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Former NASA administrator says Artemis 3 architecture is unworkable; panel urges clearer mission and funding
Summary
Dr. Michael Griffin told a House panel that Artemis 3’s reliance on repeated in-space refueling and long staging times makes the plan likely to fail; other witnesses urged Congress to define mission objectives and provide stable, bipartisan funding to avoid strategic setbacks.
At a House Science subcommittee hearing, former NASA administrator Dr. Michael Griffin told lawmakers that the current Artemis 3 architecture ‘‘cannot work’’ because it depends on a sequence of unproven in-space refueling flights and risks propellant boil-off during long staging intervals.
Griffin (first spoken reference at SEG 319; testimony at SEG 636) said the mission’s technical assumptions have not been…
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