I thought we already won “the race to the moon” decades ago?
Is this an admission that we never actually went there?
End sarcasm alert for the low-IQ crowd.
Civilian contractors can do it at least 50% cheaper.
The compbureaucracylaint is Trump is shifting resources from government bureaucracies to more efficient private organizations that emphasize performance over DEI, etc.
No. According to conspiracy theories it was faked.
Every mission imagined is crippled by the "need" for triple redundancy and associated cost.
Sure it does.
nope, Nasa needs to be shut down completely and a new agency with proper leadership needs to be built from the ground up.
“The Trump administration has effectively flushed $47.5 billion down the toilet, according to Time.”
Not if you adhere to Principles of Finance and Project Accounting Rule #1: Sunk costs are irrelevant to the current decision.
Washington Monument ploy.
If a budget is cut, the first thing shut down is the Washington monument.
The headline is misleading.
Trump’s budget cuts target bloated legacy systems like SLS and Orion—not the Moon mission itself.
In fact, funding for human spaceflight is up, signaling a strategic shift toward private partners like SpaceX. Musk has already proven that commercial operations can be faster and more cost-effective. By reallocating resources through fixed-price contracts, NASA can leverage proven private-sector capabilities instead of relying on slower, costlier government-built systems.
This is a strategic reset, not a retreat.
Sending people to the moon is a waste of resources. Sending them to Mars is total insanity. There isn’t anything on Mars that’s worth the cost of sending robots, unless you look at Mars missions as welfare for engineers. But the cost of sending people to do what robots already do better is crazy
Yeah, I’m pretty sure if getting to the Moon is our national goal, today’s politicized DEI NASA is not the agency to get us there. Contract it to SpaceX.
He always has.
Look at Dragon to Space Station, which cost just over half what Boeing was charging, and Musk delivered 4 years ago. Boeing has yet to deliver a working Starliner to and back Starliner
If you want to fix what is wrong at NASA, start by barring Boeing from any space related contracts. Boeing is a financial “Black Hole”. Money goes in and nothing comes out.
Been there done that, nice try Jalopnik. Turd
“It’s also no secret that the government-gutting CEO detests the effort to return to the Moon and the Artemis program.”
Now, am I supposed to figure how who he is referring to? Trump? NASA CEO? Metaphorical person?
My high school English teacher would kick his ass.
Did we or did we not send people to the moon in 1969?
Elon has it covered.
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