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Outgoing NASA administrator urges incoming leaders to stick with Artemis plan
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- pinewurst 2y agoThis - "former astronaut Bill Nelson" - grinds my gears. Nelson doesn't even count as an astro-chimp - they actually worked their passage. He's just a hack politician who influenced his way onto a Space Shuttle mission as a high status passenger.
- bdangubic 2y agoMerriam-Webster: an astronaut is defined as "a person who travels beyond the earth's atmosphere” :)
- pinewurst 2y agoThat's true of course, but the word carries a certain status that is absent in this case. Perhaps I'm just old, but I still think of people who've worked their butts off, not human mildew.
- gus_massa 2y agoThere was a heated discussion about persons that go inside a Dragon [1] and only control the ilumination and music or something. Are they "real" astronauts? Do they deserve the wings pin? [1] And others private spacehips.
- avmich 2y agoBill Nelson: OK, let me ask you another question. Do you think that President Trump would rather have a conversation with American astronauts during his tenure rather than listening to the comments of Chinese astronauts on the Moon during his tenure? My case is closed, your Honor, I submit it to the jury. Oh, my :) . These days I'm not sure if Americans will be faster on the Moon if flying on Artemis or if flying on Starship. I'm sure of course the latter would be vastly cheaper, but faster... We'll see how it goes.