Will $1.6billion Let NASA's New Artemis Program Become Reality?

YouTube ^ | Tuesday, May 14, 2019 | Scott Manley

[SunkenCiv]

After a revised budget proposal from the Whitehouse added another $1.6billion mostly to pay to stop more SLS delays NASA announced that their plan to return to the Moon in 5 years would be named 'Artemis'. Which is of course the best name for any lunar program, so good in fact that NASA aren't the first people to use the name of this goddess for a space program. So let's have a quick tour of other projects with the same name. Realistically, the budget may not happen, for obvious political reasons, but I hope the name stays.

[SunkenCiv]

;^)

[imardmd1]

Glad to be of service. Too bad the article author is not as accomplished as yourself.

[SunkenCiv]

He's also a furriner, so he's somewhat iggorant of our waze.

[Sequoyah101]

I think you will have a very long wait.

[dljordan]

Hey gang! I’ve got an idea! Let’s cut $200 billion from social services and foreign aid and go to Mars! How about it, are you on board?

[imardmd1]

Ah! Now I get it. Thanks!

[Svartalfiar]

I would think we have learned enough about he ill effects of weightlessness and other than that exposure to radiation, to know that without some means of mitigating both of these the trip is without merit.

And how do you develop ways to defend yourself? Sure, theory is great but the real world is real good at crashing down and ruining those numbers. The Moon is a great place that's close and relatively cheap to get to, that allows for more study and practical experimentation on those subjects.

Also, what else needs to be studied/developed for a Mars mission? You don't put a blanket halt on everything just because one thing is holding you up. parallel lines of development keep going, and the other issues will catch up eventually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies