We should put a woman on the moon.

[Garion_55]

Growing up I figured by now we would have some type of base on the moon and headed to Mars.

I can't understand why we gave up going.

I can't think of a better reason to go back than to be the 1st nation to put a woman up there.

It would be a triumph for women everywhere and put us back on top the space race. Give us something to be proud of as a nation something to rally behind as one.

[dweller]

1. Let's put a woman

in the Oval Office 1st , and go from there

✌🏻

[wryter2000]

6. Bingo

[Cracklin Charlie]

15. +1

[brooklynite]

2. We should go to the moon for symbolism?

No, we should go to the moon for scientific inquiry, with the best crews available, which today (based on our Space Shuttle and ISS crews) would include women because they're the obvious choice, not because we need a symbol.

[whistler162]

3. Well Ralph did threaten

to send Alice to the moon in the 1950's.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Yeah But, That Was An Empty Threat

Alice would have beaten Ralph to a pulp!

[lagomorph777]

5. I understand that is the plan.

https://www.gizmohnews.com/news/nasa-will-land-the-first-woman-and-next-man-on-the-moon-in-2024-as-part-of-the-artemis-mission-82966

[OriginalGeek]

7. Can it be Marjory Traitor Greene?

[uriel1972]

14. As long as there is no plan for a return trip?

[OriginalGeek]

17. no phone either

I can live without her moon tweets

[lame54]

8. A one way trip for Marjorie Taylor Greene

[roamer65]

19. Let's send her to the Sun.

We will just tell her we are sending her at night.

[Sanity Claws]

9. As long as we make sure she comes back, sure!

[librechik]

10. no one should go to the moon until everybody here on earth

has a future that's not ruined by ignorance, starvation, homelessness, famine and war.





apologies to all the cheery space cadets who want to go to space. It's a small thing to ask, a small percentage of the space/defense investment to make our world healhy before we go ruin another.

What's the rush? We can't even adequately protect our astronauts from radiation etc, now.

It's clearly a distraction so we don't make our government do what it should.

[marie999]

11. Stephen Hawking said we have to colonize another planet within 100 years or go extinct.

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

13. So, he was OK with mankind going to another planet

and destroying it like we did ours? He was very smart and he should have known that is what would happen.

[markpkessinger]

18. I seriosuly doubt whether we will be able to colonize any habitable planet within 100 years . . .

The challenges are immense. Even if we are talking about Mars, they include:

(1) the need to provide oxygen to people in a non-oxygenated environment,
(2) the challenges of transporting the kind of equipment needed, and in sufficient scale or quantity, to produce the amount of oxygen needed;
(3) the challenge of transporting enough materials, on an ongoing basis, to construct and maintain structures in which humans can live;
(4) the problem of how to protect people as they travel to Mars from the extended exposure to solar radiation;
(5) the further problem of the thin atmosphere on Mars, which provides little protection from solar radiation.

And when you think beyond Mars, there is the added problem of (6) the immense distances involved.

And even if all of those challeneges can be met, if we're assuming that humans here on Earth are going to be extinct, we would have a population on some other planet with no means of replenishing their resources.

[roamer65]

20. Extinction may be the best route for humanity.

We are a lot like a virus presently.

[marie999]

22. Since I don't believe the world will do anything much about climate control,

extinction might be better than living here in 100 years or less.

[roamer65]

23. Bingo.

You are a mind reader.

[USALiberal]

24. There is no other planet available! nt

[Iggo]

12. That's just mean!

Oh, wait.

Never mind.

[Towlie]

16. Space is for robots! But I agree that both male and female robots should be sent.

 
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[muriel_volestrangler]

21. That has been the plan since 2019

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/13/us/nasa-moon-2024-trnd-scn/index.html

and why they called the project 'Artemis', and why 9 of the 18 announced astronauts are women: https://www.space.com/nasa-artemis-astronauts-first-woman-on-moon

[llmart]

25. I was going to post something similar.

My son is working on the Artemis mission and yes, it is definitely going to have women involved. He said the number of women in the astronaut training program is impressive.