“Former NASA administrator Michael Griffin pulled no punches about where he sees America’s current Artemis moon landing program in Congressional testimony today. …
And according to Griffin and the witnesses at the hearing, that dominance might soon cede to China due to policy decisions that continue to plague the Artemis program, NASA’s current planned campaign of moon missions. “Sticking to a plan is important when the plan makes sense. China is sticking to a plan that makes sense. It looks a lot, in fact, like what the United States did for Apollo,” Griffin said. “We have stuck to a plan that does not make sense.” …
If Artemis 3 is delayed to late 2028, there will have been an average of two years between the first three Artemis program missions. The Apollo program, by comparison, launched each of its 11 missions an average of once every 4.5 months between 1968 and 1972. …”
Amazing! We spend more & more on “education”. Technology marches forward at a rapid pace. And yet we cannot do today what we did half a century ago! Future historians will have a lot to say about this … writing in Chinese, of course.
