“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.
