• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      The Artemis program never had any legs. The entire thing was being done in the most stupid way possible simply so that NASA could use SLS, a rocket that was completely incapable of actually fulfilling it stated mission. It was like the Apollo missions but without the lander.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      Same thing that was always going to happen to it: It’s not gonna fly. It’s been canceled or clean sheet restarted at least once by every administration since inception, and frankly that rope has been pretty thoroughly pissed up.

      • Tattorack@lemmy.world
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        Gods dammit, and after Artemis I was so succesful! I was looking forward to Artemis II… And seeing humans once again on the moon in my lifetime.

        I won’t get it. Mars is, resource poor. Don’t get me wrong; having humanity set foot on another planet would be an amazing achievement, but… Since everything is so profit-driven, why not support a return to the moon!?

        There’s potentially Helium 3 up there. And the moon has a bunch of surface-minerals.