Artemis

[IanF]

https://www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK8TE ... BK8_UUVEnb

Hopefully we can send DT there to be King of the Moon

[speedingfine]

Read about the Apollo missions my whole life, as I'm sure we all have on here. Feels slightly unreal that I'm going to experience a moon mission 'live'. I find phrases like 'trans lunar injection burn' really quite affecting tbh, truly amazing stuff.

[dinny_g]

Watching “The Dish” tonight in a form of tribute to Lunar Exploration

[Mito Man]

Hopefully it launches on time, I’m tired already

[Beany]

https://www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK8TE ... BK8_UUVEnb

Hopefully we can send DT there to be King of the Moon

Just tell Trump there's unsupervised 13 year old girls there, he'll fund dozens of missions for it.

I've got the livestream running in the background, hopefully goes off without a hitch.

[GG.]

Yes doesn’t seem real watching this live.

T-5…

[Matty]

What an incredible thing to see

[Mito Man]

Looks like the NASA animations are also running on shuttle era computers

[dinny_g]

That was awesome…

[mik]

Nice!

Over.

[Beany]

Watching us head to the moon for the first time is really something.

[GG.]

[dinny_g]

Still using the Apollo program crawlers…

[mik]

Still using the Apollo program crawlers…

The are CAF though

That post reminded me of my confusion that Americans invariably default to lbs for weight though. Even accepting that the US have no desire to go metric - why not use the imperial (short) ton? Why say this setup is "18 million pounds", rather than "9000 tons"? (8164 tonnes). Is it just a metric that John Q Citizen is unfamiliar with?

[Gavster]

I don't get why watching America burn 2.4 million litres of liquid hydrogen to colonise the moon is so cool

[GG.]

Adding a bit of extra humidity to the floridian air

[mik]

[mik]

Glamorous

[Matty]

Apprently it's much, much better than it used to be. Previously you just had to go in front of the other crew and "catch" any errant...fluids.

"In the tight quarters of Apollo crew capsules, astronauts strapped adhesive-rimmed plastic bags and tubes to themselves whenever they had to defecate or urinate. Attaching the awkward bags was difficult enough in weightless conditions, but the astronauts also had to manually mix in a packet of germicide to prevent the buildup of bacteria and gases within the sealed bag.

The system was infamously prone to leaks, such as during the Apollo 10 mission, when astronauts noticed “a turd floating through the air,” and during the Apollo 8 mission, when the crew had to chase down blobs of vomit and feces that escaped into the cabin. A NASA report released after the end of the Apollo missions noted that waste disposal “must be given poor marks” when it comes to crew satisfaction"

[Mito Man]

One of the crew has spicy beans for their meal choice. Absolutely evil