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Elon Musk Trying to Scrap NASA's Moon Program (futurism.com)

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Consequently, the South African billionaire has been put in charge of a so-called "Department of Government Efficiency" to excise $2 trillion from the national budget. Whether this advisory group will be able to take aim at the Artemis program remains to be seen.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 22 hours ago (9 children)

He knows SpaceX can't deliver what they promised for the Moon program, so he needs to change the goalposts. Obviously NASA isn't suddenly going to request less of SpaceX, not without demanding back all the funding awarded. So he needs to have the Moon program replaced with a Mars program, where they don't need to deliver anything for the next 10-15 years and can delay time and time again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I always love the debate about fantasizing about anyone going to colonize Mars ..... we're having a hard time sustaining life here.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Musk is a bigoted lying piece of shit and also a Mars colony could lead to useful discovery, even ones we never could have anticipated. Science should never need to prove itself as useful 100% of the time. Many important discoveries were made by accident.

I would never ever want Musk to be anywhere near decisions about a Mars mission, or anything else of consequence though. Among many other reasons , he likely would prevent such unanticipated discoveries by being a stubborn narcissist...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't realize humanity wasn't capable of working on both issues at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

See the problem with that is Elon would have to hire more people, which would hurt his bottom line and require his money bin to fill at a slower rate. That's unacceptable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ SpaceX has hired a significant number of people at Starbase for the Starship program and are still hiring for said program

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