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lateforworkyesterday at 11:11 PM3 repliesview on HN

Related: NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission [1]. Blue Origin could snatch SpaceX's Starship lander contract. This looks increasingly a good idea.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/20/science/nasa-spacex-moon-land...


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kirrentyesterday at 11:28 PM

Sean Duffy is no longer acting administrator of NASA. This proposal was apparently part of a bid to get the support of a coalition of old-space companies and new-space non-SpaceX companies. As part of that strategy he apparently leaked Isaacman's Project Athena document and was backgrounding that he was a SpaceX plant.

But, Isaacman is administrator now, and whatever you think about Isaacman and his relationship to SpaceX, I don't think there's much merit in thinking one of Duffy's half thought out plans is likely to be carried out.

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admax88qqqyesterday at 11:12 PM

> This looks increasingly a good idea.

Why?

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