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Artemis stacking begins

Fate called to say April 2026 is officially OldSpace month.

After Artemis II made the Great Galactic Ghoul its little.... emotional support animal...it is now MSFC 's pit bull.

It's gangsta!

After tearing Bezos top off:

It just bit down on Booster 19's bottom....hard!
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Topless.... bottomless...the Epstein Club half-and-half special.

Elon, I'm laughing at the superior intellect.

Time for him and ears Issacman to put on their plastic helmets, and get back on the short bus.
 
Fate called to say April 2026 is officially OldSpace month.

After Artemis II made the Great Galactic Ghoul its little.... emotional support animal...it is now MSFC 's pit bull.

It's gangsta!

After tearing Bezos top off:

It just bit down on Booster 19's bottom....hard!
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Topless.... bottomless...the Epstein Club half-and-half special.

Elon, I'm laughing at the superior intellect.

Time for him and ears Issacman to put on their plastic helmets, and get back on the short bus.

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Well phooey. NSF feed. They are supposed to try again tomorrow. There was another image that didn't look as bad....quite a violent thing regardless.
 
The Artemis III core has *already* been delivered to Florida:

Arty 3 may not even have an upper stage. The European service module is well on its way.

The hold-up? No landers to dock with due to tech-brahs blowing up their facilities...with Elon joining Bezos in raising the roof:

The NewSpacers, like all zealots, keep spinning:
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No sooner than that blurb was posted, SpaceX found a way to blow up the deluge:
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See the seven minute mark here:

This is the SLS Jared killed:
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The infrastructure of the rocket that works--that he goes after:
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The good news is that, after dominating the interwebs and turning space sites into echo chambers, the NewSpace Narrative is at last being questioned:

America is getting its can-do mojo back in spite of the Musk and Bezos....and you can see how the eyes of rocket history are boring holes into those two from beyond the grave:

 
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Even if a Blue Origin lander were available, it'll take two SLS launches, a new upper stage and a lunar orbit rendezvous to get to the lunar south pole. Not going to happen this decade - if it ever does. A permanent Moon base isn't feasible unless NASA's budget were increased by at least an order of magnitude and politicians seem unwilling to countenance that. SpaceX is just a joke at the moment in my opinion.
 
What are the chances of the EUS and Gateway being saved, somehow?

I may be in the minority, but I think losing Gateway is going to be seen as a massive mistake in years to come. Docking with the HALO module and the PPE could've been Artemis III or IV if a lander still wasn't available.
 
What are the chances of the EUS and Gateway being saved, somehow?

I may be in the minority, but I think losing Gateway is going to be seen as a massive mistake in years to come. Docking with the HALO module and the PPE could've been Artemis III or IV if a lander still wasn't available.
None. Block 1B and 2 SLS, EUS and Gateway are already cancelled. I agree about Gateway, but it's not going to be a concern at all. NASA has barely enough money as it is to do SLS with the continued cuts to its budget. What is Artemis III going to do if neither SpaceX nor Blue Origin are anywhere near having human-rated landers ready for testing in Earth orbit in 2027 or 2028? I doubt there's sufficient budget for the two closely spaced SLS launches required for a manned lunar landing - not to mention that any Centaur V derived replacement for the ICPS has yet to be built and tested. A manned lunar landing might just be doable by 2030, but after that I expect the whole thing will get cancelled even if that doesn't happen sooner.
 
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