alt Hacker NewsI understand the point you’re making, but if this is a programme doomed to achieve nothing, that makes the risk even less acceptable.
I understand the point you’re making, but if this is a programme doomed to achieve nothing, that makes the risk even less acceptable.
That is equally fair. My position I suppose is that my enthusiasm has been spent on so many half-finished ambitious programs like this that it has all run out by 2026. Constellation, Asteroid Redirect, Artemis. If I was older that would include SEI.
At least this one had real missions fly if it suffers the same fate. The crew of Artemis is among the ones most aware that most space missions never happen. The anxiety of being in these astronaut classes must be unbearable, especially as the ISS ages. I don't know if this mission can maintain public confidence in the program as the world grows more chaotic and people's attentions are not focused on the sky but the ground.