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> since NASA is no longer doing world shattering stuff like landing on the moon NASA has its Artemis program which is doing exactly this, returning to the Moon
by jeffwass 7y ago
> since NASA is no longer doing world shattering stuff like landing on the moon
NASA has its Artemis program which is doing exactly this, returning to the Moon with a goal of a longer-term lunar base.
And they just held a period of application (it closed a few days ago) for the next generation of Artemis astronauts.
Artemis :
https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/ https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/
- nickik 7y agoYeah they said they will return to the Moon or Mars (depending on the president) since Bush 1. That is almost 40 years. So another new moon plan. Another Shuttle derived launcher. Not surprising that nobody is getting very exited with Artemis. The SLS and Orion can only be described as dead-weights on NASA since they are so incredibly expensive. SLS has been in development for over 10 years at more then 2 billion per year and it will not launch until 2022 hopefully.
- rbanffy 7y ago> NASA has its Artemis program which is doing exactly this They've been designing Orion for a couple decades now, and the SLS is a shuttle-derived expendable launcher where what we see as key innovations are mounting 25% more SSMEs (still expendable) on the bottom of the fuel tank, extending the SRBs by a couple segments and putting the payload on top of the main tank. Ares was interesting and we learned, with Ares I, that we shouldn't put humans on top of an SRB. There would probably be cheaper ways to find that out, but at least they tried something different.