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NASA is sending people to the moon in spacecraft some experts think is not safe

• ck2 9mo ago
  (after the horror of seeing it live, I lived through 24/7 replays of "go for throttle up" for months and it still haunts me to this day) also see: Sean Duffy orders NASA employees "do not let safety be the enemy of progress" * https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/interim-nasa-head-tells-agency-will-beat-china-back-moon-rcna229447 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/interim-nasa-head-tells...
• damnitbuilds 9mo ago
  NASA is sending a DEI-chosen crew as part of a grossly over-priced pork project on a pointless trip round the moon in a capsule not fit for the job launched by a rocket based on recycled 50-year old reusable tech that won't be reused that costs two orders of magnitude more to launch than modern actually reusable systems. God speed to them all.
  • ck2 9mo ago
    DEI has nothing to do with qualifications and says a lot about people who try to use it against them in that way The women in the astronaut program have more hours and more experience than most of the men They've just been skipped over, for decades, just like men of color had more flight time in fighters in the 1960s than some of the men who actually went to moon Try reading their resumes before making nonsense comments like that "DEI" is about making an effort to get past dumb prejudice builtin for decades if not centuries https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/christina-koch/ https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/christina-ko... https://www.nasa.gov/people/christina-koch/ https://www.nasa.gov/people/christina-koch/
    • damnitbuilds 9mo ago
      Fact: The flight crew were chosen for DEI. Fact: DEI is racist and sexist. Giving breaks to tokens help no-one Stop racism and sexism. Stop DEI.