Artemis II

[LangleyBlue1970]

Two hours to go.

 

[waspish]

We’ve all seen a rocket take of what I want to see is them landing on the moon which takes five Days..

 

[dickie davies]

We’ve all seen a rocket take of what I want to see is them landing on the moon which takes five Days..

About the same amount of time it takes a woman to parallel park


Kidding, Im just Kidding

 

[tregyblue61]

They seem to have an issue with the abort system.

Countdown continues

 

[1.618034]

That's the special announcement Trumps making tonight.

The Clangers are an enemy of the United States and they are invading to protect the oil they've just found there.

Soup!

 

[flook]

Bet the orange gibbon is not loving the fact that there's a Canadian onboard.

and a woman and a black man, surprised he's not put his own choice of people in there tbh

 

[tregyblue61]

and a woman and a black man, surprised he's not put his own choice of people in there tbh

That's why they are dressed in his facial colour so he won't notice.

 

[moggymoz]

I'll be listening to this as they build up to T-minus 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1... "We have lift off"

 

[normskih]

Fuck work!

I wish:)

 

[ninjamonkey]

Really hope i'm wrong on this but I have a morbid feeling it's going to go catastrophically wrong.

 

[Mancity1980]

Hardly newsworthy flying round the moon - if they actually landed on it nearly 60 years ago, had a walk around, put a flag on it, and even filmed the whole thing........

It’s the first step to going a lot further. A moon base, a trip to Mars.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Really hope i'm wrong on this but I have a morbid feeling it's going to go catastrophically wrong.

Me too.
One test flight so far.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

We’ve all seen a rocket take of what I want to see is them landing on the moon which takes five Days..

Not this time.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Yes, but compared to actually landing on it, flying round it and taking a few pics isn't really a step forward, much less a giant leap

They aren’t just flying round it like Apollo 10. They are going a lot further out as they go past.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Really hope i'm wrong on this but I have a morbid feeling it's going to go catastrophically wrong.

It's a rational fear. Been a while since this kind of thing has happened and some of us still have vivid memories of space shuttles Challenger and Colombia.

:(

 

[ninjamonkey]

It's a rational fear. Been a while since this kind of thing has happened and some of us still have vivid memories of space shuttles Challenger and Colombia.

:(

Not old enough for challenger, but do recall colombia now you've mentioned it. I don't follow what NASA get up to in any real detail but there doesnt appear to have been a lot of testing done prior to this.

Everything seems infinitely more complicated now which also opens everything up to many more ways it could go wrong.

Hope its a major success, not just because I don't want to watch people die, i would love to see significant advancements in space exploration in my lifetime. Growing up it felt like everybody was constantly talking about space exploration and it seemed inevitable i'd get to witness that but a few decades later that no longer seems all that likely, i'd at least like to see us land back on the moon and failure here could set that back substantially.

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

Not any more than Carrick becoming full time manager will set those red twats back.

 

[TinFoilHat]

I don't blame NASA for being overcautious. Any little issues is being flashed up and run through.

It's very important this mission is successful otherwise Elon will be antagonising to replace them.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Not old enough for challenger, but do recall colombia now you've mentioned it. I don't follow what NASA get up to in any real detail but there doesnt appear to have been a lot of testing done prior to this.

Everything seems infinitely more complicated now which also opens everything up to many more ways it could go wrong.

Hope its a major success, not just because I don't want to watch people die, i would love to see significant advancements in space exploration in my lifetime. Growing up it felt like everybody was constantly talking about space exploration and it seemed inevitable i'd get to witness that but a few decades later that no longer seems all that likely, i'd at least like to see us land back on the moon and failure here could set that back substantially.

I watched Challenger live.
Had a very big effect on me as a kid. The iconic image of the smoke and the boosters heading in different directions still vivid in my mind.

 

[Gray]

Each of the boosters weighs 726 tons when fully fuelled, so god knows what the whole thing weighs. Needs a hell of a lot of thrust to get that off the ground.