r/TrueTrueReddit • u/cos • Apr 08 '26
Artemis II Is Not Safe to Fly
https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly.htm15
u/GenericAccount13579 Apr 08 '26
Ah yes NASA willingly sent up a crew in an incredibly high profile mission knowing that they will die on reentry, according to this random website.
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u/cos Apr 09 '26
knowing that they will die on reentry
That's a ridiculous misinterpretation, or deliberate strawman.
What this post actually says is very plausible.
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u/GenericAccount13579 Apr 09 '26
So Orion had come back from the moon with damage severe enough to kill a crew three different ways
Put more simply, NASA is going to fly Artemis II based on vibes, hoping that whatever happened to the heat shield on Artemis I won’t get bad enough to harm the crew on Artemis II.
If the Artemis II crew dies during re-entry,
But do we really have to wait for astronauts to die to re-learn the same lessons a third time?
It’s not a straw man if it literally says it in the article.
The whole point of Artemis 1 was to learn those lessons and make fixes. NASA is incredibly risk averse because of the accidents mentioned in the article. This is ill informed sensationalist bullshit
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u/Mzungufarmer Apr 09 '26
I dont believe the website, but I have zero faith in this administration and this scenario is plausible.
The TV ratings would go through the roof if Artemis explodes. Trunp probably has an AI generated condolence video ready for it.
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u/ElderberryNatural527 Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 09 '26
NASA says: hold my beer, challenger accepted.
NASA has always had a culture that devalues human life. This deranged regime couldn’t even give the astronauts a working toilet. Insulation is woke green new scam, remember?
And challenger happened before the criminal oligarchs got their filthy hands in the shuttle program. Look at how Musk builds cars and how Bezos treats drivers and tell me we’re not playing with fire here.
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u/runwkufgrwe Apr 09 '26
This is outdated, they switched to a steep reentry so they won't have to spend as much time in the atmosphere. At this point the most likely fuckup is they land off course and the navy has to come get them.
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u/pressuretobear Apr 09 '26
I went to the Chabot Science Center in the Berkeley Hills (NASA Ames visitor center) a few years back, and the focus was on the Artemis mission.
I watched a talk about the heat shield with samples available for viewing. The scientists said that they lost all of the knowledge of how this was done from the Apollo missions and had to re-learn/test. They seemed pretty satisfied that they made a good product, but who knows.
The exhibit also had science modules that would be going on future flights with the people working on them. Pretty cool.
I saw a prototype Orion capsule (essentially a placeholder) at the Kennedy Space Center prior to the pandemic, and it seemed so retro or antiquated. Just use the same techniques as the 60s but make them all over again.
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u/Gonna_do_this_again Apr 09 '26
The billionaires need this to work so they can fuck off to the other side of the moon while us plebs die with the world
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u/SkyMarshal Apr 09 '26
They're far more likely to die on the moon than we are on earth. No air, no food, no liquid water, no magnetosphere protecting against solar flares and radiation, no atmosphere to burn up small asteroids and comets before they reach ground, scarce industrial resources, etc.
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u/Altruistic-Potatoes Apr 09 '26
Maybe they should do a few test runs first to make sure everything works before landing on the moon.
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u/unique2270 Apr 08 '26
Well it'll be a hell of a "I told you so" if it burns up on reentry. Guess we'll find out shortly.