Artemis II is NASA’s first crewed mission under the Artemis program and will launch from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It will send NASA
That is simply never going to happen. The hardware to get 4 people to the moon and back costs about 5 billion dollars, to say nothing of the additional supporting costs.
The cheapest you could take a round-trip to Antarctica is somewhere in the neighborhood of $6,000…
It takes a lot less to launch a rocket from the lunar surface to anywhere in the solar system than from earth. If we ever get manufacturing working on or around the moon then it opens up a lot of possibilities for larger payloads. This means we can send more further and it makes the whole process cheaper.
There are loads of reasons but if you want a practical one we should do it for the helium 3 and other materials that can be found on the moon and in space.
For real, by now the Moon should feel as accessible as Antarctica.
That is simply never going to happen. The hardware to get 4 people to the moon and back costs about 5 billion dollars, to say nothing of the additional supporting costs.
The cheapest you could take a round-trip to Antarctica is somewhere in the neighborhood of $6,000…
Right now, yes. If it was as commoditized as putting satellites into orbit is now, the price would be orders of magnitude lower.
But yeah the investment to get to that point would be immense and take decades.
Why. Why do we need to go to the moon. To build a Subway Sandwich shop?
Because it’s there.
It takes a lot less to launch a rocket from the lunar surface to anywhere in the solar system than from earth. If we ever get manufacturing working on or around the moon then it opens up a lot of possibilities for larger payloads. This means we can send more further and it makes the whole process cheaper.
So that people like you can complain about it on the internet.
There are loads of reasons but if you want a practical one we should do it for the helium 3 and other materials that can be found on the moon and in space.
Nonono… we’re going to transport thousands for free , just like Scifi. And the point of traveling to a dead rock still eludes us.