I don't know how I missed this until just now. We're sending up several missions to the moon with the express purpose of landing BIPOC women on a dead rock by 2025, I shit you not. How many billions of dollars are being wasted just so we can drop a LGBLT flag to erase Buzz Aldrin from history?
Some day I'm gonna be looking at the moon through a telescope with my son just to show him that we can't even escape this faggotry in space. God I hate everything right now.
At this point, I doubt that NASA is going to be able to meet their deadlines and make the 2025 landing. They've been working on the
National Launch SystemShuttle-derived Launch SystemConstellationJupiterSpace Launch System in one form or another since Regan's presidency, and they still haven't flown actual hardware. They flew a Orion capsule from 2004 on top of a Delta IV Heavy, but not even the five-segment SRBs- originally designed in 1985 PDF warning - have actually flown.At this point, NASA has spent billions, if not hundreds of billions, on a space project that has flown... a capsule built almost two decades ago. Even the GAO has called SLS a pork project, noting that NASA took the least serviceable (tank) portion of the Shuttle, the two most reusable portions (SRBs and SSMEs), kept all of the bad parts of the tank, made the reusable bits disposable... and didn't even bother to post any of this work for bids.
Pretty sure Papa Elon is just going to go all D. D. Harriman and land a Starship on the moon, all bright and shiny with American flags on it, step out, and announce to the cameras: "I've gone to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by feminism. SPAAAAAAAAAAAACE!"
NASA is full of program managers and useless people. The actual engineering, construction, logistics are handled by private companies. The entire organization is just diversity hires pushing paper and funneling money from Congress to private companies who do all of the real work.
Now these private companies are starting to mirror NASA, full of program managers, schedule-watchers, budget-watchers, irresponsible domain specialists only concerned about their political position within their organization.
Nothing good will come out of this system. It's evil and intentionally broken from top to bottom.
Trust me, I know. I did contract work for the agency for a while. The joke used to be that the only NASA employees at the Cape were managers and the people doing the tours. And now they've contracted out the tours.
It's amazing really. If you asked the worst possible way to get back to the moon it would have been difficult to match what they've done.
Or more wasteful. Short of building a refueling base we have little to gain by landing on the moon again.