NASA rocket becomes Boeing's latest headache as Trump demands moon mission

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Boeing senior executives arrived at NASA headquarters two weeks ago for what they knew would be a tense meeting. The rocket they’ve been building for NASA was behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget. Worse yet, there was no way it was going to be ready for a scheduled maiden launch in June 2020.

One estimate had the rocket launch as late as November 2021, and NASA’s leaders were furious, according to people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid about sensitive negotiations. President Trump and Vice President Pence wanted NASA to pull off something big and bold with human spaceflight before the 2020 election: sending a crewless capsule around the moon in a precursor to an eventual return of American astronauts to the lunar surface.

But the latest delays would push the flight well past the election.

“We’re not doing this,” a dismayed NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told the Boeing team. “We’re going to create an alternative solution. All options are on the table.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasa-rocket-becomes-boeings-latest-headache-as-trump-demands-moon-mission/ar-BBV5O9Y?li=BBnb7Kz

Everyone should just moon Trump.

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1. Give Trump a Moon Pie as proof we went back to the moon

Then get back to serious work.

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2. Positional moon of Trump with a sychronized fart.

He will get a lunar orbit, just not the one he demanded.

[Retrograde]

3. Don't we still have the plans from the Apollo program?

Sure, they're 50 years old and would be an uncomfortable ride for any people going along, but they worked before and they should again. Assuming all the other necessary infrastructure are still around (which they probably aren't).

So Trump's plan is a "Look at ME" attention getter rather than an actual scientific expedition. Figures.