NASA cancels its moon rover mission, citing cost overruns and launch delays
NASA cancels its moon rover mission, citing cost overruns and launch delays
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NASA cancels its moon rover mission, citing cost overruns and launch delays
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DOD can whoopsie daisy and lose a couple billion dollars out their pocket and they just keep getting more without any consequences. Scientific missions have to halt everything because a screw costs $40 over budget. Whitey not even on the moon anymore.
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The Pentagon had over 2 trillion dollars unaccounted for in the early 2000s but we can't have nationalized health care because it would be too expensive.
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tell that to the houthis. They ought to find out!
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pretty sure the astronauts will be fine, they aren't random working class people on a Boeing flight
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Imagine it getting to the point where they have to ask Russia to send a Soyuz up there,
or China to send a Shenzhou*. I have a feeling they'd rather de-orbit the ISS with two corpses on board.*Wolf Amendment
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NASA sucks without the Soviet Union.
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NASA was funded as a way to launder the reputation of rocket propulsion research, which has some other purposes than space travel
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NASA started sucking with the Nixon era post-Apollo budget cuts
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What probably makes things worse is I can't imagine NASA gets to build much institutional knowledge, between sections of it getting privatized and the robotics division is probably just a resume builder for people who want to make apps where you feed in a picture of your dog and the app tells you what kind of carpet it is.
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NASA sucks without being able to "hire" engineers from a certain central European country who were working for a particular type of right wing government and their rocket program during the 1940s.
Things are realy different when you can't just jump start your technological race against your biggest enemy by just "referencing" from others lol.
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Meanwhile the F35 boondogle continues and China is dabbing on us with Mission after Mission.
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got those astronauts down yet? -
Embarrassing
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Once again I am begging china to use their moon rover to push over our flag, and challenge us to space battlebots.
None of the Chang'e landing sites are very close to old Apollo sites.
Also, the flags the Apollo missions planted were probably blown over by the ascent stages firing.
They've all been bleached completely white by solar wind at this point too
Run over them repeatedly
battle box*
It's just a white flag now, it's already surrendered
Fuck that is so perfect