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Elon Musk Trying to Scrap NASA's Moon Program (futurism.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Consequently, the South African billionaire has been put in charge of a so-called "Department of Government Efficiency" to excise $2 trillion from the national budget. Whether this advisory group will be able to take aim at the Artemis program remains to be seen.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

He is not even sabotaging his competition. Starship is supposed to be part of the program and despite the spin will not be ready.

So he wants to cancel the program that has real deadlines so he can keep promising he will colonize Mars in the next 5 years, which he has been claiming for some time now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

he HSS been

That's a funny auto correct. Do you talk about high speed steel a lot?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

His Ship’s Ship

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Nope, no clue why it auto corrected to that, or that I even managed to mistype has.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah, but Biden's aides had 4 years to toss him out....

And instead they didn't, and we all know by know from those same aides and other elected Dems that Biden wasn't competent on day 1, so if his aides didn't think something was important, it didn't get done.

We fucked around electing Biden, his admin fucked around in office, and now we're in the find out stage just like trump voters.

Edit:

To clarify I meant Biden's admin had four years to cancel Musk's contracts for any of the shit ton of reasons musk shouldn't have government contracts, and then they could have drastically increased NASA funding.

I get how my comment could have looked like I was criticizing Biden's admin for not invoking the 25th. I still think they should have, but that wasn't what I meant in the original comment.