• afc@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 hours ago

    A spacex ally is appointed chairman and guts a project that would’ve outshone them. Tired of the blatant corruption happening in this country.

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      2 hours ago

      I don’t think you’re educated on the matter because landing on the moon with the mission plan that they set out requires the lunar gateway to be in place which it is not and likely won’t be for a long time. It was going to be impossible to land on the moon by the third mission no matter who was in charge.

      You shouldn’t confidently spout incorrect information

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          2 hours ago

          You got them on a technicality. But multiple test articles have pretty much reached orbit, intentionally just missing orbit so they would renter in a known location should something go wrong, and something has gone wrong most of the time.

          I’m excited for the staship program because it’s the most exciting spaceflight development in my lifetime, yes fuck Elon but that doesn’t change the facts of how exciting the program is for a space lover. The upcoming launches with v3 hardware are going to be very exciting, hopefully most of the kinks have been resolved.

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      5 hours ago

      Ah yes, the humongously successful SLS. Totally not a bottomless moneypit. And absolutely no corruption involved in keeping it alive.