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>>16136004
>The Starship-Orion mission has another benefit that sets it apart from a Lunar Gateway mission: It can be done without a powerful upper stage on the SLS rocket. For its first three Artemis missions, NASA is using an "interim" upper stage for the Space Launch System rocket based on the Delta rocket and manufactured by United Launch Alliance. Now that production of the Delta rockets has ceased, it is not clear whether more of these interim stages could be produced—at least not at a reasonable cost.

So this alternate Artemis 3 would use an SLS without an upper stage since it is only going to LEO and the 2 remaining ICPS are needed for Artemis 2 and the first landing.

Orion + HLS Starship
2 cucks are going to stay in the capsule while 2 people use the Starship as a lander

This pic makes me laugh. The glowing bright light of the two vehicles docking, invoking the sort of imagery you might see as being divine when in reality it's just fucking shitty old space getting mogged.

The mid to late 2020s are going to be so kino in spaceflight.

The Starship program will be mature, multiple space stations will begin construction, we will have New Glenn, Terran R, Vulcan and Neutron launching, we will return to the moon.

Remember how stagnant spaceflight was after the shuttle program ended?

This will make up for that 5 times over


I cant wait

cant wait for this to happen