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I think you might not be taking a significant numbers of factors into account as these are not comparable programs. Artemis & the SLS have very different requir
by altacc 4y ago
I think you might not be taking a significant numbers of factors into account as these are not comparable programs. Artemis & the SLS have very different requirements to SpaceX’s falcon. The closer comparison is to Starship & Super Heavy, which has also not yet launched. The Artemis program is ahead of SpaceX.
- natch 4y agoCompare SLS and SpaceX, not Artemis and SpaceX. SpaceX became a part of Artemis when it was selected to take Astronauts to the moon. SLS will only take them into orbit near the moon. SpaceX will take them to the actual surface of the moon. That’s a kinda important part of Artemis.
- philistine 4y agoYeah. It’s maddening to imagine that the spaceship to bring them to the moon is smaller than the lander that will put them on the moon.
- MichaelCollins 4y agoThat landing ever actually occurring seems about as likely as pigs flying (or pork barrels flying?) NASA selecting the absurd Starship lander proposal seems like a tacit admission of this. The lander contract is a 'safe' contract for SpaceX to win, despite their absurd proposal, since the whole program is very unlikely to ever get to the stage where the lander is actually put to use and sent to the moon.