Launch was a success, we are finally head back to the moon. Bout damn time I might add. They will not land, but I assume a test run for return:
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That was really inspiring to watch. Massive respect to everyone involved in this feat of scientific achievement. Here’s to many more to come.
Refreshing to see NASA finally launching people into space again.
I was excited for this and proud to watch it happen. I was born in 1972 only four months before the last Apollo 17 mission and the Apollo program has always been a huge interest of mine. I’ve always said that seeing a Saturn V launch would have been something that I would have loved to see and tonight my wife and I committed to making an Artemis launch when we hopefully go back to actually land on the moon.
I’m already annoyed hearing the whiners complain about the “uselessness“ and cost. The actual technological and humanitarian benefits that could come from colonizing and mining the moon then moving onto Mars are tremendous. The best one was watching CSPAN after the launch and them taking phone in questions and one flake started whining about the environmental impacts of the rockets killing all the wildlife. STHU.
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Standing by for “American Mediocrity” to shine somewhere in this effort. With DEI, etc. It’s nearly a certainty that a major failure will occur. American can’t even build or spec out appliances that work anymore and they want to play moon volley ball? Jesus.
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Well I am glad to see it as well. Full speed ahead!
A moon shot, bombing Iran, … its like an “unfinished business from the 1970s “ theme.
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We watched it live yesterday evening. It was really cool to watch. I hope for the Astronauts safety and a successful mission.
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I was at Kennedy Space Center last week. Every 'Murican should visit that place whether they are interested in space travel or not. It’s truly inspiring. I was there as press some years ago, wanted to return to see the public area I’d missed last visit. Height of the visit was seeing the Shuttle up close, and the building it’s housed in. Very impressive and demonstration of what the US, and only the US, can accomplish.
I remember watching Neil Armstrong walk on the Moon with my Grandmother I asked her if She ever thought She would see a Man on the Moon, She said “Honey, they didn’t even have airplanes when I was a Child.”
Imagine all that and more in one lifetime.
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The 20th century was probably the most incredible in human history. We went from airplanes not even existing to the SR-71 in like 60 years.
They should play this for their wake up music.
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I was annoyed thinking about this crap this morning. The news g00ber said the craft now has the crew in a separate chamber and there’s a failure module that detaches during launch if the thing doesn’t blow up for fail. It’s just a perfect example of American Mediocrity.
Spend billions on a failure contingency instead of just building the shit right in the first place.
You seriously whining because a spacecraft has a failure contingency - to account for a possibility that is very real and has happened in the past?
I hope none of your vehicles have spare tires. It’s stupid to spend hundreds on a failure contingency instead of just buying magic tires that will never ever go flat.
That Old Lady raised 3 Kids during a Depression and just when She thought all that BS was over my Dad showed up when She was 46.
We made amazing advances, I agree but we also paid for all of that along the way in Blood and Turmoil.
We didn’t just put a Man on the Moon, We built a Society capoable of putting a Man on the Moon.
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That’s why they sent a black guy this time. LOL
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Odd take. That’s like saying instead of airbags we should make cars uncrashable…
How many planes crashed during the development of plane flight? There’s no " building the shit right in the first place" when no one know what “right” is and no amount of “right” can account for all contingencies of shit going wrong when you are sitting on top of what amounts to a giant bomb releasing massive amounts of energy in a (hopefully) controlled manner. I do think we have a tendency to over focus on safety measures that are designed to add an illusion of safety to make people feel good, giving into our risk averse culture. The astronauts know full well if that rocket fails, they’re all dead. Bad ass test pilots with nads of depleted uranium, like Chuck Yeager, got into craft to see if they would fly knowing full well they may not, and did it anyway because risks are part of how we make progress into the unknown. Calculated risks yes, what ever safety measures that can be added that make sense, yes, but acceptable risks to move forward must happen.
And, we must accept the outcomes of the risks. First shuttle loss was totally avoidable and due to human F ups. They were warned and they ignored the warnings.
Second shuttle loss, appeared to be, with the tech of the shuttle, much less predictable and avoidable but there were known risks of those very delicate tiles.
You know when you look at all travel from Stage Coach to Indy Car, from the first Trolly’s to the Massive beheamoth Trains of today, Air Travel and Space Travel might actually be much safer.
Why? Jobs program?
Various reasons, from logical jumping off point to Mars and the solar system in general, to military reasons, as the moon is the ultimate high ground and the Chinese are focused on the moon, as is India. Russia is, but obviously pre occupied. Jobs/tech related, sure, throw that in there. Me, and others, think we should have had a moon base decades ago. Also, there’s a lot of trickledown tech from NASA that does not get the attention it should. We are humans, humans are explorers, we explore stuff, that’s why men got into wooden boats and sailed off with no idea what was waiting for them over that horizon. That’s our DNA, and that’s why we are the apex creature on the planet, maybe other planets in the future. More details, my visit to NASA as press some time ago:
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