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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.

Having a deadline is how things get done. With no deadline, nothing gets accomplished.

bahmboo ◴[21 Oct 25 19:26 UTC] No.45660462[source]▶

This is a political deadline with no grounding in reality.

JFK proposed we go to the Moon in 1962. We did it in 1969, 7 years later.

phkahler ◴[21 Oct 25 19:51 UTC] No.45660814[source]▶

Not only that, he wanted to go to the moon before the end of the decade. They made it within that time.

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jjk166 ◴[21 Oct 25 21:14 UTC] No.45661806[source]▶

Which is kind of the key point - Kennedy's deadline was a realistic one based on the technical difficulty of the challenge.

1. dghlsakjg ◴[21 Oct 25 22:05 UTC] No.45662331[source]▶

Artemis is scheduled to take longer than Apollo.

We are in year 8 of Artemis. In year 8 of Apollo there were multiple manned missions including one that went to the moon but did not land.

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