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Artemis 2 Going back to the moon.


I am a space fan. Doing my best to get my youngest engaged in the whole thing. It'll certainly be the least destructive thing the US have fired in a while.

I drove across Florida maybe 15 years ago. In the distance i could see something from miles away. it's super flat. Turned out to be a space shuttle on the launch pad at cape Canaveral.
 
Waverley said:
I am a space fan. Doing my best to get my youngest engaged in the whole thing. It'll certainly be the least destructive thing the US have fired in a while.

I drove across Florida maybe 15 years ago. In the distance i could see something from miles away. it's super flat. Turned out to be a space shuttle on the launch pad at cape Canaveral.
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I’m fortunate to have seen 2 shuttle launches and was also in Florida when the Columbia broke up on re-entry.
 
It’s great but what are they doing differently to 50 years ago?

Is the plan to build a moon base and facilities for a Mars mission?

The public eventually got bored of the Apollo missions.
 
Ned Land said:
It’s great but what are they doing differently to 50 years ago?

Is the plan to build a moon base and facilities for a Mars mission?

The public eventually got bored of the Apollo missions.
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The Apollo missions were essentially a political battle with the USSR in the space race. Once the Soviets stopped bothering the US didn't feel the need to go back to the moon and concentrated on the Shuttle programme.

This time the intention is to get back to the moon and stay there. Partly as a base camp for Mars but also because there is money to be made in them lunar rocks

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Very exciting. I was too young to remember any of the Apollo missions but was fascinated by everything space related as aa kid. Would never have guessed that it would have taken us 50 years to go back.
 
Ned Land said:
It’s great but what are they doing differently to 50 years ago?

Is the plan to build a moon base and facilities for a Mars mission?

The public eventually got bored of the Apollo missions.
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The plan is to stay there, I just don’t see SLS as the method of that, it is simply too expensive for how much it moves. It exists as a politic project to keep jobs in various states and that is about it.
 
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