Risks with current Artemis 3 moon landing plan 'may be too high,' NASA safety group says

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An annual safety report to NASA has both praise and also underscores a number of cautionary woes, including the space agency's Artemis undertaking to return astronauts to the moon.

Risks with current Artemis 3 moon landing plan 'may be too high,' NASA safety group says : Read more

 

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The ASAP also discussed the Boeing StarLiner situation, and noted an additional failure of one of the rocket motors on the capsule itself during the crewless return flight last fall. See https://www.orlandosentinel.com/202...eing-starliner-issue-questions-viable-future/ . (Why doesn't Space.com report on that?)

Another concern I have about this article is that it seems to conflate 2 different types of risk. One is the risk that crew will be injured or killed. The other is that the schedule will slip. Most of the risk issue bullets were of the second type. At least in my view, the risk of the schedule slipping is more of a political issue, which becomes a funding issue.

But, there is a relationship between the funding concerns and the willingness to take risks with crew, so both are worthy of concern, even if you don't think that keeping to the advertised schedule is really important from a scientific perspective.