In 1808 days we will be back on the moon. NASA’s Artemis program is taking us back to the moon.
I talked to Ian, my 9 year old nephew about it. He had not heard about it. He is not sure it is something that he would want to do.
We had a wide ranging discussion about the end of the dinosaurs, how the moon effects the tides, and much more.
“Go space exploration!” I talked to Sierra about NASA’s plans to send people back to the moon in 2024. This was the first time Sierra had heard about it. But she thinks it is cool and once there are regular, safe flights she would go.
I asked her, “We have so many problems here on Earth, some people say we should not be spending money on space exploration. What do you say about that?”
“We might discover something while going to the moon that will help us here on earth,” she said.
Welcome to the Artemis generation.
Sunil had heard about the 2024 moon landing from me. I have been inviting him to the NSS North Houston Space Society (http://NorthHoustonSpace.org) since it started. He is not a space enthusiast, but he supports people doing things. He does not plan to celebrate people returning to the moon (though I will be inviting him to my party, so let’s see 🙂 )
He has no interest in going to the moon. The pictures will be enough.
I asked him about the recent events regarding Yusaku Maezawa‘s http://DearMoon.earth project with the dating show having the first woman around the moon be the winner. He is unconcerned as who can say right now who would be the first.
Ammaar has heard about the plans to land astronauts on the moon in 2024 from NASA’s twitter account. He is excited about NASA going back and he would like to go too. He is also a big SpaceX and Elon Musk fan. And he sees no reason why we can’t explore space and do all the other things that people want to do. There is so much we don’t know, let’s go out and explore.
Charlie had not heard of NASA’s plans to send people back to the moon in 2024. He wonders what the purpose is and would rather see those resources used to address problems on earth. “Let’s cure cancer and HIV before exploring space.”
We started to talk about how space exploration competes for resources for curing disease. Also talked about what it takes to cure disease. But we did not get too far as our Yoga class was starting.
David has not heard of NASA’s plans to send people back to the moon in 2024. He thinks it should be a good idea.
Giavonnah had not heard about the 2024 plans to put the first woman and the next man on the moon, but she is happy to see it happening. She thinks it a good use of money. She is not interested in going to the moon herself, but would be willing to take a suborbital flight on New Shepard.
Zach had not heard about NASA’s plans to send people back to the moon. He thinks that if they do it will convince people that it was not a hoax. He could be convinced to go but does not have strong desire to go to the moon. He also heard about SpaceX’s plans to go to Mars.
Brandy had not heard about NASA’s plans to send people back to the moon, but she thinks it is about time.
Gary did not know we were going to the moon in 2024, but he is excited to see that we are. He would like to see us spend more on exploration and less on military. He thinks we will make it to the moon but that it might be a little later than 2024.