"I'm gonna open up the contract. I'm gonna let other companies compete with SpaceX."

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.

  • Toto@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 days ago

    “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?

    • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      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.