🚀 ESA boss tires of being dragged around by NASA mood swings

ï―Ē In 2025, an agency insider referred to NASA as "an abusive spouse who could lash out at any moment in unpredictable ways." In 2026, Aschbacher's patience appears to be running out ï―Ģ

https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/05/20/esa-boss-tires-of-being-dragged-around-by-nasa-mood-swings/5243235

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ESA boss tires of being dragged around by NASA mood swings

Are we pilots or are we passengers? Aschbacher asks

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@jbz Did #NASA forget again who makes 'their' life support modules?

@Satiah @jbz

I feel like I'm missing context for your reply. What life support modules are you referring to? And has NASA (or the USA) miscredited it in the past?

To be honest the only ESA contribution to an active NASA program I can think of is the European Service Module (ESM), but there are probably more.

@WastedRadiance @jbz ESM is exactly what I meant. 🙂 Pardon my ADHD brain. ðŸĪŠ It feels to me that they ommit the credit due every time they say 'NASA's mission' to the moon. Like if they were going there on their own, while they rely heavily on international cooperation. 🙁

@Satiah @jbz

You are pardoned (it wasn't really important to your point, anyway).

I hope to see a little less "the USA" and a little more "the free world" by the time the moon landing happens. Remember when, in the middle of the official broadcast, they dropped a trailer for "the greatest, and most enduring democracy in the history of the world"? It felt gross.

https://www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBMIzNo?si=u0-fF-BATnEFr2XU&t=18100

NASA's Artemis II Crew Launches To The Moon (Official Broadcast)

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@WastedRadiance @jbz Pretty funny, given that US democracy is actually considered a deficient democracy, and legislation passed has nothing to do with the will of the people, but mirrors closely corporate interests. So yeah... A democracy... Feel free to go and vote. Two parties doing the same thing, you can only choose yourself a different rhetoric.

#politics #USA #twoPartySystem #democracy