Artemis 2 splashdown and recovery

[Gaspasser]

My wife and I watched the Artemis 2 splashdown yesterday and were thrilled that we are back in the space game. However, the recovery felt like an awfully protracted process resulting in the astronauts sitting almost 2 hours in a relatively calm but still undulating sea. The helos were touted as the fastest way to get the crew to the receiving ship but given the complicated sequence of events required to setup for the helo recovery, would it not have been more expedient to shuttle the crew in one of the larger fast boats? Apparently, the mother ship was less than 2 miles away.

I am an amateur armchair observer, and not second guessing NASA and the experts but did this occur to anyone else?

 

[GreensvilleJay]

though the same thing !!!
they got there on time, right at 8:07 and the 'taxi' took TWO friggin HOURS ??

 

[whatsupdoc]

I have worked with a few aerospace engineers years ago while employed for a military contractor. All I can say is that they are brilliant but sometimes lack common sense.

 

[Sidekick]

I was thinking the same thing. Elon would have landed it on that boat and had them out in 15 minutes. They seem to have gone back to Gemini technology instead of moving forward.

 

[D2Cat]

Looked like a rerun of technology of 1972. We got smart phones and 40 new versions and they still use parachutes to ease down to earth. The goal of a lunar south pole refueling station, and getting there before China, will require faster progress then displayed in the last 57 years.

 

[whatsupdoc]

Apollo capsule.



Artemis Capsule 53 years later looks like they painted the
the old model and reused it.

 

[GeoHorn]

I guess I”m the curmudgeon. I can’t believe we’re burning up this much money going back to that dusty old rock. There’s nothing worth going there for and even if there were it would do us no good in the amounts we’d bring back …. unless it were pure gold….. and even then all it’d do is De-value the gold we already have down here.

Maybe if it WERE made of cheese …. we could at least Feed Somebody!

Total Waste of Time and Money and Resources. We should be exploring the oceans instead.

 

[Scm]

I can’t believe we’re burning up this much money

Its ONLY $93,000,000,000

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

I guess I”m the curmudgeon. I can’t believe we’re burning up this much money going back to that dusty old rock. There’s nothing worth going there for and even if there were it would do us no good in the amounts we’d bring back …. unless it were pure gold….. and even then all it’d do is De-value the gold we already have down here.

Maybe if it WERE made of cheese …. we could at least Feed Somebody!

Total Waste of Time and Money and Resources. We should be exploring the oceans instead.

Yes it does sound like your being a curmudgeon.

We are going to that dusty old rock to set up a base to be able to launch missions to Mars.

 

[Hugo Habicht]

Yes it does sound like your being a curmudgeon.

We are going to that dusty old rock to set up a base to be able to launch missions to Mars.

To do what?
Collect more dust samples?