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NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission

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404 points voxleone | 1 comments | 21 Oct 25 12:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.217s | source
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gradientsrneat ◴[21 Oct 25 15:58 UTC] No.45657389[source]▶
Duffy is a Trump appointee, so this could be part of the continuing fallout of the Trump/Elon relationship. The Republican majority Congress has also attempted to partially defund NASA, and the government is shut down because Congress couldn't pass a budget. On top of that, space engineering is hard. So, of course there are delays.
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FloorEgg ◴[21 Oct 25 16:51 UTC] No.45658081[source]▶
Elon is competing with a lot of entrenched interests that would actively try to influence Trump to undermine Elon:

- oil and gas industry

- ICE automotive industry

- telecom industry

- media industry

- and of course... Aerospace and defense industry (Boeing, Lockheed, etc.)

There are a lot of very rich very powerful people that want Elon to fail, and any way they can undermine him would be a win for them.

I say this as someone who really tries to have a balanced opinion on Elon and the topic as a whole, including recognition of all of Elon's flaws.

The military-media-industrial complex can be out to get Elon and spending a lot of money to turn the public against him AND he can have a lot of flaws AND he can be not as bad as everyone thinks because of said media influence.

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leobg ◴[21 Oct 25 18:11 UTC] No.45659392[source]▶
Brave thing to say on HN. There are a few people here who will downvote any comment that contains the word “Elon”, “SpaceX” or “Tesla” if the comment’s saltiness score is less than 8/10.
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1. FloorEgg ◴[21 Oct 25 23:20 UTC] No.45663033[source]▶
Perhaps. I am doing my best to stay emotionally detached from this topic and maintain a balanced view, and very open to reasoned arguments and being wrong.

Hacker News is one of the last places I feel comfortable engaging in this way, and not always (sometimes I step on a land mine and get surprised), but if it's not here, I don't know where else to go, and that feels like a shame.

I don't care much about the points, so long as I can keep engaging. So I do my best to follow the guidelines and have faith in the moderation to keep me and others in check, even if sometimes I slip up or encounter what seems like an unfair reaction.

To censor myself from being inquisitive or rationally explore a sensitive topic in a place like this just feels too dystopian for me to accept.