They haven’t changed with the success of this mission. It would have been a shock if, after all the money they’ve spent, and schedule delays, it hadn’t been successful.

Potentially unpopular opinion: This flight, as will be all Artemis flights as currently planned, was a very expensive stunt.

— SafeNotAnOption (@SafeNotAnOption) December 11, 2022

Private/commercial activities, not multi-tens-of-billions NASA stunts with expendable launch systems, are the future of lunar exploration and development. https://t.co/ZQeeR1Tphk

— SafeNotAnOption (@SafeNotAnOption) December 11, 2022

Artemis, with this architecture, continues to be neither necessary or sufficient for robust, abundant lunar activities.

— SafeNotAnOption (@SafeNotAnOption) December 11, 2022

[Monday-morning update]

Here is Eric Berger’s take, FWIW.

[Update a while later]

Scanning through the (as usual, largely ridiculous) comments over there, it strikes me that the real race between SpaceX and SLS was not whether SS/SH would fly before SLS, but whether SpaceX will send people around the moon before Artemis II. I think it’s quite likely.

[Bumped]

[Afternoon update]

Looking for the “S” word in Artemis.