They’re making stupid changes just for the sake of changes. Like launching a separate lander, or the stupid orbit around the moon, or massive over engineering for other missions that everyone already knew wouldn’t happen on this craft. What are the astronauts going to do when they get to the moon that hasn’t been done already and/or can’t be done better by robots?
Artemis is a Multi-billion dick waving mission that only serves to get money into the pockets of huge companies.
I’m divided on Gateway, because I know it’s unnecessary, but space stations are cool. I lean toward cancelling it.
I’m totally on board with distributed lift for the landers. That architecture lets them land more mass, like bigger pressurized landers for longer stays and bigger crews, the surface habitat, and the pressurized rover.
Whether to explore space or not is a different question. I’m a hopeless sci-fi nerd, so I’m already inspired and working in the industry. I think that’s a much better way to spend money than the Pentagon. I would much rather have space exploration and planetary science instead of more ICBMs.
Artemis is really nothing like Apollo though.
They’re making stupid changes just for the sake of changes. Like launching a separate lander, or the stupid orbit around the moon, or massive over engineering for other missions that everyone already knew wouldn’t happen on this craft. What are the astronauts going to do when they get to the moon that hasn’t been done already and/or can’t be done better by robots?
Artemis is a Multi-billion dick waving mission that only serves to get money into the pockets of huge companies.
I’m divided on Gateway, because I know it’s unnecessary, but space stations are cool. I lean toward cancelling it.
I’m totally on board with distributed lift for the landers. That architecture lets them land more mass, like bigger pressurized landers for longer stays and bigger crews, the surface habitat, and the pressurized rover.
Whether to explore space or not is a different question. I’m a hopeless sci-fi nerd, so I’m already inspired and working in the industry. I think that’s a much better way to spend money than the Pentagon. I would much rather have space exploration and planetary science instead of more ICBMs.