Other than the obvious risks involved with an unflown rocket, is there anything preventing Nasa from putting crew on Artemis 1 and having people around the moon this year?
At #glenn2021, Jeffrey George, lunar architecture lead at NASA, says 2024 is looking “a little tight” for the Artemis 3 landing; “maybe a year or so later.” NASA hopes to have a “base camp” with habitat, rovers, and other infrastructure in place at lunar south pole by ~2030.
Quote from: Jeff FoustAt #glenn2021, Jeffrey George, lunar architecture lead at NASA, says 2024 is looking “a little tight” for the Artemis 3 landing; “maybe a year or so later.” NASA hopes to have a “base camp” with habitat, rovers, and other infrastructure in place at lunar south pole by ~2030.https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1415023591993880581
I don't see how NASA can plan for people to stay at the gateway for any less than a year, if the only way they have of coming and going involves an SLS launch.
Multiple challenges to #NASA’s development of its next-generation spacesuits will preclude a 2024 #Artemis #moon landing. See details in new NASA OIG report https://oig.nasa.gov/docs/IG-21-025.pdf
Nelson: Blue Origin lawsuit adds further delays to Artemisby Jeff Foust — August 23, 2021COLORADO SPRINGS — At a press conference at the Kennedy Space Center in late July, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson deflected several questions about the future of the Artemis program and the agency’s ability to return humans to the lunar surface in 2024.
In the near term, Artemis 1, the first Space Launch System mission, is approaching. Is that still likely to take place before the end of the year?If not the end of the year, then in January.
The Artemis missions will build a community on the Moon, driving a new lunar economy and inspiring a new generation. Narrator Drew Barrymore and NASA team members explain why returning to the Moon is the natural next step in human exploration, and how the lessons learned from Artemis will pave the way to Mars and beyond. As NASA prepares to launch the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket on the uncrewed Artemis I mission around the Moon, we’ve already begun to take the next step.
NASA's SLS rocket now will not launch until next spring at the earliest.
However, a source said the best-case scenario for launching the Artemis 1 mission is spring of next year, with summer the more realistic target for a test flight of the heavy lift rocket and Orion spacecraft. The space agency is already running about two months behind internal targets for testing and integrating the rocket at Kennedy Space Center, and the critical pre-flight tests remain ahead.
once the segments are stacked on top of one another, NASA has about a year to launch before they would need to be destacked and serviced.
Honestly I'm not surprised given that most of the photos I've seen either shows nobody working on the rocket or 6+ people supervising 1 person. What is management doing? How is starship being worked on at a pace that is unworldy compared to here? What are they doing differently that makes them so much more efficient?
Quote from: cplchanb on 08/31/2021 04:38 pmHonestly I'm not surprised given that most of the photos I've seen either shows nobody working on the rocket or 6+ people supervising 1 person. What is management doing? How is starship being worked on at a pace that is unworldy compared to here? What are they doing differently that makes them so much more efficient?They're working as though the future of the human race is at stake. Whether anyone else believes that is beside the point. Elon seems too, and hes does everything he can to instill that sense of urgency into the whole project. SLS/NASA could never keep up with a project with that sort of drive.
