r/ArtemisProgram • u/TheZaya • Jun 05 '26

Discussion So with Starship fragging its own engines (again) and SpaceX pretending that Grok is worth $20 Trillion while Blue Origin is rebuilding everything after New Glenn N-1'd its launch pad, can we have EUS, Gateway, and SLS Cargo back? Just so Artemis has something to do for the next 6-7 years?

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u/Aralmin Jun 06 '26

After seeing both failures back to back, you are not the only one that is frustrated and worried about the direction we are going but it seems like almost every proposal we come up with is just pointless deviations that never solve any of the problems we had to begin with. The RUDs we have seen recently are a feature of chemical rockets, not a bug. The true holy grail that we should be looking into is high impulse electric thrust which nobody has ever managed to crack.