Posted on 09/02/2022 7:30:00 AM PDT by SES1066
All eyes will be on the historic Launch Complex 39B when the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket lift off for the first time from NASA's modernized Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Artemis I will be the first in a series of increasingly complex missions to build a long-term human presence at the Moon for decades to come.
The primary goals for Artemis I are to demonstrate Orion’s systems in a spaceflight environment and ensure a safe re-entry, descent, splashdown, and recovery prior to the first flight with crew on Artemis II.
(Excerpt) Read more at nasa.gov ...
They’ll spend a trillion dollars to get that first black woman on the moon
The Artemis rocket uses four recycled Space Shuttle main engines.
Unlike the Space Shuttle, the Artemis booster throws away the engines into the ocean after launch.
How many used Space Shuttle main engines do we have in stockpile? I’m thinking maybe enough for three more Artemis launches?
Ping.
They claimed this would be faster and cheaper by using "proven" technology.
There's already an issue with foam I read about. So I think by "proven" they mean proven to be enormously rewarding to politically connected contractors and proven to be failures.
My estimate is two outcomes: either it doesn't launch; or it does and blows up shortly afterwards.
Thanks. Hopefully they got the engine conditioning issue resolved.
$40 billion to get to this point.....wow
Or was it $60 billion ?
Found it....
A report from NASA’s Office of Inspector General released in November 2021 outlines just how much development costs increased for SLS between its first iteration and now, and revealed how expensive each SLS launch will be. According to the report (opens in new tab), NASA will end up spending a total of $93 billion on the Artemis program between 2012 and 2025, and each SLS/Orion launch will have a price tag of about $4.1 billion.
It always irritated me that the writers of the original “The Wild Wild West!” were so blithering ignorant of Greek Mythology. Artemis is the Greek Goddess of the Hunt. Yet, here is Artemis Gordon - Jim West’s sidekick! Did Gordon’s parent’s really really want a girl, or did they saddle our future hero with the “A Boy Named Sue!” life challenge?
Perhaps the show’s writers trying to tell us something else?
The implication is too horrible to contemplate!
Afterall it is Hollyweird!
I did some reading, and there's 16 Shuttle-era RS-25s left, four of which are on Artemis I.
NASA has contracted Rocketdyne to build 24 more new ones.
Obsolete equipment demonstrated by an obsolete organization.
Hey, it’s an improvement. Shuttle was around $1B per launch back in the ‘80s; we’ve had 5X inflation since then so...a bit underpriced for this big butt white elephant!
It’ll launch a couple of times a year to great fanfare, while over at LC-39A the kidz at SpaceX will be orbiting tons of stuff with their Starship vehicle probably weekly.
Pffft... They wasted a lot more than that on Ukraine, and handed ~$85B worth of top-of-the-line equipment to the Taliban.
A mere bag of shells.
It’s all to get the first black woman on the moon nothing else
Vessels are NEVER named after women unless you want tragedy and failure.
They have an engine in the pipeline for after that. It’s a riff on the SSME intended to be cheaper to manufacture but not reusable.
I think the later is more than likely what will happen. I hope if it is going to blow that it does before they stick astronauts on board. I fear we are looking at another Apollo 1 event.
They wasted so much money on this white elephant that could have went to a bigger spacecraft, an actual lander and better suits. There are plenty of heavy lift boosters out there that could have been made ready for human use far cheaper than this NASA jobs project.
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