Artemis II Launch - we're going back to the moon!

[timeshifter]

Hope you're watching the Artemis 2 launch today, at 6:42 PM. This is exciting and a big deal in my opinion. We're sending humans back to the moon. I know we're not landing on the moon this time, but they are going to go to the moon and orbit it a few times, and I understand they're going further out than any previous missions have gone.

So this is really exciting, and the launch is scheduled for later today, Monday, April 1st.

LIVE: Artemis II Launch Day Updates - NASA

Live updates for launch of NASA's Artemis II test flight will be published on this page. NASA’s launch broadcast coverage is airing on NASA+, Amazon Prime,

www.nasa.gov

 

[Markverhyden]

Yep. Been listening to radio chatter while I'm doing some other stuff. They fired up the toilet for testing purposes. Good thing some things don't really change when it failed and .....

 

[callthatgirl]

I saw it launch from Fort Myers, so wild. I was watching it on the phone and after take off, I looked in the sky to see if I could see it and then seconds later, there it was. 3 hours away!

 

[DRPCNZ]

Yep. Been listening to radio chatter while I'm doing some other stuff. They fired up the toilet for testing purposes. Good thing some things don't really change when it failed and .....

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Off topic but I'm ex RNZAF Royal New Zealand Air Force, last year the RNZAF got new C130J Hercs replacing our C130Hs'. Last year a group of about 20 of us retired personnel were able to get onto RNZAF Base Auckland and do a tour over the C130. So heres all the old buggas looking at this flash new aircraft and all taking photos of the flushing toilet that this aircraft has. The C130H had what was called a honeypot. It was a bucket behind a curtain.

 

[Metanis]

Space, the final frontier...

How many of us grew up to this speech?

 

[River Valley Computer]

Off topic but I'm ex RNZAF Royal New Zealand Air Force, last year the RNZAF got new C130J Hercs replacing our C130Hs'. Last year a group of about 20 of us retired personnel were able to get onto RNZAF Base Auckland and do a tour over the C130. So heres all the old buggas looking at this flash new aircraft and all taking photos of the flushing toilet that this aircraft has. The C130H had what was called a honeypot. It was a bucket behind a curtain.

I know what you're talking about. I flew C130s in the USAF in the early seventies. I remember the honeypots so well. My wife's nephew is currently flying C130s out of Little Rock, AR. The J series. he took me on base several years ago to look at them. WOW - the cockpit. TOTALLY different. No analog instruments anymore - all digital. and - a flushing toilet!

 

[NETWizz]

Yup... in about 20 years, we may land on the moon for the first time since the Apollo missions in the 1960's or the first time ever depending upon what you believe.

 

[britechguy]

@NETWizz,

And, even then, there will be those who insist it can't be and wasn't done. Why anyone would believe the moon landings, among many other things so well documented and studied out the wazoo by who knows how many experts and non-experts alike, are faked is just beyond me.

And the idea that government could keep a secret (were it a secret, and it isn't) that big for that long. It just beggars belief!

 

[callthatgirl]

@NETWizz for the first time ever lol.

 

[NETWizz]

I do believe we went to the moon.., we just forgot now to get there

 

[Metanis]

O M G

Artemis II crew faces Microsoft Outlook hitch hours after takeoff

“I also see that I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working,” Wiseman could be heard saying over dispatch.

nypost.com

https://x.com/windscribecom/status/2039836710956155157?s=20

Fun fact: Microsoft has enough money that it could pay for an Artemis rocket launch to the moon every single day for 22 YEARS. And yet their email, a technology invented just 2 years after the first moon landing, is still dogshit. Truly astounding stuff.

 

[Markverhyden]

At least they got the toilet working!!!!!!

 

[NETWizz]

At least they got the toilet working!!!!!!

Did they send up Howard Wolowitz?