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Elon Musk Trying to Scrap NASA's Moon Program (futurism.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Domino@lemmings.world to c/world@quokk.au

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Consequently, the South African billionaire has been put in charge of a so-called "Department of Government Efficiency" to excise $2 trillion from the national budget. Whether this advisory group will be able to take aim at the Artemis program remains to be seen.

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[–] freeman@sh.itjust.works 52 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

He is not even sabotaging his competition. Starship is supposed to be part of the program and despite the spin will not be ready.

So he wants to cancel the program that has real deadlines so he can keep promising he will colonize Mars in the next 5 years, which he has been claiming for some time now.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

he HSS been

That's a funny auto correct. Do you talk about high speed steel a lot?

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

His Ship’s Ship

[–] freeman@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

Nope, no clue why it auto corrected to that, or that I even managed to mistype has.