>>12380054It's not going to happen because serious funding has not been allocated, not a single committee has agreed on a single timeline or awarded development contracts. No landers or station concepts have been finalized, no missions have been planned and no test flights have taken place or have been scheduled or proposed. The SLS still hasn't had a single test flight, the Orion has had one flight period, there No stand ups have been announced for crewed operations centers or astronauts selected for test flights of said new spacecraft. No missions have been proposed, no sites selected, no mission hardware developed. Nothing.
I could literally go down a laundry list of "Worrying signs that show that nothing is happening with this program at all" and then make real world comparisons to previous programs such as the shuttle, the ISS, the Apollo program, the Gemini program, Mercury, project vanguard, and so on.
There is nothing. And that is a shame. Because we have spent the last 17 years on this with nothing to show for it.
17 years.
Let that process for as long as you need.
In 2003, I watched as Columbia disintegrated over Texas. In time, Bush gave this announcement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH9909OVDHEWhich eventually resulted in this debacle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqRqpG5G5IwAfterwards, spacex was given funding and made competitive which eventually resulted in this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnChQbxLkkIIn the meantime, nothing progressed on SLS despite it still being given the go ahead under Obama and Trump. Nothing to this day. No launches, no tests and operations. Nothing.
17 years.
SLS? Still in development.
Orion? Still in development.
Where are the results? I could fault Obama all day for not actually having a concrete plan and accelerating manned missions to the moon and mars, but it's redundant at this point. I've spent hours in the past criticizing him for it.
So the lack of results says it all.
