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It’s insane to me more people aren’t excited about going back to the moon.
I suppose some think it’s our first time….
https://www.youtube.com/live/QaBaQ9EruJs?si=jxnuM5psRLkbUhoE
Launching soon
Oh hell yeah, I can't wait. T-minus four hours or so.
It's pretty damn cool.
You're right, surprised that there hasn't been more hype, and anticipation.
6:24pm eastern time.
Fingers crossed for a good launch! While in the Navy I flew with the Artemis 2 mission commander. My last carrier landing was with him. This one has me nervous. Not much experience with this launch vehicle.
He went to ISS on a Soyuz rocket. Very well proven. Another bud did four shuttle missions. Another reasonably proven and reliable platform. This one… Godspeed Tonto!
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Watching the feed now. Super cool.
Thanks for the reminder guys.
TM
I’m really out of the loop on this. I just learned we were doing this about 30 minutes ago. I deleted my thread about it. Pretty cool.
T minus 9
Great to see a good launch!
Always relieved once they’re up out of earth’s orbit. 💯
So far soo good!
Yep, I agree with you.
But unfortunately, the country is more interested in crap like the no king's protest rally..... 🙄
I remember watching the ... national geographic..? Series on the original moon missions on VHS at my omas house. I think it was like 8 or 10 tapes, probably watched it a dozen times growing up. So cool that they're going back.
Slightly off topic, @LewisPhillips you were right about the new spacecraft landing the same way they took off. Steve was also right about them landing like a plane, but that was the shuttle program which ended a while ago. Other missions just fall to earth on bigass parachutes.
This is the best perspective for a rocket launch.
Thats pretty badass. Although, I'm a bit shocked that a larger commercial airspace wouldn't have been locked down for that launch window.
That's what I was thinking.
Looks kinda close.
That’s the first thing I thought when the video started. You would think the free air space would have been much greater.
In the horrifying event of a malfunction during the first several minutes of escape velocity ( Challenger) that could have been even a worse situation.
As cool as it is, I'm just wondering if that video is legit or possibly another AI generated bullshit piece. I'm not savvy enough to differentiate them
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According to this it was a flight from Costa Rica to Atlanta off the west coast of Florida, flight path goes over the Atlantic.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/38707126/plane-passengers-catch-artemis-i…
Yeah i saw that article - and the video may very well be authentic, but still very shocked that NASA/ DOD would not have shut down a huge amount of airspace for an hour surrounding the launch . For more than one reason .
Wonder what the radius actually was for airspace lockdown during the launch .
Isn’t this the wrong side of the plane if they are going north?
I didn't think about it at the time, but "FlightRadar24" would have shown us exactly what it was.
Yeah good point - and so was lappedriders . Does appear they are flying north .
Anyone on here that has any insider knowledge of NASA/DOD/USAF/CIA/ FAA guidelines on how much airspace gets shut down for something like this ?
Surely seems like it would be more than the 30 mile radius they typically use around former Presidents private residences.
A quick google search showed me this ---Currently, there are no specific details available regarding the shutdown of commercial airspace for NASA's Artemis launch today.
They were a very long way away from that launch. The opposite side of Florida over the Gulf.
My daughter asked me why we're doing this mission to the moon and I said, "So the astronauts can take pictures and prove to the FLERFS that the Earth is round." 😆
That it's a flat disk? LOL
Was listening to the radio this morning and they made a comment that they are now on the way to the moon with a "working toilet". I haven't had time to follow what's going on, so I don' know if that was a joke, reference to another mission, or they had problems with the toilet? Anyone know? Possibly a joke from the big bang theory?
TM
Apparently they had some sort of an issue with it, but got it fixed.
I saw a news story about it yesterday, but it was a video story, so I didn't watch it.
I just pulled this off the googler. This was from "The Big Bang Theory" so I thought it might have just been a joke.
"Howard Wolowitz designed a space toilet called the "Wolowitz Zero-Gravity Waste Disposal System" for the International Space Station, but it malfunctioned due to a design flaw in the diverter valve"
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