SpaceX could lose contract for Artemis 3 astronaut moon-landing mission, acting NASA chief says: ‘The problem is, they’re behind’
Speaking as someone who doesn’t lose their mind whenever Elon Musk is involved, I think this is a good thing. Not only are they behind, but a **lot** has changed since the contract was awarded too.
“The president and I want to get to the moon in this president’s term, so I’m gonna open up the contract,” he added
Can you really turn around a create a custom space ship, prep and launch it within 3 years?
Anyone else feel this is just a pretext to piss off elon?
Can you really turn around a create a custom space ship, prep and launch it within 3 years?
You can if you ignore all procedures that were established based on lessons learned from past failures.
Too bad Stockton Rush isn’t around anymore. That’d be a blast to watch.
I really don’t see how changing horses mid stream is expected to save time and money. It’s not like BO, Boeing, ULA, or LM have a history of executing quickly or under budget on anything.
I don’t think they have a viable alternative. They’re just giving Elon a taste of his own medicine to try to make SpaceX focus and go faster.
You can’t get projects like this done on a deadline by laying people off huge swathes of people at NASA, cutting budgets, shutting down the government, wreaking havoc on the economy with tariffs, and finally playing musical chairs with your contractors based on political spite against their CEOs. Where is the reasonable expectation this is actually going to follow through successfully for a 2028 launch?
Give the contract to Rocket Lab, they don’t blow up their shit every other month
They don’t even have a lander proposal. Or a rocket that can get anywhere close to launching even the bare minimum lander.
Oh no how unfortunate.
