NASA Artemis II Launch Day is April 1st - fingers crossed

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I am really on the proverbial edge of my seat on this one. It is SO improbable that this would happen, yet it looks like it is. I was just old enough to know what was going on the first time.

If we get benefits from these landings, like the first ones gave us (one example- the whole idea of a software program that could be loaded onto a computer- yes, NASA did that first)- this could be a game-changer in terms of things like available resources and such...

Regards,
Gordon.
 
GordonW said:
I am really on the proverbial edge of my seat on this one. It is SO improbable that this would happen, yet it looks like it is. I was just old enough to know what was going on the first time.

If we get benefits from these landings, like the first ones gave us (one example- the whole idea of a software program that could be loaded onto a computer- yes, NASA did that first)- this could be a game-changer in terms of things like available resources and such...

Regards,
Gordon.
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Are they planning to land in future missions? This one’s a fly-by as I understand it.
 
kirk57 said:
Are they planning to land in future missions? This one’s a fly-by as I understand it.
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It looks as if they traded off a proposed lunar-orbit space station (not being built now), in order to do more landings. More bang-for-the-buck, is the way it was described.

Artemis 3 and 4 are both slated to land. 3 at the moon south pole, which is an area where we've never gone before, and there was very little research done on, until recently. But, that's where they think they will find usable water, possibly... the area of shadow in the bottom of the craters near the poles, that never get direct sunlight.

Also, at the poles- if you put up a tall enough transmitting tower, to get past any hills- you can have uninterrupted communication with the earth. No "far side" issue.

Regards,
Gordon.
 

NASA Artemis II Launch Day is May 1st - fingers crossed​


I think you have a typo in your title. The next launch opportunity is tomorrow - April 1st. (No joke!)

From NASA: The onsite countdown clock started ticking down at 4:44 p.m. EDT to a targeted launch time of 6:24 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1.

Even if they hit a snag and have to reschedule, I'm excited to see this happen!
 
dcmfan said:

NASA Artemis II Launch Day is May 1st - fingers crossed​


I think you have a typo in your title. The next launch opportunity is tomorrow - April 1st. (No joke!)

From NASA: The onsite countdown clock started ticking down at 4:44 p.m. EDT to a targeted launch time of 6:24 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1.

Even if they hit a snag and have to reschedule, I'm excited to see this happen!
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Thanks, fixed. Oops.
 
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Such a long time since Friendship 7! Best wishes for today's crew and future progress ...

As Jeffrey Sinclair once said:
Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out.
When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu and Einstein and Morobuto and Buddy Holly and Aristophenes
... and all of this ... all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars.

(Babylon 5)
 
We will never reach the closest star and that is fact unfortunately. We will never travel at lightspeed which even if, it means years still just to get to one and no guarantee we will find a usable M class planet. Then setting up enough infrastructure for a population...

Cool seeing the moon explored again, maybe better pictures this time, especially the darkside. Good luck to the astronauts. I was a kid watching in rapt attention the Apollo missions when it meant something, National Pride beating the Russians to the surface with human feet
 
I was 15 years old when I watched the first moon landing. It was a Sunday, so would have watched it at home. Hope to be alive for the second. The odds aren't too bad for that, though I don't know how soon we'll have a permanent moon base. Mars is more problematic. It took a lot of time and failures just to get robotic missions there.
 
Find it surprising to learn that they don’t even plan to do at least one complete circle around the moon. Maybe that the actual schedule is more challenging though, by doing only one half or so circle around the moon in order to be thrown back towards earth (hopefully).
 
I lived in Orlando when we first started shooting rockets up from Cape Canaveral. I remember Alan Shepard’s extended elevator ride - up and down, but no orbit. I’ve been an air and space nut for almost my entire life. I’m just giddy that we’re trying this again. Best wishes for a safe and successful ride!
 
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