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Artemis 2 Launch Thread - History in the making!

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Super excited for this. Hard to fathom the engineering involved in this whole setup.

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    NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft’s window after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right and

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    We at least have something to be proud of! AGAIN. 😉

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    Nope. With the correct velocity and correct trajectory the Moons gravity pulls them round and back on path to Earth. The velocity is just fast enough to not get caught  in a Moon orbit. They aren't ou

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I would love to see a repeat of the Apollo 8 Christmas Eve picture of the Earth from the Artemis Crew.

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4 minutes ago, tdflightsim said:

I would love to see a repeat of the Apollo 8 Christmas Eve picture of the Earth from the Artemis Crew.

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Apollo 9 orbited the Moon about ten times though, so plenty of opportunity to get such an image. The Orion will only loop around,so they may not get such an opportunity 

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Countdown stopped at T-10:00. This is normal, right?

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Go for launch!

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If the astronauts had taken their kid along with them 😞

 

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16 minutes ago, Luis Hernandez said:

Countdown stopped at T-10:00. This is normal, right?

Countdown going on, crew access bridge removed 😱

4 minutes ago, Fielder said:

If the astronauts had taken their kid along with them 😞

😂

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Beautiful launch!  They are on their way to the moon.

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WOW!!!  Now I can go to the bathroom.

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Just now, tdflightsim said:

WOW!!!  Now I can go to the bathroom.

 

🤣 Me too. Then off to bed

Good night space cadets. 

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Excellent launch - good luck astronauts! Can't wait to see some of the footage.

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1 hour ago, martin-w said:

 

Apollo 9 orbited the Moon about ten times though, so plenty of opportunity to get such an image. The Orion will only loop around,so they may not get such an opportunity 

Apollo 9 was a earth orbit mission to test the LM and docking with CM, March 1969 Jim McDivitt, Russell Schweickart, Dave Scott

"toilet trouble shooting"  "I will hand the toilet lead over to Christina"  "remove the urine hose from the cradle and allow it to run for one minute, then add 250 ml of water..."  " it worked"! "so we do not suspect a blockage, we think it could be priming issue" etc. and finally the repair was made without any plumbers on board. 

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8 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

I can understand the excitement if you’re under under 65 as you probably won’t have remembered the Apollo missions from Christmas 1968 to 1972 when man landed six times in nine missions.

I’ll watch the launch with interest but I’m not sure it will give me the same excitement as watching those Saturn V launches with that iconic countdown.

https://youtu.be/ViNcBQ8cDA0?si=ylj_mpV_FLp7Wyk6

Good luck to all the crew and support staff. Earth in UHD should look pretty cool. 😎

That brings back memories. We didn't have TV in South Africa back then (can you believe that) and I remember listening on the radio as the details unfolded. We were all very scared that the mission might return with some horrible disease.

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9 hours ago, martin-w said:

 

Apollo 9 orbited the Moon about ten times though, so plenty of opportunity to get such an image. The Orion will only loop around,so they may not get such an opportunity 

 

Typo... we were referring to Apollo 8. 

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