Is it right to spend $105 billion on Artemis Space project?

Norah

Wyllow3

By the Artemis 4 lunar landing, NASA is projected to spend about $105 billion on the programme.

They had a discussion on R4 "Moral Maze". Is it a wonderful reach into the as yet not explored (it goes round the other side of the moon, as yet not seen)

Is it a glorification of a regime in trouble

Or could and should the USA spend it on their own people, and their medical and educational needs, better policing, and so on?

I very much tend towards the latter, but there is something magic about reaching into space.

By the Artemis 4 lunar landing, NASA is projected to spend about $105 billion on the programme. Or could and should the USA spend it on their own people, and their medical and educational needs, better policing, and so on?

Not UK money, not our worry.

Research is beneficial.

Research is beneficial. Yes

Not our money and it does benefit us all.

The USA can afford it, it should not be stopped on the grounds that the money could be spent on other, possibly more worthy causes. Where there is a will to spend the money on these, there is a way.

better policing - lack of police is perhaps not so much the problem in the USA, the way they police is and that could cause a problem with recruitment.

More money is spent waging war and interfering in other countries' politics.

Dreadwitch

But there's the thing, it's not unseen and it was basically a holiday, it had no scientific value whatsoever because they knew what they'd find... The Chinese took photos of it 3 years ago.

It's a vanity project.

The Chinese actually landed a robot spacecraft and brought back samples to Earth. There were many of us watched Neil Armstrong in 1969 and the achievement with the technology available then.
Im one who is distinctly underwhelmed by Artemis today.

How wonderful if instead of spending money on wars, it would be to extend our knowledge and human experiences as countries working together - I'd have no issues then. It captured my imagination as a child and still does, my reservations are specific.

It's true we went up in the 60's, but my impression is that now with much much more advanced technology, this is intended to be the start not a one off. But as ever oh so sad it being a "Space Race" in this troubled world.

Generally (DS tells me (he's a mere minnow in the maths side of the field) top scientists like to work together across borders but are politically constrained.

In the past I have been enthralled by the space exploration that we have seen on the tv. This last venture has left me underwhelmed. I even feel bored which is unbelievable when in the early fifties I proclaimed to one and all that I wanted to be the first woman on the moon! The world is a disgrace at the moment and needs sorting out.