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loourr ◴[] No.45655638[source]
Artemis is a joke. You can tell this is politically motivated by their stance on SLS. If they were serious they would give Spacex the SLS contract for being years and years behind schedule.
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jordanb ◴[] No.45655844[source]
Is starship on schedule?
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ACCount37 ◴[] No.45655876[source]
Of course not. But a system that's "affordable, fixed price, highly capable, delayed" beats one that's "too expensive, cost+, marginally capable, delayed".

Starship is not a drop-in replacement for SLS. But it sure casts a long shadow on the entire SLS project.

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1. wat10000 ◴[] No.45659917[source]
At $2.5 billion per launch, the worst thing that could happen with SLS is that it starts being used.