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Honestly, I didn't know Artimus was happening. That's how busy the news is. I saw memes about astronauts and Outlook, assumed it was the ISS, and only when I saw the pictures of the Earth from the moon was I like "Wait, what? We have humans going to the moon right now? And they're already there? When did that happen?"
They're living out their dreams, and doing something very rare for our species, and I wouldn't recognize them if they were in line in front of me at the grocery store. Huh.
I think it's *Artemis. And II, specifically. This mission was the farthest any known human has been from Earth. They’re doing several more in the Artemis line, including putting boots on the moon (2029, I think)
The space race is back.
We should nationalize space x
Ok I’m going to be that guy who sounds like a musk fanboy but rest assured I fucking hate that Nazi. That said, people don’t care about spacex launches because they have become so routine as to be boring.in a historical context there came a point where people stopped caring about airplanes because they stopped crashing. This is good. Rockets becoming reliable enough to become boring and routine is a net gain for humanity. I just wish spacex weren’t owned by that goose stepping fascist
We stopped the space exploration shit on our own and I suspect the lack of interest in Artemis has less to do with Elon blowing rockets up, sending a car into space, and using it as another portal for him to be the biggest fucking government welfare grifter of all time... and more to do with the fact that a lot of us are stressed, starving, and/or worried about the near future.
The fuck does slingshotting around the moon do right now to help us? Does it bring pedophiles to justice? Does it give us hope? Nope. I was jealous that they got to leave this God forsaken burning bullshit planet for a few days.
Nothing good is happening at the moment. The bread is stale. We've all seen the circus shows.
I'm tired. I'm angry. I don't give a fuck about space.
somehow, I'm completely indifferent.
I love science, and space, put in 1000s hours in Kerbal Space Program. followed space news though all my life. but now? with all that's going on. A genocide perpetrated by a country claiming it's for me, the US has become a fascist hell hole, rights are eroding so fast... I genuinely don't care about this anymore.
if it was a few years ago I would me following with exhalted breath. I would have taken time off work, and taken the kids off school to follow it, and play KSP emulating the mission. and watch space movies. and YouTube videos about the mission and spaceship... I was a massive space nerd.
Can't care about one rocket on the moon when we are sending thousands of rollers to kill civilians
Epstein's on the Moon, whee.
Even to the space crowd, SLS doesn’t really introduce anything new.
But when the Falcon 9 landed, and then the heavy’s dual landing. That was hype.
I forgot that yeah, part of the hype was the re-useable rockets and their landing, which wasn't going new places, but was doing something new.
People would be more excited for SpaceX missions, if it wasn't owned by a Nazi pedophile lover.
It also helps that this one didn't explode immediately due to lazy fast-fail engineering, scattering billions of tax dollars across the landscape while a bunch of drunken tech dude-bros cheer.
Probably would’ve been cheaper, faster, and better engineered if they did though. The reason NASA doesn’t do it is PR.
NASA funding is dependent on public opinion (well it was until recently). Blowing up rockets gets people really upset when they think it's their tax dollars.
Somehow SpaceX has convinced people it's a private company and not funded by government contracts and taxes.
Because it’s not…? They get the contracts because they’re the cheapest option, and these days they make more money through Starlink anyways.
And who else should CRS have gone to? Lockheed Martin and Boeing?
Blowing up rockets gets people really upset when they think it’s their tax dollars.
I love spaceflight and what the Artemis II accomplished, but it came with an absolutely staggering price tag. It cost a bit more than $50 Billion to design including both the rocket and the Orion capsule. It costs $1Billion each time it launches too. We only bought enough parts for 4 flights of the rocket, and we've now used 2 of those.
not gonna crop out that username? isn't that an ad for Betty Bowers?
I mean one (if I'm remembering correctly) went further into space than any human has been thus far, the other is an interesting technical step to normalising space flight.
It'd be very weird if people were equally excited about both.
SpaceX IS Artemis. At least a part of it. They were the first selected to provide the Human Landing System (the lunar lander). When the time comes for one of those to land humans on the moon, people will be excited. We just aren’t there yet.
I mean I would've been excited for a mission like this from whoever tbh.
