12 thoughts on “After Success”

  1. Relax, those delays are baked into the cake!
    Will taste mighty sweet when a crew gets into trouble in lunar orbit.

    That that evil Elon Musk and SpaceX would even think of asking NASA for money to rescue them! Who do they think they are?

  2. What in the name of anything makes it possible to require _two years_ to re-qualify the avionics carried on Artemis I?

    Is there any other field of human endeavor where it is acceptable to require such a long time to do so little at such enormous cost??

    Meanwhile, the “Artemis Generation” has been hoodwinked.

    1. “Is there any other field of human endeavor where it is acceptable to require such a long time to do so little at such enormous cost??”

      Have you been paying any attention at all to NASA? Totally SOP.

      1. Most likely I have been paying attention to NASA, and fighting for alternatives inside and outside the agency, since well before you were conceived 🙂

        I just couldn’t resist the Churchill paraphrase

      2. It’s less NASA and more Congress and their favored OldSpace contractors, isn’t it? It’s been my understanding that the Agency’s hands have been very much tied WRT Shelby’s Lunch System.

  3. It won’t be a success until it lands, but assuming it is a success, then does that mean the restraints on SpaceX will be lifted?

    I want to see that semi-orbital flight take place real soon now. (Based on past performance, it won’t be a perfect flight, but the one after could be.)

  4. I’m waiting for them to recycle and relaunch! Like the Falcon

    Because throw-away is so 1960’s!

    1. It already recycles …money. Government Contract -> Campaign Contributions -> More Government Contracts ->… (/sarc)

  5. Is Project Artemis a return to the Moon, but this time with a work-life balance for the engineers?

    As for Space-X, do they flog their engineers or merely shackle them to their workstations?

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