Plans to return humans to the moon will come in later mission as agency grapples with delays and glitches
  • Olap@lemmy.world
    13·
    23 hours ago

    Wow. This is huge, and puts doubt on ever walking on the moon again. The original plan was obviously nuts with its weird orbits and mad refueling profile, but it was a plan at least! II was due to send astronauts the furthest into space EVER about now also. What is III to accomplish? When could IV fly, and will lunar descent then occur?

    • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
      6·
      16 hours ago

      puts doubt on ever walking on the moon again

      Well, for the American space program at least. Not for as long as the US continues to drastically underfund NASA since isn’t as useful in weapons manufacturing nowadays.

      China is still underway to land astronauts on the moon by 2030 from what I can see, and I’d bet they aren’t anywhere near as underfunded as NASA has been