Watching the NASA Artemis Launch. Feels like the old days seeing the shots from Banana River
I question your pick of quote for the thread title! 
Watching this too. As someone who was a little too non-existent to see the first round of moon launches, this is all very exciting!
Good luck to the Artemis II crew, including Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen!
Watching this too. As someone who was a little too non-existent to see the first round of moon launches, this is all very exciting!
Good luck to the Artemis II crew, including Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen!
They're up safe - first hurtle cleared safely...I question your pick of quote for the thread title!
Watching this too. As someone who was a little too non-existent to see the first round of moon launches, this is all very exciting!
Good luck to the Artemis II crew, including Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen!
Whew! they made it to orbit!
Trans-lunar injection burn was successful! They're on their way!
And the loo works again. To see the Moon that closely would be amazing.
question your pick of quote for the thread title!
No kidding. My heart skipped a beat, but at least it made me click on it!
Actually, I think that despite how dangerous it all is, I think the space program has a pretty good track record, despite the few accidents it has had. It is one of those things you can only learn and improve upon. You learn from failures and move on.
The post title; Seeing as how much going up was untested made me feel like this was an 'all-up' flight in the parlance NASA used when they tested everything all at once on a spaceflight (with the astronauts riding or not). Then the debacle last year getting back from the ISS. Seems my default setting right now with NASA is 'cynical but hopeful'. Wasn't like that (most of the time) in the Shuttle era.
Sorry for being clickbaity, Admiral.
Sorry for being clickbaity, Admiral.
Well, they're back safely! Fortunately the thread title didn't jinx anything. 
Not sure what I'm going to do though... I've been listening to the mission stream for the last 10 days straight. It's going to feel weird without it now...
But I'm glad everything went so successfully, and everyone seems to be safe and sound!
Not sure what I'm going to do though... I've been listening to the mission stream for the last 10 days straight. It's going to feel weird without it now...
But I'm glad everything went so successfully, and everyone seems to be safe and sound!
thread title reminded me of something from a Thomas Pynchon novel, then I remembered that Thomas Pynchon's literary universe is tied into Star Trek's.. because of Yoyodyne Corporation, who after a spotty start in Pynchon's 20th century, apparently go on to make stuff for Starfleet. I guess they finally got the Nefastis Machine to work (which literally uses Maxwell's Demon to sort entropy).
The Yododyne corporation actually also has a corporate hymn. Here it is:
High above the L. A. freeways,
And the traffic's whine,
Stands the well-known Galactronics
Branch of Yoyodyne.
To the end, we swear undying
Loyalty to you,
Pink pavilions bravely shining,
Palm trees tall and true.
Bendix guides the warheads in,
Avco builds them nice.
Douglas, North American,
Grumman get their slice.
Martin launches off a pad,
Lockheed from a sub;
We can't get the R&D
On a Piper Cub.
Convair boosts the satellite
Into orbits round;
Boeing builds the Minuteman,
We stay on the ground.
Yoyodyne, Yoyodyne,
Contracts flee thee yet.
D.O.D. has shafted thee,
Out of spite, I'll bet.
(sung to the gun of Aura Lee)
The Yododyne corporation actually also has a corporate hymn. Here it is:
High above the L. A. freeways,
And the traffic's whine,
Stands the well-known Galactronics
Branch of Yoyodyne.
To the end, we swear undying
Loyalty to you,
Pink pavilions bravely shining,
Palm trees tall and true.
Bendix guides the warheads in,
Avco builds them nice.
Douglas, North American,
Grumman get their slice.
Martin launches off a pad,
Lockheed from a sub;
We can't get the R&D
On a Piper Cub.
Convair boosts the satellite
Into orbits round;
Boeing builds the Minuteman,
We stay on the ground.
Yoyodyne, Yoyodyne,
Contracts flee thee yet.
D.O.D. has shafted thee,
Out of spite, I'll bet.
(sung to the gun of Aura Lee)
IKR? I listened to the YT feed while doing other stuff and looked at my Chromebook video when burns or other events happened.Well, they're back safely! Fortunately the thread title didn't jinx anything.
Not sure what I'm going to do though... I've been listening to the mission stream for the last 10 days straight. It's going to feel weird without it now...
But I'm glad everything went so successfully, and everyone seems to be safe and sound!
The circumnavigation of Luna and the astronaut descriptions of what they were seeing got my complete attention. Took a few screenshots.
So glad they made it back without mishap.
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