Mastodawn

Why don't I care about the Artemis mission/program?

By all rights, this should be something I am deeply passionate about. I’ve been in tech/engineering my entire adult life and was obsessed with NASA as a kid. I even live on the east coast of Florida and can sometimes see the launches/landings over the ocean. But I just… don’t care at all. I’m not suffering from depression or any other malaise, and generally things are fine. But I haven’t clicked on a single link or looked at a single image. I know this has not been the case for many, many people, so I’m wondering what might be different about this launch (or really the whole program in general), and curious if anyone else has found themselves feeling the same.

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Nycifer

I recalled back about a couple years ago about how we were going back to the moon.

And even then I was like “…Why?” When, we already have had a good idea about it all this time from the Apollo missions and all the stuff we sent up to it over the years.

It was exciting for us back then to go to the moon because:

It had never been done before.
It was literally a Space Race.

So those two alone got everyone invested and excited. Nowadays? What are we gaining from this? I don’t think anything.