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the most elaborate historic reenactment in history. we learn nothing from these experiments. they are a show because presidents are tired of being trolled abou
by elif 4y ago
the most elaborate historic reenactment in history.
we learn nothing from these experiments. they are a show because presidents are tired of being trolled about the moon.
- veonik 4y agoReal Engineering did a video about this[0] and mentioned that SLS was really just a way to create jobs that happens to result in a massive rocket at the end. This makes sense to me and neatly explains the apparently intentionally overblown budget. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0waPJXaZgEg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0waPJXaZgEg
- sashahrzg 4y agoWe are set to learn immense amounts of information directly useful for extended spaceflight, ie mission to Mars
- pfdietz 4y agoReally? What exactly is that?
- elif 4y agowhatd we miss in the 60's
- sashahrzg 4y agoNew information on long term deep space radiation exposure, new information on long term space travel in general. Lunar research not done before, now possible due to lunar research station. The list goes on and on. You can look up all research projects included in the Artemis missions online
- elif 4y agothe van allen probes give us higher quality and longer term data about radiation. we are pretty aware of regolith constitution. having a moon base (which isnt in artemis 3) is not research
- Yizahi 4y agoNone of the tech "developed" for SLS, Orion or Gateway would be useful for anything Mars related. To clarify - significantly useful, or reasonably priced useful. That's a dead end program. I personally think that it is a must to go to Moon first before any attempts at Mars, and dead end program can be a reasonable price to pay for the necessary iterative research. But SLS specifically is super bad and super expensive at that task. If the Starship program would fail for any reason but NASA would continue, I think after SLS will finally die, another, totally different system would be required to go to Moon again, to finally iterate on it to go to Mars next. Basically humans are wasting time with SLS, and would need to repeat a lot of efforts again, to continue human space exploration.
- golemotron 4y ago> the most elaborate historic reenactment in history. Not accurate. It will be new history because we will have the first woman and person of color on the moon. A giant leap for diversity.
- causi 4y agoNobody has the will to actually push the limits i.e., by going to Mars, so we'll fritter away billions playing in the local sandbox. The moon is useful for experience building interplanetary colonies. It's fucking worthless for getting the first boots on the ground and then coming home.