NASA faces it's biggest test in decades (Today, we begin our journey back to the moon!)

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This is truly EPIC

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/28/nasa-moon-space-launch-00053997

As soon as Monday, the most powerful rocket the space agency has ever built will sling an uncrewed space capsule on a record 42-day journey around the moon and back.

The maiden launch of the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion space capsule, designated the Artemis I mission, is a make-or-break trial for NASA’s goal of building a permanent presence on the lunar surface.

A base on the moon will also be truly epic, and from there, onto Mars and from Mars, we can begin our exploration of the ENTIRE UNIVERSE.

[Layzeebeaver]

1. Actually...

We’ve already started exploring the entire universe. It’s just that we can’t walk on it all yet. 😊

[rogue emissary]

2. I know it's unmanned but still excited to watch the Artemis launch.

[Volaris]

3. Yep 50 years. It's TIME.

I'm sooo excited to watch it!

[Roy Rolling]

4. Incredible Technology

It made me think about the vastness of the universe. What is the limit? Perhaps we can only take baby steps—one human lifetime in its prime—at a time.

We can’t design a rocket that will outlive its astronauts. Or, we can, but it’d be useless unless the rocket can contain species-bearing mothers and babies.

I’m leaning toward space exploration that doesn’t involve carrying a live human. Seriously, what if Christopher Columbus had discovered an airless and dead sand continent instead of the Caribbean? He’d just blow it off as useless for human habitation.

Landing humans on the Moon is a great achievement, I just can’t understand how populating the moon planet can proceed from there.