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NASA may alter Artemis III to have Starship and Orion dock in low-Earth orbit (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Under one of the options, astronauts would launch into low-Earth orbit inside an Orion spacecraft and rendezvous there with a Starship vehicle, separately launched by SpaceX...The crew would then return to Earth.

Prudent to test these capabilities, but ouch.