11 thoughts on “Is Artemis Flirting With Disaster?”

1. Hey no risk….Isaacman isn’t getting on that thing!

2. We should already be building a strategy for mitigating the damage a loss will cause. Some critical system will fail and some company or government program will swirl down the drain for not preventing the loss of people that knew the risks. Let’s start by calling them all “Amazing Daredevils”, not accurate, but it’s already becoming a flying circus where anybody can throw down some cash and take a ride. Embrace The Suck

3. High risk, low payoff. We go to the moon and do the other things not because they are easy, but because we make them hard.

4. I can’t see the point of this mission that simply testing in LEO wouldn’t achieve.

   1. That’s because there pretty much isn’t one.

   2. It’s flags and footprints. Without the footprints.

      1. Nicely said.

5. To answer the question posed in the headline, yes, Artemis is flirting with disaster. Let us all hope she does not decide to take disaster home with her once the bars close.

6. Best case is further delays, well past the point that Starship is delivering regular payloads to orbit. Second best is for problems to occur in low earth orbit, and hope the heat shield holds up.

7. I’m hoping for a remake of Apollo 8.
   I fear another Columbia.
   I’m expecting another Apollo 13.

   1. No LM to retreat to on Artemis 2. If anything goes badly wrong, the relevant Apollo comparand will be Apollo 1, not Apollo 13.

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