We are going back to the moon.

Rocket artimisis set to launch.

Test flight to see the stresses of the new rocket system.

We can be colonizing our smaller sister planet by 2025.

NASA hopes to send an Artemis 2 mission to orbit the moon, with people on board, as soon as 2024 with a landing mission, Artemis 3, set for 2025.

https://www.space.com

They never found Alice the last times they were there! 

Well she knew when to shut up not sure Ralph ever sent her.....

ooooh, i dont know. what about all that carbon imprint the launch will cause???????? did you run this by those climate activists??????

If we can colonize mars I believe earth's congestion can alleviate itself.

Mars though has no atmosphere. So its more underground cave ocean systems as well as domed planetary surface expeditionary colonization.

We can move there and mine with an abundant methane energy source.

The Aliens don¡¯t want us on the moon. 
I wonder if the cattle mutilation program is winding down and full Alien disclosure is finally on the horizon?

Set to launch if weather remains favorable

Before NASA can send astronauts back to the moon, it needs a successful test flight of the Space Launch System, a giant rocket built for the agency with lunar missions in mind. On Monday, we¡¯ll get to see the first attempt at launching this massive rocket to orbit, this time with no astronauts aboard the Orion capsule it will send to space.

Here¡¯s what you need to know about the mission, Artemis I.

When is the launch and how can I watch it?

The launch, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is scheduled for 8:33 a.m. Eastern time, but in case of unfavorable weather or technical glitches, the liftoff can be pushed back as much as two hours, to 10:33 a.m.

NASA Television¡¯s online coverage of the Artemis I launch begins at midnight at the start of Monday as the process of filling the rocket¡¯s giant propellant tanks starts. The agency¡¯s full coverage will begin at 6:30 a.m. Monday.

Mission scrubbed do to cooling issue in engine 3

Next launch window is Friday into Saturday...

Friday is better day it is a work day nobody in Government work Saturday's..... Bang zoom to the moon

@nature1970

 Colonizing implies citizenry and I don't think that will happen. But the moon becoming a location for elongated business trips is what will happen for those conducting searches of propellant minerals on the moon such as water and helium 3, which the moon has an abundant source of.

Project Artemis was proposed many years ago and NASA has moved up its plans as our understanding of how to tap the properties of rare earth minerals has given rise to ever increasing expansion of technological uses which has further reduced the time window on when we could actually begin to 'terraform' the moon in a business colonization such that it could become a launchpad for Mars exploration and potential habitation, and/or space mining of asteroids to supply greater amounts or REEs to expand technological advances exponentially. Its kind of a IF THEN, type of series of propositions in steps. 

Step one is utilizing the moon for other steps!

There are plans to create a primitive early atmosphere that would interact with the geography of mars and the solar system in such a way that it could develop over time, a protective layer that could eventually provide safety for habitation and the re-organization of simple living things on the planet   > *if that is what happened before it lost its atmosphere*

I have had the fortune of seeing some visual presentations of how that could be done. Pretty good explanation > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGkJZsfJq60&list=RDLV7XdkKMhAdnA&index=2

Interesting concept....transplant our carbon issue ONTO MARS increasing their cooling issue haha.....like everything, its all about chemistry, moving energy around via natural thermodynamics and stimulating a carbon cycle to push life forms to appear with the right cocktail mix that would allow for life to flourish and multiply

Sounds complex? 

Well, its happened on earth, and could happen there as long as chemicals could be added or mars chemicals tapped in the right proportion

Im still not even 100% we raped the surface of the moon back in '69. Doesnt make sense

https://ispace-inc.com/m1?fbclid=IwAR19oxfRy7tmx7jS1pSMVnqxXKBzFp6fmBTem7Y-zpdQDcf2SX51rVSEBC0

I¡¯m there every night . In a trance with a stare that¡¯ll scare the hair off your wife . I¡¯m an explorer extraordinaire pouring through the reports of solar flares . And there¡¯s no open air . Whatsoever . At all . To motherfuckin¡¯ speak of . So I hold my breath and hope for the best and then I clench and close my teeth shut . Asking every soul that ever put their soles on the globe to say a prayer as I hold my chest that¡¯s about to explode as I float and fuckin¡¯ dream of , a piece of peace that consoles but it never shows so I just smoke the pungent chiba¡­..

What doesn't make sense to you?

Better worry about our oceans on earth, Knock!

Colonization of mars is indeed achievable.

But on surface is not an option.

Their plans to dig down to a source of water and build a city beneath the surface 

Primary source for the income of such endeavor? Mining rare elements such as helium and lithium..... 

But we are on a verge of having earthling born and bred on external planets.....

I am sure a study is being arranged of becoming pregnant in space and the effects on a developing fetus....

Seeing that Mars has a 687 Earth day year with seasons that are much more variable than earth. What type of calendar would colonists use or for that fact how would they tell what time it is ? I would imagine it would be similar to being on a outposts we have in Antarctica, But much worse and take a world record of hutzpah to go there!

astrobiologist wanted.9

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