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I love space and discovery. I also dont super care about this because what is even the point of it? We did a fly around of a rock in our backyard we know super well already. Give me more JWST, not this
Yeah, but the point is to test the technology which will eventually get people back onto the moon, set up permanent off-Earth habitation, etc. Which in turn will/could be part of future steps for further-reaching exploration. I still think it has value as a building block.
But we already had the technology to get to the moon, take pictures, and get off it. Nothing against the crew, im glad they got this once in a life experience, but theres nothing new to this.
We had it, yes, but we lost it - I believe that many of the technical plans from Apollo have been lost over the years, so some of this is pretty much reinventing the wheel to get us back to where we were before.
No one's been on this spacecraft design while it's in space before, and it's got some kinks that need to be worked out (like the issues with the toilet); it's a shakedown flight to figure out what goes wrong when people are actually on board. That's not really all that sexy compared to a moon landing, but testing your support systems in practice really needs to happen before you do more ambitious things with the craft.
If they landed and did stuff that was more complex than we can send robots to do it would have been pretty awesome!
Yeah I've been thinking maybe this is it -- it's still technically impressive and I have nothing but admiration for the teams who have pored their sweat and tears into making sure it's safe and reliable, but it's kind of a 'so what?' moment.
Telescopes and geology have always been the cool part of space, not that humans are in it.
Yep, I am definitely more excited by space science news. I'd say I'm just more mature now and interested in more grounded "pure" science, but it wasn't too long ago that I was giggling like an idiot as we watched the 2 falcon heavy boosters landing back on their dual pads at KSC, so I don't think it's entirely just a loss of child-like wonder (though it's wearing thin these days, gotta admit).