Ha! First thing I thought of when seeing the headline: “Glad Destin got everyone’s attention.”
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The future missions are intended to “establish the foundation for long-term scientific exploration at the Moon” and “land the first woman and the first person of color” on its surface.
NASA said that it is pushing the missions back primarily to make sure its crew is safe, as the agency needs to resolve a battery issue and work on circuitry related to environmental systems, including air ventilation.
A Reuters report yesterday said that NASA had found an issue with the batteries in the Orion capsule built by Lockheed Martin during vibration testing and that they’d need replacing.
NASA also said it expects to finish investigating why the capsule lost char layers during its 2022 reentry into Earth’s atmosphere this spring.
Artemis I launched in 2022, sending NASA’s Orion capsule to orbit the Moon for a week and fly back to the Earth, a trip that took a little under a month.
The Artemis program originally had a longer timeline, with plans to get the lunar Gateway, a small planned space station that orbits the Moon, into place by 2026 and astronauts on the lunar surface by 2028, until Vice President Mike Pence announced in 2019 that the Trump administration was accelerating the schedule, pushing for a 2024 crewed landing.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
SpaceX will be colonizing Mars before Artemis launches at the rate of all these delays.
Assuming they can keep Spaceship from exploding.
Not that these sorts of things should be rushed but there are only four surviving Apollo astronauts that walked on the surface, and it would be really special if they could all witness it again.
The last time we rushed things the Challenger exploded
It’s not like SpaceX is making anything on time. They were supposed to be to Mars years ago and they can’t even get the starship to not explode.
That was damn near 40 years ago. You’d think they’d have figured some shit out by now.
That’s why we need visionaries such as yourself to cut the red tape and redundancies in Big Idea builds like a spaceship to bring humans to the moon. Or vessels for manned deep sea exploration.
At least the Artemis astronauts won’t be going to their death
Nobody is sending people to Mars never mind colonizing it. Hopefully SpaceX/Starlink will fail before the make Earth’s orbit into a junkyard.
SpaceX being behind schedule is one of the major reasons for this delay…
