NASA's pricey mission to send U.S. back to moon faces technical challenges | 60 Minutes

Of course the black guy thinks space travel is too hard

Typical newsoutlet for grinding the gears of SpaceX, if you wouldve truly done your research you wouldve known the true progression SpaceX is making. Also, what the Blue Origin sr. VP said is exactly the same thing SpaceX is trying to achieve. Promoting Blue Origin only because you got those guys to do a interview is unfair...

I bet they are not saying that now as we have useless Boeing ship stuck to space station with multiple problems and barely made it

i like spacex and blue. let them complete but dont squeeze them too much or we will just end up with dead astronauts.

I like how this reporter just expects spacex to build the worlds biggest spacecraft, and for it to fly perfectly the second time they launch it.

Hey, 60 MINUTE'S, Biden's illegal immigrants are costing far more!!! COMMENT???😱🤔🙄🎤

It's funny how they try and knock SpaceX and Musk because of politics.

Riiiiight

Why do we need to land on mars !?

Please just cancel this stupid project. Stop wasting TAX dollars to prove the Moon is a dead rock.

Oh cut the buxxxxxx, give me a contract "I FLY in MY dreams, i dont fall to the ground"! Dang i forgot about the oxygen tanks, nevermind

the perils of working with spaceX? those ships were expected to fail lo. they were tests.

while i hate elon musk, im not stupid. spaceX know what theyre doing

Starship IFT 1, 2, and 3 weren't expected to survive their flights. They were tests, prototypes, not missions. That's what IFT stands for: Integrated Flight Test. With that said, the tests have been more successful with each launch. The first one failed after separation. The second one failed much further after separation. The third one made it to space, but not quite orbit and burned up re-entering the atmosphere. No one at Space X ever expected them to be 100% successful. And even if they were, a 100% success of those tests would have been the booster crashing into the ocean and the ship completing one orbit before also crashing into the ocean. They're tests of prototypes. I don't know how else to say it. There wasn't any mission to complete. They were data gathering experiments to see what else needs to be tweaked so that when they do launch for real, it'll work. That's the whole point of rapid iterative design. Try it. See what fails. Fix it. Try again.

Artemis is just a jobs program. In the end it will be canceled with no colonies on the moon. Too expensive. "No bucks, no Buck Rogers."

"rapid unscheduled disassembly". lol. Yeah no, it blew up.

It's sad and bewildering that this country was sending people to the moon almost regularly over 50 years ago and yet now it's a "challenge". We should have colonies on Mars by now. Maybe they shouldn't have spent decades doing science fair experiments on the "space shuttle".

Capitalism baby

NASA has become just another bloated and inefficient bureaucracy employing 60 year old, unlimited budget, throw-away technology. Only private industry, like Space X can lead the way forward.

This is a weird video. Framing it as NASAs fault when SpaceX is dropping the ball, not to mention Axoim and the new space suits

In other words, youbwant to sent people back to the moon, while helping spaceX sent people to the ISS w/o anyone dying. And on top of that you say its "expensive???" Lmao. You have no idea how much comolicated this is.

The irony of NASA's budget being in question while decades worth of NASA's budget is handed over to Ukraine every few months! 🖕

NASA SP287 " WHAT MADE APOLLO A SUCCESS ??? "
" of course , the way we got this job done was with meeting , big meetings , little meeting hundreds of meetings ! ( the thing we always tried to do in these meetings was to encourage every one no matter how shy to speak out !!! "
WHY encourage every one DON'T SHY TO SPEAK SOMETHING OUT !!! IS ULTIMATE SECRET TO
" MADE APOLLO A SUCCESS ??? "
YOU CAN GO TO THE MOON WITH " DON'T SHY TO SPEAK SOMETHING OUT ? " shy for speak what ???

There is nothing pricey about Artemis. Military spending is pricey.

It's been 50+ years & the best we can do to return to Earth is to splash down in to the ocean using parachutes?!?

NASA has used "60 Minutes" to broadcast its belief that SpaceX will fail to meet its, "contractual obligations"; but NASA has a backup in Blue Origin.
For NASA and Jim Free, the Artemis cost overuns are regrettable but NASA will still get to the Moon, Starship or not.
As Bill Nelson pointed out, the risk of a Chinese lunar "land-grab" before 2030 are real.

Why not just dust off the blueprints and rebuild the Saturn 5 again the thing worked

Gee, I WONDER how many of these pro-Musk comments would trace back to a Russian bot-farm IP address?

“Back”

This feels very anti SpaceX. It’s like they assume getting to space is easy, let alone the moon…

SLS is obsolete at this point

This is trash tier reporting, come on now. SpaceX are actively building, testing, and iterating on Starship.

And we went in the 60s and we cant get them up now cause of technical difficulties wow. So its not to far fetched to say the U.S. faked it the first time. Not far fetched at all.

I don’t know why everyone is pissy about the timetable. Apollo took 9 years from creation to launch with almost 5% of the entire federal budget at the time. Artemis is about 6 years in with only 0.5% of the budget (note not all that money goes to Artemis it goes to NASA as a whole)

If keeping China from owning the Moon, is not a worthwhile goal, then keeping the USA as a country, is not worthwhile either. Getting to the Moon, IS expensive and time-consuming, and it takes commitment and patience, to accomplish it.

Elon Musk to the rescue….Jim looking at job security.

How much did Bezos pay 60 mins ?

Pricey. Yellow Journalism. Cost being anything other than negligible compared to a solo Chinese military moonbase.

This left out the fact that NASA only started the process for HLS in 2019, expecting a Human landing in 2024. So one may say that the timeline was never realistic to begin with since most of their big projects take longer than that. I really don’t understand why NASA didn’t think of the lander a little earlier or am I missing something?

We need to develop WAY MORE EFFICIENT technologies.

Rockets are just a waste of money.

A huge waste.

Space missions definitely cost too much.

If the news discovered this , then you know it's all been around for quite a time

Wait did he just say it’s never been done before?

THis piece is a Hit Piece with no basis in fact. This discusses 2 launches and called them basically the same, nothing could be further than the truth. The biggest thing holding up the development of Starship is the FAA delaying the issuance of launch licenses. As Musk said, how can he build rockets faster than the government can shuffle papers.
Oh, Starship hit orbit on its 3rd launch, pretty good. BTW, SpaceX blew up a lot of Falcon rockets before they got it right, that is because they have an iterative design process. They build a rocket, watch it blow up, fix the issues, launch again. It is (normally) faster and cheaper than over designing and launch once. Now that there is a sense of urgency, apparently the FAA has approved 6 or 7 total launches this year, so that is a lot of R&D. I bet they get it right by the 6th launch, then the stress testing begins.
I will support Blue Origins when they start producing. So far, SpaceX is it. Musk has the plan, and he is executing. Remember, it is not just about building a rocket, it is about mass producing them, and AFAIK, he is the only one working on the manufacturing capability to do that economically. Starship is projected to bring the price to orbit to under $100/kg, I have seen $65/kg. A few years ago, it was $65,000/kg, the Falcon got it down to $1500. That is what SpaceX is doing.

Love how the media makes spacex rocket explosions as “problems” that’s literally how they research and innovate faster than anyone else. Rather than using computer simulations that take years to perfect they do it in real time real life in the public eye. You don’t get success without failure.

Fans of scientific projects are fighting in the comments below exactly like football hooligans. Mine is better than yours, and vice versa.
One group of scientists trying to take humans forward, is absolutely cool, the other one completely sucks.
We enter a video to gain some knowledge and understanding, but we have to read about Musk vs Bezos from their devoted fanboys.

Watch any coverage and especially post flight press conferences from Apollo 11 all the way to the Mars rovers and the most recent Odyssey landing form February 2024. Watch any or all of them, and you'll see, hear, and feel the lies being told to us. The post flight press conference from Apollo 11 and the 2012 Curiosity landing press conferences are so obvious. They answer no questions, say some big words to get everybody excited for "science," and they even slip up multiple times calling it theatre/simulation, while laughing. They know everyone likes sexy science and they manipulate that. Notice they never tell you much about the "mountains of data" or what we learned from the "science." They just tell us they have a lot of great data and the "science team" is super excited and working around the clock. It's BS, and it's BS I not so long ago believed. I did not watch Rogan and hang out on Reddit to learn this. I just chose to actually watch their coverage. I have told lies and put on fronts in my life; we all have. If you'll admit that to yourself, remember what it feels like to fib, and remember the feeling of knowing someone is lying or has lied to you, you'll see the scam. We are in economic and societal ruin, and these people just keep dropping bombs on mostly poor people and wasting our time and labor. It's not even about the billions necessarily. Its that we leave each other as families every day so we can labor for the goodies and conveniences they sell and the tax revenue created by our labor. They are scamming us out of our human birth right to live gracefully. It's criminal.

should've said how Elon landed 2 spaceships on Mars in 2022 and will do another 4 this year. Just as he claimed he would.

Starship was never meant to work on the first flight. They are using these first flights as experiments and using the data taken to make the next flight better, and so on