Hayley Caronia

So Artemis 4 is going to land on the moon.

And they have had a lot of changes to their plans.

They originally designed a lunar gateway as a space station to orbit the moon.

And that whole thing was scrapped.

Now they're going to try to repurpose that

for other missions, and they're going to focus now $20 billion on building a base that will be on the moon's surface.

When can we expect that?

I don't know.

But apparently, China is looking into something similar.

So it looks like this is the reason for the season.

Why are we building this now?

Why are we rejiggering our plans?

Why are we trying to get a base on the moon?

Well, we're going to have to beat China now.

Which brings me to some questions.

If we were putting astronauts on the moon in the 60s and 70s, why did we stop?

And I'm not insinuating that putting humans on the moon is some easy task, but if we were able to do it back then, then we should be able to do it now.

Why would we have gotten rid of that technology or regressed in any way or not invested in it?

Of course,

The crafts, these newer crafts, have to be tested for safety.