NASA's Artemis II Crew Launches To The Moon

[egp320i]

mighty expensive shitter......not even plated in gold?

 

[egp320i]

 

[egp320i]

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

In space it's a vacuum with a funnel. You can pee standing on your head if you want.

Not this one to take a dump!

 

[egp320i]

 

[toobfreak]

They are plugged up with haggis.

 

[SeaMajor7]

Here's a cool update with a great Easter greeting from halfway to the Moon.

 

[Delldude]

 

[SeaMajor7]

Amazing footage is coming out. I hope there's more to come.

 

[Captain Caveman]

The real reason for the Artemis mission -

 

[SeaMajor7]

"Splashdown".
Artemis II crew is back on the Earth.

 

[Delldude]

USS Abscam?

 

[Zincwarrior]

Waiting for them to be pulled out the capsule. So cool!

 

[Delldude]

Waiting for them to be pulled out the capsule. So cool!

Back in the day.....

 

[toobfreak]

"Splashdown".
Artemis II crew is back on the Earth.

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who followed their return. I actually watched it live: ABC and CBS actually preempted their other programming to cover it live. But they cut out shortly after splashdown and I followed the rest of the recovery on Newsmax 2. Pretty funny that the ship that picked them up was the USS John P Murtha, Murtha was a crook who steered hundreds of millions of dollars long ago to build an utterly useless airport in his state of Pennsylvania near Johnstown which today has virtually no traffic in or out of it. A complete airport that literally sits empty year after year still sucking in millions of dollars.

Phenomenal photography, I caught this first clear image of the Artemis Orion capsule reentering at about 50,000 feet.

Takes a lot of guts for a mission like this: reentering the atmosphere going 25,000 mph literally falling back to Earth their only saving grace being if all their parachutes work! If anyone doesn't realize the relative sizes and separations of the Earth-Moon, here is a little drawing I made:

And the really scary thing: When they launch you to go to the Moon, after all the other dangers of launching and getting into space and back are not bad enough, consider that when they launch you to the Moon, they do not launch you at the Moon, they launch you into totally empty space where the Moon will be in 5 days later when you finally get out to its orbit! You and the Moon kind of intersect at the same space at the same time. Here is a little drawing: If anything should go wrong, you arrive early or late, there will be no Moon there to catch you. They have no way of stopping and turning back. If they missed the Moon, they would just keep heading out into space forever.

Thing is, they nailed everything 100%. It was a textbook mission. They made it look easy. Russia and China are embarrassed by US technology. Everything occurred down to the sub-minute, they even had splashdown calculated to within under a minute of the actual time it occurred.

What this tells me is that after Apollo and the intervening 50 odd years since of sundry other space missions, walks, stations, tests living in space, etc., this tells me that NASA has going to the Moon totally nailed down. Sending people to the Moon, they have all of the bugs out of it now and can send people there at will, budgets and hardware permitting. They are ready to send people to the Moon for long missions of building a permanent base there now with people staying and living there longer and longer periods of time.

Maybe beginning in the 2030s, we might begin building a lunar base, then over the intervening next 50 years or so as technology catches up, they will learn enough to begin seriously considering trying to send people to Mars, which is about 100X harder and riskier.

You can get home from the Moon, maybe even be rescued from there, but there is no coming back from Mars if anything goes wrong there, you are toast. Just getting to Mars depending on how you do it, is a 6-9 month trip one way.

 

[22lcidw]

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who followed their return. I actually watched it live: ABC and CBS actually preempted their other programming to cover it live. But they cut out shortly after splashdown and I followed the rest of the recovery on Newsmax 2. Pretty funny that the ship that picked them up was the USS John P Murtha, Murtha was a crook who steered hundreds of millions of dollars long ago to build an utterly useless airport in his state of Pennsylvania near Johnstown which today has virtually no traffic in or out of it. A complete airport that literally sits empty year after year still sucking in millions of dollars.

Phenomenal photography, I caught this first clear image of the Artemis Orion capsule reentering at about 50,000 feet.

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Takes a lot of guts for a mission like this: reentering the atmosphere going 25,000 mph literally falling back to Earth their only saving grace being if all their parachutes work! If anyone doesn't realize the relative sizes and separations of the Earth-Moon, here is a little drawing I made:

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And the really scary thing: When they launch you to go to the Moon, after all the other dangers of launching and getting into space and back are not bad enough, consider that when they launch you to the Moon, they do not launch you at the Moon, they launch you into totally empty space where the Moon will be in 5 days later when you finally get out to its orbit! You and the Moon kind of intersect at the same space at the same time. Here is a little drawing: If anything should go wrong, you arrive early or late, there will be no Moon there to catch you. They have no way of stopping and turning back. If they missed the Moon, they would just keep heading out into space forever.


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Thing is, they nailed everything 100%. It was a textbook mission. They made it look easy. Russia and China are embarrassed by US technology. Everything occurred down to the sub-minute, they even had splashdown calculated to within under a minute of the actual time it occurred.

What this tells me is that after Apollo and the intervening 50 odd years since of sundry other space missions, walks, stations, tests living in space, etc., this tells me that NASA has going to the Moon totally nailed down. Sending people to the Moon, they have all of the bugs out of it now and can send people there at will, budgets and hardware permitting. They are ready to send people to the Moon for long missions of building a permanent base there now with people staying and living there longer and longer periods of time.

Maybe beginning in the 2030s, we might begin building a lunar base, then over the intervening next 50 years or so as technology catches up, they will learn enough to begin seriously considering trying to send people to Mars, which is about 100X harder and riskier.

You can get home from the Moon, maybe even be rescued from there, but there is no coming back from Mars if anything goes wrong there, you are toast. Just getting to Mars depending on how you do it, is a 6-9 month trip one way.

There is no way we get a permanent moon base with the Space Launch System as the major way to it at the massive cost for launch. To increase the NASA budgets several times over may hide those costs.