A new Moon race has begun
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A new Moon race has begun
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Re: A new Moon race has begun
#2The projected dates of 2023 and 2024 for a gateway station and landing are completely unachievable. I assume it's tied into boosterism for the reelection campaign: "Look at what we're going to do in our second term." It's sad that nobody in the media is calling them out on this.
Re: A new Moon race has begun
#3The projected dates of 2023 and 2024 for a gateway station and landing are completely unachievable. I assume it's tied into boosterism for the reelection campaign: "Look at what we're going to do in our second term." It's sad that nobody in the media is calling them out on this.
Human-rated probably not, but with SpaceX's rapid iteration strategy, if they leveraged what they're already doing with BFR they could probably get something that size on the moon by then. The fact that they have working rockets going to orbit, as well as a process that iteratively improves on their methods, its not totally unreasonable. Especially when compared to Blue Origin, who has yet to put a single rocket in orbit.
Re: A new Moon race has begun
#4The projected dates of 2023 and 2024 for a gateway station and landing are completely unachievable. I assume it's tied into boosterism for the reelection campaign: "Look at what we're going to do in our second term." It's sad that nobody in the media is calling them out on this.
I agree that there's a strong bit of re-electionism, but an Apollo 8-10 style mission is quite feasible in that timeline.
Re: A new Moon race has begun
#5The projected dates of 2023 and 2024 for a gateway station and landing are completely unachievable. I assume it's tied into boosterism for the reelection campaign: "Look at what we're going to do in our second term." It's sad that nobody in the media is calling them out on this.
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Re: A new Moon race has begun
#6The projected dates of 2023 and 2024 for a gateway station and landing are completely unachievable. I assume it's tied into boosterism for the reelection campaign: "Look at what we're going to do in our second term." It's sad that nobody in the media is calling them out on this.
Landing on the moon in 2024 is far less ridiculous a statement than Kennedy's moon announcement in 1961 was. We can do it, we just don't want to badly enough.
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#7Yes, it's called Space Force and it's on Netflix. Can't wait.
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#8Re: A new Moon race has begun
#9The projected dates of 2023 and 2024 for a gateway station and landing are completely unachievable. I assume it's tied into boosterism for the reelection campaign: "Look at what we're going to do in our second term." It's sad that nobody in the media is calling them out on this.
I'm not able to RTFA due to paywall, but I believe that the Lunar Gateway has already gone by the wayside for the first planned mission in 2024. I wouldn't be surprised if the completion date got pushed back a few more times and then it was canceled.
Re: A new Moon race has begun
#10The projected dates of 2023 and 2024 for a gateway station and landing are completely unachievable. I assume it's tied into boosterism for the reelection campaign: "Look at what we're going to do in our second term." It's sad that nobody in the media is calling them out on this.
Landing on the moon in 2024 is far less ridiculous a statement than Kennedy's moon announcement in 1961 was. We can do it, we just don't want to badly enough.
Manned spaceflight and stations are unnecessary in the near term. Autonomous drones and machines can bootstrap colonization. A mining refinery can be bootstrapped easily, all remotely. Then asteroid mining droids will drop their payloads there for refinement and processing.