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I'd understood why Gateway is planned to be placed in high lunar orbit than a low one. Less time for communication blackouts by simply going behind the Moon on Earth's perspective, and (pure speculation here) they also want to have crewed landings on the Far Side sometime in the future

Apollo had 5 test flights (2 suborbital, 2 HEO, 1 LEO) dedicated in testing its heat shield performance before Apollo 8, while Orion had only EFT-1 doing it before Artemis 1. I think even if Apollo engineers had less experience in terms of actual spaceflight time, they understood more of how...

A Challenger/Columbia waiting to happen

So, Orion needs a major redesign of its heat shield before they allow Artemis 2 to fly?

It's either located somewhere in the truss section or it is fully controlled by gyroscopes

According to Ars Technica, unofficial reports reveal that due to development delays, NASA plans to repurpose Artemis 3 as a low Earth orbit test flight of both Orion and Starship HLS instead of an actual lunar landing, nor a Gateway-only mission If this happens, the revised mission would see...

This site has many screenshots depicting the interior of the new redesign for Starlab as of January 2024 https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/01/2028-airbus-voyager-space-starlab-space-station-cutaway-and-interior-plans.html

These are the most recent renders for the Starlab's redesign The main habitat is about 8.0 m wide, enough to fit inside Starship's cargo bay

I guess Artemis Base Camp was abandoned due to unexplained glitches occurring at the lunar south pole lol

They've abandoned the inflatable design last year.

I guess we won't be having a Jamestown Base soon since it's not directly on Shackleton itself

From NASA's press release yesterday: Lunar Dawn (Lunar Outpost) Moon RACER (Intuitive Machines) FLEX (Venturi Astrolabs)

There is an existing Dragon-XL spacecraft included on francisdrake's Starship HLS addon. As for the HTV-X, there's none yet

NanoRacks and Voyager Space's Starlab space station now planned to be launched from a SpaceX Starship rocket

No one has worked with an extensive detailed 3D mapping around Baikonur (or any other Russian spaceports) for Orbiter 2016+ yet afaik except for @igel on his Historical Spaceports addon. Unfortunately the files for Baikonur itself were lost when the new system for downloading Orbiter addons were...

You might have Attachment Manager enabled. This is also a common problem in other launchers

Vulcan Centaur (and possibly New Glenn) would be Dragonfly's only alternative launch vehicle as Atlas V is set to be retired soon (plus all remaining Atlas V rockets have been reserved)

Since the MMSEV is technically adapted into the Artemis program, I think the suits should also adapt the XEMU colours as well

This is the planned flight path of Dragonfly as of 2023 (launch date is outdated of course, but overall nothing significant has changed) A single Earth gravity assist flyby is enough for the spacecraft to fly directly to Titan (iirc it won't enter orbit around Saturn first)