Scrubbed for today due to leak in 8 inch hydrogen line.
Know when?
Glad to see it finally launched!
The commentator seemed to be channelling Buzz Lightyear in the final seconds!
So only 26 days until we see if the whole shebang has been 100% successful. The final test will be the re-entry and splashdown. Assuming it all goes without hitch then I expect the next Artemis will have some veryfoolhardybrave people inside it.
You know, I had heard he even mucks about with those who cannot bleat, so that makes sense.No, they got Shaun the Sheep aboard the rocket. He is Mission Specialist.
An amazing technical achievement. Over 2,000,000 million pounds of thrust. Seeing it light up the sky from a distance turning night into day was astounding. I can only begin to imagine the sound it made. I would have loved to have witnessed this in person.
Incidentally, months ago, I signed up to have my wife's and my names included on a disc that blasted off with Artemis today. We also have our names on the Mars Rover. It's a novelty that NASA offers with significant missions, but a cool one.
So is that 4 trillion pounds of thrust then?Over 2,000,000 million pounds of thrust.
2,000,000 x 1,000,000 = 4,000,000,000,000? I think @Trevp666 needs a new calculator. In any case, it's an American mission, so that would be 2.36 trillion dollars of thrust.So is that 4 trillion pounds of thrust then?
Calculator? I got that wrong on the back of an envelope!I think @Trevp666 needs a new calculator.
Spacesuited Snoopy doll floats in zero-g on moon-bound Artemis 1 mission
Incredible image of our new perspective, taken with a tap of a button on my keyboard. What a time to be alive.
For those who are thick as mud, this is Orion approaching Luna with Earth over there.
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Astonishing is the word, mate. When you give that paradigm time to dwell and focus, profundity occurs. From the big bang to the forms in our avatars? Do we ascribe it to gods? Sadly, they don't do instant, so we ascribe it to evolving process. It goes along. It keeps on.Astonishing to think that the primordial soup sparked into life,