Humans Return to the Moon: ARTEMIS II – April 6, 2026 - 53 YEARS SINCE | MEGA THREAD

[Lucasxp64]

7 hours ago, CARDOZZO said:

As you said (low interest):

 

 

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:

 

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Victor: "Thank you for that, Jenni. And thank you to all of you for allowing us the immense privilege to be on this journey together; it's quite amazing. And as we go on this journey thinking about the NASA mission to explore the unknown and air and space, to innovate for the benefit of humanity, to inspire the world through discovery, and as you've gone along on this journey with us, hopefully we're doing just those things, and as we get close to the nearest point to the Moon and farthest point from Earth, as we continue to unlock the mysteries of the cosmos, I would like to remind you of one of the most important mysteries there on Earth, and that's love. Christ said, in response to what was the greatest command, that it was to love God with all that you are, and he also, being a great teacher, said the second is equal to it and that is 'to love your neighbor as yourself.' And so, as we prepare to go out of radio communication, we're still going to feel your love from Earth and to all of you down there on Earth and around Earth, we love you, from the Moon."

 

 

[caspex]

holy shit it's happening

[Wilhelm44]

On 06/04/2026 at 0:06 AM, Lucasxp64 said:

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 think there would be way more interest if they went for a walk on the moon.

[Human Mint]

It will get more interesting. Most of us will experience the creation of a moon base in our lifetime.

[Lucasxp64]

THOSE IMAGES ARE NOT CGI, THEY ARE NOT AI.

THEY ARE REAL.

Source: https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/

 

 

 

 

 

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[UnbornTao]

The only thing I want to marvel at is the nutella jar floating in the spaceship

@Lucasxp64 Beautiful!

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[Lucasxp64]

2 hours ago, UnbornTao said:

The only thing I want to marvel at is the nutella jar floating in the spaceship

@Lucasxp64 Beautiful!

😂 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.

Edited 1 hour ago by Lucasxp64

[integral]

Why are they risking their lives to do this?

[Lucasxp64]

1 hour ago, integral said:

Why are they risking their lives to do this?

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. Just operating the Martian and lunar rovers from earth is painfully slow.

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.

 

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