Stamau123Rocket lifts off with four Artemis II astronauts on a mission to the moon and back
I’m having a hard time getting excited about repeating a mission that wasn’t even the best thing we did over 50 years ago, except this time with computers and 1000X the budget.
We did it more times after and helped research greatly. It’s like 2% military budget to run NASA so fuck anti-intellectual bullshit.
I’m not anti-intellectual, I was a true space kid, watching every mission after 1965. I was a Apollo 11 super fan. I built models of the Apollo 11 and the Lunar Lander. I kept a subscription to national Geographic for decades because they had such great space photos. I should be loving this.
But it’s pretty obvious that all modern space exploration is mostly about giving future trillionaires an option to get off the planet when we inevitably turn on them.
If we are talking about SpaceX then maybe you are correct. I don’t think that’s even close to true for NASA who are surviving on a much smaller share of the budget than they had in the 1960s.
NASA may still purport to be science-based, but right now, NASA is MAGA, so they are contributing to the knowledge base for “Space Wealth Exploration.”
ALL other American space programs have nothing to do with science, they are simply engineering projects to create successful escape pods from whatever is coming - climate meltdown, revolution, nuclear conflagration, etc.