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Artemis II Launch Day Updates

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Re: Artemis II Launch Day Updates

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Post by nancyminusone »

CoastalCoder wrote: post #6
LorenDB wrote: post #5

It's been 54 years since humans last visited the Moon. Hopefully, in a few years we will get boots back on the surface.

Out of curiosity, why do you see this as a worthwhile endeavor? My personal perspective is that the resources are better used for other purposes, but it's possible that I just haven't encountered some compelling reason yet.

Do you watch sports, football, the Olympics? If not I'm sure you know someone who does. Same category as this. Each of the 32 NFL team is worth about the cost of 1-2 Artemis launches. The entire league could fund the whole Artemis program nearly twice. Hosting the Olympics is worth about 3-10 launches.

Like sports, the objective is ultimately useless except as a showcase of what humanity has to offer, and people like to see that.

Re: Artemis II Launch Day Updates

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Post by hatmanstack »

CoastalCoder wrote: post #6
LorenDB wrote: post #5

It's been 54 years since humans last visited the Moon. Hopefully, in a few years we will get boots back on the surface.

Out of curiosity, why do you see this as a worthwhile endeavor? My personal perspective is that the resources are better used for other purposes, but it's possible that I just haven't encountered some compelling reason yet.

Think of all that cheese.

Re: Artemis II Launch Day Updates

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Post by risc_taker »

LorenDB wrote: post #5

It's been 54 years since humans last visited the Moon. Hopefully, in a few years we will get boots back on the surface.

NASA is risking the Astronauts lives, and could have done the mission uncrewed to test what is being tested for the first time with humans:

Artemis II is not safe to fly - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582043

Re: Artemis II Launch Day Updates

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Post by _moof »

dotancohen wrote: post #11
LorenDB wrote: post #5

It's been 54 years since humans last visited the Moon. Hopefully, in a few years we will get boots back on the surface.

Hopefully, in a few years we will figure out that hydrogen rockets can not reliably launch on time and we'll switch to less leaky fuels. Then maybe we won't need to pull 40 year old engines out of museums to dump in the ocean. I'm all for human spaceflight, but the Senate Launch System seems the best argument for shutting down human spaceflight programs.

Oh, don't worry, we did figure that out. What we haven't figured out yet is how to stop Congress from involving themselves in engineering decisions.

Re: Artemis II Launch Day Updates

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Post by floxy »

CoastalCoder wrote: post #6
LorenDB wrote: post #5

It's been 54 years since humans last visited the Moon. Hopefully, in a few years we will get boots back on the surface.

Out of curiosity, why do you see this as a worthwhile endeavor? My personal perspective is that the resources are better used for other purposes, but it's possible that I just haven't encountered some compelling reason yet.

I want humanity to continue to be explorers. The Moon is a good next thing, then asteroid mining, humans on Mars and Venus, and eventually colonizing the Milky Way.

Re: Artemis II Launch Day Updates

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Post by _moof »

CoastalCoder wrote: post #6
LorenDB wrote: post #5

It's been 54 years since humans last visited the Moon. Hopefully, in a few years we will get boots back on the surface.

Out of curiosity, why do you see this as a worthwhile endeavor? My personal perspective is that the resources are better used for other purposes, but it's possible that I just haven't encountered some compelling reason yet.

Go take a look at how much this costs compared to the rest of the federal budget. I think you'll be surprised by how little money NASA gets.

Now, the military...

Re: Artemis II Launch Day Updates

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Post by lp0_on_fire »

hghid wrote: post #7

Even though you could question the whole Artemis concept, it's still extremely exciting watching the countdown with my son. I just missed the original Apollo flights and had assumed I would never see a moon landing in my lifetime. We may well not have a landing for quite some time yet, but it's still cool to see a Moon bound rocket standing on the launchpad...

It's even more exciting when you realize that the last crewed mission beyond Low Earth Orbit was 1972 and each person on that spacecraft today are younger than that.
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