Artemis II launch

[Bob Riebe]

       I watch the live broadcast of the rocket launch; I still like to watch those as much now as I did as a youngster.
       Some times I even search online for launches that were not on TV.

[Graybeard]

Sure was a big fall of fire coming out the ass of that little rocket as it disappeared into space.

[Mule 11]

So, this one is going past the moon and beyond?

[scattershot]

My understanding is that the mission is to orbit the moon and return to Earth. Since we actually landed on the moon over 50 years ago, I’m not quite sure what all the hoopla is about.

[DDZ]

Have to wonder what this costs, being 40 trillion in debt. And this benefits Americans how?

[Mule 11]

Space. The great frontier

[Bob Riebe]

Have to wonder what this costs, being 40 trillion in debt. And this benefits Americans how?

,
      So we will be on the moon before the Chicoms put their base up there. 

      We should have never stopped the moon shots but Nixon and Congress had their heads up their buttocks with the space-station related
semi-worthless space shuttle.  Another project that died , with no replacement, leaving a gaping hole so other countries could catch up.
      Without Elon Musk, we would be looking at enemy satellites dominating the skies .
 
      So many talking heads babble about a step to Mars , but I would not bet a plug-nickle that Mars is any of the drive behind the moon shots.
      Cost - far more than it would have been had they not stopped.

[Mule 11]

Isn’t Mars a dream of Elon Musk’s? And if so, He can foot the astronomical bill as I’m sure he would…
   That guy is a phenom.

[Ranger99]

The folks on the radio yesterday were discussing
the mineral resources on the moon, and how
we were supposed to be eventually building
a base there and colonizing the moon to have
prior claim on what's there.
One mentioned that some of the minerals are
supposed to be of greater purity than what we
have access to here.
I can remember that in the 70's they were
discussing the shuttlecraft, and how it was
supposed to be used for ferrying personel
and materials back and forth between the
earth and the moon etc. and somehow in
the interim the official story was that it was
for doing space research, and placing and
maintaining communication ( and spy)
satellites, etc. instead of building up the
American moon colony for if/when the
SHTF and the earth was too contaminated
with radiation, germ warfare/ biological
warfare nastiness.

Jerry Ahern wrote a series of fictional
novels about SHTF and the selected
people to be put in suspended animation
aboard the shuttle fleet in orbit until the
earth was able to recover a few centuries
after the global nuclear war had accidentally
set the earth's atmoshere ablaze and killed
the majority of life on earth along with the
high radiation.
IIRC there was some satellites monitoring
the earth's living conditions ( or the lack
thereof) and when things got back right
a signal was sent and the shuttle fleet
reentered the planet and landed and the
people that were "asleep" were reanimated
and so on so on blah blah.

IMO  it's not so far fetched as it sounded
50 years ago

[GTS225]

Space. The great frontier

Yeah......"The Great Frontier"......HMMPH!

Seems to me we should learn more about our own planet before we start contaminating other rocks in orbit.

Roger

[GTS225]

One mentioned that some of the minerals are
supposed to be of greater purity than what we
have access to here.

Might be true.  I can just see the greedy idiots mining the crap out of the moon, never realizing how bad they're weakening it, with it's much weaker gravity field than this rock, and causing it to split into about three pieces.

'Course, I'll be long dead.....Roger

[Land_Owner]

Suspended animation - we dont do that.
50 years of dreaming and we still don't
do that. I don't want to be a guinie pig
for that testing. Slingshot our rocket
around the moon (or if necessary a planet).
Yeah we do that. Moon base? Not yet.
We can do that. Someone should clean up
the space around Earth. Make less junk
in orbit to miss on the way out. Probably
make good money too. The animated
movie WALLE is a good visual of how
wasteful humans are.