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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 days ago (3 children)

This is why NASA should never have outsourced its rocket programme.

[–] jumping_redditor 1 points 1 day ago

or maybe the government should have purchased the capsule outright instead of on a contract.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

What!?? Being reliant on a petulant manchild isn't a good long term strategy??? Who would have guessed?

[–] threelonmusketeers 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

What would the alternative for transport to and from the ISS have been? Keep flying the Space Shuttle for two more decades? Ares I + Orion? SLS + Orion? Rely on Soyuz indefinitely?

Falcon 9 + Dragon are one of the best returns on investment NASA have gotten recently.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Considering the head of the Russian space programme threatened to yeet the ISS at Ukraine, relying on Soyuz might not be any more sane than this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Well, it’s not looking too good right now.

[–] Tar_alcaran 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And this is why you shouldn't outsource your space industry to a petulant manchild nazi-lover.

[–] threelonmusketeers 10 points 4 days ago

They did choose an alternative as well, and they chose... Boeing Starliner.

I do wonder what how things would have played out if Dream Chaser had gotten funded instead of Starliner.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Pointing out that doing what Trump wants would leave the US reliant on the Russians to reach the ISS is definitely a win for The Musk.

Crew Dragon and Falcon are both brilliant pieces of kit, it's a shame who owns them.