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A space agency source likened dealing with NASA, Trump, and Musk to a relationship where one’s other half might “lash out at any moment in unpredictable ways.” They said their agency was “giving them loads of obedience in advance in the hope of keeping them happy.”
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Do the math, NASA - it doesn’t work out.
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Cosmic Tornado
One of my nightmare scenarios from 4th grade 
(ST:TMP would’ve been in recent memory)
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So, no one is going to go with the predictable portmanteau of Cosnado? We have “Sharknado” (just as stupid) so why not?
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Cosnado sounds like a police procedural TV show. Like Kojak, or Serpico
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So if this launch indeed happens it won’t be for at least a year. I just hope that if they go forward with it that it ends up serving some kind of useful purpose. It seems ever more doubtful that the SLS will ever be used as part of a mission to land people on the moon, and even if it was, the proponents haven’t been doing a very good job explaining why that’s such an important mission, given the cost.
At this point I’d probably rather that they repurposed this rocket to launch a modern Voyager-style deep space probe at unprecedented speed. A science mission like that would pay back dividends for decades to come.
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In a statement delivered to SpaceNews, NASA press secretary Bethany Stevens said that “This streamlining effort ensures that taxpayer dollars are directed toward the highest-impact projects while maintaining NASA’s essential functions at the highest level of execution.”
Stevens joined NASA as its press secretary this month, after serving as press secretary to Texas’ Republican Senator Ted Cruz.
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Or not.
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Narrator: No Starlink or Space X contracts were cut during this process.
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(1) Sort of benelovent space piracy:
(2) I dimly remember watching a TV documentary about the GDR’s post office “research division” (the guys who helped the Stasi with stuff like tapping into the microwave telephone links between West Berlin and the FRG) taking over a comms satellite in 1988 or 1989, but I’m damned if I can find anything about it.
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Does this mean Katy has to give back her Cybertruck?
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