John Logsdon

American academic

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NASA's plans for a Moon base are heavily dependent on using the New Glenn booster,
If the New Glenn booster is out of service for some months,... either the Artemis 3 schedule has to slip or NASA has to move ahead with sole dependence on the lander version of the SpaceX Starship. That option has its own problems. Starship is currently grounded after multiple problems on its last flight and the Starship lander version has never flown.”
NASA has planned Artemis on a ‘success-oriented’ schedule. That's NASA speak for setting very ambitious target dates for various milestones,
  • said John Logsdon, professor emeritus at George Washington University and the founder and long-time director of the school’s Space Policy Institute, in an email to TIME
    Timetime.com/article/2026…

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