Miles O’Brien:
He’s not a big fan.
But, interestingly, he does have a key part to play in Artemis. His Starship is — would be modified and used to actually do the last bit and land on the lunar surface. But the space launch system itself, he’s described as inefficient, a jobs program, not a results program.
And he said he wants to go straight to Mars,the moon is a distraction. So that lends itself to a lot of speculation right now that Artemis could very well be on the chopping block. But we will have to wait and see. The future administrator, the potential administrator, I guess we would expect him to be the administrator, Jared Isaacman, the billionaire who is slated to do that, has hearings.
And at that time, we will hear a little bit more about his thoughts on it. But he also calls it a very expensive way to go. So we will see what happens. But this could be — these missions, these CLPS missions, could be the real highlight of Artemis when all is said and done.
