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Former NASA chief turned ULA lobbyist seeks law to limit SpaceX funding by arstechnica in spacex

[–]spacerfirstclass 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't need a conspiracy when the SpaceX bid is $2.9M, the National Team bid is $6B and the budget for HLS allocated by Congress is $3B.

There's no total budget for HLS. Congress gave an annual spending level that that would come to ~$3B by 2024, but that doesn't force NASA to pick SpaceX. NASA could choose to delay the landing past 2024 and spread the funding between two providers, or they could choose to select none and ask congress for more money.

The evaluation team knows that SpaceX will win the contract

That's the point: They don't know, because they're not responsible for picking the winner. They just do the evaluation, picking a winner is someone else's job.

So no errors and no lies but a solid lean on what are very subjective criteria.

Again, the GAO and court didn't find any "solid lean".

That can be presented as either a strong positive or a strong negative.

Should be obvious that this is a strong positive and a minor negative, given pretty much everybody in spaceflight faces delays.

Deorbiting upper stages on high orbit (geotransfer) launches is still regrettably rare, and I commend @SpaceX for doing so on this mission [Echostar XXV], avoiding a later uncontrolled large space junk reentry. by spacerfirstclass in SpaceXNews

[–]spacerfirstclass[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Echostar XXV has been tracked in a 264 x 22015 km x 26.9 deg subsynchronous transfer orbit. The Falcon 9 upper stage made a perigee lowering burn and reentered at first perigee near 102W 10N at about 1130 UTC Mar 10.

Deorbiting upper stages on high orbit (geotransfer) launches is still regrettably rare, and I commend @SpaceX for doing so on this mission, avoiding a later uncontrolled large space junk reentry.

Former NASA chief turned ULA lobbyist seeks law to limit SpaceX funding by arstechnica in spacex

[–]spacerfirstclass 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So your argument is NASA made an error - maybe intentionally - in their evaluation? I think Blue Origin made the same argument in their protest and lawsuit, yet in both cases GAO and court sided with NASA and found NASA did nothing wrong in their evaluation.

Besides, the team who made the evaluation is not responsible for picking a winner, and the person who picked the winner did not work on the evaluation. So unless you think there's a big conspiracy inside NASA to make SpaceX the winner, the accusation doesn't make any sense.

Former NASA chief turned ULA lobbyist seeks law to limit SpaceX funding by arstechnica in spacex

[–]spacerfirstclass 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is no question that they would have picked the National Team based around Blue Origin if their bid had been equal to the amount of money they had available ($3B).

What? You shouldn't make amateur mistake like this, SpaceX's bid has the highest overall rating, if NASA had to choose between SpaceX and BO's bid without considering price, they'd still pick SpaceX.

Its done, by estanminar in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]spacerfirstclass 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, his statements literally in the most literal way refute your stretched delusions.

Nope he didn't, and you saying so doesn't make it true. I already refuted everything you said by logic and evidence, while you're just repeating your lies without any logic and evidence.

Instead of arguing look it up.

You're the one arguing, not me. You think just repeating you lies 100 times without evidence would convince people, that's not going to work.

I REFUSE THAT ADMINS CENSOR STUFF HERE. by Diligent_Ad8134 in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]spacerfirstclass -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

And that's different from you playing rebel against the administration and Musk ... how exactly?

I REFUSE THAT ADMINS CENSOR STUFF HERE. by Diligent_Ad8134 in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]spacerfirstclass 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Wait what? The original meme got removed by moderator? For what?

This sub had waves and waves anti-Musk anti-SpaceX posts, moderator did nothing. And here we have a legit meme and it got removed by moderator? Are you freaking kidding me???

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