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, but puts astronaut’s lives at risk.
Some would argue that if NASA continue and launch Artemis 2, they should also do Artemis 3 (to achieve the lunar landing) but that would be another huge expense for a publicity stunt that doesn’t help sustainable long term operations on the moon.
Lunar Gateway might as well be cancelled as well. It was never needed for lunar ops, just a practice for travel to Mars, and another reason to build and
The armies of people working on Gateway, Orion, SLS & EGS could develop payloads and spacecraft for Falcon Heavy, Starship and New Glenn to launch.
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