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My personal opinion of it is that it was either a reaffirmation of the tech need to do it, in which case its kinda sad that we haven't progressed beyond that for the last 50 years. The other idea I have of it is that it was the simplest and fastest way to get eyes on the dark side of the moon to verify or discount the notion of China building a base there

I remember when I was in China, didn't even have internet.

My parents bought me a children's book about planets and stuff... I still remember it called 十万个为什么 (Literally: 100 Thousand Whys)

I was so intrigued.

I remember I had not much things to read and I kept reading that over and over again. I remember still having it when I was in 2nd grade in the US... like that's my last "artifact" of my pre-US life...

I remember just putting it in my bookbag and bringing it to school cuz... idk why... maybe I just felt nostalgic about it and thought it'd be cool to bring a book nobody else in the school would be able to read... sort of like a special ancient text made for me xD

Sadly the binding on that book is garbage and it fell apart and I no longer have that book...

(I don't remember NASA being mentioned btw)

Later I remember constantly googling space stuff once we had internet access at home...

I think its:

1. Childhood... like space is a big concept... so it feels like this "big thing" and I get obsessed about it... like many kids probably do. You go from being in a tiny apartment at home to suddenly knowing about very big empty space... Mind Blowing...

2. Humanity already been on the moon... meh... not that exciting... especially not after a few decades and interests fade... like omg someone sailed across the ocean... boo boring... already done...

I think i understand why you feel that way, it happens to me constantly. Since there is already so much hype about this, you don't need to hype it as well. Enough hype already.

Basically, there should always be attention on every launch, but it's not necessary that everybody obsesses over every launch. Only that somebody does. Since so many eyes are watching this mission already, you don't feel any need to spend your time on it as well.

They aren't doing anything new, we have already been around the moon.

I've pondered my own lack of interest and I think it comes down to the Artemis program's design being such a shitshow. Sure, if you throw enough brute force budget and a long enough time you can get astronauts back to the Moon. But they're doing it in such a poor manner that I doubt anything will come of it long-term. It's going to be another unsustainable flags-and-foot-prints stunt.

Some of the recent changes hint at NASA maybe finally getting their act together, but I'll believe it when I see it - NASA doesn't actually call the shots here. It's a political program.

Because their is so many crisies going on at once that all of the discussion about what makes it cool has been drowned out for years. It's also a little bit of a catch-up to what we ought to have been instead of some of this bullshit

So much problems to get mad about. Don't have time to be happy for some people so far away. We are try to survive everday.

Here are the reason.

It feels so wrong that instead of this being a momentous occasion, it feels like a distraction.

to me at least and I believe many other people too, space travel seamed like an impossible magical fantasy as kids. it was fascinating and opened the door for imagination. as we became older and more aware and also as the world around us changed, like most things it became less magical and less impossible. additionally most of us especially in this modern political environment most of had unintentionally realigned their priorities. space travel sounded less utopian and magical and more dystopian and bad prioritization. also people like elon musk has just ruined it for an entire generation. I used to admire the man as a kid now everything he is involved in is just meaningless political tools and corporational greed to me.

seeing how bleak humanity's future is and how corrupt and ruined the planet became suddenly the idea of someone going to a rock in space became less important. it also didn't help that this event coincides with the current war in iran and gaza and the trump administration. as someone from the middle east, it felt eerie seeing the same flag that represents tyranny and murder to also represent scientific advancement and human achievement.

Whitey On the Moon

There's a certain strain of thought that runs through my mind sometimes, that space is just too big and too empty to really be worth going into. Like the moon and Mars, maybe a couple other in-system planets, are the only things close enough for realistic human trips in lifetimes. And the trips so far have shown us that yes, those are just big balls of monotonous dirt. You ever kinda landed in that state of mind?

In spite of all that, I do still get excited about it, and really enjoyed following Artemis. Excited to see us (maybe, hopefully) land on the moon again soon. It's remarkable that humans are able to rise to that challenge, and I hope we don't ever entirely stop.

While I share some, if not most, of your disinterest, it's probably worth pointing out that while "we" had a Saturn V rocket system and Apollo space program that did, at least superficially the same as Artemis so far, we could not actually repeat a Saturn V launch today, as-in we lost many of those skills and associated experience.

In many ways, Artemis is essentially getting back to where we left off in 1973 with the intention of eclipsing it, but the ongoing NASA budget cuts being perpetrated by the current regime are in my opinion going to curtail the program before too long.

If I recall correctly, after Apollo 11, the TV audiences dwindled for the rest of the program, with a brief spike for Apollo 13, so perhaps there's an aspect of that to consider.

For me the disappointment was triggered by the poor camera handling during launch, the view of backpacks, food and plushies surrounding CAPCOM at Mission Control, the broken toilet debacle and the heat shield obfuscation, all of which made this less leading edge science and more of a shitshow.

I hope the astronauts land safety in a couple of hours, but I won't be watching for days like I did for the first Shuttle launch in 1981.

We have other problems, like taxing the rich !twnw@fedia.io . Who cares if we see the far side of the moon if we struggle paying the rent?

I cared a little bit. Then the astronauts started blathering about the bible.

it would be more notable if another country went to moon instead of the US, although not interesting still. moon is OLD NEWS sadly and coming out at the same time as other stuff on earth.

Honestly, I thought for sure we would have had a permanent moon base by now. Something minimal but permanent and manned like the Space Station is. How foolish of me.

You are not alone. What a waste of resources.

same here, i dont care about it all, while its interesting it finally happened, its not really exciting news, especially with so much other things going on, which suspiciously happening a the same time to direct attention away , the mission redirecting attention away from more important news.