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Bmoboy

(613 posts) Wed Feb 4, 2026, 10:07 PM 2 hrs ago

Is NASA about to blow up Artemis?

The repeated fuel leaks and inability to problem solve.

Reminds me of Challenger.

The NASA administrator is a billionaire with a BS from an online college. And a friend of Elon.

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Is NASA about to blow up Artemis? (Original Post) Bmoboy 2 hrs ago OP

A cynical person might suggest lapfog_1 1 hr ago #1

lapfog_1

(31,770 posts)

1. A cynical person might suggest

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Wed Feb 4, 2026, 10:14 PM

1 hr ago

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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