Re:The Lunacy of Artemis
by nine_k on Sunday May 19, 2024 @08:51PM
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Why not, if NASA outsources 100% of the actual operations? Find reasonable contractors (for certain values of "reasonable" that would match SpaceX), give them attainable goals, provide the money, provide publicity, and otherwise stand back and do not interfere. For extra credit, provide some scientific mission spacecraft and rovers, the things NASA us actually quite good at.
Key bureaucratic feat: keep Boeing away.
18 months is really tight though, realistically it should be twice as much maybe.
Re:The Lunacy of Artemis
by ein0p on Monday May 20, 2024 @12:55AM
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Realistically it takes us “10 years” to repair a bridge in this country nowadays, so I’m not sure what the multiplier should be. And no, Boeing cannot be “kept away” from a fat government contract like this one. Nor can all the other usual suspects
Key bureaucratic feat: keep Boeing away.
18 months is really tight though, realistically it should be twice as much maybe.