I won't stand in the way if people want to pay all the costs for putting themselves into space, but SLS should be cancelled. I know it's prime grade pork and so won't be. So I just roll my eyes and watch. If I were king of space, my goal would be to put orbiters around every planet (from giant to dwarf) and the major moons. In parallel, set rovers down wherever we can and do sample returns.

My feeling is that, to do that in a sustainable, technically excellent way, we would develop the infrastructure such that if there were a valid use case for putting people at various coordinates in the Solar System, it wouldn't be as big of a tech development, less likely to be only a flags and footprints.

I could riff on how absurd I think that the "water on the moon" or "helium 3 on the moon" motivations are, but I think I'll just stop here.

I don't even like to fly in planes, so

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Allegedly we can see rocket launches from our yard. In practice, it has been very little hit and mostly miss... which surprises me, because we used to watch shuttle launches clearly from my parents' backyard a similar distance away in a different direction.

Eh. How about that Segway?

Not enough cool stuff like sky cranes, helicopters, and rovers for me to get invested.

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I did data analysis of micro gravity experiments and saw some epic motion sickness. Made me realize space is not for me.

Pretty pumped for a NASA project. For me it's more exciting than corporate projects. I'm glad it was a successful launch; it feels like outsource news.

oops.... see....my memory is going Dave....

Alan Carpenter!
LOL!

maybe this guy...

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Ha!

I saw the launch and landing of the first trip to the moon... on B&W tv with my grandmother and mother when I was a child... and saw a number of the later transmissions from the other missions. Same with much of the space era.

I watched this one via the internet... and pray that they fixed the problems that Artemis I had with re-entry.

grocery bag sized paper bag 2/3 full of used tissues

I thought I was the only nut doing that

now that it's just Mr. Stranger and me, I don't really need a bag to keep things separate—but it was sure handy when I was in a household with multiple other humans

A woman in my HS graduating class flew into space

a teacher at my school was one of the finalists for the slot Christa McAuliffe got 😳

I graduated before the doomed flight, so I'm not sure how she handled it

SLS/Artimis was supposed to be a cost saving reuse to existing technology from the shuttle program.

I'm still not entirely clear on why they scuttled the shuttle. From the outside looking in, it looks like a step backwards.

People talk about NASA's cost, but they rarely talk about the benefits (other than bragging rights).

NASA is a government agency and as such cannot hold patents. Everything they invented went directly into public domain for everyone to benefit from.

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