So, watching the #artemis interior shots, I really think that it's nothing new. Best Brains in conjunction with Gizmonic Institute did about the same thing in 1988, and they had 1 guy and 4 robots in the orbiter
Granted, the ground control for that effort in 1988 was not quite as sane as NASAs CAPCOM hotbabes seems to be.
Woohoo Friday at 3 pm. It is time to start the weekend party... I'll get the spaghetti and chocolate milk, we'll save the donuts for tomorrow morning. Get some cartoons on the TV too!
(yes, I am an adult, and I party like I'm 9 years old).
Orion ( #artemis ) is approx 110,000 miles from earth as of right now.
If you are a conspiracy theorist, that means that the poor souls on board have already signed their death warrants by spending over an hour transiting the Van Allen belts.
If you can do math and accept independently-verified facts, then you would know that they probably got about 4 mSv during the outbound transit, and that's about 1.5 years of normal "background" radiation experience by everyone on earth.
I never understood why Judas is reviled. Wasn't the entire crucifixion foretold? If so, then the dude (along with Pilate and Caiaphas) were actually HELPING to achieve god's plan.
We should be thanking them. They had parts to play and they did so. They sacrificed their own places in history to bring about the Resurrection. Without their actions, Jesus would not have become the Christ, and he would have just been another wacky hippie self-appointed prophet.
If you are gonna launch a heavy-ass capsule to the moon, but not have a human put boots on regolith...
You have a vehicle up there anyway. Why not drop off a little care package for the subsequent team that they could use when we DO put boots on regolith?