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He also claims that Mars will only need 4-6 launches total. Which is absolutely asinine and not supported by physics. HLS Starship needs 17 launches just to land on the moon... the fact that he publishes this garbage to try to get investors for spacex feels like fraud

Pretty sure it's investor bait, trying to trick people to give Elon more money for this dead end program

Groimes, ahl niver be king of Mars at thes rate

NASA HQ's "bold vision for American leadership in space" everyone. Even ISS will have to be ended early if the people who maintain it are fired. Janet and the President's plans would end US human spaceflight completely.

NASA HQ's "bold vision for American leadership in space" everyone. Even ISS will have to be ended early if the people who maintain it are fired. Janet and the President's plans would end US human spaceflight completely.

It's really cool watching the acting NASA administrator openly admit that the plan is to fire massive amounts of NASA employees, shut down NASA facilities, close entire offices and projects, replace people with AI..... and do all of it without Congressional approval and before Congress can act.

The bots usually follow a pattern. AI generated profile pictures, often the same photo of Trump in their banner (that or another AI picture), a profile description claiming to be a 'disabled vet, father, and Christian' or some shit, and the most insanely fascist takes imaginable.

Perhaps this is a signal that the US needs to go back to the "tired and true" model where the Government owns its vehicles again so as not to be completely dependent on the whims of an ego-maniac with deep pockets hopped up on ketamine. I'm being blunt but after what's happened, the gloves are off.

So many people I know have been stocking up on cheap shelf stable foods because they're smart enough to see that the shit DOGE did will fuck this country over much worse than how they targeted NASA 🙃

"Lose" is appropriate because Elon's garbage company lacks the talent to win the space race with China. Giving everything to him is still a loss.

But yes, it's very obvious this budget request is designed to cancel contracts from his competitors and give him money for shit he can't deliver

The text on here heavily sounds like the budget people were in bed with Elon. It can't be a coincidence that they wrote that shit, with Elon announcing a near term starship Mars test yesterday. NASA is compromised.

The documents, for anyone who wants to read dread: www.nasa.gov/fy-2026-budg...

The new NASA FY2026 budget request is abysmally bad. Gutting Artemis, huge cut to ISS, huge cut to science, huge cut to the NASA workforce and many other things. It's embarrassing that NASA published this graphic with it, so I fixed it.
This is how you lose your space program.

I found the Africa picture

It probably made a light show somewhere hah. But I haven't seen any pictures of it. It was still intact when it went over Africa (there's a picture of that floating around). Probably blew up over open ocean.

That's not what happened. It had a major fuel leak that caused it to lose control. Did not even get to do the missing tile experiment because it reentered out of control and facing the wrong direction, which made it blow up.

Edit of the Onion article to include the Space Launch System which says "Well Well well not so easy to find a booster that doesn't suck shit, huh?"

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Nazism is when being a fascist chud who brigades people when they give valid criticism. You're also behaving like a petulant fascist.

That dude is a huge troll who has antagonized NASA for years. He only supports CLPS because it is a program that takes engineering decision making and power away from NASA, and puts it in the hands of private companies.

There's a reason NASA in the past has spent a lot of money to guarantee results. Payloads cost more than the delivery vehicle. If the vehicles fails from cheap half ass design, it's just a waste of time and money. Aliexpress space program.

One of them shit the bed twice in a row. It's not going well.

The anti NASA privatization crowd like to count the ones that tipped over as success, but they failed much earlier than planned and were not able to complete science objectives because of it.

Yes it's a high risk program, and it has been failing hard at delivering. Which is why I'm criticizing it and saying NASA was stupid to create it. It's a total blunder.

NASA had lots of involvement in Apollo and Surveyor, also. More so than CLPS.

NASA isn't the one designing and launching things through CLPS. It's a very hands off program. And the program has been a massive failure because of that fact. But you folks want all NASA programs to use the same model, and to take away NASA's work. It's clown shit.

That's not really true. NASA has a lot of insight and regularly has to give insight, recommendations, testing, or analysis to commercial companies. NASA isn't just a piggy bank, it's staffed by world class engineers.

He blocked me over this. Elon fanboys hate being called out.

Pulling numbers out of your ass.The competitors have accomplished a lot.

Elon isn't going to fuck you for mindlessly preaching about him online with false information.

Also Starship definitely does not work. You're out of it if you're suggesting otherwise

You forgot the part where very critical government services were destroyed by Elon, which will have very expensive and lasting impacts on society. And which have already killed many people, and are projected to kill millions more.

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That would require adhering to engineering ethics (that thing they teach as part of the freshman engineering degree curriculum in the US).