Comment by JumpCrisscross

> It may be building towards a system

It may build. It is building.

> it could all be cancelled in 3-4 weeks after these four explorers burn up

We’d have wasted money. But we’d still be ahead. Artemis has funded a lot of development.

> can tell that you're as passionate about space exploration and colonization as I am, but this isn't the way my friend

In a perfect world? No. Is it a legitimate way? Absolutely. We’re still moving forward.

> This program is coming at the cost of the Aldrin Cyclers and Von Braun Wheels

Nobody is funding these. We’re beating the Chinese to land. That clicks. That sells. Space-based infrastructure is hallucinated competition.

> that root cause of this program's dysfunction is what is denying us this reality

The alternative is we spend NASA’s Artemis budget on Medicaid billing at autism centers in Indiana.

I’d prefer the vision you painted. But I won’t let perfect be the enemy of the good. This program moves us forward and funds roads to alternatives. Starship, for example.