It was been my dream since the 1950s the us to explore space. I am so excited we are doing this.

Our history is what our future is. We aren’t exploring the West or new lands, it will be new worlds.

The waste of money lies in taking humans along (having a bang for the buck about 1/10 that of unmanned).

This becomes evermore the case with the continued and rapid advances in robotics and AI.

BTW, the vid starts out wrong in claiming the Artemis rocket is "the most powerful rocket ever flown" - that honour goes to the Starship booster by about a factor of two.

Plus letting Elon Musk anywhere near the space program is a bad idea, along with starting a colony on the moon. The only thing feasable I can see happening on the moon with be astronomy telescopes that could research the sun on the light side and the rest of space on the dark side. No more would we have to worry about atmospheric or radio interference.

It is about one thing apart from scientific knowledge: resource extraction. They don't give a damn about anything unless it stuffs their pockets.

My dream is that we pay attention to the ongoing destruction of the planet on which we were born and stop with dog and pony shows.

Unreccing was tried. It turned real nasty real quick.

But there are occasions . . .

I love the audio when Anders and Lovell were taking the original earth rise photo back during Apollo.

us to the moon are well documented. The innovation and scientific discoveries were enormous. I feel sure the current space flights will do likewise.