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there have been bags of astronaut poop on the moon since the Apollo era.

• ramesh31 3y ago
  >there have been bags of astronaut poop on the moon since the Apollo era. And those bags of poop are part of a collective human heritage, paid for by public funding and driven by a desire to conquer space and explore the unknown. Peregrine was a vanity stunt for ultra rich people. They deserve to get what they paid for.
  • DarmokJalad1701 3y ago
    > Peregrine was a vanity stunt for ultra rich people. They deserve to get what they paid for. That's quite the claim. Peregrine was contracted as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services - which is paid for by public funding. It includes rovers from US and Mexico, and scientific payloads from US and Germany as well as other payloads from six other countries. Of course, someone complaining about "sacred sites" makes the whole thing a vanity stunt.
  • 0xffff2 3y ago
    >Peregrine was a vanity stunt for ultra rich people. They deserve to get what they paid for. I'm not sure why you think that, but I can tell you first hand as a member of the team building NASA's first unmanned lunar rover, which is going to (hopefully) land on the moon on an Astrobotic lander next year, this mission is very much not a "stunt for ultra rich people", but a very important step in NASA's ongoing work to develop cheap commercial access to space.