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SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today

304 points · 367 comments · geox

motionlessveloc · 1790593197 · focus · HN ↗
Ship will also have to be outfitted with a life-support system ahead of crewed missions, which could be coming relatively soon. For example, NASA picked Ship to the be the first crewed lunar lander for its Artemis program, which aims to land people on the moon for the first time in 2028 on the Artemis IV mission.
Don't worry, there is absolutely no chance this will happen in 2028. There are many detailed takedowns of why the "Human Landing System" schedule is preposterous, but here's HN's idlewords:
<a href="https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/how-should-we-think-about-starship" rel="nofollow">https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/how-should-we-think-about-...
1. cubefox · 1790594324 · focus · HN ↗
  The official (completely unrealistic at this point) 2028 target is probably kept because Donald Trump's term ends in January 2029.
  1. pbkompasz · 1790597596 · focus · HN ↗
    They could probably generate one with an AI model and he would believe it. No on e in his inner circle contradicts him anyway.
    rswail · 1790598356 · focus · HN ↗
    Don't you know that it's called "Super Intelligence" or SI now because Artificial sounds fake?
    His lordship announced this to the world at the UN.
    32187 · 1790599279 · focus · HN ↗
    Surely AI stands for "American Intelligence"! Renaming incoming, Google will comply first.

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