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What scientific benefits will this mission bring?
I'm pretty sure they are doing some studies into immune systems in space, stress/sleep/cognition of astronauts and all that. From what I've read in the papers they will be taking regular saliva samples in preparation to do a lunar south pole mission... where they are worried about radiation? I dunno the specifics this is arm chair science on my part. I'm sure that one day when we finally send a man to uranus they can sample his saliva and figure out what's going on down there if you know what I mean.
only my wife can inspect my anus
That's great! If she makes it to your south pole please have her spit in a bag and mail it to NASA.
Some days I wish I hadn't married a proctologist
to wipe up klingons.
none of that relevant to disease on earth.
Ok
It's mostly about testing the vessel used.
The moon could serve as the launch point for further exploration of the solar system. Off the top of my head, the big benefit of that would be asteroid mining.
To me that's the biggest draw of developing our local spaceflight capabilities. Mining on earth is a gigantic environmental issue. If we could do that in space where the ores are already partially exposed, that would be awesome.
Science fiction is fun but get serious.
There are companies already developing the tech to do this.
Lol, let's fuck moon like we fucked earth. (Not a criticism on you btw)
We will absolutely wreck whatever we impose ourselves on!
LOL. oh, companies looking for investors, much be true then.
How many electric car companies from a decade ago still exist?
Yeah you're right we should never try to do anything because some might fail. How many cancer treatments fail, I guess we should stop trying those too
If it's just to test the equipment why risk the lives of the astronauts?
So that the Astronauts can actually test the equipment?
Because future missions might also be manned. Better to risk small missions first to iron out the kinks than to have a big problem later that could have been noticed by you know, testing the vessel.
Because they need to sell this porkbarrel to the public.
Read the comments...we would rather send a few people to a dead rock than cure diseases.
Science from space has been used plenty of times to help advance medicine though. And the thing about it is, you never know what you're going to discover until you actually discover it. NASA budget is 3% of the US military budget, maybe focus complaints where it's actually warranted.
We already know how to build houses or grow food, yet we still have a housing crisis and famines around the world.
What good will these potential cures bring? We already have cures for many many diseases, why are those diseases still existing?
Any potential cures from this will ultimately be owned by the same corpos that own current cures/tech. And it will be sold back to the people for hundred of thousands of dollers in order to justify their huge "R&D" costs.
All diseases research is 0% of the US military budget.
This is a shit take. It's not one or the other with spaceflight and curing diseases.
It is in 2025 onwards. The country is $39T in debt, tens of billions got funneled to SpaceX on a failed Mars project, and in the same year, $35B gets cut from NIH.
Lucky for Trump, you guys have you heads so far up your asses looking at rockets and shiny things, no one will notice.
Or rather, what scientific benefits will this one prestige mission bring compared to all the other "boring" projects whose funding was cut for this?
No idea but it is cool though.