Artemis II safely splashes down

Millions of people are going to bed hungry and yet here we are spending billions on stuff like this to please elites ego

As a long time space nerd, I'm not sure what this accomplishes by repeating the previous stunts that failed to usher in the promised space frontier.

Apollo was, IMO, not successful at changing the course of human history. A really cool footnote, sure, but everything else that was to follow, nope, just a bunch of neat, interesting but ultimately meh science missions.

An exciting change would be more like Delta-V/Critical Mass, but NASA is not going to deliver that, at least not in any form it has taken thus far.

Fake news?? I've heard a radio item today where they informed that the internet has a lot of conspiracy theories that Artemis isn't real, images are AI fakes and reports are completely made up. They then proceeded to post a "prove" image which was definitely AI since one of the people only had one arm. lol. Anyway, glad it worked out. I do think that somehow we have more important issues to solve than discovering the moon, but whatever.

Dear NASA. Please dial back the poetics and rhetoric. Be more like ATC than Shakspear.

Best comment exchange from a thread on a different site:

OP: "I'm happy they didn't die."

Response: "You're going to be less happy when they turn into the Fantastic Four and Dr. Doom shows up."