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Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission by konart on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @06:28AM (#45667087)
>America cannot possibly win the space race again, because it has already been won.

How so? Because you decided that reaching the Moon equals winning? Why not Mars?

Same way we can say that USSR won the race because they were the first ones to put man into space and bring him back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy_H2BeE_Nk Neil deGrasse Tyson on topic.

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Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission by mlrtime on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @06:46AM (#45667224)
>Why not Mars?

Isn't that what the next goal is, but we're so far away from it now?

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Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission by konart on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @06:51AM (#45667247)
My point is that you can say that there is no race here. Milestones? Maybe. But that's it.
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Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission by yifanl on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @03:34PM (#45674064)
The USSR did win the space race, but by demanding another spin double or nothing, JFK managed to annul that result with his literal moonshot bet.
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