Wow, looks like I was just ahead of the actual news …
Inciting more layoffs — that’ll really help the US economy.
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The US has voted for someone who likes to govern via chaos. We’ve seen it since they took office, and we can assume that is how the next 4 years, and maybe longer will be.
Chaos has consequences, and one area that may soon be felt is space exploration. With regard to the Moon, there’s currently two large-scale efforts. NASA’s Artemis program, and China’s plans to build an International Lunar Research Station at the Moon’s south pole. As Elon Musk is now the de facto leader of America’s space exploration, is it his plans that will take precedence? He says the Artemis program is a waste of time and the US should focus on going to Mars instead.
All of this has consequences - US partner space agencies from Europe, Japan and Canada are all spending billions on their parts of the Artemis program. Is there any point any more? What alternatives do they have, for not just lunar exploration, but replacing the aging International Space Station.
One thing seems likely, they won’t want to spend billions of their taxpayer’s money on chaos.
Is someone still going to get those stranded astronauts down during all this chaos?
i sure hope you’re kidding
The vehicle they will ride down in is already up there. Nothing extra needs to be done to bring them home.
Oh! Thank goodness.
in fact it’s been up there since September. and the latest delay is because of spacex having trouble with the dragon capsule they’re producing for crew 10
Annnnd there it is… Once Trump won I knew they were going to axe the moon mission. God I hate these people…
