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[Eric Berger] Artemis II is going so well that we're left to talk about frozen urine (arstechnica.com)
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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I’ll stop holding my breath when the heat shield doesn’t fail, tbh. There are known and serious issues with it, and they flew with it anyways.

[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was also worried about the life support system, which hadn't flown before.

Regarding the heat shield, I think any other company would have had to do another uncrewed test flight for the new reentry profile, but here we are. It does seem like a pretty crazy double standard.