Artemis
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Pretty sure NASA isnt currently able to send a sun shield the size of Brazil into space
Matesrates
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I hope it’s powered by electric, can’t have co2 emissions.
Hydrogen, I think.
Chunkylad
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I just don’t get what the issues are here?
If we could get man to the moon in the 1960s with the Apollo rocket - why do we now with all our tech, composite materials, knowledge of aerodynamics and AI suddenly need a humongous rocket to get us there?
This should be a total piece of piss to achieve?
If we could get man to the moon in the 1960s with the Apollo rocket - why do we now with all our tech, composite materials, knowledge of aerodynamics and AI suddenly need a humongous rocket to get us there?
This should be a total piece of piss to achieve?
bill40
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What? Nobody could afford a bill that size not even NASA.
Matesrates
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Well maybe the conspiracy theorists were right and the whole thing was filmed on earth. I personally don’t subscribe to that, but as you say, it does make you wonder what they did then that they can’t do now with all the advances we’ve made.
Chunkylad
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It’s my view too Mates.
I never subscribed to the conspiracy theory - however when you see this it makes you wonder?
Gods honest truth
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Probably been over engineered and safety systems fitted which they didn’t have 50 years ago
April13th1970
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Could they not find a big enough match to light the blue touch paper?
Matesrates
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They need Elon Musk to sort it.
April13th1970
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And your money says in God we trust
But it's against the law to pray in school;
You say we beat the Russians to the moon
And I say you starved your children to do it
But it's against the law to pray in school;
You say we beat the Russians to the moon
And I say you starved your children to do it
1966_and_all_that
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It's not about replicating Apollo. It's a far bigger venture that will - if successful, look at colonising the moon.
Lytham_fy8
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Because you still need a big fuck off load of power to escape earth's gravity and reach escape velocity, not just go into orbit which is just constantly falling towards earth.
It also presumably weighs a lot, like the shuttle, which needed another fuck ton of power just to reach orbit, let alone escape velocity, which it never did or could.
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Levi501
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Since posting this I have now realised it’s not really that amusing and I now retract it totally! Thankyou.
1966_and_all_that
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Thank you James Burke.
The Artemis launcher is designed to eventually take a manned flight to Mars. It is way over spec for launching a moon orbit.
This is the first artemis launch subsequent missions will each be longer missions than the one previous.
Each mission is a derisk of the next until we finally get to the ultimate manned mission to Mars. Its a perfectly sensible method of developing the system mission by mission.