It's been 54 years since humans last visited the Moon. Hopefully, in a few years we will get boots back on the surface.
dotancohen 15 minutes ago [-]
Hopefully, in a few years we will figure out that hydrogen rockets can not reliably launch on time and we'll switch to less leaky fuels. Then maybe we won't need to pull 40 year old engines out of museums to dump in the ocean.
I'm all for human spaceflight, but the Senate Launch System seems the best argument for shutting down human spaceflight programs.
CoastalCoder 27 minutes ago [-]
Out of curiosity, why do you see this as a worthwhile endeavor?
My personal perspective is that the resources are better used for other purposes, but it's possible that I just haven't encountered some compelling reason yet.
xattt 9 minutes ago [-]
The moonshot is a halo program that, when executed in a non-profit form, ends up benefiting society as a whole due to smart people being cornered and forced to solve hard problems that typically have applicability elsewhere on Earth.
Consider how much residual infra from Apollo has been reused.
hghid 24 minutes ago [-]
Even though you could question the whole Artemis concept, it's still extremely exciting watching the countdown with my son. I just missed the original Apollo flights and had assumed I would never see a moon landing in my lifetime. We may well not have a landing for quite some time yet, but it's still cool to see a Moon bound rocket standing on the launchpad...
pjmorris 20 minutes ago [-]
We lived ~60 miles North of the Cape when I was a young boy, and watching the Saturn V's go on the way to the moon was a forming experience.
chasd00 14 minutes ago [-]
I lived in Port Orange FL until i was 12, during night launches my dad would take the family to New Smyrna Beach or some where a short drive South where we watched the shuttles come up over the water somehow. I can't remember the details it was a lonnnng time ago haha. I do remember the launches sounding like popcorn popping.
I live in Dallas now and will be turning 50 soon, i want to catch the next Starship launch live but would have to time it perfectly to get time off of work ahead of time.
markus_zhang 22 minutes ago [-]
Gonna watch with my son if it doesn’t get postponed.
I tuned in for 60 seconds, the presenter got everything wrong, and I just tuned out until liftoff.
She called the top of the ET (well, it's no longer an ET, but it's the stage that was the STS ET) the "upper stage". She said that the propellents are stored at thousands of degrees below zero. And so on. This is a NASA presenter?
rdevilla 1 minutes ago [-]
You are not the target audience for this sort of presentation. Media directed at the laity is more about being directionally than quantifiably correct, and is full of metaphor and embellishment to capture the imagination rather than communicate something with precision.
People who want the actual details and numbers will read.
chasd00 12 minutes ago [-]
i'm sure the whole talk track was piped through an AI for clarity and excitement and the presenters were told to read the script.
jcon321 6 minutes ago [-]
too windy outside for this to happen imo
instagib 11 minutes ago [-]
4.5hrs to go
duped 12 minutes ago [-]
This opinion may be unpopular here but it's hard to get excited about a colossal waste of taxpayer money after all the damage DOGE did. I don't understand how these NASA missions with questionable scientific value and obscene budgets get off the ground.
I mean I do understand, NASA funding is important to oligarchs. But still.
erelong 37 minutes ago [-]
predicting malfunctioning systems (just a guess)
barbazoo 34 minutes ago [-]
polymarket or gtfo :)
chasd00 3 minutes ago [-]
My opinion is 60/40 in favor of launch today. It's not unusual at all for something to come up in the final 10-30 minutes.
I'm all for human spaceflight, but the Senate Launch System seems the best argument for shutting down human spaceflight programs.
My personal perspective is that the resources are better used for other purposes, but it's possible that I just haven't encountered some compelling reason yet.
Consider how much residual infra from Apollo has been reused.
I live in Dallas now and will be turning 50 soon, i want to catch the next Starship launch live but would have to time it perfectly to get time off of work ahead of time.
She called the top of the ET (well, it's no longer an ET, but it's the stage that was the STS ET) the "upper stage". She said that the propellents are stored at thousands of degrees below zero. And so on. This is a NASA presenter?
People who want the actual details and numbers will read.
I mean I do understand, NASA funding is important to oligarchs. But still.
Kalshi is more optimistic. https://kalshi.com/markets/kxartemisii/artemis-ii-launch-dat...