impressive. Elon tried to fire all 33 of his engine on the Starship and came up a little short as only 31 fired. I think the Artemis moon program, slow but steady, has a much better chance of success over Elon’s Mars shot.
I used to live a few miles outside the buffer zone. Nice rumbles on occasion. And with my job visited a few times. 🚀
“Artemis 3 is bound for the surface no earlier than 2025.”
They keep moving the goalposts—first 2020, then 2022, then 2023, then 2024, then 2025, then “no earlier than 2025”.
The European Space Agency is designing and building the Orion service modules (the part where humans will be found on the mission):
https://www.space.com/first-europeans-to-land-on-moon-with-artemis
Despite the happy talk press releases, this is not going well...
They need to fire the head and put a DEI political hack in there. Ko way that rocket should have done anything but destroy itself...like they are doing to our country everywhere else.