Fly yourself to the moon...

[lakewoodlady]

https://www.nasa.gov/send-your-name-with-artemis/
Enter your name and get a boarding pass. All names will be put onto a flash drive and will go on the dry run to orbit the moon in preparation for the manned landing in a couple of years...
My name will be on it..!

LL

[Bryan]

You got me. Grandson, SWMBO and I will be there.

[lakewoodlady]

So cool aye see you on board, Such an amazing opportunity!

[WalOne]

Getting crowded in here, reminds me of the Smithsonian spacecraft LOL I'll be there!

[lakewoodlady]

Excellent....!

[piroska]

A chip with peoples names etched on to it? Why?

[Bryan]

In this day and age, why not? Escapism, I was there in spirit!

[kenj]

See you onboard fellow astronauts!

Ken

[1101]

in preparation for the manned landing in a couple of years...

that should be planned manned landing

The SLS is so ridiculously expensive , this may never happen.
Dont forget, USA govt is broke, they have no money, literally living on borrowed cash.

A moon landing could be the 1st thing to be cancelled after budget cuts . Just look at all the proposed missions that were cancelled over the last 50 years
eg : US Presidents have called for Mars landings , cancelled before they got started

So NASA's SLS, which throws multi million $ engines into the sea each time, its a huge waste of money.
Private US companies, with reusable rockets ,will do it cheaper .

Only a matter of time before NASA's SLS & moon landings gets cancelled . NASA may never go back to the moon in the foreseeable future, just because the huuuge costs with no real benefit
They still havnt solved the issue of the very real risk to astronauts lives from comic rays/particles , and solar mass ejections . A trip to the moon could be a death sentence (It was just sheer luck no one died in the apollo moon missions)

They also need to build a replacement space station , as ISS is well past its use by date :-(
Wheres the money coming from ?

[zqwerty]

Elon Musk and Bezos as far as I know, Musk is fully committed to getting mankind off just the one planet (Earth) at the very least.