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If it's good and hopeful trump will be against it.
So does anyone else remember when trump said they would have a moon base? Like the whole going back to the moon thing was kinda his thing?
The world was looking at other space programs, but no usa needed to moon it, and now never mind space...
Genuine question: Is artemis II a "Fuck You" to Elon Musk bc his shitty rockets cannot get out of orbit with 0 payload while the government builds one and sends it around the moon with people? Did Musk and the govt collaborate or what?
Considering this has been many, many years in the making, I don't get how you could come to the conclusion that this was a "fuck you" to SpaceX. And calling Starship a shitty rocket just further shows you're a little biased in your assessment of the situation.
Yes, I am biased. Fuck Elon Musk and his shitty-rocket-embezzlement-scheme SpaceX.
For real. A single person should not have enough money for their own goddamn space program. It’s ludicrous.
SpaceX isn't the first company to be making rockets. Who do you think has been making NASA's rockets? I'll give you a hint: it's not NASA.
And Elon started SpaceX way before me was the richest person in the world. You can hate Elon Musk. I'd even agree with your hate there. But to direct it at SpaceX and accuse them as just being a money-making-scheme for Elon is a little ridiculous.
One of the criticisms of the Artemis program is that NASA's SLS rocket is Titantically, catastrophically expensive compared to SpaceX rockets. Or compared to the Saturn IV rocket. Compared to just about everything.
Artemis III is supposed to involve a commercially-made moon lander, probably from SpaceX. Artemis IV is supposed to build a space station in lunar orbit, on the back of about a zillion SpaceX rocket launches.
I don't know everything, but I don't think NASA's in any position to tell Elon Musk off.
Grain of salt: Most of what I think I know about Artemis is from a very long, very detailed, very critical and persuasive blog post by someone who isn't even an engineer as far as I know.
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