This seems like a pretty big deal, why am I only now finding out about this
I can’t feel excited about this This feels like part of a new US expansionist agenda.
I wonder how Flatearthers are going to explain this one.
Frog lenses
Please don’t let it be cancelled and returned early because of a toilet That would just be too much. This is the first thing that has made me legitimately excited since having to unexpectedly say goodbye to my soul-dog last month. I need this, dammit.
Yeah, they should piss out a window like the rest of us.
whew. i’ve rolled the dice on my life, but i’ve never gotten on a boeing spacecraft. and the shitter’s already clogged.
You’re thinking of Starliner. This is SLS (Space Launch System).
Right, my mistake. Shitter is clogged tho. Seriously. I know how to design a clogproof shitter (you need a mashing stick) and look what they did.
Space toilets are complicated. They don’t have gravity assisting the flush. You’d be surprised how even simple stuff we take for granted on Earth is complex when you take away gravity.
yeah i am making a little fun because oh my gods why did they not consult the spends their entire life on the toilet community because we can solve any toilet clogging problem with a wire hangar.
Can’t we get a single article without mentioning how shitty the U.S is right now? Half of the comments here aren’t even ontopic.
Going back to the moon is still an engineering feat, even if we’ve done it before. That was a generation ago, and all of those engineers are retired or about to.
I’m surprised that Trump didn’t sign an EO declaring that it was now the Trump space mission rather than Artemis II.
I don’t care what we call it, as long as we keep funding the science and engineering. The amount of people who don’t understand why we should do this stuff is astounding. And I’m honestly not the best at articulating why we should do it.
I mean I kinda see manned missions as pointless. I would like us to remotely create destinations before going through the added expense of people and I think the technology gains would be bigger.
Lucky for you, we have sent probes to the moon.
Unluckily, the next probe is set for Uranus…
I’m going to ignore the obvious Kindergarten joke (which I’ve made myself).
I would be happy to send a probe to Uranus. We know a lot less about the outer planets bcz we’ve really only done a few flybys of them.
now we just need the construction of destinations. we are well on our way tom completing the initial preliminary work before we start what should be the main effort.
Can’t we get a single article without mentioning how shitty the U.S is right now?
So you concede this is all about distraction.
Let’s discover antibiotics again!
I’m talking about the comments section here, not the content of the article.
I don’t see the point of sending people to the moon or Mars. It will always be insanely expensive to do anything there, always. What is there to discover that can’t be done with robots? Doing it for the poetic sake of doing it--“going where no man has gone before”-- seems impractical and wasteful.
Yes, we’ve done it in the past, exploring, that doesn’t mean we must keep doing it as it becomes more impractical, and with what benefits, exactly? Exploiting whatever resources are there? Is that really what we should be doing?
Yeah, why do things! Let’s just sit on our ass and stagnate!
Stop trying, idiots, things are hard!
Yeah, why do things! Let’s just sit on our ass and stagnate!
Let’s do the same thing over and over again and call it progress! Next time you are in a hospital watching a loved one dying of cancer, you can tell them how many times we flew around the moon!
We can’t breathe, the earth is on fire…let’s do another moon victory lap!
The moon is a good stopping off point for the rest of the solar system. Launching interplanetary missions from the moon is much easier assuming a moon base exists
Why waste billions when we can waste trillions!
you guys realize NASA probes have already gone beyond the solar system?
Im on the same page. I feel we should concentrate on discovery with probes or rovers and such and automation. trying to mine something robotically on an asteroid. if we can do that then see if we can smelt it. See if we can create fuel in space and such. I don’t think we will progress at all till we can be sourcing and manufacturing in space.
Asteroid mining is ridiculous. Ignorance of both asteroids and mining.
if thats the case then going into space is rediculous because if we at some point can’t source and build our there then there is no future out there.
I hope it goes smoothly. I read some troubling things about it, but time will tell.
America, fast going backwards, has today reached
19691968, assuming that this mission succeeds.(Edit: this is not even a moon landing so more Apolo 8 than Apolo 11).
A truly pointless waste of money. This is what we did with all the cancer research money cut from NIH.
While Whitey’s on the moon.
Right, it’s definitely this and not the 200 billion dollar budget of ICE, or all the resources going towards the war in Iran right now.
Terrible take. A lot of what we know in science is due to NASA research. NASA is <0.5% of the federal budget. There are plenty of egregious things we are wasting money on to be upset about - this is not one of them.
And a lot of the NASA science budget was cut because it was too boring for the toddler administration who want to play with their flashy toys.
the budget was moved over to SpaceX on the lie of private sector efficiency. But to the credit of SpaceX, they did blow up more rockets than the inefficient NASA ever did.
It was largely restored under the 2026 congressional budget at levels similar to 2025. The trump administration tried to punish centers in blue states by taking away their funding, the worst of which was Goddard with a 50% budget cut. Basically they tried to cancel nearly every earth observing science mission, which is Goddards bread and butter.
NASA is <0.5% of the federal budget
that’s <0.5% more than cancer research.
A lot of what we know in science is due to NASA research
Someone not in STEM would say this. NASA has some important projects, this is not one of them.
Sending up this rocket accomplishes NOTHING. This is an idiot project based on moon colony fantasy and a way to shovel more tax $ to Elon Musk and SpaceX while people clap and holler like idiots.
This poem from 1970 illustrates exactly how far the US has progressed in 55 years:
A rat done bit my sister Nell.
(with Whitey on the Moon)
Her face and arms began to swell.
(and Whitey’s on the Moon)
I can’t pay no doctor bill.
(but Whitey’s on the Moon)
Ten years from now I’ll be paying still.
(while Whitey’s on the Moon)
Except we can update 10 years to 20 years.
Not to mention the R&D that Nasa does provides a massive return on investment
40 years ago.
They launched the integrity of the USA off the planet, so it won’t bother them anymore for a few days.
They went to hide the Epstein files on the far side of the Moon.
omfg can yous not enjoy a moon mission without falling into doomerism and talking about the epstein files
They go in search of human rights
If I’ve learned anything from realistic space fiction, it’s that they won’t find any up there.
we can also just look at who are currently the faces of the private space race, and their beliefs and how they run their companies
Very often, I was like “I don’t think I need to watch this shuttle launch, they might have to scrub it” and then they’d actually launch and I was was like “damn, I should have watched that shuttle launch”.
So I was like “naaah, I don’t think I need to watch this launch, they might scrub it” and now it looks like they’ve launched and I was like “shit, I fell for that again, I’m really stupid”
I watched the live stream of the launch. You never know what happens until the rocket has reached space. From significant past launches was the launch of JWST, that was truly nerve racking and exciting, although no people were on the board.
Hopefully nothing will break, and we perhaps get a moon base in this century. (we do have more urgent things to research, but space research tends to produce more eye-opening and unexpected results.)
The shuttle is Lucy holding the football and you live in a Charlie Brown world. ✌
I saw this from my front porch yesterday. Nothing like it. Godspeed.
Good luck, guys. Hope it’s a smooth ride.
What scientific benefits will this mission bring?
Or rather, what scientific benefits will this one prestige mission bring compared to all the other “boring” projects whose funding was cut for this?
It’s mostly about testing the vessel used, for future actually useful missions.
There are some things they’re doing, but it’s scientifically not very much they couldn’t do with probes.
The moon could serve as the launch point for further exploration of the solar system. Off the top of my head, the big benefit of that would be asteroid mining.
To me that’s the biggest draw of developing our local spaceflight capabilities. Mining on earth is a gigantic environmental issue. If we could do that in space where the ores are already partially exposed, that would be awesome.
Off the top of my head, the big benefit of that would be asteroid mining.
Science fiction is fun but get serious.
There are companies already developing the tech to do this.
∙ AstroForge ∙ Karman+ ∙ TransAstra ∙ Asteroid Mining Corporation (AMC) ∙ Origin SpaceLOL. oh, companies looking for investors, much be true then.
How many electric car companies from a decade ago still exist?
Yeah you’re right we should never try to do anything because some might fail. How many cancer treatments fail, I guess we should stop trying those too
Lol, let’s fuck moon like we fucked earth. (Not a criticism on you btw)
We will absolutely wreck whatever we impose ourselves on!
If it’s just to test the equipment why risk the lives of the astronauts?
So that the Astronauts can actually test the equipment?
Because future missions might also be manned. Better to risk small missions first to iron out the kinks than to have a big problem later that could have been noticed by you know, testing the vessel.
Because they need to sell this porkbarrel to the public.
Read the comments…we would rather send a few people to a dead rock than cure diseases.
This is a shit take. It’s not one or the other with spaceflight and curing diseases.
It’s not one or the other with spaceflight and curing diseases
It is in 2025 onwards. The country is $39T in debt, tens of billions got funneled to SpaceX on a failed Mars project, and in the same year, $35B gets cut from NIH.
Lucky for Trump, you guys have you heads so far up your asses looking at rockets and shiny things, no one will notice.
Science from space has been used plenty of times to help advance medicine though, along with plenty of other areas. And the thing about it is, you never know what you’re going to discover until you actually discover it.
NASA budget is 3% of the US military budget, maybe focus complaints where it’s actually warranted.
NASA budget is 3% of the US military budget, maybe focus complaints where it’s actually warranted.
All diseases research is 0% of the US military budget.
We already know how to build houses or grow food, yet we still have a housing crisis and famines around the world.
What good will these potential cures bring? We already have cures for many many diseases, why are those diseases still existing?
Any potential cures from this will ultimately be owned by the same corpos that own current cures/tech. And it will be sold back to the people for hundred of thousands of dollers in order to justify their huge “R&D” costs.
What good will these potential cures bring? We already have cures for many many diseases, why are those diseases still existing?
You should spread this message in hospitals. Lemmy, impossible to under estimate.
I’m pretty sure they are doing some studies into immune systems in space, stress/sleep/cognition of astronauts and all that. From what I’ve read in the papers they will be taking regular saliva samples in preparation to do a lunar south pole mission… where they are worried about radiation? I dunno the specifics this is arm chair science on my part. I’m sure that one day when we finally send a man to uranus they can sample his saliva and figure out what’s going on down there if you know what I mean.
I’m pretty sure they are doing some studies into immune systems in space,
none of that relevant to disease on earth.
I’m sure that one day when we finally send a man to uranus
to wipe up klingons.
only my wife can inspect my anus
Some days I wish I hadn’t married a proctologist
That’s great! If she makes it to your south pole please have her spit in a bag and mail it to NASA.
No idea but it is cool though.
