If you’ve been reading me for a while, you know I’m not a huge fan of the Artemis mission, and particularly not a fan of its SLS booster. Both are too expensive and too unreliable to form a foundation for lunar settlement. The mission itself is fine; a rerun of the Apollo 8 circumlunar mission in some ways, but after over 50 years of nothing, getting back to things we did in the sixties counts as progress.
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To quote Joe Biden regarding a much less significant program, “This is a big f**king deal.”
Why is it a big deal? Because:
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