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robertmdh t1_jeap94v wrote

Reply to comment by Select-Owl-8322 in A group of college students are sending a rover the size of a shoebox to the moon by speckz

NASA is sending people to the moon with the Artemis project but will not land until a further date.

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passengerpigeon20 t1_jeazf24 wrote

Why bother? They can actually render the fake footage in a very reasonable time with post-1969 CGI! /s

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link2edition t1_jebqa5d wrote

They don't want to hire Kubrick again. He only films on location and is a perfectionist. Apollo 11 landed on the moon 157 times before he was happy with it.

also /s

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passengerpigeon20 t1_jebr6dr wrote

"If we'll need to actually build the rocket to stop people from asking questions, maybe we could just... pop to the moon and fake the footage over there."

- Mitchell and Webb

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amitym t1_jecsycx wrote

But... what if people found out??

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Available-Camera8691 t1_jedacyb wrote

Kubrick died, and it is the only reason they wouldn't hire him again.

I know he is dead. I was at his funeral, where Belgian techno anthem Pump Up the Jam was played five times, back to back.

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SnooWords6686 t1_jedrunk wrote

What is the problem to land in moon? Dust ?

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ChefExellence t1_jee3mjs wrote

The new moon landing program, (called Artemis) currently has a working space capsule (called Orion) and a rocket that can launch it to lunar orbit (called SLS), so can send humans to lunar orbit on Artemis II.

The lander (called Starship HLS) and suits (called AxEMU) are not scheduled to be ready until Artemis III because they did not receive contracts and funding until very recently.

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