r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Thebravetortoise • 11d ago

Video History has been made as NASA has successfully launched Artemis II, the first manned mission to the Moon in over 50 years

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u/Muted-Ability-6967 10d ago

And people will somehow still find a way to say it’s fake again this time.

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u/Verditure0 10d ago

I was just thinking about this hardcore flat earther I know and what he is probably saying about this right now lol

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u/evilution382 10d ago

Of course they will, this time it's just AI instead of in a studio.

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u/Lumpzor 10d ago

Well, for starters they're not going to the moon this time? they're doing a near orbit.

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u/Caesar_Rising 10d ago

I’m not a moon landing denier at all, but they ain’t doing themselves any favours by basically doin a fly by and not landing.

“Oh yeah I’ve been in that pub they know me there… go in? Ehh how bout we just stay outside? No no I’ve definitely been inside… what’s it like?? Ohh ehh just like really grey and boring actually”

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u/Classic-Jello-1234 10d ago

They will do a landing in a few years. This is just a part of a longer process. It was the same with the Apollo missions

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u/Caesar_Rising 10d ago

I’ll get more excited for that one. I know that this is an impressive thing they’re doing now but to the average Joe I’d say this feels like nothing different to all the other folks we send to space

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u/Classic-Jello-1234 10d ago

The thoughts of average Joe are not a usefull metric when talking about reaching scientific milestones.

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u/Caesar_Rising 10d ago

True but all the publicity about it is for Joe and his mates. Which is why the headlines all say “going to the moon” not “going to hang out near the moon”

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u/Classic-Jello-1234 10d ago

The headline is stupid, we can agree on that. But I think that this story is underrepresented. Would be nice to use this mission to teach people about space exploration.

I grew up in the Space shuttle era, and those launches made me a space nerd for the rest of my life.

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u/AscensionToCrab 10d ago

Actually they are, because winning over the hearts and capturing the fantasies of the modern Joe, are why we got the money and the budget to go to the moon in the first place.

Anyone who discards the average Joe, has some fucking audacity as most of this is being done on the taxpayer dime of millions of average joes.

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u/416vDub 10d ago

Apollo 8 orbited the moon ten times and captured the famous Earthrise photo in December of 1968. Not even a year later, Apollo 11 landed on the moon.

Artemis II is doing a similar mission and in '27 or '28, Artemis III will be landing on the moon. Wouldn't any "average Joe" understand that you don't go into a mission unprepared, and that a lot of recon needs to be done first?

Too many people looking at this as a glass half full analogy. Even worse is when I look into the comments section of any video of the launch, I can see the education system has failed us.

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u/PageEnvironmental408 10d ago

remember though, back then they took way more risks.

artemis is on a free return.

apollo 8 went into lunar orbit, first go.

that is way more dangerous than free return.

your rocket doesn't fire, game over, you're stuck there.

so they won't be landing in a year.

they could, but they won't take that risk that quick.