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Are we on track for returning to the Moon by 2024?
Posted on 1/16/21 at 10:11 pm
Posted on 1/16/21 at 10:11 pm
NASA
NASA and lots of high-ranking federal officials have made many recent statements saying that we will be back to the Moon by 2024.
Does anyone with any behind-the-scenes knowledge know for sure how things are going? My only cause for concern is that I would think there would be many tests of the the actual spacecraft before a successful mission. Apollo alone went through 2 years of test missions (1967-1969) before the actual first landing occurred.
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Following a series of critical contract awards and hardware milestones, NASA has shared an update on its Artemis program, including the latest Phase 1 plans to land the first woman and the next man on the surface of the Moon in 2024. In the 18 months since NASA accepted a bold challenge to accelerate its exploration plans by more than four years and establish sustainable exploration by the end of the decade, the agency has continued to gain momentum toward sending humans to the Moon again for the first time since the last Apollo lunar mission in 1972.
NASA and lots of high-ranking federal officials have made many recent statements saying that we will be back to the Moon by 2024.
Does anyone with any behind-the-scenes knowledge know for sure how things are going? My only cause for concern is that I would think there would be many tests of the the actual spacecraft before a successful mission. Apollo alone went through 2 years of test missions (1967-1969) before the actual first landing occurred.
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Posted on 1/16/21 at 10:12 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Doubt it.
Trump was more of a supporter of the space programs
Dems will move that money to social justice stuff
Trump was more of a supporter of the space programs
Dems will move that money to social justice stuff
Posted on 1/16/21 at 10:13 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Why are we going back to the moon?
Posted on 1/16/21 at 10:13 pm to UndercoverBryologist
God I hope so. I'm ready to GTFO this planet.
Posted on 1/16/21 at 10:13 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Naw, the STS system won’t cooperate in that timeline.
Posted on 1/16/21 at 10:15 pm to UndercoverBryologist
My guess is 2024 is a bit aggressive, probably 2025 or 2026. We will land cargo on the moon by then for sure but will drag our feet when it comes to landing people. But it will be using SpaceX’s starship rocket, not Nasa’s SLS rocket. That and with Biden coming in next week, NASA’s focus will be back on Muslim outreach and climate change as opposed to space exploration... 
Posted on 1/16/21 at 10:18 pm to UndercoverBryologist
NASA there in 4 years? Doubtful. They are more concerned with the gender of their new moon astronauts than the rockets it seems.
SpaceX meanwhile..... they will be well on their way to terraforming Mars by the time NASA even gets SLS airborne.
SpaceX meanwhile..... they will be well on their way to terraforming Mars by the time NASA even gets SLS airborne.
Posted on 1/16/21 at 10:18 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Posted on 1/16/21 at 10:24 pm to UndercoverBryologist
No. The HLS budget that was approved was way under what NASA had asked for.
Posted on 1/16/21 at 10:36 pm to GeneralLee
quote:yep. And they really believe that going to teh moon is blasphemy. I wish I was making that up.
That and with Biden coming in next week, NASA’s focus will be back on Muslim outreach and climate change as opposed to space exploration...
But Christianity is the one they hate, and criticizing islam is racist.
Posted on 1/16/21 at 10:38 pm to UndercoverBryologist
That was a 9/20 article. If the schedule in 9/20 has us going to the moon in 2024, then my guess is that it will be 2026 before the 3rd SLS mission is launched.
The test firing today was supposed to be for 8 minutes. It lasted about a minute. Gotta do better than that.
The test firing today was supposed to be for 8 minutes. It lasted about a minute. Gotta do better than that.
Posted on 1/16/21 at 11:02 pm to UndercoverBryologist
....or would this be our first trip?
Posted on 1/16/21 at 11:04 pm to UndercoverBryologist
We got more important shite to do like make sure dudes can play women’s sports.
Ain’t no body got time for advancing civilization through important research.
Ain’t no body got time for advancing civilization through important research.
This post was edited on 1/16/21 at 11:05 pm
Posted on 1/16/21 at 11:48 pm to UndercoverBryologist
We were, or fairly close to it, but the whole Republic got derailed in November. This would now be deemed as too cisgender male patriarchal, and too nationalistic, so the money will probably be diverted to illegal alien benefits or something more practical.
Posted on 1/16/21 at 11:49 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Who cares? It's just some millennial nostalgic fetish.
Posted on 1/16/21 at 11:51 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Have we ever been to the moon? The question is worth asking.
Posted on 1/16/21 at 11:52 pm to tigerinthebueche
Because there’s two types of countries, those that use the metric system, and those that have been to the moon.
Posted on 1/17/21 at 12:23 am to HerkFlyer
2028 at the earliest and it won’t be with SLS. It will be with Starship. Too many delays and issues with SLS.
Posted on 1/17/21 at 12:24 am to UndercoverBryologist
I just can’t wait to get to Mars
Posted on 1/17/21 at 12:25 am to UndercoverBryologist
No. Biden will return NASA to the primary mission assigned to it by Obama, namely outreach to Muslims.
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