Comment by NitpickLawyer
11 hours ago
> But pretty much everyone thinks Artemis is Starship HLS or bust.
Right now it seems like it's Axiom or bust, with their suits. The suits have missed a lot of milestones, and there's not much point in going to the Moon without suits. Latest NASA OIG report put them somewhere in the 2030s at best...
Can always use the existing ISS suits modified for the moon.
Heh, I don't think so. The ISS suits have their own problems, are custom made for the ISS, are bulky AF, and "modified for the moon" might take longer than expected.
The Moon is frankly a totally different environment. Lunar dust is notorious.
Also the ISS suits themselves are being replaced, by Axiom, because they are failing in near-fatal ways periodically.