It's Titan, not Europa, and it's very close to the gravity on the Moon (about 85% of the Moons's gravity or a seventh of Earth's gravity compared to a sixth on the Moon). Also don't forget they're wearing heavy clunky suits.

barely any of those people are still relevant in season 5 fwiw.

How about Dev?

there's also very little science or space plot anymore. it's all politics and fighting. Felt like the sojourner mission was an afterthought.

I found the latter half of the season to be better.

Maybe this is just me, but I couldn't get past the first couple of episodes. The idea of a NASA series that isn't hopeful and full of characters trying to solve science problems to help their fellow man, it's just goes against the very idea of NASA for me. From the first episode, it's just a bunch of unprofessional in-fighting from an organization that is famously technical and professional.

Sure, we've seen some amount of in-fighting with astronauts vs. doctors or bureaucrats, from movies like Apollo 13 or The Martian. But it was a minority of the plot, and ultimately, even the "bad guys" had the best interest of the organization in mind, just from a less-personal POV.

It's engaging, but slow. I've watched the first two seasons.

So far, it's a bit hollow. Kind of thought provoking in the Monster of the week way.

Sort of like they had something, but either didn't know what to do with it or couldn't for some reason.

Idk feels more like content than a show if that makes sense. It's real beautiful and there's interesting things happening, but why.

Idk

It absolutely changes. The macho stuff lasts maybe 1-2 episodes, but after that it becomes clear that all the macho guys are damaged. By season two, the women are running the agency and pushing the series forwards, and the macho men are kind of close to the villains insofar as they unintentionally self-sabotage themselves. By season 4, the only successful men on the show are gay. The macho men are all dead, except maybe one that the writers keep to prove how bad he is, and to provide plot tension.

Partway through season 4 is as far as I got, but if you're big into feminism and space, you'll probably enjoy it even as the plot diverges from "Apollo-13" to science fiction.

I don't know if that's the kind of show you're looking for, but I find it funny for someone to watch only the beginning and label it too macho when the rest of the show clearly hates the macho man stereotype, lol.

I think the macho behavior is in response to losing the moon race. The fighter pilot era of space exploration was and is still real… but it has to evolve to become more science driven over time

The machismo is deconstructed, but the American chauvinism is real - they can't even stick to the premise of the USSR/Soviets being a more credible antagonist to drive the space race forward. They give the US loads of tech upgrades from the space race, but the USSR does not get the same upgrades despite doing the same thing.

The worldbuilding aspects are also kind of weak, with weird Final Destination-esque setpieces, and implausible political-economic just-so-stories to get main characters where the story wants them to be.

All in all, I found it unbearably shallow.