"John announced that the Artemis III astronauts would spend Christmas Eve on the Moon."
On the bus circling Qiongzhou, Bill Nelson looked at the headline news on his phone and couldn't help but close his eyes and push the phone away the moment he read the title.
Although…but the boss really knows how to spit out nonsense without considering the occasion.
The successful launch of SL-X was indeed a fact, and Bill knew that another SpaceX B11 first stage seemed to be ready as well. Artemis III truly had the capability to launch before Christmas Eve.
However, after experiencing so many unforeseen events, hadn't John realized that spaceflight is full of uncertainties... It isn't like the last century.
The notion that "aerospace=delays" only emerged in recent years, while there were delays in the last century, they weren't as severe. In that era of constant catch-up, rockets were being produced as steadily as sausages.
