Is NASA about to blow up Artemis?

[Bmoboy]

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.

[lapfog_1]

1. A cynical person might suggest

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 ).

[DavidDvorkin]

2. I'm more worried about the heat shield and reentry.

[llmart]

3. Latest upheaval at NASA

https://nasawatch.com/ask-the-administrator/nasa-announces-a-new-directive-but-wont-let-you-read-it/#:~:text=NASA%20will%20expand%20with%20a,and%20innovation%20in%20every%20mission.


So, when the Orange Assface took office they fired 20% of the workforce, now his third administrator (Dumbo) was told to lay off contractors (75-80% of the people at NASA work on contract) and rebuild the department with mostly NASA employees. Everything he does is confusion and chaos. I guess he thinks you can find rocket scientists easily. What a dope.