A selenologist, perhaps.
At any rate, the first Artemis mission isn’t going to land on the Moon, so its scientific return will be pretty much nil.
As a father of three ( and overall and very happy person ) I would not take the 5% chance (@Pardel-Lux post 408) of dying to fly around the Moon - and then being dragged around by the current mAdministration.
Would you really play Russian roulette with one bullet in a 20 chamber revolver for that ?
As a person with no kids and a professional pilot by trade, I might. In fact, I probably would.
What I would NOT do is accept a ride on one of Blue Origins’ sub-orbital flights. To me, that’s too much risk for not a lot of reward. But I would accept significant risk for an orbital spaceflight. One in twenty is OK with me for a lunar flyby. To actually land on the moon I’ll go as high as 50 / 50. But that’s just me, someone who got into flying because of my fascination with the Apollo missions.
I see you understand Spanish, and know that a manopolla, el que jode todo lo que toca, is an apt description of the current temper tanTrump mAd/bAdministration. Ruining space flight is completely on brand for the one that discredited beauty contests, made golf be associated with cheating and turned gold into something to either steal or spread as thinly as possible on walls and styro-foam.
There’s a documentary on the space program. Each Apollo mission was designed to test new equipment and techniques.
That cumulative knowledge and experience resulted in Apollo 11 landing 2 men on the moon on July 20, 1969.
The experienced personnel at mission control saved lives and prevented a disaster with Apollo 13.
Recreating the Apollo program and having the patience to take it a step at a time seems a little unlikely today.
Social media wants quick results and will be a distraction for any new space program.
Our original mission in landing men on the moon was a big PR success and a blow to Russia’s Space program.
What else did we get besides Tang and some moon rocks?
Sonagraphy, for one. Microchips for another.
Jerrie Cobb, who applied to NASA and was part of the privately funded Mercury 13, all women, was a pilot who, after her astronaut training days, worked as a missionary bush pilot in the Amazon for many years. TBH, going into outer space was probably less dangerous. She died a few years ago.
Also trivials like velcro? And the Fisher Space Pen?
Other than to prove we can do it and take an important step to putting people back onto the moon surface.
NASA will not land astronauts on the moon in 2027, the space agency’s administrator Jared Isaacman announced on Friday. Instead the agency will rejigger its planned Artemis III mission to test in-orbit capabilities such as using the astronauts’ space suits in microgravity and rendezvousing with at least one of the spacecraft that NASA hopes to use as a lunar lander.
NASA will then attempt to two crewed lunar landings in 2028 as part of Artemis IV and Artemis V. The decision represents a major schedule shift for the agency, which has been pushing for years to make Artemis III the mission that will land astronauts on the moon for the first time in more than half a century.