Lockheed Martin disclosed 286 reusable Orion components at splashdown , alongside 694,481 mission miles. Six days later, no post-mission inspection count has been published. The capsule was transferred from Naval Base San Diego to Kennedy Space Center for a 30-day instrumented scan after Isaacman's preliminary clearance . No date has been announced for the scan report.
The claim matters because Artemis III cost projections treat reuse as a scheduled saving. Without a post-inspection tally, those projections rest on a figure from the day the crew came home, not a figure from engineering teardown. The 30-day scan is the instrument that would produce that tally.
The wider pattern is consistent with the four other items on the Artemis II disclosure calendar. A claim lands on splashdown day; the data that would support or contest it sits in a laboratory, or in a research solicitation, or inside a ministerial council. On cost, as on radiation, verification is the step that has not been scheduled.
