Oct 23, 2026 · 48 min · 13 segments
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One of them is really, really short because it's happening right now as we are recording.
But Rick, NASA is basically laying out a new plan for the Artemis program to accelerate not just the flights themselves for Artemis 3, but also for the moon landings and everything.
And there was a talk at the International Astronautical Congress earlier in the month, where we got an update.
We got a story about that on space.com as well, where we were seeing some new timelines about some testing that was going to be going on, possibly Artemis III sometime in the summer.
So hopefully next week when we have our next episode, Rod and I will have a whole deep dive about how that is going for what's going on right now.
But as we're speaking, the press conference is recording at the same time as the podcast.
So I can't tell you exactly what they said, but I did want to let everybody know.
that you need to go back and check what those updates are, or you can find it at space.com because we'll have that story later tonight.
What's your prediction, Rick? What would you like NASA to say if they're going to accelerate Artemis? Would you want a launch date for Artemis 3, or would you want some type of testing update on the landers? What do you want to
As in, this is what needs to happen so that we know that this schedule is going to be realistic.
And then, of course, you know, questions I have is, do we actually have the workforce and supplier capacity to really pull this off? And where are they seeing that coming from?
Which of course, Amanda at USRI can have, you know, has got a lot of input in developing that generation that's going to be there for that too.
I would like, I'm hoping that we're going to get an update on which vehicles are actually flying on Artemis 3 and how long the mission's going to be.
I heard that it's going to be a 20-day mission and that it's going to have maybe one lander, which is the Blue Moon.
Here's when the launches are going to be, but it could be a little early for that.
One of them is really, really short because it's happening right now as we are recording.
But Rick, NASA is basically laying out a new plan for the Artemis program to accelerate not just the flights themselves for Artemis 3, but also for the moon landings and everything.
And there was a talk at the International Astronautical Congress earlier in the month, where we got an update.
We got a story about that on space.com as well, where we were seeing some new timelines about some testing that was going to be going on, possibly Artemis III sometime in the summer.
So hopefully next week when we have our next episode, Rod and I will have a whole deep dive about how that is going for what's going on right now.
But as we're speaking, the press conference is recording at the same time as the podcast.
So I can't tell you exactly what they said, but I did want to let everybody know.
that you need to go back and check what those updates are, or you can find it at space.com because we'll have that story later tonight.
What's your prediction, Rick? What would you like NASA to say if they're going to accelerate Artemis? Would you want a launch date for Artemis 3, or would you want some type of testing update on the landers? What do you want to
As in, this is what needs to happen so that we know that this schedule is going to be realistic.
And then, of course, you know, questions I have is, do we actually have the workforce and supplier capacity to really pull this off? And where are they seeing that coming from?
Which of course, Amanda at USRI can have, you know, has got a lot of input in developing that generation that's going to be there for that too.
I would like, I'm hoping that we're going to get an update on which vehicles are actually flying on Artemis 3 and how long the mission's going to be.
I heard that it's going to be a 20-day mission and that it's going to have maybe one lander, which is the Blue Moon.
Here's when the launches are going to be, but it could be a little early for that.
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