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Have they ripped any more parts off of it to help with prepping ML-1 for Artemis 3? I know one of the ideas was to use it as a parts bin for ML-1. Or is it mostly just sitting there unchanged? I’m pretty sure they ripped the crew arm, and a couple of umbilicals off just after the Ignition announcement, but I haven’t really heard anything since.

Why are they doing a “”deorbit”” burn directly into the atmosphere? they’re clearly not deorbiting since they’re already burning up. Why are they waiting until they’re midway through atmospheric reentry to detach the service module and orbital module? The orbital module should have been detached around the moon anyways, but I’ll give the writers that one since it’s a more obscure detail and it did add a nice bit of drama to the opening. But it’s just things like this that kind of break my suspension of disbelief, it wouldn’t break the shows drama to at least try and keep things marginally realistic. like having the orbital module failing to detach a little bit earlier and have the characters talk to star city about it and brace for when things start getting hot. And the “”deorbit”” burn adds nothing to the scene and makes no sense. I know for all mankind kind of jumped the shark too by the end of season 1 with the magical zero boil off tanks on the S-IVB, but at least that was a more complex space issue, this is something any Kerbal Space Program player could tell you makes very little sense.

Seems like the decision hasn't been reached yet though. Hopefully they sort it out quickly whatever the decision is!