Artemis
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2026 5:40 pm
https://www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK8TE ... BK8_UUVEnb
Hopefully we can send DT there to be King of the Moon
Hopefully we can send DT there to be King of the Moon
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Re: Artemis
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2026 6:45 pm
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.
Re: Artemis
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2026 8:40 pm
Watching “The Dish” tonight in a form of tribute to Lunar Exploration
Re: Artemis
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2026 8:44 pm
Hopefully it launches on time, I’m tired already 
Re: Artemis
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2026 10:49 pm
Just tell Trump there's unsupervised 13 year old girls there, he'll fund dozens of missions for it.IanF wrote: Wed Apr 01, 2026 5:40 pm https://www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK8TE ... BK8_UUVEnb
Hopefully we can send DT there to be King of the Moon
I've got the livestream running in the background, hopefully goes off without a hitch.
Re: Artemis
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2026 11:30 pm
Yes doesn’t seem real watching this live.
T-5…
T-5…
Re: Artemis
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2026 11:44 pm
What an incredible thing to see 
Re: Artemis
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2026 11:45 pm
Looks like the NASA animations are also running on shuttle era computers
Re: Artemis
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2026 11:46 pm
That was awesome…
Re: Artemis
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2026 11:48 pm
Nice!
Over.
Over.
Re: Artemis
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2026 11:53 pm
Watching us head to the moon for the first time is really something.
Re: Artemis
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2026 12:14 am
Re: Artemis
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2026 9:00 am
Still using the Apollo program crawlers…
Re: Artemis
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2026 9:18 am
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?
Re: Artemis
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2026 9:27 am
I don't get why watching America burn 2.4 million litres of liquid hydrogen to colonise the moon is so cool
Re: Artemis
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2026 9:33 am
Adding a bit of extra humidity to the floridian air
Re: Artemis
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2026 11:55 am
Re: Artemis
Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2026 12:40 pm
Glamorous 
Re: Artemis
Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2026 12:48 pm
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"
Re: Artemis
Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2026 12:51 pm
One of the crew has spicy beans for their meal choice. Absolutely evil