So they haven’t figured Orion out yet, after a decade+ and many billions of dollars. I guess the ECLSS won’t be ready for EM-1, but why can’t they buy down the risks for EM-2 with a preliminary LEO flight on an Atlas or Falcon/Falcon Heavy? I mean, except that such a flight would probably cost $1.5B+. It’s unthinkable they have schedule pressure; it’s not as if they have anything to DO out by the Moon that won’t wait another few years past 2025 or whenever EM-2 is currently baselined. There’s no lander, no hab, and there probably won’t even be a rock waiting for them. What a catastrophe of a program.
Its just too risky to actually build something in less than twenty years. Then people might expect it to get used and then they would have to build another, maybe even more.
Isn’t this supposed to be the Trump Tower version of a capsule system? Clearly it needs more money and more time. Those stingy Congresspeople endlessly subsidizing their favorite amateur hour private sector capsules!
Oh, wait…
[PS I really was wondering if the linked article was a joke.]
The article isn’t, but the program is a very expensive one.
Did the topic of the new, completely redesigned heat shield come up?
What could possibly go wrong… go wrong… go wrong…
So they haven’t figured Orion out yet, after a decade+ and many billions of dollars. I guess the ECLSS won’t be ready for EM-1, but why can’t they buy down the risks for EM-2 with a preliminary LEO flight on an Atlas or Falcon/Falcon Heavy? I mean, except that such a flight would probably cost $1.5B+. It’s unthinkable they have schedule pressure; it’s not as if they have anything to DO out by the Moon that won’t wait another few years past 2025 or whenever EM-2 is currently baselined. There’s no lander, no hab, and there probably won’t even be a rock waiting for them. What a catastrophe of a program.
Its just too risky to actually build something in less than twenty years. Then people might expect it to get used and then they would have to build another, maybe even more.
Isn’t this supposed to be the Trump Tower version of a capsule system? Clearly it needs more money and more time. Those stingy Congresspeople endlessly subsidizing their favorite amateur hour private sector capsules!
Oh, wait…
[PS I really was wondering if the linked article was a joke.]
The article isn’t, but the program is a very expensive one.
Did the topic of the new, completely redesigned heat shield come up?