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Cake day: 2024年11月26日

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  • SLS is 7 years behind schedule, and at least 40% over budget, costing over $23B so far. It has been in development for nearly 2 decades.

    I don’t have the exact numbers in front of me for the Orion capsule, but it is also behind schedule and over budget, costing over 30B so far. It has been in development for nearly 2 decades.

    NASA didn’t even award the space suit and moon lander contracts until a few years ago, in a tacit acknowledgement that the original Artemis launch dates were unrealistic.

    If the US doesn’t “beat China to the moon” it will be because of failures and delays in every step of the program - including starship, but not because of starship









  • Yep, absolutely true.

    If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about Slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union, and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.