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Wish I could have went. I would promise to stay in the corner and not touch anything.
Mind blowing photos coming back this morning...
And Northrop rocket boosters. Not my program, but I am on an adjacent program.
The solid boosters right? I worked on the SLS core booster for Boeing Space and Defense back around 2017. It was painfully understaffed back then, you can see how Boeing wasted billions on the development. Then the first government shutdown over the border wall happened and we didn't get paid for several weeks, I decided working on direct government programs like this isn't for me. Plus even back then there were plenty of rumors SLS would get cancelled.
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Yep, I've heard some stories about that program. We also make the LAS for Artemis. That thing is interesting , to say the least. I was able to see some internal only videos from the take-off. Pretty amazing stuff.
Hard to blame anyone for walking away from these kind of programs. I'm doing the same, actually .
So the shuttles are out of retirement?
Or are those the X37b’s that now utilize the old shuttle highbays 🤣. Was wondering about that picture??? Here’s a 9 year old pic of one of the crawlers used for the Apollo and shuttle programs being retrofitted to transfer Artemis from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pad. Second pic is a crawler that was still set up for a shuttle.
Joey's 2nd and 3rd images aren't from Artemis, I'm surprised he didn't include the NAZI moon base, or is that still a secret?
Awesomeness!🔥
Splash down in 3 hours. Live on YT now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG-JvBIhGFg
I remember watching Apollo 11 on TV when they landed on the moon, and this has been pretty cool too.
Proud to be an American today. The space program, keeping the world safe from Iran, President's wife speaking her mind. American, fuck yeah.
Watching them struggle to setup rhe “Capsule Raft Thingy” looks like an absolute PIA 🤣
Beautiful day for a conclusion to a wonderful mission.
Pilot is a product of our local school system. Not sure what happened to my kids! 😄
Uh oh…
They said it was Bush 2 that got this program restarted.
I knew a couple people from high school that worked at NASA in Beltsville MD.
i've seen a lot of badass shit in my life. Pastrana 125 quad in Vegas. Tyson in his prime. Reed nailing that line at High Point in '09. Chuck Lidell. John Stockton pulling up in a mini van and fucking dudes up.
watching those guys hit the water after the multiple parachute drops was up there.
America! Fuck Yeah!
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Incredible precision. 😎
That capsule is HUGE compared to the originals that had them squeezed in like sardines.
Did this one go a LOT faster? Though the ones back in the day took a lot longer to get there and back.
The ones back in the day, Apollos, would orbit the moon not just slingshot around it. So probably not as fast getting back from the moon. The capsule would orbit while the lander went down to the moon.
I heard they were dealing with some wicked currents. Not sure if that was effecting things as everything kinda moves together in a current, but I guess it could.
They apparently practiced that a bunch in the gulf, so something must have been causing problems because it didn't look all that smooth.
Artemis II astronauts have proposed naming a bright, previously unnamed lunar crater "Carroll" in honor of Carroll Taylor Wiseman, the late wife of mission commander Reid Wiseman. The crater is located near the lunar far side, and the heartfelt, spontaneous proposal was made during their historic 2026 lunar flyby, honoring Carroll's legacy as a nurse.
Sort of, Little Bush green lit Constellation in 2004 which was later cancelled by Obama in 2010. Trump's NASA group brought it back in 2017 under the Artemis title. We used a lot of Constellation tooling to build the Artemis core boosters, as it was basically a copy of the Constellation Ares V. Bush's original timeline had us landing on the moon in 2020.
Man they are really trying hard to get off the Epstein list programming
The photos, and vids, coming out now are amazing...
While I am happy NASA is starting to do stuff again, that Jurassic splashdown and retrieval was brutal to watch. 50+ years later they are still doing shit the way they did it when I was in 1st grade? FFS Elon lands his rockets on floating barges and/or catches them with huge jibs and NASA spends hours trying to get a bunch of inflatable boats up to the thing and extricate the crew. smh At a minimum they could have a huge eye hook on top of that capsule, have a Sikorsky Skycrane or equivalent hover over the damn thing, some Navy divers put the hook thru the eye, and carry the capsule via helicopter to a waiting ship or barge. It would be VERY easy to do that scenario, But nooooo, they are bobbing around the sea in those dinky ass boats dragging those people out like its a crash scene on the side of a highway.
Yeah, that was a tough watch.
Hell, they have 3 hooks for the parachutes already that they probably used to do exactly as you described after they got them out.
I'm skeptical about this actually being real. Joe Rogan said that astronauts can't travel through the Van Allen radiation belts, so that's already been settled....!
Beautiful pictures from this mission!
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