[QUOTE=storm5510;618694]Somebody mentioned that in Greek Mythology, Artemis is the twin sister of Apollo. :grin:[/QUOTE]Artemis has been floating around in the SciFi world as a name for the successor for a while.

[url=https://www.npr.org/2022/12/11/1141946917/nasa-artemis-splashdown-moon-mission]NASA's Orion capsule splashes down in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday[/url][quote]The Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California at 9:40 a.m. PT, marking a successful phase one of NASA's Artemis program.[/quote]

Yep, only NASA has the cash to still live in the 1970s!

Autonomeous robots do not exist of course. Who needs a CPU with sophisticated hardware. We just ship a few astronauts, preferably not overly smart ones, for a small time to the moon for 100 billion dollar!

And if taxpayers paid for that starships development anyway - grabbing some cash from a billionaire if he wants to go to the moon is probably possible too!

What was it - 800 million dollar for an autonomeous mission to the moon?

Who wants it that cheap - then there is nothing to earn!

[QUOTE=diep;619514]Yep, only NASA has the cash to still live in the 1970s!

Autonomeous robots do not exist of course. Who needs a CPU with sophisticated hardware. We just ship a few astronauts, preferably not overly smart ones, for a small time to the moon for 100 billion dollar!

And if taxpayers paid for that starships development anyway - grabbing some cash from a billionaire if he wants to go to the moon is probably possible too!

What was it - 800 million dollar for an autonomeous mission to the moon?

Who wants it that cheap - [B]then there is nothing to earn![/B][/QUOTE]


Did you not mean "learn?" :ermm:

If at first you don't succeed... [url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64218883]UK space launch: Historic Cornwall rocket launch ends in failure[/url]

And, in other UK space-related news: Welcome to the latest edition of the Joe Stalin Show!

[url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-64223974]Boris Johnson erased from Grant Shapps spaceport picture[/url]

[QUOTE=Dr Sardonicus;622146]If at first you don't succeed... [url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64218883]UK space launch: Historic Cornwall rocket launch ends in failure[/url]

And, in other UK space-related news: Welcome to the latest edition of the Joe Stalin Show!

[url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-64223974]Boris Johnson erased from Grant Shapps spaceport picture[/url][/QUOTE]Well, it's not rocket science. That's easy. It is rocket engineering that is hard.

The rocket equation is about 200 years old and was widely known over a century ago; it, orbital mechanics, and celestial navigation would have been easily understood by Newton.