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Old February 14th 17, 08:19 AM posted to sci.space.policy
Fred J. McCall[_3_]
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Default Musk remains on Advisory Council

JF Mezei wrote:

Another possibility with Trump is that he will naively cut "pork" to
companies, and claim credit for saving taxpayers bilions. (He has done
so for the F35 by threatening to cut program and then announced the
manufacturer sharpened its pencil, and Trump took credit for saving
billions from American taxpayers.

So, when Trump is made aware of SLS, the same thing may happen.
Threatens to cut it alltogether, then the main contractors come back
with cost reductions that allow Trump to claim victory, but as a result,
SLS isn't killed.

Meanwhile, other NASA projects that are very cost efficient and can't
cut may get the axe because they can't give Trump what he wants: let him
take credit for cutting costs.


And monkeys might fly out my butt...


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