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Forget Mars: SpaceX can't get to the frigging moon [1]

['Séamus Bellamy']

Date: 2025-11-18  

Everyone has grown accustomed to Elon Musk being a source of constant disappointment. Everything he touches—marriages, the American government, Twitter, Tesla's working conditions, his sad restaurant, and his non-relationship with what, 100 of his kids?—turns to crap. His shittiness stays as constant as the North Star.

Speaking of space, here's an update from Gizmodo:

SpaceX has fallen behind in developing a crewed lunar lander for NASA's Artemis 3 mission, prompting the agency to reopen the contract to other providers. The added pressure has pushed SpaceX to revise its strategy, but the new approach still appears insufficient to meet NASA's target date, leaked proprietary information suggests. An internal SpaceX document obtained by Politico lays out a new timeline for the Starship Human Landing System (HLS)—one that would put the Artemis 3 astronauts on the Moon by September 2028 at the earliest. That's more than a year past NASA's mid-2027 target.



Yep, his literal moonshot can't get off the ground. Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin rocket booster nailed its landing during a test launch last week. (Because why end world hunger or attack the housing crisis when you can spend billions going to space?) Musk and his overworked team of rocket scientists are running out of time to set things right. Looks like we have another space race on our hands.

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