Back to the Moon - Part 1 | VOANews

After the Apollo program ended, the US took a long hiatus from lunar exploration. What happened during this time, and what has NASA been doing? This documentary by the Voice of America's Russian service explores the multiple attempts to return to the Moon.

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[DanielSmith-lved]

I usually learn the best stuff watching and listening to videos like this, packed with wisdom throughout

[mr.invisible]

I remember Columbia. Challenger I was 3. When Discovery retired I lost hope. We need to be exploring. It’s the final frontier.

[Frankthetank-zrmc]

I was also at Stapleton (the old Denver International airport) when it came in for the night. Not the life changing event like for Jeremy, but it was an awesome sight. Dad was an Air Force/ANG/Airline pilot flying C-130's out of Cheyenne with the Wyoming ANG and B-727's out of Denver with United Airlines so I knew about airplanes. This beast was like nothing I ever imagined. There were no scheduled 747's flying into Denver then, so that was a sight in itself, but the shuttle on its back was like Star Trek.

[Vector_Ze]

Of course, I agree that things shouldn't be rushed to the point of failing safeguards. But...
I viewed an Orion capsule mockup at the KSC Visitor Center in 2011, over a dozen years ago.
Since then, there have been two Artemis flights, both unmanned, one to the Moon. And apparently, the first manned flight is several years down the road.
I don't want a disaster, but I am 70 years old. I recall the first Mercury flights, and naturally, I remember Apollo.
I want to live long enough to see our return to the Moon.

The Shuttle kept us in LEO for three decades. I should say that the lack of funding from Congress did. It was long overdue for retirement when it finally was. It always had too much of its mass to orbit as vehicle mass (Starship is worse in this regard) and never lived up to its supposed purpose of cost-effectiveness and fast turnaround.
SRBs for crewed flight are a horrifying standard, and, sadly, they are being used for our newest projects.

I witnessed the last three Apollo and a couple of Shuttle launches from the vicinity. All of the Apollo launches were awesome, but the night launch of Apollo XVII was especially indelibly burned into my memory.

These guys talk as though there's a hurricane in every location in Florida every other Thursday. Comically, some residents talk that way, too. It ain't true, folks.
48:50 I thought hand off to Houston came when the vehicle cleared the tower.

Let's go, Artemis III!

I don't carry a "phone in my pocket". But, my dual 12-core hyperthreaded Xeon processor desktop with a couple thousand GPU cores will run circles around any smartphone to date.

[spacebar]

So many countries have sent countless probes and rovers to the moon, but not one of them has ever captured any images of man-made objects lying around there.

[oscarlavista]

Mars is our final frontier, and it sucks.

[phil_]

I watched the whole Apollo program in grammar school. We had a G.I.Joe model of the Gemini capsule. He fit right in there, spacesuit and all. We're still at stage 1 of the Sphinx Riddle. We were incredibly lucky. I think space will always be dangerous, just as it always has...

[kdlofty]

"We have a brand new invention taken from the space shuttle" Err... OK.

[genebohannon]

SLS is like building a car from NOS (new old stock) parts. They put stickers over the STS badges.

[JasonGarber-ny]

If I had the money, there is no place I'd rather be than at the Artemis launch with the crew aboard headed back to the moon since I wasn't even born yet to watch any of the apollo missions then I would at least be able to see these lucky astronauts go back to the moon, question is where to land and explore to get the most benefit from.

[JasperH]

Being over 65 years old, it makes it very difficult to hear what is being said due to the LOUD music...

[Dragracing]

Working along side these rockets daily really makes you feel like you have a purpose and part of a great accomplishment! Couldnt ask for a better job

[Funk_Reactions]

I went to all of the first 3 Artemis scrubbed launches and I told my wife I’m not going to the 4th launch and they had a night launch lol. But went to see Starship last week and experience my first rocket launch.

[ohheyitskevinc]

Skylab had a lot more than is mentioned here. It was an observatory and had a spectroscope and hundreds of experiments. Also, the docking mechanism wasn’t Gemini - it was Apollo… The Shuttle’s main problem was it was an air force project. Designed by them. They abandoned it and left NASA with a “space truck” design and the air force hardly used it and went back to Titan rockets for satellite launches. A space station wasn’t part of the plan for the shuttle. That was only planned 23 years after the first shuttle launch - in September 1993…. So after Apollo - we abandoned Skylab and dumped NASA with something useless. I’m only 10 minutes in, but this isn’t going well so far.

[roloclx]

Given the unfortunate shuttle accidents, instead of learning from them and developing a next generation shuttle, you retreated to the capsule method of transit.

[brianwolent]

I'm Saw it all from the beginning. It's been toooo long.

[RobertMacDonald-dvrs]

I remember as a child looking up at the full moon and my sister saying to me it’s hard to believe people are walking around up there and I thought it’s amazing alright
How could Nixen cancel such a wonderful program ? And fund a war that was un winnable

[AnnoyedMountainGoat-wxvl]

Fantastic. In my opinion we need not as a single nation but as a human species, a human family to do all we can to reach the stars because the ongoing survival of our species when all alive today are gone but it is us that will be remembered as the pioneers. We also have a duty as it was us that massively contributed to the earth's uninhabitability.

[meredithlidstone]

Geez. BARELY a mention of how much the 3 Skylab missions contributed to learning how to live in space. Were your researchers born in the 1980s?

[alvinmoir]

This was great, can’t wait for Part 2 baby…😎👍