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Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking... by Thaxll on Friday June 17, 2022 @10:03AM (#31778330)
2. Get humans to the Moon, if not to Mars

I think there is a misconception here, SpaceX does not send anyone to space, NASA, ESA etc .. does.

SpaceX builds rockets that's it, they don't train astronaut or have a program for space exploration or missions.

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Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking... by mulcahey on Friday June 17, 2022 @10:22AM (#31778642)
This is incorrect. Inspiration4 sent astronauts they trained. This was largely true for the Axiom mission as well, and will be for the Polaris missions.
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Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking... by Thaxll on Friday June 17, 2022 @11:41AM (#31779861)
Well if you call 4month training "astronauts", those kind of training won't get anyone on the moon or on mars.

I think that's why they call them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_astronaut

To me it's more space tourism that anything else, there is a reason why it takes years to train astronauts.

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Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking... by aidenn0 on Friday June 17, 2022 @10:11AM (#31778450)
That's like saying "guns don't kill people" while technically true, having a rocket certainly helps get people into space...
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Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking... by voxic11 on Friday June 17, 2022 @10:37AM (#31778864)
Can you explain how NASA, ESA, ect.. were involved in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspiration4 mission?
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Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking... by colinmhayes on Friday June 17, 2022 @10:27AM (#31778717)
As far as I can tell NASA had no plans to return to the moon until spaceX came around with starship. Hard for me to say spaceX isn’t the direct reason for the planned mission
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Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking... by Octoth0rpe on Friday June 17, 2022 @10:45AM (#31778962)
That's not correct. The Constellation program (which would eventually morph into the SLS via Ares) have been in development with the goal of returning to the moon since before the F9 launched even.
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Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking... by MPSimmons on Friday June 17, 2022 @11:47AM (#31779940)
Which, in itself, is a damning statement.
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Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking... by colinmhayes on Friday June 17, 2022 @10:54AM (#31779103)
ah thank you.
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Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking... by oittaa on Friday June 17, 2022 @06:49PM (#31785457)
> I read only TSLAQ propaganda

Inspiration 4, Axiom 1, Polaris Dawn, ...

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