NASA just announced a MAJOR overhaul of the Artemis program. Here’s what’s changed, according to @NASAAdmin@rookisaacman:
NEW MISSIONS:
Artemis 3 is no longer a moon landing 🤯 It's now a crewed test mission in Low Earth Orbit in 2027 - docking with SpaceX's Starship and/or Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander to test systems and new spacesuits BEFORE anyone tries to land on the moon. The actual lunar landing now moves to Artemis 4, targeted for early 2028. Artemis 5 would follow by late 2028. That’s two crewed lunar landing attempts in one year, with NASA targeting at least one surface landing every year after that.
NEW ARCHITECTURE:
Block 1B - the planned upgrade to the SLS rocket - is dead. No more custom builds. No second mobile launcher. NASA is standardizing the rocket so they can launch every 10-12 months instead of every 3.5 years.
Why?
NASA is framing this as a return to the Apollo mindset. SLS has the worst launch cadence of any NASA-designed vehicle… ever. It’s been 3+ years since Artemis I launched. The gap between Apollo 7 and 8 was just 9 weeks! You can't build muscle memory launching once every few years. Plus… China.
The response?
A Senior NASA Official told me Congress and all prime contractors are on board - Boeing, Lockheed, SpaceX, and Blue Origin. And FWIW… so am I.
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change — all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
@BarackObama It would be really helpful if everyone understood the stakes.
Sir David Attenborough’s Netflix documentary Breaking Boundaries helps explain:
https://t.co/g7BFfgoTmn
@MAstronomers Earth is most definitely not flat.
Scientists did a 24-hour live broadcast showing the Midnight Sun in Antarctica proving that the Earth is round.
This effect would be impossible if the Earth was flat. https://t.co/ELpLfKe0aI
BREAKING: In defiance of Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orban, protestors in Hungary stormed the streets to voice their opposition to authoritarianism. This is being almost entirely ignored by mainstream media. Let’s make it go viral.
Dialed in: The Mars Relay Network (MRN) is an international constellation of five spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet that send precious science data from the rovers back to Earth. You can track which spacecraft are transmitting in real time at https://t.co/TxajNBKzBh
In today's video I talk about a recent experiment that seems to have ruled out Bohmian Mechanics, settling a 70 years-old debate.
https://t.co/9Rk1xjthD4