{"id":21470,"date":"2025-02-08T00:06:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T16:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/artemis-2-nasa-has-hope-to-launch-sooner-rather-than-later\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T00:06:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T16:06:37","slug":"artemis-2-nasa-has-hope-to-launch-sooner-rather-than-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/artemis-2-nasa-has-hope-to-launch-sooner-rather-than-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis 2: NASA has hope to launch sooner rather than later"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-border featured-image\">\n<p>\t<img width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/03\/7R2A0281-2.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1200\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/03\/7R2A0281-2.jpg?w=320&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/03\/7R2A0281-2.jpg?w=640&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/03\/7R2A0281-2.jpg?w=1024&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/03\/7R2A0281-2.jpg?w=1500&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-attachment-id=\"34664\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/2023\/03\/13\/artemis-2-crew-selection\/7r2a0281-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/03\/7R2A0281-2.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Artemis 1 orion on pad\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\n\n<p>Image: Seth Kurkowski \/ Space Explored<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; data-large-file=&#8221;https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/03\/7R2A0281-2.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024&#8243;><figcaption>\n\t\t\t\tImage: Seth Kurkowski \/ Space Explored\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the White House may or may not be working towards canceling or drastically changing the Artemis Program, NASA is working on keeping it moving. While December\u2019s Artemis 2 delay sounded like a \u201cno earlier than\u201d date, it now sounds like it\u2019s more a \u201cno later than\u201d date.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-42698\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While many people may look at NASA\u2018s Artemis Program and think it\u2019s employing a large number of government employees, it\u2019s actually employing a large number of companies to do the work for NASA. The vast majority of NASA employees who work on Artemis are in the design, research, or management areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cancelling large parts of the program, something reportedly under consideration by the White House, would result not in a reduction in government employee salaries, but in putting many private companies, both large and small, in a position to lay off large parts of their staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThings take a long time to build and certify, and if you throw them away every four years and start over, that\u2019s probably the slowest and most expensive thing we could do,\u201d Kirk Shireman, Orion program manager at Lockheed Martin, said at a SpaceCom panel on January 29.<\/p>\n<p>\t<span class=\"outbrain-ad-label\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/plain\">\n\t\t\twindow.adSlotsConfig = window.adSlotsConfig || [];<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tadSlotsConfig.push( {\n\t\t\t\tslotID: '\/1049447\/Outbrain',\n\t\t\t\tslotName: 'div-gpt-ad-outbrain-ad-42698',\n\t\t\t\tsizes: [300, 250],\n\t\t\t\tslotPosition: 'mid_article'\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Historically, incoming Presidents have typically thrown out the previous administration\u2019s space plans for their own, which has led to delays in getting anything completed. While SLS and Orion have been inherited from President Bush and Obama initiatives, President Trump gave them a solidified mission with Artemis during his first term. Then President Biden did likely the best thing any administration could do: not change a thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now President Trump and his advisor Elon Musk are looking at a new focus on Mars, ditching the Moon almost altogether.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Artemis Program has been plagued with delays. While the agency recently announced it has resolved the Orion heat shield issue, it also announced a launch delay to April 2026. We usually look at that date as \u201cno earlier than,\u201d meaning it won\u2019t take place any sooner. However, NASA seems to believe that is a \u201cno later than\u201d date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NASA is already working on stacking the SLS rocket, which is well ahead of schedule for the April launch date. The leading work that will determine a potential earlier launch date will be tanking tests at LC-39B, which could take place as soon as fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cStay the course. Let\u2019s put humans back on the Moon, and let\u2019s go do the things that we\u2019ve been tasked to do,\u201d Shireman concluded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While being a contractor for what is likely a program to be canceled under Trump would make him biased to keep the status quo, there is merit in keeping the goals the same, even if that means the methods to achieve those might change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}