[One Artemis mission has already been completed: in late 2022 Artemis 1, an uncrewed test flight, orbited and flew beyond the Moon.]
I keep wondering why this is an important accomplishment. Aside from flying beyond the moon this has been done decades ago by the USSR.
[Artemis 2 will be a crewed flight beyond the Moon, which will take humans the farthest they’ve ever been in space.]
Once again, besides flying beyond the moon farther than before this was done in 1969 and the crew landed on the moon.
[Artemis 4 will be the first crewed moon landing mission since Apollo 17 in 1972. Astronauts will do scientific studies on the Moon before returning to Earth.]
Once again this has already been done. Not to say further studies should not be done to find the best spot for a moon base, but not exactly a ground breaking accomplishment in a higher tech society than 1969.
https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/space-astronomy/nasa-moon-mission-artemis-program-launch-date
Why aren't moon landing deniers making fun of this?
@Metal-Brain saidThe people hitting retirement age right now were not even teenagers when Apollo 13 happened.
[One Artemis mission has already been completed: in late 2022 Artemis 1, an uncrewed test flight, orbited and flew beyond the Moon.]
I keep wondering why this is an important accomplishment. Aside from flying beyond the moon this has been done decades ago by the USSR.
[Artemis 2 will be a crewed flight beyond the Moon, which will take humans the farthest they’ve eve ...[text shortened]... nasa-moon-mission-artemis-program-launch-date
Why aren't moon landing deniers making fun of this?
If it's been 50 years between now and the last time you've done something, I'd call that an accomplishment (if it happens).
Why did we lose our appetite for space exploration? Was it the Challenger mission?
@wildgrass saidWell I was there at Goddard on Apollo as a tech and it was a wonderful experience.
The people hitting retirement age right now were not even teenagers when Apollo 13 happened.
If it's been 50 years between now and the last time you've done something, I'd call that an accomplishment (if it happens).
Why did we lose our appetite for space exploration? Was it the Challenger mission?
Now I am breathlessly waiting to liftoff at 6:25 PM today.
You can bet your ass I will follow every mile🙂
@Metal-Brain saidHopefully they are all dead. Lets see them deny THIS one.
[One Artemis mission has already been completed: in late 2022 Artemis 1, an uncrewed test flight, orbited and flew beyond the Moon.]
I keep wondering why this is an important accomplishment. Aside from flying beyond the moon this has been done decades ago by the USSR.
[Artemis 2 will be a crewed flight beyond the Moon, which will take humans the farthest they’ve eve ...[text shortened]... nasa-moon-mission-artemis-program-launch-date
Why aren't moon landing deniers making fun of this?
@Metal-Brain saidIt's a fair question - and certainly worthwhile inspecting.
[One Artemis mission has already been completed: in late 2022 Artemis 1, an uncrewed test flight, orbited and flew beyond the Moon.]
I keep wondering why this is an important accomplishment. Aside from flying beyond the moon this has been done decades ago by the USSR.
[Artemis 2 will be a crewed flight beyond the Moon, which will take humans the farthest they’ve eve ...[text shortened]... nasa-moon-mission-artemis-program-launch-date
Why aren't moon landing deniers making fun of this?
It does beg the question though - if sending four people 240,000 miles away and back - for the first time in half a century - isn't an important accomplishment, what is?
Seems like the bar is set pretty high these days.
@sonhouse saidIt was a great launch. I was watching it with a group of kids and it was pretty amazing to see the look of awe in their eyes.
Well I was there at Goddard on Apollo as a tech and it was a wonderful experience.
Now I am breathlessly waiting to liftoff at 6:25 PM today.
You can bet your ass I will follow every mile🙂
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@wildgrass saidIt is an accomplishment to recreate something we mostly already did when computers were far more primitive than our cell phones? That is just silly. Is repetition the reason you accepted that? You heard it so many times you just accepted it?
The people hitting retirement age right now were not even teenagers when Apollo 13 happened.
If it's been 50 years between now and the last time you've done something, I'd call that an accomplishment (if it happens).
Why did we lose our appetite for space exploration? Was it the Challenger mission?
You don't have any critical thinking skills, do you? Until they put a base on the moon none of this is an important accomplishment. Unless nobody walked on the moon back in 1969 and that is a wacky conspiracy theory. Right?
Leave it to NASA to revive moon landing conspiracy theories. Well done. We are just as advanced as we were in 1969. We have not regressed so that is an accomplishment. Let's celebrate! LOL!
Competition with China revived our interest in the moon. NASA thinks they will get control of water on the moon and deny us access to it. So NASA wanta to do that to them first LOL!
@wildgrass saidOne thing I noticed when the ship was well on its way, the usual white stuff spurting out the ejecta turned yellow and there were some like purple segments down from the yellow, trying to imagine what kind of chemical reactions were going on, not sure, didn't read the spec's but I THINK the boosters were hydrogen/oxy rockets which means the ejecta should be water but I am thinking now maybe it is not a H2/O2 thing but , maybe methanol and O2, what kind of reaction could make those colors, did you see that color change?
It was a great launch. I was watching it with a group of kids and it was pretty amazing to see the look of awe in their eyes.
@Metal-Brain saidMoon lander conspirators.
You are confusing. Who are these people you are hoping are dead?
I think I earned the RIGHT to hope those asssholes dead because I was PART of Apollo.
One thing that pissed me off the most was the originator was AMERICAN.
What a slap in the face for us Apollo workers.
@sonhouse saidDid you see the film of Buzz Aldrich punching a moon landing conspiracy theorist in the face? Why the uncontrolled anger? When people tell you they question the moon landing do you shout you were part of Apollo and punch them in the face?
Moon lander conspirators.
I think I earned the RIGHT to hope those asssholes dead because I was PART of Apollo.
One thing that pissed me off the most was the originator was AMERICAN.
What a slap in the face for us Apollo workers.
@Metal-Brain saidNo, that is AFTER I have kicked them in the groin........
Did you see the film of Buzz Aldrich punching a moon landing conspiracy theorist in the face? Why the uncontrolled anger? When people tell you they question the moon landing do you shout you were part of Apollo and punch them in the face?
If I were Buzzy back then I think I would have had that BS puked on me long enough and snapped, you can only take BS insults so long.
@sonhouse saidYou mean you could not laugh at them? Why not? Is it because they made good points that you could not refute? Just accept people are ignorant about the moon. I watch the CBS Evening News on TV recently and the reporter used the term "dark side of the moon" instead of the other side of the moon. No side of the moon is continuously dark.
No, that is AFTER I have kicked them in the groin........
If I were Buzzy back then I think I would have had that BS puked on me long enough and snapped, you can only take BS insults so long.
People understand the Pink Floyd album better than the moon. And if you had no doubt that you were part of a moon landing that was not a farce you would just laugh at people, not lose your mind and get violent.
@Metal-Brain saidI've been saying for years that Amazon should just take one of their vacuum-sealed warehouses and put some rockets underneath it and fire it to the moon. Once it lands, NASA can figure out how to get people up there to live in it.
It is an accomplishment to recreate something we mostly already did when computers were far more primitive than our cell phones? That is just silly. Is repetition the reason you accepted that? You heard it so many times you just accepted it?
You don't have any critical thinking skills, do you? Until they put a base on the moon none of this is an important accomplishme ...[text shortened]... t control of water on the moon and deny us access to it. So NASA wanta to do that to them first LOL!
Seems doable. Most humans now have more computing power in their pockets than NASA had when they landed Neil on the moon.
@sonhouse saidI guess I wasn't looking THAT closely.
One thing I noticed when the ship was well on its way, the usual white stuff spurting out the ejecta turned yellow and there were some like purple segments down from the yellow, trying to imagine what kind of chemical reactions were going on, not sure, didn't read the spec's but I THINK the boosters were hydrogen/oxy rockets which means the ejecta should be water but I am th ...[text shortened]... maybe methanol and O2, what kind of reaction could make those colors, did you see that color change?
The kids watching, though. Exploration is such a visceral, human experience.
When Elon starts signing people up for a 1-way trip to Mars, I'm going to add my name. Go out in a blaze of glory.