Updates Artemis II
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I know this sounds dumb, but the spacecraft designed for four, should really be a two Astronaut mission, basically a few rocket launches. Now the Earth - moon transit is busy.
A little dated to be sending just one crew.
A little dated to be sending just one crew.
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I know this sounds dumb, but the spacecraft designed for four, should really be a two Astronaut mission, basically a few rocket launches. Now the Earth - moon transit is busy.
A little dated to be sending just one crew.
Pardon?
I am a little bit confused of what you mean and why, can you elaborate?
To me, the crew design sounds perfectly right. After all, its NASA, the crew is supposed to do more than just being "spam in a can".
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Hmm, the way I see it, fifty years ago is nothing, and we all should be happy that for the least one government funded mission to the moon is on course.
Clearly myself not being academic or science bound, I just think there perhaps could've of been a two spacecraft launched Artemis mission, so two Astronauts get a spacecraft together, with it being a bit bigger and a few changes for a capsule similar to the past vehicles, it just gives a bit more flexibility and space, and it is something new and out of the ordinary for a space flight to the moon.
If one is going to spend billions on a mission, may as well make it more interesting in quantity. They are on course to do an elipitical orbit, is what is planned. So not an actual full orbit.
Had it been possible to go to an Asteroid as challenging and dangerous as that would be, not quite a Mars transit, but still further from the Moon.
I know the mission programme is slow and full of ups and downs. Lucky that even one is on the board.
Clearly myself not being academic or science bound, I just think there perhaps could've of been a two spacecraft launched Artemis mission, so two Astronauts get a spacecraft together, with it being a bit bigger and a few changes for a capsule similar to the past vehicles, it just gives a bit more flexibility and space, and it is something new and out of the ordinary for a space flight to the moon.
If one is going to spend billions on a mission, may as well make it more interesting in quantity. They are on course to do an elipitical orbit, is what is planned. So not an actual full orbit.
Had it been possible to go to an Asteroid as challenging and dangerous as that would be, not quite a Mars transit, but still further from the Moon.
I know the mission programme is slow and full of ups and downs. Lucky that even one is on the board.
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That might be overstating it a bit...
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Hmm.
May be Space X will get their hardware going, perhaps the Chinese may get there. But there is no certainty of either of those. As far as we are all concerned the only actual rocket to the moon is the one in America. If there is no chance of many missions with these setup, may as well just make the most of it.
May be Space X will get their hardware going, perhaps the Chinese may get there. But there is no certainty of either of those. As far as we are all concerned the only actual rocket to the moon is the one in America. If there is no chance of many missions with these setup, may as well just make the most of it.
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Interesting history of the booster case segments:
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Nice "Wow, look at the history" chart, but they just keep forgetting to say "and now we'll drop them in the ocean, never to be seen again"
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Openness... impressive.
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It would be nice if it got delayed beyond April 
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That would be the last day in the February window, after that is March 6.
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This is going to be interesting to watch
