[bfe]

I'm super excited about returning people to the Moon. But Lunar Gateway is a bad mission architecture that really reduces the cost-effectiveness of returning to the Moon. It costs way more delta-v to reach the Gateway and then proceed to the lunar surface than just to go straight to the surface.

A brief rundown of authoritative criticisms:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Gateway#Reactions

I really hope the new administration takes the opportunity to revise the mission architecture.

[Rebelgecko]

After the Asteroid Redirect Mission got canceled, the gateway is a solution in search of a problem. It's like a vestigial organ that sticks around even after natural selection has removed its reason for existing in the first place.