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NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission

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404 points voxleone | 3 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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cyberge99 ◴[21 Oct 25 20:20 UTC] No.45661164[source]▶
Which will backfire spectacularly when Obama is re-elected.
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1. evan_ ◴[21 Oct 25 22:28 UTC] No.45662542[source]▶
If they do this approach they will surely say that the constitutional limit is two consecutive terms, and since Trump's two terms were non-consecutive, he's still eligible to run again.
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2. qingcharles ◴[22 Oct 25 00:01 UTC] No.45663342[source]▶
They already did, 9 months ago:

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

3. simondotau ◴[22 Oct 25 04:36 UTC] No.45664921[source]▶
No, the approach will be to put Trump second on a ticket as vice president, and then have the top name on the ticket abdicate on day one.

The constitution says he can’t be elected president, but on an extremely pedantic reading, it doesn’t say he can’t be elected vice president.