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Frankly, it's to have skin in the game the overall philosophy of humans in space for its own sake, as opposed to just robotics that we have been mastering already with satellite technology and rovers. But practically, robots CANNOT do the same work humans can, we are much more agile and flexible than robotics even for just scientific work. For example, operating the Martian rovers is painfully slow due to the speed of light. The goal is eventually building a scientific and industrial base on the moon which will work as a stepping stone for other human missions across the solar system, for example a refueling station, eventually manufacturing so it cheapens even further space exploration due to the low gravity of earth making lunching from there cheaper, and short distance from earth (in this mission took it 6 days to arrive there). There are valuable resources on the lunar soil that are not found on earth in abundance such as Helium-3 that is useful for fussion energy reactors. But frankly, most likely space resources will only be useful to humans in space, because of the gravitational cost of lunching and landing on our planet. Currently this mission was to test the entire transport and survivability setup of humans onboard with modern technology. NASA actually lost a lot of their know-how from the Apollo lunar missions, but it was also dangerous as heck for today's standards it wouldn't be acceptable. This exact same path and setup was already tested in 2022 successfully but unmanned, so it wasn't just blind risk. We spend billions per year in scientific and engineering research already for all kinds of things such as the International Space Station orbiting earth for almost over 27 years now, or subaquatic exploration, Artic/Antarctic region research outposts, etc. It's just the natural consequence of the availability of the technology that it will be used by our human curiosity and greed for achievement and as a consequence a lot of important great scientific and engineering problems are solved. Just like the military did drive human technological development, the scientific and extreme environment exploration drives mankind in a peaceful manner. We are still risking our lives, but not to be killed and die in a war. Those astronauts up there, most of this crew were fighter jet pilots. They are already used to taking risks onboard aircrafts/vessels as their livelihood.

😂 Was that real? I saw a snippet, but I don't remember seeing in the official live streams I saw, I missed it then. I know they did bring Maple Syrup, and they said they ate some Maple Syrup cookies outside of schedule just after they did sneak behind the moon to hide out from us. 😜 Maybe they also gorged on that Nutella back there.

THOSE IMAGES ARE NOT CGI, THEY ARE NOT AI. THEY ARE REAL. Source: https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/

This was before they went out of radio communication from the rest of mankind as they went behind the moon outside of the view of NASA's deep space network. Those are fresh words amidst all the cynicism and doomerism of this forum about our world. See my post for context:

This forum has an extremely doomer and cynical mood about mankind. To quote the astronaut Victor Glover 6 minutes before losing signal and being disconnected from the rest of mankind:

😂 Yes. Fuck. Those guys managed to go the the moon but can't fix their toilet. They couldn't shit for a couple of days now into the mission, and a couple of hours ago they can't piss anymore, so they need to use bags now. At least they have a private toilet to do it in. So far it seems like no critical system has failed, other than an hydrogen tank that went slightly out of nominal values so they decided to cut it off from their system, but it wasn't necessary anymore anyways to the mission at this point because they already have their systems primed.

We are gonna lose signal with them anytime now.

They will. But it's more of a test mission to make sure we can make the travel safely. We already did this same mission in 2022 but fully unmanned. NASA likes to take its time those days to make things safe. They have plans for new missions that will land on their timeline before 2030. Any time now within a minute they are breaking officially the record of the furthest humans have ever gone.

HOLY SHIT within 2 minutes they will break Apollo record of the furthest any humans have ever gone!

OH MY GOD. THEY ARE ALREADY PAST THE POSITION OF THE MOON'S ORBIT AROUND EARTH

Official live of the approach The left in this image can't be seen from earth, that's from where they are doing the approach I believe:

I'm completely baffled that very few people in this forum are talking about it, excluding another one 4 days ago. When it comes to recent news, most are still just posting war and trump shenanigans. This is a mission of historical proportions of the future of mankind in space, at least the technical feasibility of using modern day safety standard for moon missions with humans onboard. The Apollo missions were brutal, they were barely surviving.

I'm completely baffled that very few people in this forum are talking about it. This was the only post (excluding mine above). When it comes to recent news, most are still just posting war and trump shenanigans. This is a mission of historical proportions of the future of mankind in space, at least the technical feasibility of using modern day safety standard for moon missions. The Apollo missions were brutal, they came close to barely surviving.

I made a post here with information:

They are RIGHT NOW on the way to the moon, they will reach it for a flyby tomorrow (April 6, 2026). In this mission they will do a lunar flyby with humans for the first time since the last Apollo mission, it has been about 53 years ever since. The most powerful rocket NASA has ever lunched in history, slightly more powerful than Apollo's mission Saturn V rockets, but much more reliable and safer. They had done this same mission without humans onboard in November 16, 2022. It uses the European Union Agency service module, which provides propulsion, electricity, thermal control, and life support essentials for NASA's Orion spacecraft. Orion is the whole vehicle: the crew module on top where the astronauts live, and the European Service Module underneath that powers and sustains it. Together they make Orion capable of flying humans beyond low Earth orbit, something no spacecraft has done since Apollo. This flyby mission is a big step before new missions that will actually land. Artemis II proves the rocket, the spacecraft, and the systems with humans onboard. Once they do a flyby around the Moon tomorrow, it will mark the return of humans to lunar space after more than half a century, opening the door for Artemis III to put boots back on the surface. This is the first time a women and a black person (that guy there) will reach lunar orbit, and it's the furthest that they ever went away from earth. - Main page (With live streams): https://www.nasa.gov/mission/artemis-ii/ - Watch their location in real-time: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/ - Best photos (gets updated): https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/journey-to-the-moon/