It should get clearer in the next few months with the first Starship v3 launch and when Blue Moon Mk1 gets out of TVAC and launches. If those keep slipping or go poorly then the LEO demo next year is off the table and 2028 for a landing is definitely off.
this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2026
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I really don't think the moon is going to be in our long term future nor Mars or any other body in our solar system. Robots and computers, maybe, but not humans. Too hostile of an environment.
We are too fragile for space. We are not meant to travel the stars, as cool as that would be. We should have used that money to undo the damage we've done down here. Maybe explore the oceans even. It was neat, but i'm totally unimpressed by the mission itself. Good will come from it, but I'm not sure it's worth the risk or money while things on Earth are the way they are.
NASA is planning, through the Artemis program, to build a base on the moon. Astronauts will work and live on the moon for months at a time.
Maybe not while they are but we do need a Plan B. And that means off of Earth.
It’s so sad we’ve wasted so much time, lives and money on pointless wars and strife, the majority of it driven by religion (as per the current situation) as we could be living in a garden and with outposts on the planets and extra solar missions on the go by now.
Agreed. We will go. But the effort in building a colony on another planet. When that planet is not habitable. Is equal to that of building habits in centrifugal space stations. Using astroidbelt resources. Minus 1/2 the planatry landing and lift of costs.
It gives us all the plan b advantages of civilizations outside of one planet. At much lower costs.