NASA declared 'No Lunar Starship landing' but SpaceX just shocked NASA with new HLS Starship design

NASA declared "No Lunar Starship landing" but SpaceX just shocked NASA with new HLS Starship design
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NASA declared "No Lunar Starship landing" but SpaceX just shocked NASA with new HLS Starship design
NASA has recently announced a substantial alteration to its lunar exploration agenda: No Lunar Starship Landing!
This has raised concerns for the future of SpaceX's ambitious endeavors.
Is SpaceX in big trouble?
Stay tuned as we dive into this problem and more in this episode of Alpha Tech!
The south pole of the moon is a stunning place. Towering mountains are bathed in perpetual sunshine, and the lunar dust, fine as powder, gleams in unfiltered light. Plunging craters exist in permanent shadow and hide pockets of ice in their gray rock, the water frozen and undisturbed for as long as three billion years.
Here, somewhere along this silent terrain, NASA wants to land a new crew of astronauts. Like those who came before, these visitors will suit up and go for a walk, their bodies bouncing in the low gravity.
But, that lunar stroll won't happen anytime soon, it could be delayed longer.
Speaking at an Aug. 8 briefing at the Kennedy Space Center, Jim Free, NASA associate administrator for exploration systems development, said the Artemis 3 mission still has a formal launch date of December 2025 but that he was monitoring potential delays in hardware needed for the mission.
NASA declared "No Lunar Starship landing" but SpaceX just shocked NASA with new HLS Starship design

[scottwendt]

Of course, NASA and Boeing can’t afford to allow SpaceX to show Moon Missions can be more affordable. The grifting of billions of taxpayer funds was exposed by the commercial Crew program where Boeing continues to get paid for cost overruns on a crew capsule that still hasn’t delivered humans to the ISS. And now, with the cost of each launch of SLS estimated at $2, 500, 000, 000 NASA and their Boeing pals can’t allow SpaceX to build a successful Starship program with just a $4 billion dollar development contract. That needs to be repeated!!! Just 2 SLS launches will cost as much as the ENTIRE FUNDING for the ENTIRE Starship Development Program! One SLS launch will cost as much as 62 Starship Launches!

[demej]

SLS started a joke that started the whole world laughing.

[SirWhiteRabbit-grso]

NASA and the FAA will thwart Musk at every turn.

[LightWingStudios]

Musk will go to the Moon when he is ready and NASA can't do a thing about it.

[SteveGrin]

Why is 80 year old Bill Nelson running an organization that is supposed to be innovative and on the cutting edge?

[exorias]

it pisses me off that the US has the tech to put a base on the moon but nasa has their thumb so far up their rear they can bite it watching and waiting for spaceX to succeed or fail

[rgeraldalexander]

NASA is embarrassed by SpaceX's ability to get the job done without cost overruns, tax payer grift, and years of delay.

[pef]

Are SpaceX in trouble? No. But NASA are...

[davidelliott]

SpaceX will do their own moon landing. It’s the perfect analogy for Mars without the huge time delays.

[jroar]

I hate it when someone says mishap. There was no mishap because this was a test best project and although it did not make it to orbit, it did identify several area's of improvement. I'm not holding my breath on the next launch making it to orbit as well. However, if it does make it all the better. So the FAA and NASA need to understand that SpaceX's way of advancement is to building blow it up and build it again. Something that has hindered NASA over the years.

[XCX]

SpaceX should just create it's own space agency. No need for government bs . Im sure other companies would love to get on board.

[powelllucas]

During the sixties we sent animals, astronauts, and automobiles to the moon. Today, over sixty years later, we can't even decide how, or if, we could do it again. Seems like all we have learned is how to make excuses for not doing something. Sad.

[rockymntnliberty]

I think if NASA keeps pussyfooting around, SpaceX will just do the moon mission themselves.

[davidgutting]

I wonder how long Elon will tolerate the FAA politics before he moves his launch site to a country that doesn’t have to subscribe to the FAA oversight. Elon is not known to Suffer an idiot. If the FAA decides to be the problem, Elon has soulitions available to him.

[djohannsson]

The crew sleeping areas can have additional radiation shielding, since it is a smaller area compared to the rest of the ship. They can store water around the sleeping bunks in water bladders that add 1+ meters of water shielding to each bunk. So during an event the crew retires to their bunks, while the ship auto pilot maintains course.

[fredbogs]

Bill Nelson needs to step down. He is constantly blaming SpaceX for delays when the SLS and space craft is YEARS behind!!!!

[wadestewart]

Tell the FAA to issue SpaceX a 3 year launch certificate and Launch launch launch...

[menotyou]

The level of hate Elon gets from the powers that be resembles what Nikola Tesla got.

[audience]

The first launch of the Starship Booster rocket was very successful, considering SpaceX's development model of many test iterations instead of trying to get everything right on the first launch.

[m.micola]

It seems they're a bit concerned over Musk's abilities to get things done..faster and better.