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General Discussion / Re: The Artemis Program
« Last post by jfb on Today at 09:59:38 AM »And now I'm reading reports that Boeing has warned staff at a meeting last Friday that Artemis may be cancelled.This makes no sense to me for if everyone remembers Trump wanted to have NASS accelerate Artemis in his first term to get boots on the ground or at least Moon manned orbital operations. Now more than likely this was an objective to put a feather in Trumps' cap. So to have discussions that Artemis would be cancelled doesn't fit. Perhaps a re-tooling of the mission might be in order were SpaceX would play a different/larger part would make more sense.
Phrases like "sunk cost" and "about time" are sort of floating around in my head.
Rational person reasoning doesn't apply anymore. We're in full clown-shoes brigade mode.
Trump says whatever he needs to in the moment to get what he wants at that moment. He has no long term plan beyond advancing his personal interests. He doesn't care about the Artemis program beyond how it makes him look right now. If it makes him look good right now, keep it funded. If it doesn't make him look good right now, cancel it.
That's all the reasoning you need.