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Artemis stacking begins

Attitude change and repositioning of SAWs are visible on screen, in preparation for ARB.

They're discovering problems with the brakes on the SAWs. And they were also dealing with a plumbing problem.

The parking orbit for Apollo was approximately 100 nautical miles; the one for Artemis is near-geosynchronous.

ARB is now in progress. So is the press briefing. Should be complete by now.
 
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handover from TDRSS to Deep Space Network should occur in about 20 minutes. might clear up some communications issues and get video from Orion
 
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live video should begin from Orion soon.
live video now working. mic problem seems to be fixed too
 
They've just finished the precision maneuvering test and are backing off from the ICPS, which seems like a good moment for me to call it a night.
 
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Yeah, NO..... thumbnail is just plain wrong as is the content
 
If you want to live that mission control lifestyle, this tracking website has a bunch of vital statistics at a glance, including the mission schedule, so you can keep it in the background and know when something's going to happen so you can tune in. At post time, we're about a half-hour from them unpacking the zero-g exercise machine and trying that out.

 
Home girl does good

Artemis II in pix

 
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No, the lack of gravity will prevent that, it's the same with Mars, long term you'll have people dying a horrible painful death, the only way to have a permanent residence in space is on space habitats like the Stanford torus etc which create a 1g artificial gravity by centrifugal force.
 
Telepresence can allow any stations to operate on the Moon or Mars…good for oldsters like me :)

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No, the lack of gravity will prevent that, it's the same with Mars, long term you'll have people dying a horrible painful death, the only way to have a permanent residence in space is on space habitats like the Stanford torus etc which create a 1g artificial gravity by centrifugal force.
You could make a kind of large circular maglev or even regular high speed rail at a gentle tilt that could run several hours a day that could give people a healthy dose of 1g for awhile
I suspect that's what Dev is going with his ring shaped city plans in Season 5
. Useful for pregnant women especially.

But yes, its probably always a better idea to just build rotating settlements in orbit.
 
With the current cadence of SLS launches and SpaceX's seemingly stalled progress, I don't expect any US colonisation of the Moon or Mars to happen in my lifetime - although I am nearly 70, so not unexpected.
 
rookie question about moon/mars colonies, moon is 1/6 earth gravity
a kid born on moon comes back to earth years later ,would they be able to cope with earths gravity ?
 
rookie question about moon/mars colonies, moon is 1/6 earth gravity
a kid born on moon comes back to earth years later ,would they be able to cope with earths gravity ?
No, they would have great difficulty. They may not even survive.

Better to do the opposite and send older people to these places to retire, in all honesty.
 
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