Apollo astronaut Frank Borman has died

Re:Apollo astronaut Frank Borman has died by ChicagoBoy11 on Friday November 10, 2023 @08:29AM (#38218530)

If Artemis goes on as planned, hopefully you'll just have to hold on at least a few more years!

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Re:Apollo astronaut Frank Borman has died by dylan604 on Friday November 10, 2023 @09:09AM (#38219015)

Has anything about Artemis occurred ad planned? Why would we be silly enough to expect it to start now?

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Re:Apollo astronaut Frank Borman has died by tekla on Friday November 10, 2023 @12:20PM (#38221563)

Artemis 1 flew without incident and Orion landed back on earth nominally and achieved all scientific objectives.

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Re:Apollo astronaut Frank Borman has died by dylan604 on Friday November 10, 2023 @03:53PM (#38224372)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_1

Launch date November 16, 2022, 06:47:44 UTC (1:47 am EST)

"Artemis 1 was outlined by NASA as Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1) in 2012, at which point it was set to launch in 2017"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_2

"Launch date During preliminary reviews in 2011, the launch date was placed somewhere between 2019 and 2021, but afterwards the launch date was delayed to 2023 on an SLS launch vehicle.[25][26] Although, as of March 2023, the mission is pegged for a November 2024 launch,[1] the need to recycle and refurbish components from Orion that flew on Artemis 1 may push this back to later in 2024 or the first quarter of 2025"

I'm getting older just reading it

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Re:Apollo astronaut Frank Borman has died by creaturemachine on Friday November 10, 2023 @12:03PM (#38221319)

Considering the moon landing craft they've chosen is one that hasn't even reached space, I'd adjust your outlook to "decades."

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Re:Apollo astronaut Frank Borman has died by tekla on Friday November 10, 2023 @12:20PM (#38221550)

I have something to tell you about literally the Apollo program (October 27, 1961 -> December 19, 1972)

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Re:Apollo astronaut Frank Borman has died by V99 on Friday November 10, 2023 @02:25PM (#38223307)

That was the '60s, and the amount of risk accepted and stability of funding were completely different worlds. The entirety of first flight (Apollo 4) to first landing (11) was 20 months.

Today just development of the SLS has been going for as long as the 11 years of Apollo program. We have exactly one uncrewed test launch to show for it, with another not planned for 24 months later (next November) and a landing looking like 2028 at the earliest and no reason to think it won't be delayed.

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