they say deliver of Lunar Gateway or simply Gateway will also be manned, launched on both Falcon Heavy and SLS. Into a Polar near-rectilinear halo orbit with an orbital period of 7 days.
Artemis 2 officially Artemis II
Four astronauts are to perform a flyby of the Moon and return to Earth,
Artemis 5 is said to involve a Blue Origin Blue Moon Lander and Astronauts Driving a Car on the Moon, a 30 day mission.
Artemis 8 would be living inside a Surface Habitat
https://web.archive.org/web/20230615105 … _rev_b.pdf
GAO report
they conclude "we found the lunar landing mission is unlikely to occur in 2025 as planned" due to ambitious schedule, delays to key events, large volume of remaining work, spacesuit design challenges
]]>NASA's Artemis 2 mission around Moon set for November 2024
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-nasa-arte … ember.html
Artemis-II will be manned
]]>It appears that it was an electrical problem in the mobile platform on which the SLS rests generated a spark that ignited a rope, leading to an evacuation of the rocket hangar. They are still not sure what did it or if it will have any impact to getting the rocket to launch soon.
]]>Odd that the article had only 1 sentence revealing a fire occurrence. The rest of the article dealt with other things. Considering the impacts if one or both of those boosters had ignited or exploded in that building, I find that lack quite odd.
GW
]]>Artemis I: A fire at NASA Kennedy gives the long-delayed Moon mission its latest twist
]]>Better late than never, right?
]]>Like I said, putting it into the VAB was smart. It was quite clear they did not want to do that, because they waited to the last possible hour to do it, but at least they did the right thing.
GW
]]>It's a chance to recharge the batteries without having to admit the error.
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]]>I think it very likely that the 74 knot windspeed limit for SLS sitting out in the open will be exceeded. Not a certainty, but a strong likelihood.
As for the current crew of rocket folk at NASA not being able to design it more trouble-free, well, you know what I say about that: 40% science, 50% art, 10% blind dumb luck (in production work, art and luck higher in development work). Nobody at NASA has done this in over 50 years. The folks who did this 50 years ago are long retired or long dead. The art was never passed on, because nobody was doing this kind of work during those 50 years.
I am very unsurprised to see some very stupid design mistakes surfacing. These are the ones never written down in what reports were written, about how to avoid stupid mistake problems. Manager hate to put anything but good PR into reports they have to sign off.
GW
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]]>So they still have hydrogen leak problems that threaten their launch countdown protocols, and there is the unverified battery charge issue for the flight termination system.
Even without a crew, this would be one expensive failure, if they make bad management decisions.
GW
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