Die neue US -Verwaltung zwingt einen Überdenken unter den internationalen Partner -Weltraumagenturen, indem sie vorschlägt, Pläne für die Exploration der Mondstoffe zu erfordern, sind Zeitverschwendung, und das Artemis -Programm sollte fallen gelassen werden.
https://europeanspaceflight.substack.com/p/does-europe-have-an-off-ramp-from?
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Submission Statement
The US has voted for someone who likes to govern via chaos. We’ve seen it since they took office, and we can assume that is how the next 4 years, and maybe longer will be.
Chaos has consequences, and one area that may soon be felt is space exploration. With regard to the Moon, there’s currently two large-scale efforts. NASA’s Artemis program, and China’s plans to build an International Lunar Research Station at the Moon’s south pole. As Elon Musk is now the de facto leader of America’s space exploration, is it his plans that will take precedence? He says the Artemis program is a waste of time and the US should focus on going to Mars instead.
All of this has consequences – US partner space agencies from Europe, Japan and Canada are all spending billions on their parts of the Artemis program. Is there any point any more? What alternatives do they have, for not just lunar exploration, but replacing the aging International Space Station.
One thing seems likely, they won’t want to spend billions of their taxpayer’s money on chaos.
Let me guess: Mars is a go and all funding is being funneled toward SpaceX.
He is literally just cutting everything to make his friends stay rich with those 2017 cuts happening again. while we’re wanting to progress and do cool shit with tech we’ve got old fossils who refuse to kick the bucket to keep making lives hell with tax cuts 👎
Someone needs to read „The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress“ (Heinlein) and „The Art of War“ by Sun Tzu.
I’m sure certain potential adversaries haven’t missed these.
At least China will be thrilled the US is giving up on the moon.
China about to win every technological race because Americans are so greedy and capitalistic
The shutdown of NASA and selloff to SpaceX for pennies is pretty much a given now. Farewell to science for the good of humanity, and hello privatization of space.
Hasnt many space experts said that Artemis is way over-budget and has been ongoing for too long? Can someone fill me in?
Letting China be the only country with a base on the moon? Has no one read Heinlein?
So reallocating resources and changing the dynamic of where science is best explored is capitalistic and wrong???????
Isn’t SLS simply pointless and leading nowhere? If the USA wants to go back to the Moon, their best bet is to use Starship, at least until LEO.