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I'm very excited about the later steps of the Artemis project! Landing on the Moon South Pole and start setting up the lunar station there will be a huge step,
by BurningFrog 6mo ago
I'm very excited about the later steps of the Artemis project!
Landing on the Moon South Pole and start setting up the lunar station there will be a huge step, especially after 50 years of nothing!!
But this flight has already been done without a crew. Doing it with a human crew is important, but it achieves nothing new and exciting.
- JumpCrisscross 6mo ago> it achieves nothing new and exciting I thought this but have since changed my mind. On board, real humans tax life-support systems in a way that’s difficult to simulate. And real human astronauts garble processes and communications with ground control in ways that a nation that hasn’t done deep spaceflight in a generation could probably do with practice on.
- BurningFrog 6mo agoI half agree. It is new and important. But it's hard, at least for me personally, to get really excited about it...
- WalterBright 6mo agoI thought the various space stations were there to develop & test life-support systems long term?
- JumpCrisscross 6mo ago> thought the various space stations were there to develop & test life-support systems long term? I thought ducks were a preparation of chicken until my early teens. I was wrong. We have never flown this deep-space life-support system on the ISS together. In parts, yes. But that doesn’t substitute for a real mission. As for simulations, how would you rate your experience from a role play versus the real deal?