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modrosso OP t1_ix5acfs wrote

After a hiatus it seems like NASA is back in the Earth-Moon exploration/development business.

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toodroot t1_ix5syho wrote

Yep, and the CLPS program is going to land maybe 10 uncrewed landers before the astronauts step out. Nice to see more effort on science than Apollo's footprints focus.

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Xaxxon t1_ix6zsdz wrote

SLS cannot support anything more than footprints. As long as it's a part of the moon missions it will just be infrequent visits.

edit: it simply cannot launch often enough.

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Hilltopseeker t1_ix9l4s5 wrote

Wondering why it’s so hard to do. We did this 60 yrs ago.

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_Schwartz_ t1_ix9puy5 wrote

Completely different tech, the people who did it before are dead or not long for it. They probably hard a great framework but had to do a lot of first principles thinking for this new iteration. Also before saying you're wondering why something is hard to do you should ask yourself if you could do it. Helps when taking things for granted.

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Hilltopseeker t1_ixa0l6m wrote

“Hard to do” as in 200 people are being paid to figure out something that has been done already.

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