Sounds great and I don't want to sound unexcited, but, the way NASA does things these days and at those claimed time lines...meah...I will believe it when I see it ... 🤔 ..maybe if they got 4% of GDP in funding again..
The Cold War triggered the US government into leading the space race and ultimately putting Americans on the moon within a decade
Unfortunately the country is grossly in debt and doesn’t have the money or resources to return humans to the moon in 4 years, even relying on private industry partners
Congress ultimately will decide
My 2 cents.....
Oh and I watched all the moon landings on my parents PYE black and white TV ( more like a piece of timber furniture than a TV , it had photo frames , ash trays you name it sitting on top )
If they go to the Moon again, hopefully the quality of the TV broadcast will be much better this time. I was a Moon freak, but even I quickly found the broadcast to be boring.
Also, while I am on a roll, I hope they pick a crew, or at least one in the crew, who can speak enthusiastically about their mission and their time on the Moon.
NASA has already picked up 18 astronauts for the Artemis mission and they are planning to use Lockheed Martin's reusable Orion spacecraft, which is one and a half times bigger than Apollo and which is launched using a super-heavy launch vehicle called the Space Launch System (SLS).
If they are going to be sending mission 1 around the Moon in 2020 they better get a move on. SpaceX may have already have conducted their tourist flight of the Starship around the Moon by 2022, and have cargo ships on the way to Mars. I am very sceptical of Artemis ever flying, because at a cost of $35 billion, it is not cost effective.
Artemis has many funding obstacles like congress budget cuts etc.. which will ultimately delay it’s Lunar program
Space X has nothing stopping it , I would put my money on Starship landing on the moon within 4 years than Artemis under the current US economic climate
