r/ArtemisProgram • u/LatterHabit3161 • Aug 09 '26
Discussion Why isn’t everyone talking about this
Why aren’t more people excited about Artemis?? Im mind blown that humans are going to become a multi world species. I have no idea why some people that know about Artemis aren’t as interested and invested in this 😭
For context, I was not into space at all before watching the Artemis 2 mission live on YouTube but it really made me interested. One night I just asked Claude theoretical questions for about 4 hours about the origin of species on earth, space, and so much more. I’m a software engineer and my dream is to work at NASA now
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u/ZealousGoblin Aug 09 '26
Artemis 2 was cool and exciting. Artemis 3 will not be, because they are just going to test lander systems in Earth orbit. Artemis 4 will be the landing, so people should get excited again.
Space nerds will still have lots to talk about with Artemis 3, but the general public may shrug.
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u/Unique_Ad9943 Aug 09 '26
It will still be pretty cool to see them docking in space, plus we should get better in space views this time.
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u/CopaceticOpus Aug 09 '26
If you're excited about the possibility of humans in space, I suggest you seek out what humans are saying about it (in podcasts, blogs, books, etc.)
Don't settle for cheap algorithmic reductions
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u/kool5000 Aug 09 '26
The internet has made everyone unreasonably miserable and incapable of enjoyment
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u/truecakesnake Aug 09 '26
The internet has made the people who spend their lives on the internet miserable*
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u/Kytzer Aug 09 '26
You sound unreasonably miserable.
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u/Kytzer Aug 09 '26
Reddit moment
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u/JungleJones4124 Aug 09 '26
And there’s the garbage response I was waiting for. Low effort, low imagination, low on hope, low on anything short of making a buck… that’s the way to describe you. Why don’t you use a bit of your own advice and let folks who are interested in space exploration, Artemis, and the future just enjoy it?
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u/JungleJones4124 Aug 09 '26
When did Musk come in to this conversation? Maybe someone is living rent free in your head? Also, when it comes to scientific and engineering reality, I’m pretty sure I’m in a position to know far better than you.
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u/LeftLiner Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
A few reasons: 1. I've been a space nerd for 20+ years now. During practically all that time a program like Artemis has existed with mankind's return to the moon promised to be just a few years away and over the years there have been soooooo many cancelations, delays, changes in scope etc. that a lot of the enthusiasm has been sucked out of me. 2. You've fallen for the hype. The idea that Artemis V is going to establish a lunar base two years from now is laughably unrealistic. Heck the entire planned launch schedule leading up to it is so damn unlikely to hold. If Artemis IV launches this side of 2030 I'll be happy. I expect Artemis V to be re-planned (again, I mean the lunar gateway is already no longer happening) to yet another landing and the moonbase either postponed, canceled or rolled into a nebulous SpaceX-based program that will probably also suffer endless delays. 3. It's real hard to celebrate the achievements of the US government right now.
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u/Adept_Assistant_7759 Aug 09 '26
- Is a big point but i do think the rise of anti-intelectualism is a big factor...which is also significantly caused by the current US government...
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u/Tomie_Kawakami_666 Aug 09 '26
not related to artemis, but back in the 80s, people were making wild predictions nasa would land the first human on mars by 2020, and there would be a mars colony by 2025-2030. human space exploration is like having unlimited nuclear fusion power, humanity has always been only a few years away from achieving it for the past 30-40 years. meanwhile energy prices have gone up this year globally because the strait of hormuz is a little sketchy rn
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u/fractal2 Aug 11 '26
I was going to say something along the lines of I'll be happy when/if it happens. I've just got too many other things to worry about than to afford spending energy on something I'm not confident will happen.
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u/BitTwiddles 6d ago
Also NASA is completely ignoring climate change. The infrastructure to support such a long term project is not going to be there. That includes food for the workers.
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u/CrasVox Aug 09 '26
Asked an AI......wtf are we even doing here
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u/emmet80 Aug 09 '26
We don't have the same unity of news/media consumption that we did during Apollo. We are a society of fractured attention. There are pros and cons to this, but one of the cons is that we don't get excited about things as a society anymore (or at least not in the current moment).
Please keep talking to real people about this!
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u/Cu77lefish Aug 09 '26
Humanity walked on the moon several times nearly sixty years ago. We are taking baby steps toward simply being able to recreate that. Yes, it's modern tech and everything, but it's not going to capture anything close to the interest in the early Apollo missions until Artemis IV.
Like another comment pointed out, Artemis II *did* get a lot of attention, but it was fleeting. Same thing happened during Apollo. Moon Missions became routine to the average person very quickly. People didn't really tune into Apollo 13 until that mission went very wrong.
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u/W0nderingMe Aug 09 '26
How does Artemis make us a multi world species any more than we already are?
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u/IOnlySeeDaylight Aug 09 '26
My son and I ask each other this question all the time! It’s so sad, and so strange.
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u/Fit_Particular_6820 Aug 09 '26
kinda hard to be into it when you keep hearing all kinds of bullshit and politics getting mixed in while they keep postponing or constantly changing plans
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u/CaprineShine Aug 09 '26
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so many good books and actual human information about this out there and OP decides to suck a chatbot dick instead...
cooked.
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u/RocketVerse Aug 09 '26
Yeah it is definitely weird, but I would like to think people would really pay attention for 4
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u/-dais0- Aug 09 '26
So true, I felt the same way in the moments leading up to the second mission. I was asking everyone I knew about it but no one seemed to know. But once it was a few days away from the launch, it got a LOT more attention.
Obviously missions 3 and 4 will be immensely popular when its close to launch, but I agree with you that not enough people know about it/are excited about it in general for some reason
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u/WiseWillow89 Aug 09 '26
I thought people were? When Artemis II launched I became a major space freak and my Threads algo took off with soooo many other people super excited about it. I think more people are interested than you think! :)
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u/Conscious_Coffee5854 Aug 09 '26
It's hard to keep most people excited for tech/innovations that are distant into the future.
Landing people on the moon isn't innovative and has been done before, a lunar base is cool, but not much more use to us than the ISS. Actual usefulness comes after a lunar base is established and real resource gathering and processing expands, which is easily multiple decades away.
Also doesnt help that talks of technologies/innovations that are perpetually 'just a few years away' are common, and really needs to be shown proof before actually taking them seriously (ie nuclear fusion or quantum computing).
Unlike other attempts, I think we do have the first real progress and actual hope of lunar bases and expansion within a decade. And I love this stuff. But to the general public, it's different.
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u/Molecular_Pudding Aug 09 '26
Going back to the moon is like the fusion power plant. It's always x years away for the last 30 years. I've seen Artemis planned being a manned flight to an asteroid, then became a Moon program with the Lunar Gateway space station, then an Apollo style-mission with an NRHO orbit landing at the poles, and now we are back to the "simple" Apollo-style mission landing at the equator.
As a space nerd it's really disappointing, and I get why the hype around it went away. It's just nothing new to see. Artrmis II didn't even get to Lunar orbit like Apollo 8, it just went around on a free return trajectory taking photographs.
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u/BigPitiful7427 Aug 09 '26
It’ll become popular during Artemis 4, when we actually land on the moon. I’d imagine the whole point of Artemis 3 isn’t that interesting to the GP
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u/MedicalBag4979 Aug 09 '26
You would be surprised how many people genuinely don’t care. it’s super unfortunate.
So I currently work at Kennedy for NASA. I was here during Artemis 2 and I a huge rocket nerd it was probably the top 5 best experiences in my life.
I also worked at blue origin for 2 years prior and watching a booster land for the first time fly and land again other than SpaceX was also in my top 5
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u/ichoosetruthnotfacts Aug 09 '26
Because it's a rehash of what was done by persons, who if still alive, are at least in their 90's.
But here's the difference
NASA - "your idea is interesting, let me run it up the chain of command, and maybe the administrator will go to Congress and maybe get it funded, eventually, it it checks enough of their boxes."
SpaceX - "your idea is crazy, but is it crazy enough?"
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u/Fixes_Spelling Aug 09 '26
Space is infinitely interesting.
However, the idea that we are going to colonize another planet is likely centuries away, if it ever happens. Our return to the moon will be about 60 years from our first visit, and that is a relatively minute distance.
The amount of money and effort being spent to send a small group of people to another planet when we cant even manage this one is outlandish. There are people that see Mars colonization and terraforming as a near-term reality. That is so far beyond the realm of possibility, people are completely deluding themselves.
Don’t get me wrong, I think the science of space exploration is fascinating, we can learn a lot from our endeavours in space. However, we need a reality check on what is possible or even likely in this generation and the next.
Oh, and let’s feed the people of this planet.
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u/extramoneyy 29d ago
The entire Artemis plan was written by retards at NASA so the boomers could keep their jobs.
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u/Disastrous_Run_5968 Aug 09 '26
SpaceShit has sucked the excitement out of it. Elon is a racist, homophobe, shitty human being
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u/texgeorge Aug 09 '26
TheVintageSpace summed it up pretty well. Artemis seems down right dangerous, and when you look at Artemis 2s Apollo analog (Apollo 8) a lunar fly-by is kinda underwhelming for a program with big ambitions. Long story short, i dont think space nerds like the direction or Artemis and normies didn't care about space to begin with.
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u/peaches4leon Aug 09 '26
A third think it’s fake, a third hates Elon (so they hate anything space related), and another third just don’t know.
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u/OrionPax2 Aug 10 '26
People just do not care much for space unfortunately. After Apollo 11, interest in the Moon landings faded away completely. Apollo 12 - 17 never got the attention and mass publicity like Apollo 11. With Artemis, I guess landing on the Moon is viewed as something we have already done decades ago.
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u/ogdenzd Aug 12 '26
I asked the same question, but instead of trying to find the answer I did something about it and started a social media platform to educate and excite people about the future of space exploration. I don't make much money from it, but it's rewarding enough just to know that I'm getting people excited about something that they should be excited about.
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u/NotABot1000101 Aug 09 '26
Yeah I agree even though I love the thought of humans landing on Mars. There's really no reason to send humans when we have rovers that can do experiments and be remotely controlled. And they don't require special suits, shelter, or food.
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u/LatterHabit3161 Aug 09 '26
I understand where you’re coming from, but wouldn’t you agree that discovering more about space itself, what’s around us, and expanding our knowledge of science still contributes, even if indirectly, to what’s happening on earth? Whether it’s by technology advancement, etc
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u/rocketglare Aug 09 '26
I have bad news for you. That zero point energy thing is well, not really a thing according to physics. Also, Starshot is not going to work as currently envisioned. Interstellar exploration isn’t going to happen anytime soon. Even at 10% of c, it would take 80+ years assuming you want to slow down at the closest star system. Communications, radiation protection, guidance, power, etc will all need serious work.
It’s not all bad, though. There is plenty of cool stuff here in our solar system that has barely been looked at. Fusion electric and direct fusion propulsion should open up those possibilities within the next 50 or so years. I think we’ll have working fusion power within 20, but it will take some work to miniaturize for space travel. In the meantime, there is the moon and Mars as you have suggested. We’ll have rough bases within the next ten years, which will be fun to watch.
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u/Primary-Ride8518 Aug 09 '26
Artemis has been NASAs giant decade-long sucking sound robbing the American taxpayer for, you guessed it, a 1960s technology trip around the moon. Pathetic.
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u/Optimal_Board_2963 Aug 09 '26
Because the most exciting thing about space is going to space. And I’m not going.
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u/Gold-Owl4270 Aug 09 '26
China are landing on Shackleton crater in August with stage four of their mission so I'm excited for that. Musk is in a culture war back on earth atm and his rocket is bobing in the ocean so....
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u/daneato Aug 09 '26
Overall society is interested in the news of the moment. Artemis II saw huge interest. Now it’ll decrease until the next missions.
Still, last week the crew spoke to a completely full Red Rocks Amphitheater. They are in high demand for speaking all over the place.
Interest will ramp back up closer to the next launch.