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re: Artemis II Mission - GO for launch, April 1st at 5:24 CST - 80% weather favorability
Posted on 4/1/26 at 8:58 am to The Pirate King
Posted on 4/1/26 at 8:58 am to The Pirate King
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Artemis II Mission - GO for launch, April 1st at 5:24 CST - 80% weather favorability
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Posted on 4/1/26 at 8:59 am to Volvagia
You should review my cost per mission comparison. A starship moon mission will be over $2B when it’s all said and done. It takes them over 10 launches to get to the moon (possibly over 20). The $100M cost per launch metric is a paper metric that is irrelevant.
You are comparing a full cost accounting cost of an operational vehicle to a projected cost of a developmental vehicle that hasn’t yet completed a successful mission of its latest block upgrade, and is still a block upgrade away from getting to the moon.
You are comparing a full cost accounting cost of an operational vehicle to a projected cost of a developmental vehicle that hasn’t yet completed a successful mission of its latest block upgrade, and is still a block upgrade away from getting to the moon.
This post was edited on 4/1/26 at 9:02 am
Posted on 4/1/26 at 9:01 am to The Pirate King
I just learned two things about this launch.
1. There will be 4 astronauts. 3 Americans and 1 Canadian.
2. Canada has a space agency.
1. There will be 4 astronauts. 3 Americans and 1 Canadian.
2. Canada has a space agency.
Posted on 4/1/26 at 9:04 am to The Pirate King
Who decided to do this on All Fools Day?
Posted on 4/1/26 at 9:10 am to The Pirate King
Can't wait for them ti fly thru the Van Halen radiation belt....
Posted on 4/1/26 at 9:11 am to The Pirate King
can someone start a new thread on this...this thread was started back in Feb... 
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:15 am to Chicken
*crickets*
Posted on 4/1/26 at 12:33 pm to LSU Jonno
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You are comparing a full cost accounting cost of an operational vehicle
No.
The 2.5 billion isn’t project cost.
Thats per launch cost. The current estimated project cost is like 31 billion.
The 100 million/launch is actually north of the paper target, and is reasonably in line with real world commercial charges for the Falcon (around 60 million)
It might be a touch higher on average because it’s not fully resusable yet, but it’s not going to be 25x as much. If SpaceX lost that much every time a vehicle exploded they would have long since gone bankrupt.
NASA has been significantly over budget for every step of the process and it’s probably because it’s featherbedded to hell with contractors. I
Posted on 4/1/26 at 1:19 pm to Chicken
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can someone start a new thread on this...this thread was started back in Feb...
I started this official mission thread back at the initial launch window before the delays. Just out of curiosity, why is a new thread needed? More server resources needed to pull old posts?
Posted on 4/1/26 at 8:12 pm to The Pirate King
Yeah I didn’t get it either.
There have been plenty of old, even stickied threads with first posts months prior. Not sure why this was different.
There have been plenty of old, even stickied threads with first posts months prior. Not sure why this was different.
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