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To: Reno89519

With any luck, we’ll be there to greet them, and they can stop by our lunar gateway space station orbiting the moon on the way.

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

Of course by 2030, it’s questionable whether either the US or Chinese economies will support such efforts.


4 posted on 05/29/2023 10:26:46 PM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: ETCM
One of the Artemis mission's goals is to put a woman and person of color on the moon.

Black astronaut says lunar mission will be ‘major accomplishment’ in American history

If you take my class’ picture — the eight of us that were selected — and you put it next to the next smallest class, the original Mercury Seven, they chose the same [type of] person seven times.

It was seven, white, male, military, English-speaking test pilot Christians, that were the same height, weight, roughly. I mean, they were all about 37 years old.

And so my class was four men, four women, racially, gender diverse, different backgrounds, scientists, engineers, military officers, and some pilots. So, it’s a sign of progress. We should continually take steps forward.

14 posted on 05/29/2023 11:25:30 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: ETCM

The core of the program, the Space Launch System, is well behind schedule and well over-budget. Better hope that Musk gets the Starship flying well (and that NASA lets him fly the Orion on it or gives up and rides an enhanced Dragon capsule instead) if you want anything in lunar orbit to greet the Chinese.


24 posted on 05/30/2023 1:05:42 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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