NASA, the "woke" generation of it, is planning on walking on the moon in 2025 at "Artemis Base Camp" and putting a "Gateway" in lunar orbit. Just not for white male astronauts.

"With Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon, using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before."  https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/

(so, caucasian men, you had your time playing golf there, and using the dune buggy, now it's time for everyone else to inspire everyone that white men didn't, to be astronauts) 

It should be a merit based selection system, that the best qualified are chosen, but when the articles about Artemis are written, all of them, they all begin with "woman and first person of color" instead of "best qualified. How about instead of deciding who goes based on the liberal agenda, they chose based on the factors that matter? Someone that has a work history of lonely and long term operation of data collection in deadly circumstances? Like Antartica scientists? Why use Affirmative Action?

Yup, that's both sexist and racist of NASA, and I'm not unaware that the NASA moon missions have always been white men.  Yes, they were. However, that's all there was to select from, so, maybe they weren't being racist and sexist then. 

Yes, women and minorities could NOT get into any military program that gave them a chance to be astronauts, and hey, I wasn't in charge then, nor am I now. 

Anyone that can do math in there head, or with a slide ruler, to get the course corrections right for re-entry when the ships computer isn't working, well, that's who I want up there to save the lives of everyone else on the mission (Apollo 13 reference)

Amy Fagan, associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Western Carolina University, recently served on the NASA moonwalking test mission team for Artemis III which is part of the Artemis missions, which are going to the Moon's south polar region.

“This is going to inspire school-aged children, particularly girls, to be able to see a female astronaut land on the moon,” said Fagan. 

To prepare for this uncharted terrain, the moonwalking test mission was conducted at the S P Crater near Flagstaff, Arizona. The mission simulation was held in October and named the Joint Extravehicular Activity Test Team Field Test #3.

The Artemis project will take humans to the far side of the moon where no one has yet gone. So, information collected by an associate professor at Western Carolina University is vital, as she is providing insight into moonwalking.

“We have evidence that there's water, there's hydrogen there... from previous missions, and so that's one of the reasons why Artemis 3 is going to the South Pole region,” Fagan said.

https://www.wcu.edu/stories/posts/News/2023/01/faculty-member-part-of-nasa-moonwalking-test-mission.aspx

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/in-the-arizona-desert-nasa-prepares-for-walking-on-the-moon

https://wlos.com/news/local/western-carolina-professor-chosen-nasa-moonwalking-test-mission-team-artemis-3-2025-first-human-landing-50-years-amy-fagan-apollo-17

Wouldn't it be cheaper for the American taxpayer to simply fund university programs for anyone interested in moon walks, instead of wasting hundreds of billions of (just add it to the debt ceiling!) tax payer dollars to fund a useless moon walk? NASA has already proven humans aren't going to be able to live long term in space, physically. So, there's no point in building a base on the moon. The fact that no one will fund a replacement space station ought to indicate there is no country that will fund a moon station. Hell, no one can keep the current International Space Station working properly right now. Nor can any country get a rescue mission off the ground in an emergency. 

 Go mine some asteroids for the metals, and do something useful for a change.