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NASA executive hired to lead 2024 moon mission quits after 6 weeks
theweek.com ^

Posted on 05/24/2019 1:17:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Sirangelo has resigned, and Reuters reports that his "ouster was sealed by increasing skepticism that 2024 was a realistic deadline for moon landings."

This also comes after a proposal from NASA to create a separate directorate for lunar missions was rejected by lawmakers. Bridenstine said on Thursday that "given NASA is no longer pursuing the new mission directorate, Mark has opted to pursue other opportunities."

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 2024; apollo; elonmusk; falcon9; falconheavy; marksirangelo; moon; nasa; spacex; themoon
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To: 2banana

Apparently the #1 priority is to make sure it’s a woman who goes to the moon instead of a man. Perhaps that is the real reason for the resignation, the guy realized he’d have to deal with years of progressive stack nonsense and decided to save his brain.


41 posted on 05/24/2019 7:19:29 PM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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To: BenLurkin

Their are 3 locations with fully staged SaturnV laying on their sides. Put them together, slap some engines, beef up a lunar module and a beefed up command module and a lunar module and go. 1 year tops!


42 posted on 05/24/2019 8:16:04 PM PDT by Bommer (Help 2ndDivisionVet - https://www.gofundme.com/mvc.php?route=category&term=married-recent-amputec)
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To: BenLurkin

We need the Mexican border mission first. The moon can wait.


43 posted on 05/24/2019 8:34:43 PM PDT by Cedar
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Thanks fieldmarshaldj. [kid in 2050 AD] "What's 'NASA', dad?"

44 posted on 05/24/2019 10:50:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Bommer

#42 Cannot do so as there are bird nests there and rare insects and so forth. Cannot disturb their rare habitat.


45 posted on 05/24/2019 11:47:15 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Shadow44

We might have the heavy-lift rocket, but is it “man-rated”. We have the crew capsule, but I’m not sure if that is yet “man-rated”. Then, of course, you’d need to design, test & build a series of lunar landers. Yeah, that schedule is a bit tight. But you need a goal.


46 posted on 05/27/2019 6:45:48 AM PDT by Tallguy (Facts be d*mned! The narrative of the day must be preserved!)
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