How Westerners think:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/astronauts-explain-why-nobody-visited-214006981.html
NASA has promised that we will see US astronauts on the moon again soonish — maybe by 2025 at the earliest, in a program called Artemis, which will include the first women to ever touch the lunar surface.
Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, who ran the agency during the Trump administration, said it's not science or technology hurdles that have held the US back from doing this sooner.
"If it wasn't for the political risk, we would be on the moon right now," Bridenstine said on a phone call with reporters in 2018. "In fact, we would probably be on Mars."
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Researchers and entrepreneurs have long pushed for the creation of a crewed base on the moon — a lunar space station.
"A permanent human research station on the moon is the next logical step. It's only three days away. We can afford to get it wrong and not kill everybody," Chris Hadfield, a former astronaut, previously told Business Insider. "And we have a whole bunch of stuff we have to invent and then test in order to learn before we can go deeper out."
A lunar base could evolve into a fuel depot for deep-space missions, lead to the creation of unprecedented space telescopes, make it easier to live on Mars, and solve longstanding scientific mysteries about Earth and the moon's creation. It could even spur a thriving off-world economy, perhaps one built around lunar space tourism.
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Trump wanted to see Artemis land astronauts back on the moon in 2024.
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"There is not a more environmentally unforgiving or harsher place to live than the moon," Thangavelu wrote. "And yet, since it is so close to the Earth, there is not a better place to learn how to live, away from planet Earth."
Only a Westerner could say something like this in a serious tone.
Fortunately:
Another issue, astronauts say, is NASA's graying workforce. These days, more American kids polled say they dream about becoming YouTube stars, rather than astronauts.
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"When Elon Musk lands a [rocket booster], his whole company is yelling and screaming and jumping up and down."
Musk is part of what astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman has called a "generation of billionaires who are space nuts," developing a new, private suite of moon-capable rockets.
Musk is a Westerner. Don't be like him!
"There's no question: If we're going to go farther, especially if we're going to go farther than the moon, we need new transportation," Hoffman added. "Right now we're still in the horse-and-buggy days of spaceflight."
Another line that only a Westerner could say in a serious tone.
Bezos has floated a plan to start building the first moon base using Blue Origin's upcoming New Glenn rocket system.
"We will move all heavy industry off of Earth, and Earth will be zoned residential and light industry," he said in April 2018.
Musk has also spoken at length about how SpaceX's forthcoming Starship launch system could pave the way for affordable, regular lunar visits. SpaceX might even visit the moon before NASA or Blue Origin.
"My dream would be that someday the moon would become part of the economic sphere of the Earth — just like geostationary orbit and low-Earth orbit," Hoffman said. "Space out as far as geostationary orbit is part of our everyday economy. Someday I think the moon will be, and that's something to work for."
Westerners having a Western conversation.
Astronauts don't doubt whether or not we'll get back to the moon and onto Mars. It's just a matter of when.
If Western civilization is not killed soon, I agree.
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