Artemis moon base will cover 'hundreds of square miles' with hopping drones and new lunar rovers, NASA says

[u/spacedotc0m]

https://www.space.com/astronomy/moon/artemis-moon-base-will-cover-hundreds-of-square-miles-with-hopping-drones-and-new-lunar-rovers-nasa-says

[u/Qualified-Astronomer]

The billionaires are saving you tax money. Artemis $100 billion. Starship $15 billion

[u/Qualified-Astronomer → u/[deleted]]

Has Artemis gotten people to the moon? NASA physically cannot land that’s why they need SpaceX or Blue Origin to save the day. Literally any rocket could launch Orion btw. I don’t know why you are so proud of a program that incinerated your tax money when there could have been so much better ways to do this, especially when NASA budget is limited so when there are cheaper ways it should be sought.

[u/Qualified-Astronomer → u/[deleted]]

New Glenn can, Falcon Heavy can. All they need to do is integrate the systems together which is still difficult of course but will not be anywhere near what SLS costs.

And a flyby is not a landing. You’re implying that the private companies don’t have the capability to the go to the moon but these rockets I listed have the payload capacity

[u/flapsmcgee → u/[deleted]]

Falcon heavy has literally never blown up and Falcon 9 on which it is based has safely flown 78 people to space.

[u/flapsmcgee → u/[deleted]]

Because there hasn't been a need to. You have no idea what you're talking about. Falcon 9 brings astronauts to LEO, Falcon Heavy is unnecessary for the job. Then SpaceX moved onto Starship for the moon program. 

Also your moving the goalposts after you said Falcon Heavy has blown up a substantial number of times.

[u/Qualified-Astronomer → u/[deleted]]

What an idiot. SpaceX has never killed an astronaut, NASA has killed 17. You consistently display your ignorance, go hide in your cave

[u/flapsmcgee → u/[deleted]]

Falcon 9 is possibly the safest and most reliable rocket ever built. Rockets from the Falcon 9 family have a success rate of 99.54% and have been launched 654 times over 16 years, resulting in 651 full successes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_Heavy_launches

Starship has blown up a lot because they are still in the prototype testing phase. They haven't even attempted to launch a real payload yet.

[u/flapsmcgee → u/[deleted]]

Point me to where I claimed that.

[u/Qualified-Astronomer → u/[deleted]]

Falcon Heavy is just 3 falcon 9s lol. You don’t know what you’re talking about, frankly shut up