Don’t hold your breath, Moon. NASA is in the process of being gutted, and they haven’t finalized on a lander yet, so while there are plans to return in a few years, I’m not 100% confident we’ll follow through.
If you’re pining for company, though, China might send a few people sooner.
With a national debt of 33 trillion dollars and rapid rises in that debt under Trump and the GOP, we probably see an end to such expensive projects for years to come.
@ ^ cheerfulcharlie : Although the Artemis program among others is on-going with more scheduled flights at regular intervals :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program#Missions
Other nations have space programs as noted in the OP and SpaceX is also progressing despite its horrid nazi boss as are other private space agencies too.
Two planned Artemis landings are scheduled for 2028 which I really hope we do get to see happen, Guess that counts as “soon” Moon!
Would be great to have some awesome news and see humanity doing its best and most extraordinary, wonderful things rather than destroying itself below and tackling problems on Earth can be done at the same time. Plus, of course, the money is spent on Earth and provides employent as well as inspiration and technological advances there too.
As for NASA’s budget, well Congress is meant to get a say in that albeit the current one is a Trump rubber stamp equivalent in respect and power to the Senate of Caligula when he was Emperor.
Two planned Artemis landings are scheduled for 2028 which I really hope we do get to see happen, Guess that counts as “soon” Moon!
Would be great to have some awesome news and see humanity doing its best and most extraordinary, wonderful things rather than destroying itself below and tackling problems on Earth can be done at the same time. Plus, of course, the money is spent on Earth and provides employent as well as inspiration and technological advances there too.
As for NASA’s budget, well Congress is meant to get a say in that albeit the current one is a Trump rubber stamp equivalent in respect and power to the Senate of Caligula when he was Emperor.
Sorry, I don’t understand why my comments keep double-posting tonight. It isnt my intention. Apologies.
Hate to keep being pedantic about this, but… Artemis Ii did not orbit the Moon. Not even slightly. Not even subjectively. Not even in any way shape or form whatsoever..
*Ahem*
Please carry on.
But he said that he saved money on the new golden drapes! And he is saving a fortune on the $400M ballroom, that he wants everyone else to pay for! And he is also making everyone in the US rich with his tariffs (consumer taxes)! Somehow those billionaires are getting even richer, while everyone else is getting poorer. With all the money that DOGE “saved” and massive layoffs, exactly where is all of this saved the money going?
$1B a day for his phony “not a war” war in Iran to distract from the Epstein files that were on Bondi’s desk for “review”, before they suddenly didn’t even exist at all. The word “stupid” is totally inadequate to describe the current collection of imbecilic criminals hanging out in the WH. Felon45 was at a 4th grade level of comprehension at best before entering office. And he has continually descended to even lower depths from there. I suspect that they are using idiot LLM AI (which ALSO has no intelligence) to generate his statements now. Just look at the gibberish “two felonies, legal filing” against Comey for spelling numbers with seashells. Because the ultra-thin skinned “short fingered vulgarian” imbecilic, narcissistic, career criminal feels upset that someone does not adore him like the idiot evangelists who continually praise him in their “second coming” fantasy.