NASA Hands Elon Musk a Reality Check

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From The Atlantic:

"This was supposed to be the year. After nearly a decade of planning, NASA astronauts would fly to space on launch systems built by a commercial company hired to do the job the space agency no longer could, not after the Space Shuttle program ended. For years, the United States had paid Russia to send its spacefarers to the International Space Station. Now the country would do it on its own again, from its own launchpads.

This probably isn’t going to be that year."

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arc ... ew/599218/

A good quote:
"Bridenstine: We are working really hard as an agency to get to a day where when we announce a cost and schedule, we can have credibility. Our contractors have to be as committed to that as we are. I was getting a lot of calls from the media about this event, and so we just sent a tweet and said, look, we look forward to this, this is exciting, but at the same time we expect our contractors to be as committed to the programs that the American taxpayer has invested in."

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[GCoyote]

It is still rocket science after all. The public forgets that back during the glory days of the rockets exploded on a regular basis.

[Graeme1858]

Perhaps Bridenstine could have a word with Space X about expecting contractors to work more obligingly with other space agencies while he's at it:

https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-e ... dance.html

Regards

Graeme

[helicon]

Delays and Unforeseen problems occur. However, the same thing has transpired at Tesla. The stock market punished Tesla yesterday.

[fatboy1271]

Yeah, how's Boeing doing on keeping up on their end? Come on... Musk also said the Starship is consuming 5% of SpaceX's time and workforce.

[Max Nomad]

Delays and Unforeseen problems occur. However, the same thing has transpired at Tesla. The stock market punished Tesla yesterday.

For what it's worth, looks like the stock market has been punishing Tesla since about February. ;-)