ANASA associate administrator Jim Free recently stated he remains 'concerned' over the development of SpaceX's modified Starship lunar lander.
During an August 8 press briefing at the Kennedy Space Center, Jim Free, NASA associate administrator for exploration systems development, said he was monitoring hardware delays for Artemis III, though the mission still has a formal launch date of December 2025.
When asked what he meant by other missions, Free said NASA would have to be flexible based on the hardware it has available at the time. This could mean that Artemis III isn't a lunar landing mission at all, though Free didn't confirm this outright. "I think it’s incumbent upon us to do that," he said. "We're trying to look at all of the missions that we could fly to keep learning."During a joint meeting of the National Academies' Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board and Space Studies Board on June 9, Free said NASA had recently received an "updated schedule" for Starship development from SpaceX.
During the August 9 briefing, he said his views hadn't changed since then. "My concern is the same because they haven't launched."
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