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Comment by trothamel

This is about to change.

New NASA administrator Isaacman has redone the Artemis program. The changes were announced at the Ignition event a few weeks ago:

https://www.nasa.gov/ignition/

If you read one thing, read the sides on building the moon base:

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2-building-t...

The goals it to fly often - adding a SLS launch to 2027 and a second launch to 2028. This drops the cost-per-launch, which is mostly fixed. It redoes SLS to make it less expensive and more capable. It moves the lunar space station down to the surface of the moon.

And it's budgeted at $10B/3 years, which fits into NASA's budget.

Isaacman took the Artemis program and fixed it. The reckoning came, and it's looking good.

parent trothamel 6 months ago

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