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    Elon Musk recommends that the International Space Station be deorbited ASAP

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    1. LB-Bandido on

      Of course he recommended that. He has so much to gain. He doesn’t care about anything else other than money

    2. Goregue on

      Apparently Elon Musk wants to free up as much as NASA’s budget as possible to fund his Mars plans. He wants NASA to become SpaceX’s publicly funded branch.

    4. Relative_Business_81 on

      It’s the INTERNATIONAL space station. Can the US be the only force needed to pull the plug?

    5. sky_badger on

      I used to think Trump was the most brittle ego alive, but I now realise he’s only the second.

    7. grandadmiralstrife on

      The ISS Commander called him out on his BS. Naturally now Musk wants to destroy the ISS

    8. Crosseyes on

      The article doesn’t mention that he tweeted this almost immediately after ~~the current~~ a former ISS mission commander called him out for lying on twitter.

    10. bromleyspal on

      “This original statement was somewhat ambiguous. Last July, NASA awarded Space X an $843 million contract to modify a Dragon spacecraft to serve as a propulsive vehicle to safely guide the aging space station into the Pacific Ocean in 2030. So in some sense, preparations are already underway to shut down the laboratory.”

    11. Beardycub86 on

      Counter-recommendation: blast Elon into orbit ASAP. No suit no ship. Since he wants to be efficient with money he can hold his breath.

    17. necroreefer on

      Don’t worry, guys the richest man in the world is gonna save us from all those greedy billionaires. /s

    20. PatAD on

      I have a LEGO ISS in my office at work. I never expected it to some day end up being a political statement. Apparently I was wrong.

    23. Actually_i_like_dogs on

      They have been talking about this for a long time. I hope he’s not trying to get the contract to build a new one . But it should be decommissioned

    24. PresentationThat3746 on

      I though the space guys were the last bastion of people who liked elon outside hardcore conservatives… This guy now really tries to become the most universally hated person or?

    25. treycartier91 on

      You don’t say. The oligarch with a private space company wants to further cripple NASA and public space exploration.

      When SpaceX manages to put a human on the moon or build a space station, then he can talk about how much better he is at it.

    26. Pharisaeus on

      Makes sense. It should leave just enough time of Trump’s presidency to award SpaceX with some $100bln contract to replace the ISS. Waiting until 2030 won’t work, because his term will end before Elon gets the contract.

    27. makingkevinbacon on

      I hate to say this but isn’t the ISS nearing the end of its lifespan? I thought I heard somewhere a few years ago that it would need to be taken out of orbit by I think the late 2020s

    28. jtroopa on

      God, “let’s go to Mars, let’s go to Mars, let’s go to Mars” look as someone who DOES want us to go to Mars there is a STUPID amount of technologies we have to conceive, build, test and perfect before going to Mars.
      LEO is the first stop to anywhere in space, and having an infrastructure there is essential, ditto the Moon if we ever want to make meaningfully regular forays into deep space.
      I’m sick of hearing this idiot say shit like this. It has all the weight of “Oh you want to lose some weight? Just quit eating, duh.”

    30. 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|
      |——-|———|—|
      |[CSA](/r/Space/comments/1iu7dlz/stub/mdv5vph “Last usage”)|Canadian Space Agency|
      |CST|(Boeing) Crew Space Transportation capsules|
      | |Central Standard Time (UTC-6)|
      |[ESA](/r/Space/comments/1iu7dlz/stub/mdv5vph “Last usage”)|European Space Agency|
      |[EVA](/r/Space/comments/1iu7dlz/stub/mdvaud2 “Last usage”)|Extra-Vehicular Activity|
      |[FAA](/r/Space/comments/1iu7dlz/stub/mdvihre “Last usage”)|Federal Aviation Administration|
      |[HLS](/r/Space/comments/1iu7dlz/stub/mdvjf2d “Last usage”)|[Human Landing System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program#Human_Landing_System) (Artemis)|
      |[ITS](/r/Space/comments/1iu7dlz/stub/mdv2b6n “Last usage”)|Interplanetary Transport System (2016 oversized edition) (see MCT)|
      | |[Integrated Truss Structure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Truss_Structure)|
      |[JAXA](/r/Space/comments/1iu7dlz/stub/mdv5vph “Last usage”)|Japan Aerospace eXploration Agency|
      |[LEO](/r/Space/comments/1iu7dlz/stub/mdvbnb4 “Last usage”)|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
      | |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
      |MCT|Mars Colonial Transporter (see ITS)|
      |[Roscosmos](/r/Space/comments/1iu7dlz/stub/mdv13m8 “Last usage”)|[State Corporation for Space Activities, Russia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscosmos_State_Corporation)|

      |Jargon|Definition|
      |——-|———|—|
      |[Starliner](/r/Space/comments/1iu7dlz/stub/mdvk333 “Last usage”)|Boeing commercial crew capsule [CST-100](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CST-100_Starliner)|
      |[Starlink](/r/Space/comments/1iu7dlz/stub/mdv50mq “Last usage”)|SpaceX’s world-wide satellite broadband constellation|

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    31. stfuandgovegan on

      “So I ran across some information a day ago in an obscure little weird science/high strangeness podcast I was listening to (Patterns Tell Stories) and I don’t usually do cut and paste of my own posts but I need to share this and I need y’all to get this information out, for all the people who don’t understand how really super serious this is.

      And get ready for this sh*t because your day is about to get so surreal, like I screamed out NO F*CKING WAY but it’s totally right there and people need to know.

      For all the “not really a Nazi” apologists:

      So, history lesson, Project Paperclip brought over **Wernher von Braun** who was Germany’s top Nazi Rocket Scientist who developed the V2, very big deal in the Nazi party, to work for us after the war.

      And if you’re not aware of Project Paperclip take a moment to look that up.

      He later in life wrote a science fiction novel in the 1950’s called Project Mars, which is about traveling to Mars where they find a super advanced society of humans who are governed by a ruling counsel of ten genetically superior men under the leadership of their uber-master, **THE ELON.**

      Which, it was confirmed in a 2022 interview with Elon’s father, oh yeah that’s definitely where the name comes from.

      So he named his SON after a *super obscure* book that just HAPPENS to be about elite “supermen” on Mars, which book just HAPPENS to have been written by a very high ranking **ACTUAL NAZI**, and the ultimate leader of this fictional tale just HAPPENS to be the reason **Elon has his f*cking name** and that’s not speculation that’s his Dad attesting to that…..but **NO WAY DOES HIS FAMILY’S OR HIS IDEOLOGICAL TIES RUN DEEP INTO ACTUAL NAZI TERRITORY.**

      It’s not like he was NAMED after a character in a Nazi Superman book, or like his life’s dream is specifically about being that guy on Mars or anything. I mean except that it actually is.

      A thousand times /s in case anyone couldn’t get that.

      **THAT is the life story and personal mythology of the person that has taken over the US government,** and frankly even I was shocked how blatant it is, and how nobody has heard of it.

      Here, check it out, pass it on. It’s down there near the bottom of the page, the part about Musk himself.

      [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mars:_A_Technical_Tale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mars:_A_Technical_Tale)

      We either deal with this situation as the extremely insanely dangerous historical moment we find ourselves in, or y’all are all going to be slaves to a megalomaniacal K Hole Nazi who has been groomed to believe it’s his *destiny* to rule over you.”

    35. pennylanebarbershop on

      Somehow I expect that everything Musk recommends is something that benefits him personally.

    36. DYMAXIONman on

      He posted this just after an ISS astronaut said one of his statements was wrong, and then Elon called him the R slur.

    37. icnoevil on

      Just read that US taxpayer have put $71 billion plus in his pocket in the past few years. Now he wants to be our boss. Time to hurl him into orbit.

    38. whiskeygolf13 on

      Dollars to donuts he wants to pitch replacing it with a SpaceX design. Nevermind his launch in January “had undergone rapid unscheduled disassembly” in flight. Heh. Most of us just say ‘exploded.’

    39. No-Wonder1139 on

      Why? Has it been noticing that star link is failing and falling out of the sky way above the rate it’s supposed to?

    40. shad0w1432 on

      Y’know I really wish him and zuck followed through on their fight. Would’ve been funny to see

    41. Musetrigger on

      Elon having another hissy fit over people calling him out on his bullshit, eh?

      America is being run by a doped up rich man-child.

    42. -whiteroom- on

      I recommend we put him into orbit with no way back and no communications. He can be Schrodingers Musk.

    44. Cryten0 on

      I wonder if there is anything they do that will cause republicans of the USA to call out their leaders to not do things.