Now maybe Polaris 2 can be an extended range Dragon on an Apollo 8 moon cruise
Some of this is on the Bridenstine administration. HLS and suits should have been contracted years earlier.
The Nelson administration didn't help. They dropped the ball on using China and Russia as leverage to get more funding and priority for Artemis (and commercial stations). And, unrelated, stood by and watched MSR wither and die.
You can click on his name to see other articles and see that he doesn't write about other stuff
Also, SLS is just so easy to bash that I can't blame him for some healthy bashing here and there.
Those corporate lawyers need to prove to themselves that they aren't just a bullshit job
I mean, when "SUV" also has to include the Yukon XL...
"Crossovers" are such a mess that I just look at dimensions, not segments, at this point.
Nice, hopefully this leads to some cheaper housing options and transit oriented development for car-free or car-light people.
Let the market sort out whether this increases mass transit ridership, new housing developments treat parking as a perk and differentiator, or new parking structures pop up to meet demand.
The Biden admin tried to stop the massive waste of money caused by the Trump admin's political retribution.
The Expanse has some examples, especially to your point that you can only keep what you can defend. Centers of power are planets, moons, large asteroids, large standalone stations, and fleets. Means of attack and control can include guerilla warfare to sabotage life support, pirates/privateers attacking trade, redirecting asteroids, bioweapons...
I'm really curious what the different add-ons will end up costing. The long range with a bed cover and speakers could be my next car.
The Slate, R2/R3, and Telo are all intriguing to me for different reasons, but the minimalism of the Slate is definitely a draw.
If you can go off grid, you can stay in a lot of national forests for 14 days. Big campgrounds, and especially private campgrounds, really don't do it for me.
A quick search says it's more like 8-10 million total, so closer to 1/40 people. Avg household size of 2.5 gets that to 1/16 households.
Launching every 3 days from 1 pad would be bonkers.
Landing right where you launch makes sense for simplifying range operations, but I'm a little peeved that they evicted SpaceX from the existing LZ when there are so many random mothballed and unused pads up and down the coast to give to startups who may or may not ever use them.