Nasa chief fired as Trump administration vents frustration over moon landing delays

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(07-15-2019, 09:49 PM)GMDino Wrote: Well, to be fair, Trump has moved the goalposts repeatedly.

Once he said to stop wasting time worrying about going to the moon, then he said he were going to mars, then moon by 2028 and now 2024.

It's almost, hang with me here for a second, it's almost like he's just making stop up off the top his head with no plan and then complaining that it's not being done to his liking.

Weird.

Meanwhile the rocket's cost has ballooned 30%, and is 4 years behind schedule, and yet they are still giving Boeing 10s of millions of dollars in award fees according to your own quote. You're trying to make this a Trump thing, and this reads very much like the system had gotten a little too comfortable in bloated spending and delayed schedules, and desperately needed a shake up.

Same way that the US Government was spending around $400m per rocket launch for satellites. Everyone was comfortable with that for years, no innovation was needed. Why innovate when there's such a fat payday to cash? Then SpaceX comes in and offers the same service for anywhere between $80-100m, shaking up the industry.

Do you refuse to get rid of the people with "experience" who are charging $400m and continue to vastly overpay them because that's the way it has been done, or do you search for the better, cheaper, and quicker alternative to do things?