| ▲ | BurningFrog 2 hours ago | |
I'm very excited about the later steps of the Artemis project! Landing on the Moon South Pole and start setting up the lunar station there will be a huge step, especially after 50 years of nothing!! But this flight has already been done without a crew. Doing it with a human crew is important, but it achieves nothing new and exciting. | ||
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 21 minutes ago | parent [-] | |
> it achieves nothing new and exciting I thought this but have since changed my mind. On board, real humans tax life-support systems in a way that’s difficult to simulate. And real human astronauts garble processes and communications with ground control in ways that a nation that hasn’t done deep spaceflight in a generation could probably do with practice on. | ||