NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission

Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission by Stevvo on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @06:00PM (#45662268)

2) Artemis II is sitting on the pad ready to go. It will launch in a few months. But actually it's not relevant; the article makes no mention of SLS. There is suggestion of SLS getting the contract.

SpaceX doesn't even have a timeline for Starship; they have no idea when it will be ready, but the one thing that is clear is it wont be ready to take humans to the moon in 2027.

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Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission by ternus on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @07:12PM (#45662954)

Artemis II is not on the pad. It's in the VAB, and it isn't stacked yet (source: my sister's an engineer with NASA Exploration Ground Support and is one of the people in charge of assembling it).

There's a lot left to do before it's ready to launch: https://spaceflightnow.com/2025/10/17/orion-spacecraft-arriv...

Of course, compared to the decades-long SLS timeline, that's "ready to go".

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