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#12I feel like over the past few decades I have seen tons of news like this or that at least feels like this where there is some announcement about tangible progress that is made towards our returning to the moon -- some new prototype capsule announcement, a new unveiling of a rocket plan, the new suits, the "biosphere" stuff, etc. -- only to then see a published time horizon for the moon return which seems to always be…
NASA's Artemis program is generally on track - Artemis 1 (uncrewed test flight into lunar orbit which then returned to Earth) was successful in 2022. Artemis 2 (humans going into lunar orbit) is scheduled for next year, and indications seem to be that it's on track. Artemis 3 (humans landing on the moon) is scheduled for 2025. So there has been very tangible progress in the form of Artemis 1, plus the schedule is to…
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My thinking is the scope of the mission has increased. They're going to try to play a game of tennis on the moon and need a more mobile spacesuit.
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#14I feel like over the past few decades I have seen tons of news like this or that at least feels like this where there is some announcement about tangible progress that is made towards our returning to the moon -- some new prototype capsule announcement, a new unveiling of a rocket plan, the new suits, the "biosphere" stuff, etc. -- only to then see a published time horizon for the moon return which seems to always be…
They really need to work on reducing the glare on the visor and illuminating the face in the dark. Otherwise we won't be able to see their emotions on camera as they're attacked by aliens.
Maybe just full MR and forget about the visor? That way we can see the aliens sneaking up on them as they blindly bumble around deceived by their advanced technology.
Yes, I'm joking. But really there are reasons to do MR/VR in space due to the huge dynamic range and availability of non-visible spectra. The huge clear face shield looks like a point of failure (as are joints etc). At the same time, I expect once there is MR for some cheesy horror movie to use it to arouse innate human fears of the unseen. One could always flip a covering visor up to see, if there were a failure... and once part of your space suit is failing, you've already got problems!
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YES we (well some highly trained and lucky astronauts) went to the moon.
It's like your assuming all of the landers NASA and other countries have landed on Mars and Venus are fake too.
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#16Upstream source: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/spacesuit-for-nasa-s-artemis-ii...
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Reasons we never went back:
1) It was principally a national pride competition between the US and USSR so when the US succeeded there wasn't much of a reason to go there. We gathered loads of rocks for all the science we could want to do for a long time (they're still cracking open fresh samples to this day).
2) There's not that much economically or scientifically on the moon to really investigate that needs people there we can get new data pretty simply through orbiters or rovers
3) NASA's budget is much smaller portion of the overall budget and it's no longer singularly dedicated to the Moon
4) Longer term stays are much more intensive on resources than the short sprint to the Moon and back done by Apollo. The main goal of the moon now is to use it as a stepping stone to test for a Mars mission.
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Why did we pretend to go back in Apollo 12, 14, 15, 16, 17. Why did we pretend to have a near catastrophic loss of Apollo 13. As far as conspiracy theories go, it sure is another one.
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We went the first time because politics at the time allowed it to have massive, massive funding. We're finally at a point where we can go without massive, massive political backing. I think it's as simple as that. I'm pretty sure NASA has always wanted to go back.