By all rights, this should be something I am deeply passionate about. I’ve been in tech/engineering my entire adult life and was obsessed with NASA as a kid. I even live on the east coast of Florida and can sometimes see the launches/landings over the ocean. But I just… don’t care at all. I’m not suffering from depression or any other malaise, and generally things are fine. But I haven’t clicked on a single link or looked at a single image. I know this has not been the case for many, many people, so I’m wondering what might be different about this launch (or really the whole program in general), and curious if anyone else has found themselves feeling the same.

  • Ravel@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    We can with enough money. We already established we can build stuff in orbit and send stuff to orbit. All you need to get to mars is a larger rocket. So assemble it in space and go to mars. It’s the same problem of going to the moon just with more delta v.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      It’s a lot more than that, starting with transit time - take a few week lunar mission and scale it up to years

      • after such a long trip out in microgravity, will astronauts even be functional when they get there? ISS astronauts in space that long have a hard time standing, walking, etc, and now they need to assemble their habitat for the next couple years?
      • by the time they get back they will have been in space longer than ISS limits
      • while nasa has very detailed planning, anything that messes up and an “emergency” supply or rescue takes nine months or more?
      • so much more fuel needed to deal with trying to get there fast then Mars’s gravity well
      • imagine any medical emergency
      • there is no short mission where they can try something then head back after a few days. The shortest mission is over 2 years