NASA’s Artemis III is going to take humanity back to the Moon in the middle of 2027. The Orion spacecraft, launched on the Space Launch System, will rendezvous with SpaceX Starship in lunar orbit. Two astronauts will board Starship and fly down to the Moon. At least, that is the plan – but it is highly doubtful that this scenario will actually happen, amid a public feud between SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and acting NASA administrator, transport secretary, and former Fox News host Sean Duffy. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

It is repeated like a mantra that space is difficult, and it is even more so to do it with the safety we now expect from NASA. Artemis is not Apollo; the goal is going back to the Moon to stay, and that req

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