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Elon calls former ISS commander an idiot (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

The offer of an early return was rejected because mission/operations plans required/expected a ship to return now. If this ship (which has been docked at the ISS for months) had returned early with the astronauts, then NASA would have needed to pay Elon to launch another as replacement so it could return now. Might as well leave the astronauts for a few months and have them do some science. It's just more efficient and less wasteful than paying Elon twice.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

So: political reasons. The Biden administration refused to waste money by paying SpaceX for an extra flight. And if there's one thing this new adminstration is all about, it's funneling billions of dollars to Musk's various companies.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, that's economics not politics.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

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