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Below is the overall schedule we are working to. Please keep in mind that a key cost-saving factor of The Artemis Project is to work no faster than the current need and available resources. This is a working schedule, not a worshipped schedule.
| Feasibility Study and Exploratory Design | 2 years |
Technical -- spacecraft, operations, long-range mission | |
| Preliminary Design | 2 years |
| Final Design, Development, and Test | 4 years |
| First Flight | 6 years after start of Preliminary Design |
| Explorer-Class Flights | 3 to 9 years after First Flight |
| First-Class Flights | start 10 years after First Flight |
| Economy-Class Flights | start 15 years after First Flight |
They key to starting on this schedule is putting together the business infrastructure that gets us to the start of the Preliminary Design phase. We are working on that right now. If everything goes well, we should be able to start commercial passenger flights to the moon by the second decade of the 21st century.
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