Let me start by saying I am all in favor of expanding human knowledge and understanding.... but this Artemis project represents $93 billion dollars to do a flyby. Between 1969 and 1972, 6 lunar landings allowed 12 men to walk on the surface of the moon and I believe the general consensus was that our moon is not high value real estate.No doubt man needs to explore space; the experts say that our Sun will nova in about 5 billion years and who knows, maybe mankind will make the place uninhabitable even sooner.With existing technology space travel is painfully slow. Voyager was launched 49 years ago and Nasa recently reported that this craft has a distance of one light/day. Einstein never said “we can travel at light speed.” In fact, his theory of relativity explicitly says that no object with mass can reach or exceed the speed of light because its energy requirement would become infinite.I guess my point is, if we decide that space travel is worth the money, would it be a better idea to spend these incredible sums of dollars on trying to find out if Einstein was hopefully wrong?
