The spaceship will stay in orbit rotating around the moon for six-day collecting data. The ship was brought upward by the largest tallest rocket in the record, getting 62 kilometres from the surface of the moon, using the moon’s gravity propelling itself around the moon in an orbit of @40,000 kilometres. Once Artemis has recorded its necessary objective, it will do a low fly-by entering the Moon’s orbit to create the necessary inertia to travel back to Earth travelling at 25,000 kilometres mph, producing temperatures of 5000 degrees Fahrenheit. This trip will be the hottest and fastest on record. Record-setting.
The US has the largest space budget globally, $39,335 million in 2013, followed by China‘s $6,111 million, Russia’s $5,265 million and Japan’s $3,575 million. The various players have established many international rules and laws governing their participation in Space Exploration. There is an international space station shared by the Space Elite, and China will have a fully separate space station of their own come 2022. Russia will follow with their own space center.
Why the apparent competition in space? Why are the global powers investing trillions of dollars into exploration while our earth is in dire need of this investment? Have the world powers given up on humanity’s global survival, and are therefore looking to the stars for human colonization and survival?
Many national corporations and governments look to the stars for various reasons such as…
1. Natural Resources found in a virgin space market
2. Transplant elite populations into space encampments
3. Develop new forms of agriculture, space harvesting of recourses
4. Experienting in non-gravity spaces(new types of medicines)
5. Maintenance of satellite fields and national control of these fields
6. Assist in National Orbital acquisitions(claim territory for corporations and national entities).
7. Establish military bases for various national entities.
8. Save humanity and make a profit doing so???
A return to a Cold War Environment on Earth has and will spread to the skies beyond our planet. Corporate and national competitions will continue to develop and expand into places we have not explored as of yet.
Do you see the various moral questions that arise as this competition grows? Are the superpowers responding to threats to our world? Do they intend on protecting us from dangerous comets, the Sun’s orbiting threats(solar flares), protecting our population from Alien Invasion? Our Oceans have not yet been explored, and yet Trillion of dollars are being spent on the exploration of skies. What about solving the world’s many problems, like mass starvation, plagues and climate change? How about developing systems that can grow and harvest food from within our Oceans? Developing grains and veggies that can grow in any climate whether hot or cold? Perhaps our scientists are doing just that? Who knows, since no one is telling us about these scientific experiments? Corporations and their governmental supporters are not really good communicators, except when global death events are upon us like in the movies.
Every time I see some lucky astronauts go where non of us will ever go, I feel like those of us rooted on this earth are living on borrowed time. Ever ask yourself why we can support national governments to send people to the Moon, Mars and perhaps beyond why we cannot save our less fortunate global neighbours from natural disasters, hunger, poverty and such? I don’t watch movies that present their viewer’s situations where the earth ends or some huge space objects are about to crush us out of existence like the Dinosaurs of old. Depressing, confusing and frightening. Sure exploration is exciting but why, oh why are they doing it, spending the world’s financial heritage upon strategies and plans we do not know about? Transparency, Accountability and Truth. That’s all we should demand of our leaders, scientists and planners of the Future, should we have a future as a species.
Steven Kaszab
Bradford, Ontario
