Commander Reid Wiseman and his crewmates—pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen—were named to the Artemis II crew on April 3.
"Hello, crewmate! What are you doing on this mission?"
News about the moon always gives me a big what-if sense. Like the series "For All Mankind". It is always with a big regret that I think of what could have been. But excitement about what will be in terms of space exploration. Is there any other explanation besides money and public support for why the moon and space stopped being interesting for governments?
There are so many asteroids with exotic materials that justify throwing nonsensical amounts of money into furthering space exploration and travel. The problem is being unable to take advantage of those resources in our lifetime. Makes us unwilling to try.
It happened decades before I was born and we haven't bothered to land on a single celestial option since. It's ridiculous. I can't believe no other country even did it since then.
Sooo... the US is, once again, feeling threatened and is planning to send people to the moon to make itself feel better about it - just like last time.