Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
by bluGill on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @08:46AM
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Fair enough, but IMO there are better places we should be focusing on getting political will together if we want to focus on something big.
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Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
by rkomorn on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @09:10AM
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Yes and no, I'd say. Going back to the moon is big but it's also pretty self-contained, in a way. It just costs money (and doles a bunch of it out to the contracted companies). It's also mostly time-boxed.
Healthcare, worker's rights, voting rights, infrastructure, etc, are all more important (so I agree with you there), but also all have way more consequences that are wider-ranging and longer-term (which I'd say contributes do the political dysfunction around those topics).
This should be an "easy win" by comparison, and the "PR" impact of success (or failure) will be significant.
Edit: that said, if you gave me a magic wand to pick any one of these topics for the US to succeed at, it wouldn't be going to the moon.