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Exactly. I'm happy to see NASA get back in the game, but this is basically just a test flight. I'll get excited for the next one.

("Hey, kids! We're going to Disneyland! We're going to drive all the way around it before we head home!")

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Even the next one isn't landing on the moon. It is still a test flight. Good that they are testing things obviously, but it is hard to get excited about testing...

the apollo program had 5 crewed flights, two of which went to the moon without landing. after 50 years of not going there, it is exciting that something is happening. i don't actually care about landing on the moon. i care about what is being tested and learned from these flights, whether they do land on the moon or not.

the moonlanding better be a test for base building for example and not just collecting samples. we can do that with robots already.

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