In reply to Alex Longo.
Hi Alex, Perhaps the “clean room” around the SRB joints is more for temperature control than dust elimination.
The cost of flying Artemis 2 : .. Could be huge. No one has any incentive to do it quickly or cheaply. Orion, SLS & EGS are costing ~ $ 3 Bn/yr ? and it’ll be at least 12 months until Artemis 2 launches, but could be over 24 months.
“Stack” and “launch” sounds cheap but there is a huge amount of testing during and after assembly, with an army of thousands on standby. Artemis 2 won’t achieve anything significant,...