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Another punchy and super informative view - thanks for doing these and giving the broad and integrated picture - as much as I love SpaceX progress there's only so much I can take from other channels that focus on the movement of various bits and pieces around Boca Chica 😁 I'll keep recommending you 🖖

The other thing about people who decry "wasting that money in space when we could use it here" seem to really not understand where that money will be SPENT. Hint: it's on Earth. In the factories that make rockets, guidance systems, propellants, etc

This is so well done, touching the critical factors and tactics for what it takes to have a practical space presence Space is hard and creating economic ways to build that foundation cannot be avoided

Thank you so much for this video. It answered many questions I had about Artemus. Great work!

Intotal agreement with you, budgets, and international cooperation are the key to the continuation of the Artemis

Excellent video! One of my favorite aspects of the Artemis program is the multilateral-ness of it. You can't beat a worldwide-ish exercise in team-building.

Thanks you

I took the scenic route from Tar Valon or Bust via Desi Geek Girls to here but what a worthwhile journey for getting to watch this super interesting video. Thx!

This was a really informative and interesting episode. (But aren't they all? 🤔) I'm happy to be back from vacation and catching up! One more to go. (But, ew! Ads! LOL)

I like your presentation, give a good overall presentation with some detail but not too much. And like Miles Obrien stay on subject without wandering into speculative or subjective opinions.

Hi, Swapna! I always learn something from your videos and always enjoy your focused presentations. I do have a quibble (not a Tribble!) about your Artemis 3 walk-through. It's mostly about all the varying terms at different times for the same thing. For example, lunar module = HLS = Starship and are all the same vehicle: the Starship HLS. There is no longer a built-in SLS "lunar module" (it was Altair? at some point) as we knew it on the Apollo missions. Additionally, Artemis 3 is the overall mission name, not an object. So, the Starship HLS will not dock with Artemis 3 (the mission), it will dock with Orion (the ship). So, the Starship HLS will launch separately, be refueled in Earth orbit (by yet a different Starship refueler no less!) and then travel ahead to NRHO station keeping. Then Orion will launch, enter NRHO also and dock with Starship HLS to transfer crew from Orion to Starship HLS, undock and land the Starship HLS on the moon. Sorry, and maybe I am wrong about my own descriptions but I have seen so many variations of this mission between NASA conceptual names and acronyms it stays confusing ha ha - Even NASA's own graphic on your video shows some mosquito-looking lander depiction. Are they not commited yet to the Starship HLS plan? Still upset about the Blue Origin HLS not being selected first?

I been really disappointed in our space program 90s until now. We been just flying around earth for 30 years. Its like getting your license and taking a summer road trip and then only driving around the block until you retire 🤷‍♂️ Also agreed! We wouldn’t need a huge military budget if we stayed out of foreign conflict. Form friends based on space and science projects to push humanity forward

Should have gone with Alpaca for a second (or first) lander.

SpaceX needs about 45 perfect launches for people to be using their lander.

There's at least some pressure to get there before the Chinese, especially when they can spend however much they want on their space program. As far as the defense spending goes, the reasons are pretty obvious with current events in Europe and the Middle East. Though I totally agree that we should maintain our leadership in space. A lot of things need to go right for us to get back to the moon on anything like the current time frame. Starship Super Heavy flight 4 next week!🤞🤞

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I think the "how we got here" is the most important, because people are just making stuff up about why we haven't been to the Moon in 50 years, completely ignoring the entire space shuttle program, the designing of the ISS, and then they actual building of the ISS. All of this was planned during the '70s.

You're gonna be really big one day. Trust me :)

Use Starship to transport a LEM rather than be one. Another Starship can take astronauts launched by Dragon and transfered.

In this video you say "The lunar module would launch separately, and then Apollo astronauts would dock with it in Earth orbit". This is false. The lunar module and the Apollo astronauts launched together on one Saturn V rocket.

I really want to see humanity return to the moon but my days on earth are coming to an end. Making it to the end of this decade is extremely optimistic, just when it's all getting interesting.

There's a first time for everything.

Forget Mars as a landing. Do a space station with gravity, food production and a crew of scientists and their families. Make it big.

In my dialect we have an ironic saying: "the day of Saint Never" (exactly, you can't find it on the calendar :D )

NASA's plan for moon return is expensive. Why do a manned flyby when you can simply do unmanned autonomous land and take off from the moon surface? That would save a lot of money. China's plan is more sustainable and all the will need to do to improve is improve the individual components in the architecture.

Let me see, my guess Nasa won't, China might.

SpaceX basically killed the Artemis moon landings with the bogus HLS proposal. But Mars next year. 😂

Why bother to go back to the Moon? Weren't the US there in 69? The US was there first. The race is over back in 69 unless of course the 69 landing took place in a movie studio 😂😂😂

Great video - until you picked 'Defense Spending' instead of the BILLIONS the U.S. spends on making illegal aliens and bottom-feeding welfare recipients each year in your dissection of U.S. budget spending. Many ages ago I was a subscriber to the Ad Astra magazine and a member. Any direct link or just a name for the channel?

Don't even think about cutting Military spending, while I agree MORE should be spent on Space Exploration, we could cut back on redundant and wasteful spending and put that to Veterans and Seniors. A lot is wasted on folks who are not here legally.

I loved the Artemis program and the idea of NASA returning to the Moon. But they are years behind schedule and only falling farther back. I get the feeling that China or India will have colonized the entire Moon before NASA is ready to go back. Problem is NASA still isn't %100 focused on the Moon. They are still wasting time and money on other missions. JPL parking lots are overflowing with luxury sports cars. And all NASA has to show for it is new pictures of Uranus. Why would they focus on a Artemis while they got that sweet gig going on. If NASA employee's stopped getting paid until they landed on the Moon we would do it by the end of the Year.

so much is faked, is it possible this is real?