Remember 2 years ago when Destin from smarter every day tore the Artemis leadership a new one?

Absolute 10/10 video telling the Artemis folks to their face that their plan is terrible. What do you mean you're going to do a space station in rectilinear halo orbit? What if there's a medical emergency and someone has to get home fast? Shit out of luck. What if there's a surface problem? Maybe a week until you can help. How will you protect from the ridiculous radiation of deep space outside the earth's magnetosphere? You won't.

Needless to say that NASA has now completely pivoted the Artemis mission away from the lunacy SpaceX was promising them they could achieve, and also hired on a second lunar lander contractor because they aren't sure SpaceX can deliver.

Compare their initial plans to what they just released and its a completely different program. Different goals, different timeline, different everything. Its only Artemis in name, everything else has been changed. The goal now? Boots on the moon with a nuclear reactor.

You can't technically claim territory on the moon because of space treaties but if you put a nuclear reactor on the moon you can credibly claim a 50 mile exclusion zone and so guess what time it is? That's right - Manifest Destiny, motherfucker. Whiteys on the moon moment.

Anyway. The fash are killing the ISS with no plan for a publicly owned replacement like all the billionaires wanted and like everyone warned would happen before Jared Isaacman was rammed through as NASA administrator. So fun. can't wait to only get highly doctored PR video from the Axiom private space station and no public science.