NASA Publishes Artemis Plan to Land First Woman, Next Man on Moon in 2024

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-publishes-artemis-plan-to-land-first-woman-next-man-on-moon-in-2024/

by aluket • 6 years ago

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varshithr• 6 years ago

Is 2024 enough time to achieve this? I'd love to see this happen.

mamon2• 6 years ago

This is so fucking stupid. We've already put humans on the Moon, 50 years ago. Does it really matter if it was a man or a woman? Why waste time going to the Moon again, instead of, say, working on getting to Mars?

rmrfstar• 6 years ago

Do we have the industrial base and skilled workforce to actually get to Mars?

Doing something we've done before is one way to ramp that capacity before taking the next step.

mamon2• 6 years ago

Yes we still do have the capacity to go to the Moon. It's not like we've stopped developing space-related technology. There are dozens of rocket launches each year, we have people manning the ISS all the time.

The way I see it NASA is not really looking for a challenge here. Quite the opposite: they had budget cuts the last few years, so they are are looking for easy money, trying to cash out on the whole political correctness craze, #metoo, etc. Congressmen have to approve the funding for this mission, otherwise they can be publicly shamed for promoting patriarchy, white supremacy, etc.

skellera2• 6 years ago

Currently, the push to become a multi-planetary species is just as much about marketing and it is about the technology. We need people excited for space so they go into fields where they can advance our ability to do stuff in space.

Finally putting a woman on the moon will give a face to young girls to look up to. That will bring a whole new set of smart people into the field. It’s not like we’re giving up on Mars because of it.

throwawaybutwhy2• 6 years ago

Venturing beyond the Van Allen belts risks radiation damage to egg cells [0]. Not sure this is worth being excited about.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31885235/

NASA Publishes Artemis Plan to Land First Woman, Next Man on Moon in 2024

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