclusion of his term.
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sigmoid10[dead post] ◴[21 Oct 25 20:13 UTC] No.45661073[source]▶
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cyberge99 ◴[21 Oct 25 20:20 UTC] No.45661164{3}[source]▶
Which will backfire spectacularly when Obama is re-elected.
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1. overfeed ◴[21 Oct 25 21:48 UTC] No.45662147{4}[source]▶
If it were to happen, I fully expect the supreme court to contort itself for a bespoke ruling that only applies under the current set of circumstances, favoring a very specific candidate and no one else.
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2. qingcharles ◴[22 Oct 25 00:01 UTC] No.45663338[source]▶
It's already happened:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45663333