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Anonymous wrote: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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

So the plan is to build a launching pad on the moon? Wouldn’t that be incredibly difficult to build and maintain? Why not just launch from earth?

The gravity on the Moon is 1/6 that of earth. And there is no atmosphere for the rocket to travel through on the way out. Launching a rocket into deep space is therefore much easier. For example: it takes a large rocket to launch astronauts from Earth to the ISS in Earth orbit. But it took a very small rocket to launch two astronauts from the moon into lunar orbit during the Apollo missions.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

So the plan is to build a launching pad on the moon? Wouldn’t that be incredibly difficult to build and maintain? Why not just launch from earth?

The gravity on the Moon is 1/6 that of earth. And there is no atmosphere for the rocket to travel through on the way out. Launching a rocket into deep space is therefore much easier. For example: it takes a large rocket to launch astronauts from Earth to the ISS in Earth orbit. But it took a very small rocket to launch two astronauts from the moon into lunar orbit during the Apollo missions.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

So the plan is to build a launching pad on the moon? Wouldn’t that be incredibly difficult to build and maintain? Why not just launch from earth?

Anonymous wrote:I was happy to see the diversity especially given that I people at NASA are very unhappy. Someone told me they were being pressured to get rid of women and black people. Given this administration, I totally believe that. We can't even enjoy NASA not be political.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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. 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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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. 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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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. 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.

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