It was mostly just a joke making fun of people that discount the moon landing. The cartoonist actually worked for NASA.
If the people discounting the first landing thought it was fake, they’d definitely think all the others didn’t happen either. I believe that particular webcomic was also drawn before the more recent Mars things as well.
I never really understood why we spent so much building a space station in orbit rather than building something on the moon.
I for one am excited to see it.
And when the Horde and Alliance get there, they find Subject Nine has already set up her own colony.
No gravity vs gravity makes certain things easier. Docking, for example. Don’t have to worry about landing/taking off to the same degree. That and some experiments are probably based around the effects of no gravity.
I also am.
I suppose that does make sense.
Two other factors:
That makes sense as well.
The “if something goes wrong” has to be terrifying. I don’t think I fully appreciated that aspect of space travel/exploration until I started reading about the history of the Apollo missions.
sounds cool and all but I find NASA is too limited by the comings and goings of budget allowances. I’d be more inclined to believe that spacex or one of the other commercial entities with billions of reliable dollars behind them would get to that sort of mission first. Seeing how the new boeing rocket still hasnt flown, are they going to be asking spacex to provide the human certified booster (and ship) for this moon mission in just 4 years time?
I dont think we’ll see the moon race NASA budgets anytime soon, especially not now, with all thats going on in the world
SpaceX is a lot of hype and marketing and not much else. They’re a low earth orbit taxi service, doing the same thing the Russians have been doing with 1960 technology for 60 years.
SpaceX hardware has never even intercepted another celestial body, much less landed on one.
Don’t fall for Musk’s unicorn show.
I AM THE LILITHVIA HERE!
Nasa’s current plans are moon in the 2020s and mars in the 2030s.
They are one of three contractors recently selected for development contracts, yes.
Hopefully we can start the process to make mars inhabitable so mankind can survive after we finish making the Earth uninhabitable.
Well, if we can offload manufacturing onto mars faster, we might not have to worry about earth becoming uninhabitable.
Correction. for lander contracts.
*for lander contracts
Maybe there will be technological spinoffs again.
Who’s gonna man the Space Force?
SPACEMEN
1 NASA is SpaceX’s biggest customer, so if the Bridenstein being confident in SpaceX isn’t enough for you, nothing will be
2 I’m team space, so more rockets is good imo
3 SpaceX is the only company to have sent something to reach Mars’ orbit recently.
4 NASA’s lunar lander contracts…
they include Starship.
the moon is a gunman
Starship blew up, and they missed Mars completely.
Might a SpaceX rocket eventually achieve a rendezvous with another celestial body? Sure, everybody starts somewhere. But there are lots of reasons why we send out stuff on everybody else’s rockets, not SpaceX’s.
Lots of starships have blown up. They’re currently classified as prototypes for a reason.