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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only useful thing about the Artemus mission is it will finally shut up the conspiracy morons who said the Apollo missions never happened because cosmic radiation in space outside of the Earth’s Van Allen Belts would’ve killed anyone in a spacecraft that ventured too far from the Earth.

The crew was simply live cargo. They could’ve just as easily used monkeys. The entire mission could’ve been automated. [/quote]

[b]This is untrue because the whole point of this mission was to prepare for Artemis III which will land on the moon and look for lunar ice. [/b]Are we going to land monkeys on the moon? Lunar rovers are not reliable enough to do what we want humans to do. Plus we wanted the human feedback on other aspects of the mission to prepare for other humans to go.

The goal is essentially to accelerate the Apollo program but with modern tech. Apollo got caught in a loop of doing similar missions over and over because they lacked tech to deal with basic issues like lunar dust. Now we have more options and can hopefully progress further.[/quote]

Unless it is for research purposes, I don’t really understand the point of looking for lunar ice.  There’s plenty of ice here on earth.[/quote]

That's a fair question. The answer is that frozen water is made up of Hydrogen and Oxygen. using the power of the Sun, you can break up the water into the two elements. Excellent rocket fuel. So much better to manufacture rocket fuel from a lunar base than to schlepp it all the way from Earth. [/quote]

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