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Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission by UltraSane on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @05:59PM (#45662265)
Sending humans to the moon is just burning money though. It isn't useful at all.
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Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission by excalibur on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @08:38PM (#45663633)
That does seem to be the trend these days. See: AI proliferation, cryptocurrency.
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Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission by marcellus23 on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @09:45AM (#45669076)
> That does seem to be the trend these days

These days? The space race was 50 years ago.

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Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission by excalibur on Thursday October 23, 2025 @12:29PM (#45683815)
Burning money is the trend these days.

The first time around, the space race was expensive, but not entirely unnecessary. There were real strategic advantages at play.

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