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Congratulations NASA and USA from the UK. Keep going! We are excited for you!

Here’s to the beginning of a new era in space exploration!

You guys built the service module that stayed with the capsule until just before reentry. This time around it's a multinational effort.

Congratulations to NASA and all those involved in this incredible achievement!

SpaceX fanboys surprisingly quiet

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🥳🥳🥳🚀🚀🚀🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑🌓🌔🌙🌛🌜🌝🌚I am over the moon with joy !!! That was awesome. Can’t wait for the next moon mission. Artemis lll 2024 The Return.

They achieved what we already achieved over fifty years ago with that ancient technology. How’s that?

They beat SpaceX

Meanwhile:

Spacex providing crew launches, while NASA alone couldn't.

SpaceX already has the ability to do that with Falcon Heavy. They’re just shooting beyond that for a fully reusable trip around the moon.

They could do it they just don't want to right?

They look like flying peppermints

Don’t need to. Anyone with a sufficiently powerful rocket can recreate this 50+ year-old accomplishment. They want to prove they can do it with 100% reusability.

There's no reason for SpaceX fanboys to be anything but happy for this; SpaceX and NASA/Artemis are inextricably linked. There is currently no way for Artemis to return humans to the moon without SpaceX's Starship lunar lander, making NASA and the formidable political network behind Artemis a major investor in Starship. The Artemis program is the surest guarantor for SpaceX's interplanetary ambitions.

Wow sick! I worked on this program!

You know NASA are using Starship for the Moon landing right?

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Congrats to NASA for wasting literally billions of dollars on outdated technology!

You know it's not really a competition, right. Why would fans of SpaceX be anything but happy about this?

lol, stay mad that something Elon is doing is actively helping nasa.

been enjoying twitter too.

Lol ok Elon

Falcon Heavy is not powerful enough for this mission.

It could do an unmanned-style mission, especially with a smaller payload. But with the power it has it would just take too long to get to the moon and back for humans to put up with. So it can't do this mission.

Which is why it won't be used for Dear Moon. And for the landing it will (or is slated to, Starship might take over) take parts up to the Lunar Gateway. Because it is not an issue if those parts take a long time to get there.

Right now SLS is the only rocket large enough for this mission. Starship will likely change that once it's ready.

>Falcon Heavy is not powerful enough for this mission.

I thought he was talking about going around the moon in general. Going around the moon with this payload does require more power.