https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/for-the-first-time-in-51-years-nasa-is-training-astronauts-to-fly-to-the-moon/
“They’ve got a great adventure ahead of them.”
Sooo... the US is, once again, feeling threatened and is planning to send people to the moon to make itself feel better about it - just like last time.
Commander Reid Wiseman and his crewmates—pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen—were named to the Artemis II crew on April 3.
"Hello, crewmate! What are you doing on this mission?"
"I'm the pilot. You?"
"I'm the Canadian."
News about the moon always gives me a big what-if sense. Like the series "For All Mankind". It is always with a big regret that I think of what could have been. But excitement about what will be in terms of space exploration. Is there any other explanation besides money and public support for why the moon and space stopped being interesting for governments?
I see a bunch of people saying we should spend our limited money elsewhere. But these missions cost money similar to our Movies for fuck's sake. Spending money on these missions (the money goes to people on the earth, making technical stuff, it doesn't vanish) is better than spending on bread and circus, or even military.
The money amounts are FUCKING TINY. Stop whining so much about a good thing. We are talking about nations, not a single broke household.
Yeah I mean really, if the US can spend 1.8 trillion on pandemic relief, a few billion on space exploration is a drop in a bucket. And we'll probably get better returns on the investment.
I get that this is really cool and I love space too, learning about it is great.
But is this really what we should be spending our limited resources on?
The US has virtually unlimited resources, they just usually choose to spend them on military and corporate subsidies.
US prints the reserve money of the world. They basically have unlimited resources. This is better than money spent to kill midlle easterns