Apollo did direct—Artemis feels over-engineered.
$5.2B per Artemis flight vs ~$40M per Starship? No contest.
130 Starship launches for one SLS mission cost—that stat stings.
Duffy is right: SLS at $4B a shot is not a “program.”
Ted Cruz saving SLS with $9.9B—politics, not engineering.
BE-3U higher thrust breaking Orion’s solar arrays is peak irony.
Artemis has too many moving parts—SLS, Orion, Starship, suits.
NASA chasing “Good + Cheap” means slow as molasses.
Trump signing “One Big Beautiful Bill” was a weird flip.
Orion is heavier and less capable than it should be.