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Astronomy cast episode 695 mission roll call part 4 lunar exploration. Welcome to astronomy cast from weekly facts based journey through the cosmos

where we help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know. I'm Fraser Kane. I'm the publisher of university with me is Dr. Pampligate a senior scientist for the planetary science institute and the director of cosmoquist. Hey Pam, how are you doing?

I I'm doing well. Fall has arrived. Yeah, yeah, we went mushroom watching yesterday, which is what you do in October after the heavy rains come back and it's just so great.

We found their mushroom that looked like a butt and it was delightful. But I want to sort of put something everybody's brains today. I was having a conversation with one of my patrons and talking about I was asked I always ask people what's their favorite podcast show book. I want to know what's the best. And they were telling me about a podcast that they had listened to and really loved better than me, right? And but it podfated.

So they stopped recording back in in 2020 and this happened all the time that you are there's some kind of content that you really like and you really appreciate the enthusiasm for the people who are doing it and then they pop they post less frequently and eventually they just stop and then you never find out what happened to them.

But you know, we don't know exactly what was going on, but my guess is they couldn't make it into a viable thing that could cover their cost to keep doing it that that almost all of the content that all of us consume is to some degree of volunteer effort.

And I mean, even astronomy cast, you know, I volunteer a time and you know, we're able to pay a team and I don't know if we would be able to keep doing astronomy cast if we didn't have our patrons that were supporting the work. So we would not we wouldn't not that good.

It should not exist. No, it should not exist. So thank you to everyone who supports us. But just think about how you spend your time and the things that you love the most and how you would feel if those things went away.

Because the person who is volunteering their time couldn't do it any longer and figure out a way that you can support them directly.

I mean, if if they've thought it through and they've got a patreon or they've got a way for you to give them donations or buy them a cup of coffee or join their Kickstarter or whatever, if it's meaningful to you and you would you would be saddened by its loss, then please help them out.

And even like giving them a donation to just tell them this thing that you make is important to me and and you're making the world a better place and so keep at it and you and you may not make it a career today, but maybe you will in the future.

And that vote of confidence for any creator is enormous. I can remember the times when we first started making things and someone sent us a donation out of the blue.

So that's it. That is all I wanted to say. Just think about the stuff you love and figure out a way to support the people who create that stuff.

Because if you don't and if nobody does, then eventually it'll go away.

Our journey through missions continues. This time we focus on the moon. There are many nations on the moon, near the moon, around the moon, traveling to the moon. It's a lot and we will talk about it today.

All right. So this is originally where we're going to like mash this episode. We're going to talk about the moon and Mars. I mean, maybe we were talking about planning it last week. Anyway.

And we were looking at the moon missions were like, Nope. Full episode. There's too much. True. Very true. Yeah.

So let's. Where do you want to start? Because you actually you class some gave you all those classifications when we set up things that are at the moon, on the moon, near the moon, around the moon, traveling to the moon.

So which of those classifications would you like to start with?

So I think we need to actually start with a scorecard in a way because like everyone knows the U.S. landed humans on the moon.

Because like today I hadn't heard that. Yeah. We're kind of loud about it. But like.

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