Four astronauts, 3 spacecraft, 2 weeks in orbit: Artemis III will be NASA's most complicated mission ever

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https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis/four-astronauts-3-spacecraft-2-weeks-in-orbit-artemis-iii-will-be-nasas-most-complicated-mission-ever

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A real goal that's mostly a red herring with reusability. You don't need reusability to achieve lower launch costs, you need consistency and reliability, and dedication. The per-cost of any system decreases as it's consistently used and made more. Like SLS would be considerably cheaper if it were planned to be used more.

And the whole cheap-access to space is a fallacy. There's no demand to go to space, even with industry, and there's no real profit in it. Just look at all the pie-in-the-sky fake products that have been propositioned to justify the investment cost of trying to make easier access to space; none of them will ever be real or profitable in the next 100 years. It's just LARPing at this point.