NASA incompetence could kill the Artemis crew

[CosmicCowboy]

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/science/artemis-2-orion-capsule-heat-shield

[Winehole23]

hope NASA isn't too anxious to launch

any related fatalities would tend to hasten the demise of NASA as an independent US agency, Musk/DOGE/Trump RIFs have already f@cked it up pretty bad

[Blake]

Yeah if something does happen, would probably be the end of NASA which means Musk swoops in to grab more contracts

[CosmicCowboy]

NASA leaks and postpones again. After being bazillions of dollars over budget and years late why are they even competing with spaceX?

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/02/unable-to-tame-hydrogen-leaks-nasa-delays-launch-of-artemis-ii-until-march/

[Blake]

I'm fine with cutting budgets to NASA as long as Space X doesn't get any contracts either.

But they will.