I don't know how I missed this until just now. We're sending up several missions to the moon with the express purpose of landing BIPOC women on a dead rock by 2025, I shit you not. How many billions of dollars are being wasted just so we can drop a LGBLT flag to erase Buzz Aldrin from history?
Some day I'm gonna be looking at the moon through a telescope with my son just to show him that we can't even escape this faggotry in space. God I hate everything right now.
Which is the entire point being made by globalhomo.
In space, no one can hear you dilate.
Considering all the Star Trek episodes of late, you're right.
>be me, genderless polyamorphic parental unit #1
>earned an extra social credit point for reporting a straight wh*the male to the police
>spend point to get five minutes to use the communal telescope with my trans-femme, non-binary, mollusk presenting child unit of non-gender
>gaze in awe at the 800 foot tall statue of an obese black tranny twerking it on the moon.
> in this moment of euphoria, I take my state mandated SSRI-opioid combo pill.
What a time to be alive
Don't worry. It won't actually happen because the economy will collapse before they can do it.
It's worth the price.
The two biggest proponents of this program were Republican senators Richard Shelby (AL) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (TX). Alabama is the home of the Marshall Space Flight Center and Texas is the home of the Johnson Space Center. The main goal is not to send people to the moon, it is a white collar jobs program so that the NASA personnel and contractors don't all lose their jobs when the Space Shuttle shut down. The first iteration of this program was called Constellation and cooked up under W when shuttle was first ended. Then Obama cancelled it because it was a massive boondoggle, but the Senate insisted that it continue, so it was resurrected as Artemis/SLS.
This program was billed as a cheap and easy program because it was supposed to use 50 year old shuttle tech. The solid rocket boosters are shuttle SRBs with an extra segment stacked on. The four main engines are reused shuttle engines that have flown before. Despite all that, it has taken 17 years and $40 billion to get this first rocket to the pad. This is just another example of when the unlimited government money tap is opened, bloat and sloth inevitably follows shortly thereafter.
Compare this to SpaceX's Starship program. It has been in development since 2016 and around $2 billion to develop, all on SpaceX's own dime. In 2021, NASA contracted with SpaceX to spend $2.89 billion to create a lunar lander version of Starship. The first Starship prototype should launch later this year.
My prediction is that this Artemis rocket will launch and hopefully not blow up or anything. Then SpaceX will fly. Then Artemis II will be built and probably fly in May 2024. By that point Starship will probably be operational and flying on a regular basis. Then it will be hard to justify continuing flying the SLS rocket and Artemis will just move over to the Starship rocket.
Ah, I see you know what's up. A lot of government work has similar reasons. "Experts" tend to advance a discourses that stresses the importance of lining their pockets.
Wait, so, pardon my ignorance, but did they rip those four rockets of one of the shuttles, or did they have le spares..?? 🤔
Because that is damn close to sacrilege, if they did!!
Yes, each of the four SSMEs have flown on previous space shuttles. There's a pool of about 36 of them because when a shuttle would come back after a mission, they'd take some time to inspect and refurbish them before putting them on the next orbiter that's ready to fly.
Part of the outcry of the wastefulness of SLS is that for every rocket that flies, four SSMEs will be dropped into the ocean. Same with the solid rocket boosters. Instead of parachuting down and being refurbished, SLS is just going to drop them into the ocean too.
Of course, that number is n-8 for, well, Columbia and Challenger, sadly…
RIP both of those crews…
NASA would seemingly rather we all forgot that ever happened, unfortunately… Particularly Columbia, I would say…
At this point, I doubt that NASA is going to be able to meet their deadlines and make the 2025 landing. They've been working on the
National Launch SystemShuttle-derived Launch SystemConstellationJupiterSpace Launch System in one form or another since Regan's presidency, and they still haven't flown actual hardware. They flew a Orion capsule from 2004 on top of a Delta IV Heavy, but not even the five-segment SRBs- originally designed in 1985 PDF warning - have actually flown.At this point, NASA has spent billions, if not hundreds of billions, on a space project that has flown... a capsule built almost two decades ago. Even the GAO has called SLS a pork project, noting that NASA took the least serviceable (tank) portion of the Shuttle, the two most reusable portions (SRBs and SSMEs), kept all of the bad parts of the tank, made the reusable bits disposable... and didn't even bother to post any of this work for bids.
Pretty sure Papa Elon is just going to go all D. D. Harriman and land a Starship on the moon, all bright and shiny with American flags on it, step out, and announce to the cameras: "I've gone to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by feminism. SPAAAAAAAAAAAACE!"
NASA is full of program managers and useless people. The actual engineering, construction, logistics are handled by private companies. The entire organization is just diversity hires pushing paper and funneling money from Congress to private companies who do all of the real work.
Now these private companies are starting to mirror NASA, full of program managers, schedule-watchers, budget-watchers, irresponsible domain specialists only concerned about their political position within their organization.
Nothing good will come out of this system. It's evil and intentionally broken from top to bottom.
Trust me, I know. I did contract work for the agency for a while. The joke used to be that the only NASA employees at the Cape were managers and the people doing the tours. And now they've contracted out the tours.
It's amazing really. If you asked the worst possible way to get back to the moon it would have been difficult to match what they've done.
Or more wasteful. Short of building a refueling base we have little to gain by landing on the moon again.
...and the test launch has been scrubbed til Friday.
And yeah, I notice they're retracing the steps Apollo made all over again.
Including Apollo 1?
Don't worry, by the time current NASA makes it to the orbit of the moon, they'll be told they are in queue of 5 waiting to land at SpaceX's refueling base and that the extension for flight to Mars is 10k
I'll give credit to Elon, he took all the trial and error NASA went through and used it to get ahead, NASA unfortunately thanks to politics and diversity quotas seems to have fallen several steps back.
I was thinking it would be funny if they contracted SpaceX to ship supplies for their manned moon landing and when they got there Elon was unloading Starship by hand.
I doubt the Woke NASA will be able to pull that off. Unless they pay Elon Musk to assist them...
Isn’t testing rockets using primates unethical?
Government agencies are not necessarily incompetent, as you suggest. They're very competent at advancing their actual goals, which for every government organization is to maximize its budget, personnel and power.
NASA is doing a bang-up job of that.
I’m not gonna lie, watching the launch failure (of a rocket containing Snoopy, Shaun the Sheep, Lego minifigures and blow up dolls, no less!) feels like the dying days of the American empire…
Sorry guys, but $50 billion has been spent on this shit, and they still can’t beat what they did successfully in the 60s, with humans, despite all our modern tech and money and everything…
It really… Feels like you guys are becoming like the USSR of the 80s, only with a very different political system…
Which, taking this metaphor to its logical conclusion, makes us (Aus) fucking Cuba or North Korea or whatever (Vietnam, maybe?), I do realize that…
Fucking depressing AF. And this is coming from someone who really, really cared about Hubble, the Space Shuttles and the ISS (all of which had women involved,despite wokeists pretending otherwise), back in those “halcyon days”…
Something has gone very, very wrong in the last 15 years or so… 😔
Can we send all of them to the moon?
Like a gay Noah's Ark.
More like the Transport ship at the end of the ghost-written sequels to Rendezvous with Rama.
Might I ask what the moon has done to deserve that?
Ask not what Earth can do for you. Ask what you can do for Earth.
No I have not. Nasa hasn't been worth shit since Von Braun died. They're useless fluffers.
Are they really going to put that perverted flag on the moon?
See, I'm an atheist, but this is ironic. The rainbow flag signified God's promise to never again destroy the world, and now he's having deep regrets because Sodom and Gommora are demanding an apology.
No one said they would but... Let's be real here. You know what they'll do.
I'm actually not opposed.
That may lead to a backlash even bigger to the Nazi-like 'Progress' flag exposition in the UK.
Locusts, frogs, rivers of blood, fire, brimstone, bring it on. Wouldn't even complain about death of the firstborn at this point, even though I wouldn't get to see the aftermath.
Reminder that all that magical technology from the lunar missions of the past, was ya know, "lost".
credit to u/justicein2020
Great, now crime is going to literally skyrocket on the moon.
We started the first program to land on the moon before 1965, then something happened in 1965 that nobody's really sure about, and now we're just getting back to potentially being able to land on the moon again.
Ted Kennedy's Immigration Act?
I remember hearing something about that. I really hope private space exploration kicks off. If I was younger I’d love to be on a Mars colony
Space psyop to distract you from Israel getting their assess kicked in Syria
No, the real reason is that we can't have China establish a permanent base there first.
WTF? No one's gonna SAY it?
We NEVER landed on the moon........
Fortunately (having lived in India briefly, and seen Hong Kong, Thailand, Korea, Nepal and Singapore) only the Americans have…
I can honestly just imagine the amount of shit that would have been left there if umm… A less “Western” country had made it first, let’s say…
Probably doesn’t apply to the Russkis so much, but fucking hell do people in continental Asia love to dump rubbish absolutely everywhere…
Imagine an Indian crew landing on the Moon and then taking their spacesuits off and shitting on the ground
kek………