(Originally aired: Dec. 4, 2022)
NASA’s Orion rocket is nearing the end of its historic unmanned mission to the moon, the first step toward returning man to the lunar satellite, and then venturing where no man has gone before. Lisa Fletcher has more on the Artemis mission and taxpayer costs.
For four and a half billion years, it’s been there, silently circling our planet. Now, it could become our stepping stone to the universe.
When Artemis 1 lifted off last month from the coast of Florida, it represented the start of a new era for NASA and human space exploration. One that continues a journey begun in 1969.
Bill Nelson: We’re going back to the moon. This time we’re going to stay, and then we’re going to Mars.
Bill Nelson is the administrator of NASA. A former Florida senator, he’s also one of only two members of Congress to ever go into space.
Lisa: Why go back to the moon first?
Bill Nelson: That gives us the opportunity to learn how to live and work in that very hostile environment.
This first mission is designed to test everything without risking human astronauts.
Bill Nelson: We would never put humans on this one because we are pushing it to the limit.
Getting to back to the moon has required a new rocket with even more power than the Saturn V that lifted the Apollo missions. Full Measure got an inside look at it earlier this summer as it was being prepared.
Jeremy Parsons: Think about something the size of the Statue of Liberty, and we’re going to get it going 25,000 miles per hour.
Jeremy Parsons is deputy program manager for ground exploration systems.
Jeremy Parsons: When we start talking about going to the moon, we’re talking 230,000 miles, three days away. And we haven’t done that for a very long time — since the final Apollo mission. And so there’s a lot of things that we have to necessarily re-learn, like the heat shield, right?
That heat shield gets its big test when the spacecraft returns to earth. A crucial moment for a program that’s already burned through $40 billion and is on track to spend much more.
Lisa: When you’re talking about building machinery like this, to the limits of science, the costs are extraordinary. The inspector general for NASA recently said that the $4 billion-per-launch price tag is unsustainable.
Bill Nelson: Well, that’s the development cost all piled into that. I mean, it takes a lot of money to build a new rocket. But when you start amortizing that cost over one per year, over an entire decade, then you start to get your costs down.
Some call Artemis the new Apollo, with its bigger rocket and budget, but today’s goals far exceed what was done 50 years ago. And this time, if it works, the moon won’t be the finish. It’ll be where mankind starts its next giant leap.
For Full Measure, I’m Lisa Fletcher in Florida.
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How about a “MOON SHOT” towards
reinstalling moral, civilized society ?
One of this scribblers’ focused interests
has been ( is ) the FEMALE brain in women
and men, and how sex-based dichotomies
of the left (male) and right (female) hemis-
pheres — and how each half interacts with
our Reptile ( “old” / limbic ) brain — impact
politics, culture and how we males and
females interact with one another.
“There is nothing new under the sun,” cites
the Holy Bible—as today’s sex-confusion
tensions had played out in what was 15-century
Germany, when women had pursued high-
knowledge positions in science and politics
while the men dressed and acted effeminately
( publicly crying at the drop of a hanky ! ).
That cyclical switching of sex-related duties/
behaviors is a very curious phenomenon, I’ve
not yet solved. Maybe the introduction of an
estrogenic food ?
But one aspect of the battle of the sexes has
not changed : “Who rocks the cradle rules the
world.”
What to make of the
third quote below ? :
1) “Some men’s idea of free
speech is that they are free to
say what they like, but if anyone
says anything back, it is an
outrage.” -Winston Churchill
2) “The purpose of a writer is to
keep civilization from destroying
itself.” -Albert Camus
—3) “In times of unrighteousness
—and disorder, women become
—corrupted; from the corruption
—of women comes the mixing of
—races; and from this comes all
—evil.” -Bhagavad Gita (4,000 BC).
Women initiate 69% of divorces,
today, and any children suffering
that trauma are irreparably damaged
( psychologically !, and somewhat
physically from the high stress im-
pacting the immune system )—to
explain much of gender dysphoria
wrecking our society now.
“No-Fault Divorce” must no longer
be an option, for the sake of the
children ( study my essay, “The
Donahue Syndrome” )—and
surveyed adults would rather
have had combative/yelling parents
stay together than “happy” apart.
-Rick
P.S.
Also, the PORN industry is a crime
against High-Culture Civilization—
not to mention a mind-molestation
of children and young adults !
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