re: The deafening silence of the USA returning to the moon

In my old arse boomer opinion, the Apollo 11 moon landing mission was the high water mark in American exceptionalism and greatness.

Yesterday’s launch put a lump in my throat knowing we’re going back. Truly badass.

Oh hey, I was sitting by Bayou St. John reading the bible with my catechism class yesterday when these two ladies on bikes said "Hey do y'all want to watch a rocket launch with us?" They were streaming PBS on a phone and we all watched Artemis 2 launch. It felt very special. Some of the rocket was built in New Orleans!

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staging up to an eventual trip to another actual planet

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Going to the moon is one thing, but going to another planet with any hope of returning is an entirely different animal than anything we've ever remotely tried before. There's a whole helluva lot more to returning to the earth from Mars than there is returning from the moon.

To get to the moon, the craft has to orbit the earth and use velocity gained from as it travels from the apoapsis toward the periapsis, at which point it will have gained maximum velocity which it can use to aid in escaping planetary orbit. That's mighty tough to do from another planet with limited fuel, not to mention that said planet (Mars) will have travelled past it's closest approach to earth and will be moving away and increasing the distance between the two planets faster than any space craft we can even conceive of building can travel.

The moon is a satellite of the earth and is still well within the earth's gravitational well. Mars is not.

Still, it's pretty damned cool that we're realistically looking at another manned flight that lands on the surface of the moon after decades of ignoring the possibility.

shocked it was able to launch at all, let alone on time tbh.

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and venturing further into space than ever before in Artemis 2,

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I keep hearing this is the deepest venture into space but I don’t understand. Artemis is just circling the moon which Apollo missions have done before, How is this mission different such that it’s the deepest venture into space?

Why spend money going to the moon when that money could pay for trans surgeries?

Any news that would be uplifting or optimistic is intentionally ignored. The medias job is to destroy this country so it can be rebuilt in their warped new vision.

Most media have been more focused on the "diversity" of the crew than the mission itself.

Thundercunt anchor for ABC News made a point of noting how diverse it was compared to the last Apollo mission.

I'm kind of pissed about the lack of enthusiasm for this. As has been stated, the media has covered it, but kind of reluctantly, and making plenty of sideways comments about "the last time" and how now there is so much "diversity". Seriously? F off with that.

#2, our schools. Two of my kids are 9 & 11. This should be prime age for this mission to be a big topic of school discussion. All I got from my 9 year old was, "why are we going back to the moon? Haven't we already been there?". Complete failure of our school systems in explaining the gravity of what is going on with the Artemis missions. So I explained it.

Our kids should be the core audience for this. I understand adults being bogged down in daily life. But the last Apollo mission happened just before I was born. I've never experienced a moon mission in my life. This is exciting to me. This is a big deal.

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It would get a ton more coverage if there wasn’t a huge global oil crisis happening right now.

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Odd how worde gas prices under Biden weren't given the same attention.