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NASA’s Artemis mission to take humans back to the Moon has been delayed until 2025 (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

To quote Destin from SmarterEveryDay: "We're going right?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Ha! First thing I thought of when seeing the headline: "Glad Destin got everyone's attention."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[+] [email protected] -10 points 10 months ago (6 children)

SpaceX will be colonizing Mars before Artemis launches at the rate of all these delays.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Assuming they can keep Spaceship from exploding.

Not that these sorts of things should be rushed but there are only four surviving Apollo astronauts that walked on the surface, and it would be really special if they could all witness it again.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The last time we rushed things the Challenger exploded

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

It's not like SpaceX is making anything on time. They were supposed to be to Mars years ago and they can't even get the starship to not explode.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

That was damn near 40 years ago. You'd think they'd have figured some shit out by now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

That's why we need visionaries such as yourself to cut the red tape and redundancies in Big Idea builds like a spaceship to bring humans to the moon. Or vessels for manned deep sea exploration.

[–] freeman 3 points 10 months ago

Nobody is sending people to Mars never mind colonizing it. Hopefully SpaceX/Starlink will fail before the make Earth's orbit into a junkyard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

At least the Artemis astronauts won't be going to their death

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

SpaceX being behind schedule is one of the major reasons for this delay...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No it isn't. This delay is directly related to Artemis II, which uses an Orion capsule on SLS.

SpaceX is providing a Super Heavy for HLS as part of Artemis III.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Whoops, you're right, I guess they're both delayed.