Posted on 08/23/2021 8:06:45 AM PDT by BenLurkin
As part of the NextSTEP – 2 Appendix H program, NASA selected SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Dynetics to develop the HLS that will take the Artemis III astronauts back to the lunar surface. Initially, NASA hoped to award contracts to two of these companies but ultimately went with SpaceX due to budget constraints and timetables. In response, Blue Origin and Dynetics filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
As part of the NextSTEP – 2 Appendix H program, NASA selected SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Dynetics to develop the HLS that will take the Artemis III astronauts back to the lunar surface. Initially, NASA hoped to award contracts to two of these companies but ultimately went with SpaceX due to budget constraints and timetables. In response, Blue Origin and Dynetics filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
The SpaceX HLS concept is a modified version of the Starship, which is currently undergoing rapid development (along with the Super Heavy booster) at SpaceX’s launch facility near Boca Chica. According to the latest mockup (shown above) and previous statements by Musk, the HLS Starship will have a higher payload capacity since it will not require heat shields, flaps, and large gas thruster packs (all of which are needed for atmospheric reentry).
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Live ones?
They should send an unmanned one there first, and bring it home.
That would not only be awesome but it would prove it’s viability.
Alice is first in line. Batta-bing.
Do you have to be vaccinated? I’m out.
Send Sheila Jackson Lee and Stacy Abrams. Test it on animals before sending humans
Send all the commies. They’re moon bat crazy.
He said his supervisors constantly wanted him to come up with new and better ways to subvert safety regulations. His conscience eventually got the best of him and he quit and took a much lower paying job somewhere else. Tesla and I assume SpaceX is not a safety oriented organization.
NASA says the space suits will not protect astronauts on the moon—hope SpaceX has some that do...or we could be looking at dead astronauts on the moon.
How embarrassing for NASA - a bureaucracy that doesn’t even know what its mission is and that has become useless.
Picky, picky.
In before the “I know more than SpaceX/Tesla” crowd.
(too late)
If they can make it one way I have a list.
In the old days you would have gotten a ZOT.
But today your comment is very well taken.
Amen.
I have nothing against SpaceX, but I sure would not want to be one of their moon bound astronauts...
Btw, anybody seen any of the contingency plans for disposing of human remains on the moon?
These days the lab animals get to wait for the human trials—no animal cruelty allowed!
SpaceX will be in Earth orbit by about the end of 2021. It will be refueling in orbit by summer 2022. It will be in orbit around the Moon by the end of 2022. It will be landing on the Moon in early 2023. It will be landing human capable (but empty) craft by the end of 2023. It won’t use any of the Artemis system.
Artemis will launch Artemis I in 2022 and then be cancelled.
Blue Origin will sue Arthur C. Clarke’s estate in 2024.
Haven’t seen that. The most I ever found along those lines is the speech that William Safire wrote for President Nixon in case the Apollo 11 astronauts were stranded with no chance of leaving the lunar surface.
Basically they we’re going to cut radio transmission between Earth and the lunar module, leaving Armstrong and Aldrin to die however they could.
May need a larger booster for Ms Abrams....
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