It should not be scheduled to launch until its 100% ready. This is clearly not ready. The previous launch had 3 significant issues they stated they were trying to fix on the fly. If I were an astronaut, I would not fly on this. I would have no issues going up in a Dragon capsule.
Considering how much only one of these gigantic rockets cost, $4.1 Billion Dollars, yes. It would be a serious setback. In my opinion, they should have decided on a different route to getting where they/we want to go. There are alternatives. SpaceX, for example, has one that is enormously less expensive. When NASA started down this road, I'm guessing, Artemis seemed to be the only alternative. It was what they knew - Apollo writ even larger. They need to radically change direction now. $4 billion spent on a single launch is just ridiculous, in my opinion. I'm a huge fan of our manned space flight program, unlike some of us, who have a reasonable argument that space exploration should be robotic for the foreseeable future, but we have to do it using cutting edge technology. Technology/engineering that can get us where we should and must go, in my opinion, and for a heck of a lot less.
Thats too bad. I took the trip up to Titusville to watch. I hoped for a better view but it was packed even at 1am. It was fantastic.
Yeah... My assumption appears to be correct. I have a backyard security camera that snaps a picture every hour. Coincidentally, the timing was right and it snapped one that would have caught a snapshot on a clear night. Nothing but clouds.
