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lapfog_1

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1. A cynical person might suggest

Reply to Bmoboy (Original post)

Wed Feb 4, 2026, 10:14 PM

Feb 4

that this is the real mission... to simply kill NASA and turn over all space missions to either Elon or Bezos.

What better way than to kill more astronauts with a "government run" flawed space vehicle.

after the manned moon mission is awarded to a commercial venture, what is left for NASA? robotic missions to Mars ( BTDT )... EOS ( no point we are done collecting climate data )... deep space missions? Telescopes? That's about it.

oh well, I enjoyed my 10 years there. Did some work I was really proud of. They killed a close co-worker of mine with Columbia on what was intended to be a "technology demonstrator" ( the Space Shuttle ).

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