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    Threats over SpaceX contracts send officials scrambling for alternatives

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    1. trollied on

      Spoiler alert: no other viable launch cadence. The others are very expensive.

      That aside, nonsense hit piece. No scrambling is happening.

    2. From_Ancient_Stars on

      Washington Post is owned by Bezos. Who do you think is the alternative being implied here?

    3. KappaBera on

      [Heavy Russian accent]: Mother Russia, she stands ready to answer MAGA Trump’s call for spacelift. The Donald is good with the Putin. Roscosmos to the rescue. Close eyes, this will hurt.

    5. Capn_Chryssalid on

      Article title is missing the “we hope” at the beginning or end. Also a mysterious “JB” as co-author.

    7. Decronym on

      Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

      |Fewer Letters|More Letters|
      |——-|———|—|
      |CST|(Boeing) Crew Space Transportation capsules|
      | |Central Standard Time (UTC-6)|
      |EELV|[Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_Expendable_Launch_Vehicle)|
      |[HLS](/r/Space/comments/1l5r52g/stub/mwjs5kq “Last usage”)|[Human Landing System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program#Human_Landing_System) (Artemis)|
      |[MEO](/r/Space/comments/1l5r52g/stub/mwjwcpl “Last usage”)|Medium Earth Orbit (2000-35780km)|
      |[NSSL](/r/Space/comments/1l5r52g/stub/mwjxhog “Last usage”)|National Security Space Launch, formerly EELV|
      |[Roscosmos](/r/Space/comments/1l5r52g/stub/mwj2i2n “Last usage”)|[State Corporation for Space Activities, Russia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscosmos_State_Corporation)|
      |[ULA](/r/Space/comments/1l5r52g/stub/mwja09d “Last usage”)|United Launch Alliance (Lockheed/Boeing joint venture)|

      |Jargon|Definition|
      |——-|———|—|
      |[Starliner](/r/Space/comments/1l5r52g/stub/mwk0fbd “Last usage”)|Boeing commercial crew capsule [CST-100](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CST-100_Starliner)|

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    8. danoo on

      Starliner should have been flying astronauts regularly by now. That was the whole point of the commercial crew program, having two different partners for redundancy. Blame the incompetent legacy contractors for this one.