tater Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 43 minutes ago, AckSed said: As I understand it, that infamous tweet was about refuelling with oxygen at the moon. SpaceX is gaining a decent chunk of change for the moon lander. The fixed price contract is $2.9B for landing people and returning them, with a test landing uncrewed first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgently Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 1 hour ago, Minmus Taster said: Here's hoping Elon will support NASA's moon plans, regardless of his own thoughts or motives. Not using the moon, let alone letting the Chinese get first dibs on it, is a tactical blunder which will keep coming back to haunt us. Musk’s often repeated and enthusiastic goal to create a “Moon Base Alpha” belies any narrative that he doesn’t care about getting to the Moon. If anything he thinks many aren’t thinking big enough wrt the Moon. Do people even watch his interviews and talks? (sidenote: autosuggestion wanted me to enter “Moon Base Aloha”. Given aloha means both hello and goodbye I got a chuckle as it would fit the goal of being a way station) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgently Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 This is kind of wild. Why not touch base with NASA first? Kind of sends its own message: you won’t fire me! I quit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted 5 hours ago Share Posted 5 hours ago LockMart saying the quiet part out loud: It's about money to districts, not capability. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgently Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago 14 minutes ago, tater said: LockMart saying the quiet part out loud: It's about money to districts, not capability. Actual results vs jobs involved really needs to be scrutinized more. Not just “jobs” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terwin Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago I will admit that if the government just wants to spend a lot of money on a jobs program, I am not adverse to that program being in the space sector. It would be nice if they would produce some sort of value with those job dollars however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago 8 minutes ago, Terwin said: I will admit that if the government just wants to spend a lot of money on a jobs program, I am not adverse to that program being in the space sector. It would be nice if they would produce some sort of value with those job dollars however. Yeah, if the specs for SLS/Orion had been set to allow a lunar mission in 1 launch from the start (~70 tons to TLI as a baseline), I'd have zero issues with it. Not cost effective, but a jack of all trades capability, even at huge cost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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