To be clear to everyone here: The primary reason why Artemis 3 is not landing is because the billionaire-run Human Landing System contractors are not performing to schedule. The landers are just not ready.
In this test, Artemis 3 will dock with a starship in Earth orbit, but the starship will not even have a cabin interior fitted.
Now and I am not defending space billionaire, but realistically Artemis was moving way too fast regardless of whether the lander was ready or not. There is a reason it took 10 Apolo flights before we landed on the moon, a lot of hardware need testing and a lot of procedure need figuring out. Landing on the 3rd mission would have been dangerous and reckless.
To be clear to everyone here: The primary reason why Artemis 3 is not landing is because the billionaire-run Human Landing System contractors are not performing to schedule. The landers are just not ready.
In this test, Artemis 3 will dock with a starship in Earth orbit, but the starship will not even have a cabin interior fitted.
Now and I am not defending space billionaire, but realistically Artemis was moving way too fast regardless of whether the lander was ready or not. There is a reason it took 10 Apolo flights before we landed on the moon, a lot of hardware need testing and a lot of procedure need figuring out. Landing on the 3rd mission would have been dangerous and reckless.