>>11195200I'm excited about it but Congress is probably gonna fuck it up
Upcoming milestones other than Orion flight tests:
they need to pick a human lander design to build, that's gonna happen in the next few months
they need to build and launch at least the first two gateway modules
they want to launch a small satellite called Capstone into the weird-ass orbit that Gateway will live in, to make sure it works
they're gonna do a commercial resupply thing for the gateway like they do for ISS
I think if they manage to get Gateway built they'll be able to keep running lunar missions for a long time, it'll be a sunk cost that nobody will want to end, like ISS is today. But if they don't get that far, NASA will keep on switching from one focus to the next every eight years and go nowhere
(all bets are off if the USA collapses first but there's only like a 25% chance of that happening in the next decade, right?)
