Those astronauts must be slightly insane.

This time they're looking for a landing space in an area suitable to build and 'man' a proper moon 'base' near where there is possibly water as that's essential to be able to go on further to Mars...that's why they need to be on the 'dark side' where it's colder and more likely to have ice and glaciers, well that's the theory as far as I know anyway! 😱

Absolutely. I mean, they psych evaluate these people to an extreme extent. They’re not going to want to invest enormous resources in training etc only to have someone say ‘No, I’ve changed my mind, I need to stick around for my kids’. These people are pretty committed.

What's wrong with hunting glory, exactly?

So the logic is anyone in a risky (by MN standards) job who becomes a single parent should chuck in the day job?

FWIW it was a while back but there's been at least one single parent flying for one of the well known aerobatic teams and more than one fighter pilot in the same boat.

These are not people like you and me. These are people who dedicated their whole life to space,went through rigourous training and wait their whole life for an opportunity like this. Their families would have known, accepeted and come to terms with it a long time ago I presume. I don't think is more mad than the young people who enroll in army and go to war zones. They don't knpw if they are coming home either. But this is different. This is going above and beyond to do something that very little people did before. This is a chance for them to be the pioneers who pushed the humanity one step further. Fot them, this opportunity is like the apex of their lifes and their careers. So no, they are not mad. They are extraordinary doing something extraordinary and I fucking applaud them for that!

yep, his wife died and he has teenage daughters.

A woman would be crucified for doing this

If we could only introduce serious programmes of contraception education in the countries where people produce child after child. We need to reduce the size of the world population and then, hopefully, resources would be enough to go round.

I love the whole concept of exploring space, and hopefully it will benefit the human race. It makes me very sad though to think that there will probably be no way of bringing back the first humans who go to Mars, unless they develop some kind of rocket which could carry all that fuel ready to blast off from the planet surface again. I also read that it would take nearly 4 years to get there!

Don't be so ridiculous FFS.

The PP was saying we don’t deserve rather than it’s not possible. But I agree it seems like a science fiction dream right now - but we don’t know what technological advances are coming . But we shouldn’t bet on a planet B as it seems unlikely. And the priority is our planet and its inhabitants- not space rockets.

incidentally it sounds you must not believe in UFOs and aliens sightings since you’re saying it wouldn’t be possible for them to get here?

If everyone had the determination and work ethic of these astronauts noone would be going hungry that is for sure.

No one doesn’t have food, shelter or healthcare because money is being spent on space exploration.

There is no shortage of resources. The issue is the allocation of those resources.

I would never have the guts to do it, however, I think this mission is incredible and important. We’ve learnt so much from people who are willing to explore and push boundaries. Scientific endeavour is important.

"Humanity has once again shown what we are capable of," he added.

Thats what one of the astronauts said. Humanity would be spending the billions on improving the life of people on earth, using the money to provide food, shelter and healthcare. The whole thing makes me sick. We will never live in space, concentrate on improving where we do live.

I agree. I admire them, what an amazing experience, and it pushes the boundaries in every sense.

As John Glenn allegedly said, "exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of two million parts -- all built by the lowest bidder on a government contract". They've already had to reboot the toilet. I'm not sure what is being gained by sending people rather than machines, seems like a lot of willy waving.

If people stayed their comfort zone, the human race would still be living in caves and hunting sabre toothed tigers with flint axes.

I think it’s truly remarkable what the human race can achieve when it puts its mind to it.

I'm writing the script!😊

You and me both

BTW if you visited the command capsule while at NASA, did you realise the gantry you used to access it was the very one used by the crew of Apollo 11 before they left for the moon?

Exactly but these brainrots think that climate change wouldn't happen without humans. Nevermind the climate has constantly changed throughout the billions of years before humans and will do so after humans. The trouble is the climate change propaganda makes billions of pounds so it will continually be pushed and people just swallow it hook line and sinker.

I'd love to go into space, we are all going to die. If you die and get to look at earth from space thats a much better death than getting dementia and rotting away. It must make you feel so in touch with the universe, it would be amazing. Plus I believe in an afterlife so if you die it's just the start of something new. Good luck to them. What an exciting journey.

The deeper craters in the Moon's high polar regions will never have been subjected to direct sunlight or solar heating so the theory/? evidence is there may be water ice still present, possibly just sub-service, in those regions...and that's where the Artemis landings are meant to be headed.

The Apollo landings (six) were all at relatively equatorial sites, where the surface would have been baked and stripped of any volatiles/water ice by solar radiation billions of years ago.

The whole of the moon is barren not just the original landing site!

Why hasn't Trump mentioned them and the NASA mission? Doesn't he like not being centre of attention?

sounds like a movie