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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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loourr ◴[21 Oct 25 13:35 UTC] No.45655638[source]▶
Artemis is a joke. You can tell this is politically motivated by their stance on SLS. If they were serious they would give Spacex the SLS contract for being years and years behind schedule.
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caycep ◴[21 Oct 25 20:54 UTC] No.45661583[source]▶
the whole space industry is a joke; if it were healthy, there would be an ecosystem of multiple launch providers vs one finicky government-funded-Elon-company
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BHSPitMonkey ◴[22 Oct 25 08:18 UTC] No.45666203[source]▶
> the whole space industry is a joke; if it were healthy, there would be an ecosystem of multiple launch providers vs one finicky government-funded-Elon-company

ULA has been operating for many, many years (Atlas/Delta, now Vulcan Centaur), RocketLab has been putting up small payloads for the last few (with Electron, someday Neutron perhaps), and BO seems close to having New Glenn flying real missions this season. But yes, one hopes that the others can become competitive on price eventually.

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1. caycep ◴[22 Oct 25 23:52 UTC] No.45676622[source]▶
"healthy" and "ULA" might not go together in the same sentence