How come no one is talking about Artemis II mission?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:lots of talk about this and it is awesome. the problem is the world is burning, we have madman at the helm, and it's hard to be proud to be an American right now (in my opinion) and focus on frivolous luxuries like space travel when the world is on a path to literal destruction. We are the bully, the invader, the criminal.

The world is always burning. There are always madmen at the helm. If not here, then somewhere else. It doesn’t matter if we’re proud to be Americans. We should still forge ahead and do the improbable. On the upside, this is the farthest away from earth a non-US citizen has ever been and we gave him a ride.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pedolph Shitler might drop the big one on Iran tonight. I'm a little more concerned about that.

+1. I brought two humans into the world never thinking they would come of age into this mess.

You do know that we have term limits for presidents right? Because you are writing as though he will be president forever. That’s not how it works in America.

Look at what he has done so far.

[Anonymous]

Every time there is a space mission of any kind people always comment that now is not the time. Which makes me think that now is always the time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe because the world is on fire right now?

Why can't focus on both? Why can't we use this mission to recognize what is *good* about humanity and see what we can accomplish together? Why not look at these astronauts, who are smart, professional, respectful, and collaborative, and thing collectively about the kinds of people we want in positions of authority and leadership?

Because it’s really none of those things it’s diverting extremely needed resources on earth to pay billionaires tons of money to build something that doesn’t advance anything for humanity.

And these astronauts are not in a position of authority.

+1 it is another arms race
Not fueled for the welfare of humanity

And no one is looking at those astronauts and wondering if they can be tomorrows leaders.
We wouldn't be here if we thought that way.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Huge waste of money.

Again and again people **vastly** overestimate the cost of these missions and of NASA in general.
The FY26 budget for NASA (not Artemis, but all of NASA) is 24.4 Billion. It is less than half of a percent of the Federal budget. Which means everything else we do takes up over 99.5% of your tax dollars.
For comparison, the **supplemental** budget for ICE is 74 billion, on top of their 10+ billion annual budget.

For less than half a percent of your federal tax dollars, we can continue to explore the universe, to start to understand dark matter and dark energy, to study solar energy patterns, to look back on Earth and study the oceans and atmosphere, to look out into space and see the very beginnings of the universe, all while providing some of the best stable stem jobs and some of the very few high-tech manufacturing jobs left in the country.

"Footprints and flags" are a small part of what NASA does and as a standalone mission it doens't change the world. But as part of our ongoing exploration they're a critical next step.

We don't need to send men to do it. Men are fragile and temperamental beings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:lots of talk about this and it is awesome. the problem is the world is burning, we have madman at the helm, and it's hard to be proud to be an American right now (in my opinion) and focus on frivolous luxuries like space travel when the world is on a path to literal destruction. We are the bully, the invader, the criminal.

The world is always burning. There are always madmen at the helm. If not here, then somewhere else. It doesn’t matter if we’re proud to be Americans. We should still forge ahead and do the improbable. On the upside, this is the farthest away from earth a non-US citizen has ever been and we gave him a ride.

We are proud to be Americans for sure.
The world is always burning for sure

So as proud Americans why don't we do something for the betterment of humanity?

[Anonymous]

Several astronauts have gone on to fairly distinguished careers in politics: John Glenn, Mark Kelly, Harrison Schmidt, maybe some others. I am not saying that all ex-astronauts automatically make good leaders. But we are blessed that we had such a leader a John Glenn.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Pedolph Shitler might drop the big one on Iran tonight. I'm a little more concerned about that.

Right? This feels like a distraction. I’m not falling for it. Also, gas prices are astronomical (no pun) but we are spending money going to the moon *now*? Read the room. No one cares. We are trying to pay for gas and groceries and not lose our jobs and making sure we raise decent humans. Cool, we went further than ever before. What does that have to do with ANYTHING here on Earth? So what if the pics are cool? What does that really matter?

I'm with you 100%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Several astronauts have gone on to fairly distinguished careers in politics: John Glenn, Mark Kelly, Harrison Schmidt, maybe some others. I am not saying that all ex-astronauts automatically make good leaders. But we are blessed that we had such a leader a John Glenn.

You appear to be making the argument that we need a space program to find good politicians.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What makes it cool? They aren’t even landing on the moon, which is also something we did 57 years ago.

They have gone further in space than any human ever. The high res pics are amazing.

Only because we're no longer capable of putting a manned spacecraft in lunar orbit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Huge waste of money.

Again and again people **vastly** overestimate the cost of these missions and of NASA in general.
The FY26 budget for NASA (not Artemis, but all of NASA) is 24.4 Billion. It is less than half of a percent of the Federal budget. Which means everything else we do takes up over 99.5% of your tax dollars.
For comparison, the **supplemental** budget for ICE is 74 billion, on top of their 10+ billion annual budget.

For less than half a percent of your federal tax dollars, we can continue to explore the universe, to start to understand dark matter and dark energy, to study solar energy patterns, to look back on Earth and study the oceans and atmosphere, to look out into space and see the very beginnings of the universe, all while providing some of the best stable stem jobs and some of the very few high-tech manufacturing jobs left in the country.

"Footprints and flags" are a small part of what NASA does and as a standalone mission it doens't change the world. But as part of our ongoing exploration they're a critical next step.

We don't need to send men to do it. Men are fragile and temperamental beings.

OK. Send women then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:lots of talk about this and it is awesome. the problem is the world is burning, we have madman at the helm, and it's hard to be proud to be an American right now (in my opinion) and focus on frivolous luxuries like space travel when the world is on a path to literal destruction. We are the bully, the invader, the criminal.

The world is always burning. There are always madmen at the helm. If not here, then somewhere else. It doesn’t matter if we’re proud to be Americans. We should still forge ahead and do the improbable. On the upside, this is the farthest away from earth a non-US citizen has ever been and we gave him a ride.

Hell no.

Don't even try to normalize Trump.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:lots of talk about this and it is awesome. the problem is the world is burning, we have madman at the helm, and it's hard to be proud to be an American right now (in my opinion) and focus on frivolous luxuries like space travel when the world is on a path to literal destruction. We are the bully, the invader, the criminal.

The world is always burning. There are always madmen at the helm. If not here, then somewhere else. It doesn’t matter if we’re proud to be Americans. We should still forge ahead and do the improbable. On the upside, this is the farthest away from earth a non-US citizen has ever been and we gave him a ride.

We are proud to be Americans for sure.
The world is always burning for sure

So as proud Americans why don't we do something for the betterment of humanity?

I think it is for the betterment of humanity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:lots of talk about this and it is awesome. the problem is the world is burning, we have madman at the helm, and it's hard to be proud to be an American right now (in my opinion) and focus on frivolous luxuries like space travel when the world is on a path to literal destruction. We are the bully, the invader, the criminal.

The world is always burning. There are always madmen at the helm. If not here, then somewhere else. It doesn’t matter if we’re proud to be Americans. We should still forge ahead and do the improbable. On the upside, this is the farthest away from earth a non-US citizen has ever been and we gave him a ride.

Hell no.

Don't even try to normalize Trump.

This has nothing to do with normalizing Trump. This has nothing to do with him at all. There will always be something or someone. No point in waiting for things to be not crazy.

[Anonymous]

I think landing on the moon is cooler.