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Here’s how to revive NASA’s Artemis Moon program with three simple tricks

To get somewhere, Artemis must avoid going nowhere.

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Here’s how to revive NASA’s Artemis Moon program with three simple tricks

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Oliver Schafeld
Oliver Schafeld
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Returning to the #Moon: Keeping #Artemis on Track, U.S. House of Representatives Committee:

»#SpaceX’s approach requires an impractically large number of orbital refuelling operations for even a single lunar mission (#Space News, 17 Nov 2023; spacenews.com/starship-lunar-l… ), while Blue Origin’s mission design depends on the development of one of the most difficult enabling technologies [...]«

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Starship lunar lander missions to require nearly 20 launches, NASA says - SpaceNews

As SpaceX prepares for its next Starship test, a NASA official said that the use of that vehicle for Artemis lunar landings will require nearly 20 launches.
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Daniel Marks
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The grim truth is that the only thing that motivated a genuine effort to reach the moon and produce the ICBMs was existential fear of a worldwide takeover by Communism. With that not very likely anymore these programs just become pork barrel grift. So many military "moonshot" programs: F35, Zumwalt, Littoral Combat Ship become expensive boondoggles because success is not an option.
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