Who should we choose for the mission to the big barren rock? People who like rocks. That checks out.
I was hoping they would pick me :(
You rock, too
Thanks bb<3
No one on this geology team will be going to the moon, they are not astronauts. There are no geologist-astronauts on this first mission. This was one of the criticisms of the Apollo program, especially from scientists. Harrison Schmitt is the only geologist to have been to the moon, on Apollo 17, the last Apollo mission, in 1972, and he is the last person to have walked on the moon.
I hope in future the Artemis programme sends more geologists to the moon for some proper science and not just trophy collecting.
Well that tells me two things. Firstly, NASA needs to start giving its geologists astronaut training. Secondly, that I shouldn’t have only skimmed the media release.
Boo NASA, let the rocklovers go to the moon too, it’s their dream location.
Geology budget of 5million dollars doesn’t seem like that much.
It’s the budget for the earthbound scientists who will be handling the geology side of the mission. The astronauts can’t know everything – this is their expert ground team for one part of the mission.
