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2024-11-11
This gives hope that maybe I'll see man step foot on the moon in my lifetime.
Check out the NASA's artemis missions. The goal is to put people back on the moon in 2026.
That's when we'll orbit the moon. 2032 is the earliest we'll step foot.
Over the course of about 30 days, the Artemis III astronauts will travel to lunar orbit, where two crew members will descend to the surface and spend approximately a week near the South Pole of the Moon conducting new science before returning to lunar orbit to join their crew for the journey back to Earth.
Artemis 3, no earlier than Sept 2026
It'll happen right on schedule just like how Ukraine was going to get F-16s lol
Lol yea it'll probably be delayed. Just saying it's planned for 2026 not 2032
You're dreaming too small. You're almost definitely gonna live to see humans walk on the moon. And since you couldn't have been born before the early 70s, then it's reasonable that you might live to see civilians on the moon! And you yourself might even wind up in space!
either you are delusional or those are going to be very wealthy civilians
One of the major parts of the current Artemis missions is to put a lunar base in orbit and have construction of lunar hab modules be based out of that orbital base
There's no way they're not going to use at least some civilian contractors for at least some parts of that mission when we're already using civvy work for making the damn rockets
Why tho?
I have a thing for gourmet cheeses
How's the signal? Did they get that fixed?
They updated the article:
Finally, a faint signal was picked up by a communications antenna in the United Kingdom, indicating the spacecraft had, in fact, survived the touchdown.
"What we can confirm, without a doubt, is our equipment is on the surface of the moon, and we are transmitting," Mission Director Tim Crain told the flight control team. "So congratulations, IM team! We'll see how much more we can get from that."
And then further down:
But a detailed assessment of the health of the spacecraft and its payloads awaited analysis of telemetry. Finally, two hours after touchdown, the company reported that "after troubleshooting communications, flight controllers have confirmed Odysseus is upright and starting to send data. Right now, we are working to downlink the first images from the lunar surface."
After another update, the lander is not in fact upright. They were looking at old data when they said that.
Oh no!!! I'll have to re-read the article 🫤
Not yet, the Q&A they just did said that the problem was that the lander kept switching between two sets of different dishes, constantly resetting the comms system. Looks like the problem was caused because two of the dishes are facing the ground (it tipped over).
Woah that's awesome, I'm gonna have to follow this story