The Poet as Scientist: How likely is NASA to have a safe, effective lunar lander within three years?

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[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Friday, July 29, 2022

How likely is NASA to have a safe, effective lunar lander within three years?

The Artemis Program projects the first manned lunar landing in half a century within three years. But, NASA is just sending applications for the design of the landing craft out to corporations at this time. There is no actual lunar lander currently, nor even a specific, accepted design for one. Is it realistic to expect a thoroughly safe and tested lunar landing craft to be developed in such a short period of time? I'm asking physicists rather than aerospace engineers, because they would seem to have considerable related training and expertise, without necessarily being heavily invested themselves in NASA or this project. Any thoughts?

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