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Surprisingly very little about this in the news. On Wednesday evening people will launch back to the moon (no landing... yet) for the first time in 54 years.

It really should be a pivotal and positive moment amongst the utter dross that we're subjected to everyday.

www.nasa.gov

Artemis II: NASA’s First Crewed Lunar Flyby in 50 Years - NASA

Meet the Artemis II crew and learn how NASA’s 10-day lunar flyby mission will test deep space systems and pave the way for future Moon landings.
www.nasa.gov www.nasa.gov

 
I know there's a complete clown doing his best to destroy the world which is taking up most of the news coverage but i do find it really strange that this has so little coverage.
 
blue b4 the moon said:
As a junior school kid at the time of the moon landings it was all really exciting.

Maybe if I'm still about when we try to land on Mars it'll be interesting again.

No doubt getting up and orbiting the Moon needs some great technology but, it's all a bit meh.
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My mum was the same. I sat down with her last year and watched First Man. She was crying through remembering how exciting it all was.

Nobody dares tell my dear old Ma the landing was faked. She’d come after you and have your stinking guts for garters!
 
I'm very excited about watching this. I think the disinterest stems from a lot of false dawns with Artemis, the fact man walked on the moon over 50 years ago, and just a generally dumbed down world where four people going to the moon means nothing to many people.

It has to be said that this time around they are very much passengers, whereas before those "All-American Boys" were risk-taking fighter jocks who drove Corvettes and partied pretty hard. It was a new era, with the threat of Communism and a real race to space. This time feels safe and sanitised, though not without risk of course.

Having said all of that, when another moon landing takes place, that will genuinely be breathtaking, "one for the history books" as someone once said.
 
SCEtoAUX said:
I'm very excited about watching this. I think the disinterest stems from a lot of false dawns with Artemis, the fact man walked on the moon over 50 years ago, and just a generally dumbed down world where four people going to the moon means nothing to many people.

It has to be said that this time around they are very much passengers, whereas before those "All-American Boys" were risk-taking fighter jocks who drove Corvettes and partied pretty hard. It was a new era, with the threat of Communism and a real race to space. This time feels safe and sanitised, though not without risk of course.

Having said all of that, when another moon landing takes place, that will genuinely be breathtaking, "one for the history books" as someone once said.
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This just lends to the fact that the astronauts of that era were made of something else entirely.

How can you strap yourself to a 3,000 ton missile powered by less computer power than the one in your phone? That would then seperate to your lifeboat which you would fly in for 3 days. You then jump in a lander and land on the moon manually. That lander then has to a fire a rocket to get you back to your lifeboat which then itself has to fire another rocket to get you back to earth which takes another 3 days. All of this with mostly analogue 60's technology.

Balls of absolute steel. And some of them did the trip more than once!
 
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We've got Guardiola said:
This just lends to the fact that the astronauts of that era were made of something else entirely.

How can you strap yourself to a 3,000 ton missile powered by less computer power than the one in your phone? That would then seperate to your lifeboat which you would fly in for 3 days. You then jump in a lander and land on the moon manually. That lander then has to a fire a rocket to get you back to your lifeboat which then itself has to fire another rocket to get you back to earth which takes another 3 days. All of this with mostly analogue 60's technology.

Balls of absolute steel. And some of them did the trip more than once!
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Just 3 astronaut's did the trip twice.
  • James Lovell - Apollo 8 & 13 (Apollo 8 to the moon and back, Apollo 13 service module explosion)
  • John Young - Apollo 10 & 16 ( Apollo 10 testing the lander in moon orbit, Apollo 16 landed)
  • Eugene Cernan - Apollo 10 & 17 (Apollo 10 as above, Apollo 17 last men on the moon)
Sadly those three are no longer with us.
 
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