“I love SpaceX; it’s an amazing company. The problem is, they’re behind. They’ve pushed their timelines out, and we’re in a race against China,” Duffy said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Monday morning. [More]
If the goal is hurrying to beat someone else for bragging rights, with all the innumerable complexities and unforeseen potentials for disaster you don’t need to make too many mistakes. Especially when the political appointee in charge has a… a lumberjack?… background, and NASA has been distracted with woke bureaucratic priorities for decades.
You send this up and it doesn’t come back, Mr. President, the aftermath political and human damage will be every bit as disastrous. Don’t you guys dare cut any corners.
Yeah, I know, this has nothing to do with guns. But it has everything to do with giving a political advantage to the party that wants to ban them, plus I spent my boyhood years enthralled by Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo and it’s my blog.
“I love SpaceX; it’s an amazing company. The problem is, they’re behind. They’ve pushed their timelines out, and we’re in a race against China,”
Given how late Artemis is and how far over budget, NASA has a big brass set to be critical of SpaceX on either metric.
Is Mr. Duffy an undisclosed investor in a NASA contractor?
I’d rather it NOT come back then it crapping out and comes crashing down somewhere here on Earth.
But that begs the question, if Elon Musk via his quasi private company IS the US space program, then why do we still fund NASA? And the Space Force?
SpaceX *is* America’s space program… entirely because NASA has proved itself incompetent. So they should stay in their lane and ask Elon how he takes his coffee.
“SpaceX Lunar Approach Control, this is Artemis IV, do you read, over?”
“Artemis IV, this is SpaceX Approach, go ahead, over!”
“SpaceX, Artemis IV, requesting clearance for parking orbit to South Pole approach, over.”
“Artemis IV, SpaceX, roger that. Continue current vector and contact South Pole Landing Control on 6. Be advised that there are 12 Starships in the pattern ahead of you. SpaceX clear.”
“Thank you, SpaceX. Artemis IV clear.”