Splashdown!
Welcome home, Artemis II crew!
Welcome home, Artemis II crew!
After half a century, we've finally sent people to the Moon and back to Earth again!
When they were showing that shot from the solar panel cam shortly before atmosphere entry, there were these rainbow-colored vertical streaks seeming to move down the image, and I thought, "Wait a sec, are they at warp?"
Watching the splashdown was very nostalgic. There have been all these experiments with reusable rockets that can make computer-controlled landings back where they took off, but the 50- or 60-year-old method still works.
It's amusing that all the advanced space-travel tech worked perfectly, and the only things that went wrong were the toilet and the satellite phone, which you'd think would be the easy things to get right.
Watching the splashdown was very nostalgic. There have been all these experiments with reusable rockets that can make computer-controlled landings back where they took off, but the 50- or 60-year-old method still works.
It's amusing that all the advanced space-travel tech worked perfectly, and the only things that went wrong were the toilet and the satellite phone, which you'd think would be the easy things to get right.
All four crew members are safely out of the module!
reminds me of the old days from the 50s to the 70s when the old school style space ships used land into the oceans from outer space before the space shutles era began in the 80s
lol which brings me to say
there are probley alternate earths in the multiverse where the space missions to the moon never stopped and kept going to the moon where they then have bases and colonies on the moon
There was no human spaceflight in the '50s. Some early animal astronauts may have splashed down.
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This is about 25 seconds that were recorded on the capsule of the Artemis during re-entry.
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the US military may have sent a manhole cover into escape velocity in the 1950's but not a man
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It cost taxpayers less than a penny per tax dollar. There is a little troll named Nate that called Alabama “selfish” over SLS…but has no problem giving my space tax dollars to near Trillionaires.
That Ayn Rand-garbage needs to end. By the bye—she died on public assistance she would have denied others.
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I had this ready to post as soon as the crew of Artemis II safely returned. But when it seemed forever the main parachutes took to deploy, I had a sickening feeling I might have to rework it to serve as a memorial!
What a couple of "white knuckle" minutes those were! Thankfully, they DID deploy and finally open (expand? unfurl?) resulting in a safe splashdown!didnt the russians send a human to space in the 50s after animals were went to space
No.
No Soviet went into space until 1961.
No Soviet went into space until 1961.
Fmr. I.S.S. Commander on Artemis II: ‘There are still magnificent things happening’
The world is watching as Artemis II closes out the final leg of its historic journey where no human has gone before. MS NOW’s Josh Einiger and Retired Astronaut and Fmr. I.S.S. Commander Col. Chris Hadfield join Chris Jansing to discuss what to expect as the Orion capsule re-enters the Earth's...
A good take on Artemis
Opinion | Artemis II cost billions of dollars. And it was worth every penny.
The Artemis II mission splashdown capped an exploration defined by the jaw-dropping “Earthset” photo and Reid Wiseman’s Carroll Crater.Opinion | As Artemis II splashes down, the Trump admin is trying to slash NASA’s budget
Bill Nye shares his plans to fight the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to NASA.
It cost taxpayers less than a penny per tax dollar. There is a little troll named Nate that called Alabama “selfish” over SLS…but has no problem giving my space tax dollars to near Trillionaires.
That Ayn Rand-garbage needs to end. By the bye—she died on public assistance she would have denied others.
i actually do watch for all mankind and it is to me in my opinion one of the greatest apple tv tv show i have ever seen
