Gamma rays ARE electro-magnetic energy!
Posted on 01/09/2024 7:54:39 PM PST by Red Badger
The United States is pushing back its planned return of astronauts to the surface of the Moon from 2025 to 2026, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said Tuesday amid technical challenges and delays.
Artemis, named after the sister of Apollo in Greek mythology, was officially announced in 2017 as part of the US space agency's plans to establish a sustained presence on Earth's nearest space neighbor, and apply lessons learned there for a future mission to Mars.
Its first mission, an uncrewed test flight to the Moon and back called Artemis 1, took place in 2022, after several postponements.
Artemis 2, involving a crew that doesn't land on the surface, has been postponed from later this year to September 2025, Nelson told reporters.
Artemis 3, in which the first woman and first person of color are to set foot on lunar soil at the Moon's south pole, should now take place in September 2026.
"Safety is our top priority, and to give Artemis teams more time to work through the challenges," said Nelson.
NASA is also looking to build a lunar space station called Gateway where spacecraft will dock during later missions.
Elon Musk's SpaceX has won the contract for a landing system for Artemis 3 based on a version of its prototype Starship rocket, which remains far from ready. Both of its orbital tests have ended in explosions.
Delays to Starship have knock-on effects because the spacesuit contractor needs to know how the suits will interface with the spacecraft, and simulators need to be built for astronauts to learn its systems.
And the Artemis 1 mission itself revealed technical issues, such as the heat shield on the Orion crew capsule eroded in an unexpected way, and the ground structure used to launch the giant SLS rocket sustained more damage than expected.
As of March 2023, NASA has agreed to pay approximately $40 billion to hundreds of contractors in support of Artemis, the same watchdog found.
A key difference between the 20th-century Apollo missions and the Artemis era is the increasing role of commercial partnerships, part of a broader strategy to involve the private companies in space exploration to reduce costs and to make space more accessible.
Getting humans through that high radiation zone without cooking them is also going to be a toughie.
NASA is too risk averse. I have predicted for at least a year that Artemis will never land on the moon. The project is an utter disaster.
Guess ‘dei’ got in the way.
They'll just do what Apollo did: adjust the trajectory of the vehicle's path to and from the moon so that it goes over or under the plane of the Van Allen Belts.
Your thinking is very…
…two dimensional.
Send the muzzies before you risk humans. Like they did with dogs and chimps for Apollo.
I was thinking the same thing.
Skin color and boobs are not how to choose the best crew for the mission, and putting superficial crap like that ahead of performance is begging for delays as we skip over people who already have the right skills in order to wait for “skin and boobs” to practice and train until they can just squeak by, or worse. Can almost smell the smoke of the next PC disaster from here.
IIRC, the officially described trajectories of the Apollo missions all included at least a brief Van Allen belt intersection/transit.
This Guy would take that bet as well.
Using whatever currency he had on hand at the time.
I will not give you crap.
I haven’t said the pledge for three and a half years.
Anyone backing this shit has been hanging from the government tit all their life.
Targeting SpaceX and SpaceX’s Boca Chic launch site by 4 federal Agencies has set the test-to-failure program back several years. But that’s OK, since Bezos’ Blue Horizon may be ready to take over the contract when SpaceX’s StarShip cannot deliver.
His Starship has failed twice. Cannot get passed the Firmament. That is the main reason for the delay. It is one big Grift and too many are ok with being robbed to fulfill a fantasy.
Exactly!
The Biden Admin is targeting the hated Musk to fail. NLRB, Fish & Game, FAA and EPA are all doing their level best to bankrupt the Star Ship program. They have already set the program back a year and maybe two, so far.
Starship should be tested every 3 months or less, but in 2023 it only saw two launches. 2022 saw only one.
Starship HLS is way behind schedule
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Because the NRLB, Fish & Game, FAA and the EPA are doing their level best to keep it that way. Meanwhile, Biden buddy Bezos is slowly progressing
as all the drawings were on paper vellum and were discarded
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As were filling cabinets of Apollo photos and tapes
Most have been demoralized since the cancellation of Apollo in 1971, or even further back, with the cancellation of Project Orion in 1964.
Getting humans through that high radiation zone
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its electromagnetic energy, not gamma rays!! For crying out loud.
His Starship has failed twice.
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No it has not. Its a Test To Failure program. Not a one shot fixes all things like NASA does.
I think you’re right. NASA is a hole that politicians throw money into.
Gamma rays ARE electro-magnetic energy!
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