• Nasa - "We are going to the Moon to stay, by 2024. This is how."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl6jn-DdafM Looks like the pieces are coming together. I wonder if this will actually produce any benefits other than being super cool.
Cool idea for sure. I remain sceptical it will happen because NASA gets its funding redistributed and cut so often by various administrations, but I do think it's worthwhile if they intend to set up a base. There's also Helium-3 on the moon that is apparently useful for fusion, assuming we ever get fusion to work.
It will for me, NASA will finally have to confront the fact that they left me behind up here on the damned moon 50 years ago so hungry
Nice try, no one's going to believe that. How can you be hungry if the moon's made of cheese?
We seriously need the moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQQLgkeuuu4
Yeah the biggest benefit to setting up something permanent on the Moon is to harvest Helium-3 for Fusion, something we could really do with on a planet where energy requirements are constantly increasing.
I want to believe. I hope we'll one day make a real life Stellaris version of the UN.
Eventually the constipation catches up to you and you can't eat any more cheese. Now he's trapped in the hell of deciding not to eat or to eat more cheese.
This video is well-made and all, but while the idea that the US government wants to return to the moon is wonderful to hear, they've been going on about this for years and their plan is questionable at best. The government can say whatever it wants but the SLS isn’t about scientific advancement, it’s a political move to protect NASA’s existing infrastructure and workforce with minimal effort. SLS is often jokingly called the "Senate Launch System", referencing this fact. It's an amalgamation of pre-existing hardware, a lot of which is ancient and just lifted from the shuttle. Those engines? RS-25s, which began development like 40 years ago and first flew in the early 80s. The exploration upper stage, if it ever even sees the light of day, is going to have engines designed 50 years ago. Orion itself is the remnant of a dead program. It was supposed to go to Mars through the Constellation Program, which was, to put it lightly, an absolute disaster. SLS is projected to cost over 1 billion dollars per flight, is fully expendable, and has already seen a whole bunch of wonderful setbacks including the billion dollar leaning launch tower. Missions that were designed for SLS are seeking commercial alternatives. Gateway, or the "Tollbooth", has hardly any reason to exist and makes the plan over 10x as expensive as it needs to be per flight. A spacecraft capable of the round trip between the lunar surface and gateway could just fly to LEO. I'll believe it when I see it.
Here comes another chinese earthquake ebrbrbrbrbrbrbr
You'd need to process 100,000,000,000 kg of lunar regolith to obtain 1 ton of He 3.
I wanna go there to stay too! Anyone know if NASA takes credit card?
The only thing coming together is this promotional video. The "gateway", that provides no actual benefit, needs to be up there in about 4-5 years, and as far as I'm concerned, no modules have been even designed yet. The gateway simply adds higher DeltaV requirements, and it also doesn't allow us to do any science that isn't already possible on the ISS. The SLS isn't flying yet (and truly, it should never leave the ground), and that project has been around - in various stages of vaporware and actuality - for twenty years. Also until congress actually awards proper funding for all of this... This is NASA trying to make the "best" of a bad situation, but really it's just a variation on poop. We might as well just rewatch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtL5k_iKtr4
bye I guess
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I'm ready to go already. https://dullahanpatchco.com/products/aeiou
moon colonization was faked
The funny thing is, is that they're calling this the Artemis program. Now, Artemis was Apollos twin sister, so it is poetic in that regard. However... Artemis killed Orion. The capsule that astronauts are supposed to ride to space, since the Constellation program, is named Orion. So we have a mission program, that is named, after the person that KILLS the vehicle's namesake. I'm not sure how this will bode. But given other programs, perhaps this program will never be given the funding it needs, and Artemis will kill Orion once again. And Starship or New Glenn will be contracted to go to the moon and beyond.
I mean, yeah, it was. The SLS is derived from the program, though (but thankfully they dropped the idea of just putting people on top of an SRB lol). My point was more that promotional videos don't really mean anything. Until we see SLS take off and actual parts for the gateway in the flesh, there's no good reason to expect this program to actually go far.
Fuck the moon, use rockets to send away trash into space instead of dumping it into oceans.
I didn't listen and now it's here
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