I’m a card carrying SLS hater, but I would rather have it do missions like this than Artemis. I hate the political gamesmanship that has to go on with these programs, but if allocating a few SLS launches for science (MSR and Dragonfly?) opens the door for Artemis to start to move away from SLS and Orion, then I’ll gladly take it.
As long as that payload can survive SLS’s vibration environment that would have shaken Europa Clipper to pieces!
I’m a card carrying SLS hater, but I would rather have it do missions like this than Artemis. I hate the political gamesmanship that has to go on with these programs, but if allocating a few SLS launches for science (MSR and Dragonfly?) opens the door for Artemis to start to move away from SLS and Orion, then I’ll gladly take it.
As long as that payload can survive SLS’s vibration environment that would have shaken Europa Clipper to pieces!