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Having been a child super-fan of the Apollo missions, something which has stayed with me since, I have found this Artemis mission throughly uninspiring, the published photos mostly unimpressive and slightly manufactured looking, and the lack of any live video minutes looking out of the capsule window decidedly odd considering the amount of video minutes committed to the crew wittering platitudes and playing with a soft toy.
In my opinion they might as well have not bothered going.
Perhaps they didn’t.
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@diver saidMost video has been reserved to putting up on Nasa.gov after they return to earth.
Having been a child super-fan of the Apollo missions, something which has stayed with me since, I have found this Artemis mission throughly uninspiring, the published photos mostly unimpressive and slightly manufactured looking, and the lack of any live video minutes looking out of the capsule window decidedly odd considering the amount of video minutes committed to the crew wi ...[text shortened]... y opinion they might as well have not bothered going.
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I get it, this feeling of "been there, done that", with an associated interest fatigue. Apollo 8 and later was cool because no one had ever done this before, and there was a definite feeling of "To boldly go where no one has gone before". Even by Apollo 17, people were like, "Oh, this again..." as if it wasn't the most amazing thing ever.
I remind you there is a generation of people who have not seen this before. This is our Apollo.
Think back to your experience of Apollo. Apollo 8 was kinda boring because it was basically what this was, a shakedown cruise to find and squish any bugs with the equipment. The "real important stuff", as I heard some people describe it, comes later, on Artemis IV, with the actual moon landing.
So give us newbies this, at least. This is the sort of thing America is about, not this God-awful war with Iran. I was not born yet when Armstrong and Aldrin stepped out onto the lunar surface. Let us have our Apollo.
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@Suzianne saidFair point.
Most video has been reserved to putting up on Nasa.gov after they return to earth.
I get it, this feeling of "been there, done that", with an associated interest fatigue. Apollo 8 and later was cool because no one had ever done this before, and there was a definite feeling of "To boldly go where no one has gone before". Even by Apollo 17, people were like, "Oh, this aga ...[text shortened]... not born yet when Armstrong and Aldrin stepped out onto the lunar surface. Let us have our Apollo.
I’ve been doom scrolling conspiracy videos which is good fun 🤩
But a couple of them have a point on the live feed video; why didn’t they grab the camera during one of the capsule sessions and point it out the window while they were still in earth orbit. One of the better posts said “NASA themselves are the reason there are so many moon landing deniers”; and my goodness there are some right dodgy looking ISS videos out there, I mean really really fake looking.
Anyway, I am NOT a moon landing denier but I do think billion $ corps fake stuff for various reasons, and to me them not filming anything out of the capsule window just seems really odd; after all that would have been live TV for a generation. Instead what we were offered was trite imo. That’s not to take away from the astronaut’s and the NASA engineers etc.
Agree though, we need another moon landing to really get the world buzzing. And yes Apollo was amazing - I was 8 years old when Armstrong stepped out. Wonderful memories.
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@diver saidLike you my wife was really captivated by the Apollo missions, and she watched some of the Artemis programming. Like you she found it, well, lacking in quality. She wanted them to talk more about the science and engineering behind what they were doing, but instead it was a bunch of fluff and blather. She thought they had really dumbed down the commentary compared to the Apollo missions.
Having been a child super-fan of the Apollo missions, something which has stayed with me since, I have found this Artemis mission throughly uninspiring, the published photos mostly unimpressive and slightly manufactured looking, and the lack of any live video minutes looking out of the capsule window decidedly odd considering the amount of video minutes committed to the crew wi ...[text shortened]... y opinion they might as well have not bothered going.
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I didn't follow this mission. If they actually land on the moon in a future mission, then I'll pay more attention.
@Soothfast saidI’ll be staying up to watch them splash down. Wishing all four astronauts a safe return home to Earth 🌎
Like you my wife was really captivated by the Apollo missions, and she watched some of the Artemis programming. Like you she found it, well, lacking in quality. She wanted them to talk more about the science and engineering behind what they were doing, but instead it was a bunch of fluff and blather. She thought they had really dumbed down the commentary compared to the Apo ...[text shortened]... w this mission. If they actually land on the moon in a future mission, then I'll pay more attention.
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@Drewnogal saidI will be also.
I’ll be staying up to watch them splash down. Wishing all four astronauts a safe return home to Earth 🌎
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@Drewnogal saidWelcome back to Earth.
It’s amazing how everything went to plan. All involved are super-humans! The thought of being confined to a cell the size of a minibus for 10 days with three other people up in space terrifies me! 😫
America at its best.
Edit: Sorry Drew, this post was directed at the astronauts.
Apollo planted flags on ground nobody could own.
Artemis is operating under a different legal structure entirely. The 2015 Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act explicitly grants American citizens the right to own resources they extract from celestial bodies. The Artemis Accords, now signed by 48 nations, embed that property rights framework into international consensus.
The lunar south pole holds an estimated 600 million metric tons of water ice in permanently shadowed craters. That ice, when electrolyzed, becomes liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen — rocket propellant. Whoever controls that propellant supply controls the cost structure of everything that leaves low Earth orbit.
Apollo was exploration. Artemis is the property deed.
@Bish saidSounds good.
Apollo planted flags on ground nobody could own.
Artemis is operating under a different legal structure entirely. The 2015 Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act explicitly grants American citizens the right to own resources they extract from celestial bodies. The Artemis Accords, now signed by 48 nations, embed that property rights framework into international consensu ...[text shortened]... of everything that leaves low Earth orbit.
Apollo was exploration. Artemis is the property deed.