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Damn and blast off: how not to go back to the moon

Damn and blast off: how not to go back to the moon

The Slow Newscast • S1, Episode 182

Damn and blast off: how not to go back to the moon

Nasa will land the first woman and the first person of colour on the Moon by 2024. At least that’s the aim of its latest mission, Artemis, which took off in earnest at the end of last year with the launch of the Orion spacecraft. And why is Nasa sending people back to the Moon at all when SpaceX and other private companies are making renewable rockets at twice the speed and half the cost? If Artemis is the future of Nasa’s human space exploration, is it also the end of Nasa as we know it?

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