Why the unusually long delay between missions?

Maybe they want a year to poor through all the data from this trip to make sure that everything is really safe for people onboard?

Why the unusually long delay between missions?...

Methinks it's money, that is a very expensive and complex rocket.
It's not like they have an assembly line to build it.

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Artemis 1 successfully concluded its mission, with a splash-down at 17:40 Universal Time, off the coast of San Diego.

Yay! Good stuff!!

Was it not to splashdown further south off Baja so as to miss some bad weather and heavy sea swells? Or was the weather not so bad and so "Plan A" was still good?

It approached the Earth at an unusually high speed...

Well... It had been in free fall from an orbit from way beyond the moon!

How does that compare to the heating for the Apollo missions returning from their nearer orbit around the moon?

... [Next] mission is planned for May, 2024, and is expected to last for about 21 days.

Why the unusually long delay between missions?...


Here's hoping good efficient progress can be made!

Keep searchin',
Martin

Yes, the splashdown was off Baja California, after all, due to poor weather farther North. I had some outdated information! The 5000-degree reentry was similar to the Apollo missions. Lunar and interplanetary return missions are still quite rare.
There's no need to hurry the Artemis program too much. They still don't have a Lunar landing vehicle for Artemis 3, which would land astronauts on the Moon. I read that Space X will produce the lander.

We all knew it was running over budget.

NASA's Mega Moon Rocket Is $6 Billion Over Budget, Claims Scathing New Report.

.......The report blamed the cost increases on “assumptions that the use of heritage technologies from the Space Shuttle and Constellation Programs were expected to result in significant cost and schedule savings compared to developing new systems for the SLS.” Instead, integrating new systems with the older components ended up being more complex, according to the report......

Cheers.

OK, running over budget is not good but think about it. Where was the money spent and who received it? It was paid to highly skilled technicians to solve the problems and build the spacecraft.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.