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Sure, you may look at it from that perspective. Or, you could look into it as restoring a capability that we used to have, and potentially enable further, more interesting missions. I am not _too excited_ about the SLS itself as it looks like a political compromise, just as the shuttle was. But better late than never.
I'm just not that jazzed on what we could possibly learn. I can go on a big road trip and eat, sleep (but probably not poop) in my minivan; what does that teach me about moving to a new city or country? I can drive across the country and do a loop around Houston's ring road; that tells me nothing about what it's like to live there. We could have sent the ship without astronauts to test all the systems and learn the o…
Re: Why Doesn't Anybody Realize We're Going Back to the Moon?
#161We’ve already sent it without humans. That was Artemis I.