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Wow!! I think most of us assumed cancellation was politically impossible, so it's going to be very interesting to watch the fallout of this report. What will be the battlelines in Congress?
Makes sense if Boeing is selling off its space program. Was cool to see Artemis I launch. Hopefully someone other than Space X can come in and finish the job with Orion.
Lol. You think with the next government that's coming in anyone other than SpaceX is going to get anything?
I'm holding out hope that SpaceX doesn't want to do everything. They don't want to build all the rovers, scientific instruments, one-off or low quantity satellites, space stations, surface habs, etc.
In this case, though, getting crew to and from the lunar surface is right up their alley.
Boeing actually wants to keep SLS despite selling off some parts of their space division. SLS is still a juicy cost plus contract that they can milk no matter how slow and over budget they are.
I'm not going to do the math on these, but Orion on a New Glenn or the "Bridenstine Stack" Falcon Heavy + Centaur would be cool.
About time too.
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