Today, in about eight hours, NASA will be launching their Artemis II mission, the first manned rocket to circle moon and come back to Earth in fifty years. The next step, penciled in for 2028, is to land people on the moon an Artemis IV.
Then they’re going to build a lunar base.
The press are calling it “historic”, which is perhaps an odd way to describe something that has, according to official sources, been done before, the last time by Apollo 13, five decades ago and as the result of an accident.
As Iain Davis observed on X, we have allegedly played golf and driven dune buggies on the moon, so calling just flying past it one more time “historic” is rather odd.
Perhaps the use of the word “historic” pertains to the crew, which is so delightfully diverse it boasts both the first woman, first person of colour and first non-American to go beyond Earth’s orbit.
Of course, it’s commonly held – and the number of people who believe it seems to be growing – that no one has ever gone to the moon before, which makes this a very interesting discussion.
After all, we do live in the age of the fake-out, and a fake Artemis moon-project would certainly be a nice distraction right about now.
You can also argue technology has unquestionably improved since the paper and Scotch-tape LEM made its first brave venture.
But does that make this new moon mission more likely to be fake than the previous ones, or less?
What do you guys think?
- Do you believe we have been to the moon before?
- Do you think Artemis is more genuine than Apollo, or less? Or are they both outrageously bogus?
- Will we walk, or re-walk, on the moon by 2030?
- Will they really build a Lunar Base?
- Is it at all relevant they’re launching on April Fools Day?
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