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The astronauts appear to be in tight quarters . You would think that they could design something where they had much more room.
People beLIEve this bullchit??? Just wow...
It's pretty cool, but it worries me because I don't see much upside and I do see a ton of downside. If this trip turns catastrophic, it's the end of NASA and it's where anything in space is 100% privatized forever. Are there any space corp IPO's coming up? Because they'd be salivating at the possible demise of NASA, maybe even putting in some subversive efforts to ensure it..
What are you referring to? Are you a flat earth’r?
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Don’t you believe the world is run by baseball worshipping dogs or some shit
I'm no expert on the subject but wonder what the actual reasons of why so difficult now and why so long since it was done in 69'.
I saw an article that claimed they had to come back early due to one of the crew members and a medical condition, I'm no rocket scientist but I dont think just coming back early is an option.
Going to the moon isn't really anymore difficult than it was 50 years ago, the issues are cost, risk, and benefit.
You need a lot of stuff to go to the moon, stay there for a few days then come back. That stuff has weight, that weight need to escape earths gravity well so you need huge rockets which cost a lot of money.
The moon is 250,000 miles away, the international space station is 250 miles ita a lot safer to do all your human space stuff in relative proximity to the earth, just in the past couple years there was an issue with the boeing vehicle that stranded astronauts on the space station, and there was a medical emergency that required a quick return trip. Any issues while humans are going to the moon (or Mars) are alot more complicated.
Once we went to the moon and really encountered all the difficulties there the benefits of going back deteriorated with the technology of the time. Mars nights are 2 weeks long and get as cold as -250F which means that people and solar powered equipment have a hard time surviving a night til the sun comes up again.
The dirt on the moon is charged so it static clings to all the equipment and is fine like between sand and flour so it gets everywhere and messes with equipment and seals on space suits.
After we went there a few times the focus shifted to orbital satellites that have utility to us on earth. The space shuttle program was developed that allowed hands on work in orbit with those satellites. Shuttle program was just as mental and impressive as the apollo program. ISS has taught us alot about the logistics of living in space.
The success of the Voyager mission made interest pop for exploring the planets and moons of the solar system. Unmanned space travel has been very successful with the mars rovers and probes to all the planets. There's some good documentaries on YouTube about the mission to pluto.
Why we are going back now is basically because in order to travel any farther we are going to need to use space natural resources. At a minimum we'll need to make rocket fuel. The moon is the best option for doing that so we'll need to develop the technology there. Likely fully automated in caves to normalize temperature and radiation powered by solar and nuclear run by AI data centers that are either orbiting the earth or the moon.
Apollo was a race to the moon against the Russians, Artemis is a race to the moon against the Chinese.
We didn’t go back to the moon after ‘72 …because no one gave a shit anymore.
We didn’t go back for 50 years; because, there was no money or political desire.
Now, there’s both. Here’s why:
Helium-3, Space Port for space exploration…”Lunar Dominance and/or Fuck China & Russia!”…yada, yada, yada. Note: Boots on the Ground is gonna be a thing on the moon. Actually, it already is. Fuck China, Fuck Russia…indeed.
They only have the capsule and that's it. Artemis is using a legacy upper stage that isn't very powerful and only designed to take up capsule. The Saturn V while having less thrust had a much more efficient upper stage and could carry 50 more tons to low Earth orbit, which included the command module and lunar lander. The idea was to use a new much more powerful upper stage on Artemis 3 for a repeat of the old style Apollo missions where everything was sent up at once. But NASA realized they are painfully slow and incapable of hitting budget, so they've passed the lander systems off. Now the rocket is just a people carrier to orbit to dock with whatever commercial landing system becomes viable first from either SpaceX or Blue Origin.
Good information. Thanks.👊🏻
Apparently the toilet is out of commission again. 🤔
They think thhe urine is freezing at the evacuation tube causing a stoppage.
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Alright all you intellectuals. This morning on the news they said we would be getting photos of never before seen from the dark side of the moon. With all our space telescopes, why have we never had photographs of the dark side? What is different about how we are able to take photos from Artemis? Using special wavelength light not available to the space telescopes?
Maybe we don't have anything on that side. That's way out of Earth's orbit.
Either that or it's flat like the earth.🤣
There is no dark side of the moon really ..... matter of fact it's all dark.
I know that but Hubble is in space looking back at earth
And there have to be times when it's lit other wise we'd never have an eclipse.
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AFAIK Artemis will have a different perspective than the Apollo flyby had, so it will be the first time some portions of the moon (like the Orientale Basin) will be seen and photographed by actual humans.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been flying around the moon for over 15 years taking pictures and creating a map of the moon like the Google earth map.
I think it's a bit of hype on the part of the media.
I read an article that was quoting one of the scientists on the ground, and he said that the cameras can't detect subtile color change like the human eye, and that might show different mineral composition.
It's what he said....
There are no space telescopes, like Hubble or James Webb, beyond earth orbit.
The crew probably enjoyed the silence there for awhile. Is it me or is the whole mission filled with very touchy feely commentary? They must have hired writers to create all these feel good sayings.
And you know this because?
That’s not what Roger Waters says. I believe him!💯
Must have been a shitty job fixing it....
Because the moon is tide locked. (the same side of the moon always faces the Earth). We don't have any telescopes beyond the moons' orbit looking back at us.
Really crappy comment dude.
You mean a piss poor job repair?
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Pretty cool standing outside, drinking coffee this morning, looking up at that half moon, knowing they flew around it last night.
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