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Airing his journalistic frustrations in public has served Berger fairly well in the recent past. Thus, it makes all kinds of sense to do so again anent the landers. The answer from the powers, such as they be, and as of now, is – “we’re not prepared to say just yet.”
So Berger can dutifully report that there is no answer of any great specificity to be had just now, pass along the few crumbs of information that are available, add a fairly significant whinge about all of this to the pile of same already piled against the door of the NASA Public Affairs Office and hope the weight of his addition will be the straw that breaks open said door.
Personally, I don’t think there is anyone at SpaceX, NASA, Blue Origin or anywhere else that is going to be able to say anything really credible on the topic of landers until at least the completion of Flight 12 of Starship – and perhaps not even then.
Serene in the knowledge that it is pretty much SpaceX on the critical path, and that there is no other organization on the planet that can proceed faster toward a given end, I await what comes over the remainder of the year with anticipation of current outstanding questions being answered between now and its end.
Airing his journalistic frustrations in public has served Berger fairly well in the recent past. Thus, it makes all kinds of sense to do so again anent the landers. The answer from the powers, such as they be, and as of now, is – “we’re not prepared to say just yet.”
So Berger can dutifully report that there is no answer of any great specificity to be had just now, pass along the few crumbs of information that are available, add a fairly significant whinge about all of this to the pile of same already piled against the door of the NASA Public Affairs Office and hope the weight of his addition will be the straw that breaks open said door.
Personally, I don’t think there is anyone at SpaceX, NASA, Blue Origin or anywhere else that is going to be able to say anything really credible on the topic of landers until at least the completion of Flight 12 of Starship – and perhaps not even then.
Serene in the knowledge that it is pretty much SpaceX on the critical path, and that there is no other organization on the planet that can proceed faster toward a given end, I await what comes over the remainder of the year with anticipation of current outstanding questions being answered between now and its end.