re: Anyone Else Find this Renewed Push for a Moon Landing Interesting?

Much more interesting is the effort that this board will put into trying to convince you that suddenly Huntsville is the hippest, coolest, new found utopia in the western hemisphere.



Lord help us!

Its going to be pretty damn cool to watch something I built go to the moon.


Subtle brag, I work on SLS.

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We should have had the beginnings of a lunar colony by the 90s. Going to Mars is much easier if the trip starts at the Moon.

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I just listened to short Audible production called “The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon.” It was about the guy who took up the banner for the modular approach to the moon mission vs alternatives that were also being considered. I found it to be interesting. It’s not a terribly technical book but it does raise the question of if we would have been further along in our manned space program had we chosen another method. The lunar orbit rendezvous strategy allowed us to meet the goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of the 60s but at the same time it didn’t create a foundation for further exploration.

Of course it’s all hypothetical at this point, but imagine where we might be had we chosen to build a staging station in Earth orbit and use it to go to the moon. That same station (or version 2.0 or 3.0) might also serve as a launchpad to Mars or beyond.

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Honestly. Just looking around, I don't think people will see it as a big deal. They'll be like "oh that's pretty cool. Ok, Time for dinner"

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Over 50% of this country is too worried about LGBTQ+%^*HAO then landing on the moon. I’m not impressed by SLS or anything else. They told us we would have a moon elevator that would be breaking new ground not sending another ship with conventional propulsion.