Artemis I
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@Zalex108 I have the launch time of 1:33 BST on my Status Clock Alarm.
It looks like there is a delay - currently T minus forty minutes.
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Ohhhhhh!
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Looks like a scrubbed launch for today. Probably best to wait until everything is perfect given how much it all cost.
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It will be better when SpaceX takes over Moon Launches with the Starship. Still some time off, I suspect. Maybe early next year?
Ron Baron recently invested another $100 million in SpaceX, so he clearly has confidence in its future.
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them the cost is not a problem
The cost is ridiculously high for this launch and it's been kind of doomed to failure before it even launched. If you've got some spare time there's a really good article that dives into what went wrong with it, and how NASA could improve, that I'd recommend reading: https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/the-sls-rocket-is-the-worst-thing-to-happen-to-nasa-but-maybe-also-the-best
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@Zalex108 I had to download it to read on my e-reader. I can't look at my screen that long.
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Ron Baron recently invested another $100 million in SpaceX, so he clearly has confidence in its future.
https://www.eclipseaviation.com/does-spacex-receive-funds-from-the-government/#1
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/16/tech/spacex-nasa-moon-contract-scn/index.html
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I'll wait for the
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@Zalex108 Yes, but SLS will still be used for the launch.
Boeing is building another key element for the Artemis program: The Space Launch System or SLS, a gargantuan rocket designed to carry the Orion crew capsule to the moon.
Starship will only be used for the second phase.
That's the rocket that will carry astronauts to the moon's orbit, and then the crew will transfer to the Gateway space station, and from there, Starship will carry the astronauts to the moon's surface, according to Watson-Morgan.
IMO, it is better to scrap the SLS, and just let Boing build an SLR to take some pictures of the Starship launch from a 747.
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"The launch was originally scheduled for August 29, 2022, but technical difficulties and uncertainty about the weather forced a cancellation. The test flight is currently scheduled to launch on September 2, 2022, at 16:48 UTC from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_1 -
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Yet pending to take the time.
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You can track the Artemis1 mission here. https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/
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Totally forgot about this Topic
Missed the Launch and fun -
What strikes me most about Artemis is that it shows how fantastic and incredible it was to have done it in 1969.