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Elon Musk Trying to Scrap NASA's Moon Program (futurism.com)
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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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[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world -2 points 3 weeks ago

If they actually wanted the SLS, it would have been funded in such a way as to have delivered the big orange rocket by now. It's not funded in that way. The big orange rocket is not the goal of the SLS or Artemis programs. It's all about "pork barrel" projects, which are just socialism with extra steps and less benefit. And maybe we get a cool rocket and some excellent science out of it eventually.