In r/nasa and r/spaceflight, commenters argue Artemis II is historic as the first crewed lunar mission in decades, while others worry attention will fade like late Apollo and budgets will follow.
After Apollo 11 the whole world watched. By Apollo 17 barely anyone cared and the program was scrapped.
Do you think the same thing will happen with Artemis , big hype for the first landing, then public boredom, then budget cuts?
It’s something new that humans are doing in space. Since Apollo, the only things that humans have done in space is shake hands or go to the ISS.
It’s our first time sending humans around the Moon in over 50 years, the first time in the 21st century, the furthest human beings have ever been from Earth
Am I the only one who doesn’t get the hype around the Artemis mission? I don’t know much about this history is space… but this doesn’t sound nearly exciting as man actually landing on the moon.
It's like the mission before they landed on the moon. To make sure everything is working and can be operated successfully.
Watching too much Star Trek conditioned our brain to perceive landing on the Moon as something trivial.
Am I the only one who doesn’t get the hype around the Artemis mission?
It’s our first time sending humans around the Moon in over 50 years, the first time in the 21st century
For 40 nail-biting minutes the astronauts on Nasa’s Artemis II mission to fly round the far side of the Moon will be out of reach of any signal from or to Earth.
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