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>>15361879
>"Hah, got ya!"

Here's the checklist that should be clicking away in your skull right now:
>successfully launch SS (scrubbed for now)
>successfully launch and orbit SS
>successfully launch and orbit SS at full capacity
>successfully test an SS moon lander to Artemis specifications*
>successfully launch and orbit SS moon lander and SS tanker at full capacity, complete successful orbital refueling
OR:
>successfully launch and orbit heretofore unmentioned (SpaceX CGI always shows SS's "mating" in space to refuel) fuel depot
>successfully launch and orbit SS tanker at full capacity, complete successful orbital refueling

Lot of flights, but at least you're at the point where there's some kind of lunar ship being fueled for translunar injection. How many years? Best of luck and kudos, but I don't see this syncing up with Artemis III, even at NASA's snail pace.

*The present SS lander design in picrel is fucking ridiculous, btw. It's a reusable vehicle essentially carrying a giant empty fuel tank that will never need to hold the TLI capacity again so it's tall as shit and everything in the cargo hold has to be winched down around it. Break the fucking thing into two parts and discard the TLI stage at lunar arrival. My eyes get cancer every time I look at that "Destination Moon" cosplay shit.