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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: 0.209s | 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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1. rob74 ◴[22 Oct 25 11:58 UTC] No.45667744[source]▶
Yeah, I'm sure astronauts will be thrilled to know that the thing that should bring them to the moon (and back!) was not only built by the lowest bidder (as that famous quote of uncertain origin states), but also by the one who managed to build it fastest so an arbitrary deadline could be kept. Ok, TBF Kennedy also set an arbitrary deadline when he said that Americans should land on the moon before the end of the decade (meaning the 1960s)...