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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: 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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buellerbueller ◴[21 Oct 25 19:52 UTC] No.45660821[source]▶
I suspect the first people to sail the globe did so knowing the risks. I suspect if we reduced astronaut safety thresholds by a factor of 10, we will still have a surplus of high quality candidates for space missions.
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pantalaimon ◴[21 Oct 25 21:11 UTC] No.45661759[source]▶
Sailboats were pretty well understood by then and in contrast to rockets there is much less potential for catastrophic failure.
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1. buellerbueller ◴[22 Oct 25 13:05 UTC] No.45668486[source]▶
At least two orders of magnitude wrong, if we are talking about human death.

A 50% death rate from scurvy alone was assumed.

https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-age-of-s...