Artemis II - NASA Sends Astronauts Around Moon - USA!!
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I'm in the south, Orlando in fact, and I can normally see the liftoff and first stage from my front porch. Tonight I didn't see anything..so, did it really happen or is this just another trump fake out to make us think there was really a launch? Were all those people on site just hired actors to make all of us think there really was a launch? Was this just like the moon landing which never happened and just a video staged in a Florida theater setting? If we were the first people on the moon how was there a camera already there to take video of armstong coming out of the landing capsule?
Or is this just one more thing to distract us from the Epstein files or the high price of gas, and the shi--y economy?
all good questions for which there are no good answers!!!
April fools!!
Just think what our civilization could accomplish if we weren’t so consumed by BS.
It was cool to watch the launch on TV. I literally have a snippet of memory from the last moon shot lifting off in 1972. I remember watching a big, white rocket lifting off on a tiny black and white TV screen of a big console TV . Have looked at the moon occasionaly and wondered why we had never gone back and why we didn't have moon bases like i used to see on TV shows.
Pretty cool real time tracking site from NASA with simulation using real time telemetry data. Can view where the spaceship is on along the flight path, chose different points of view, zoom in and out...kinda neat.
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/
I think there is a smartphone app as well don't know what it's called
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/
I think there is a smartphone app as well don't know what it's called
you think he's old, I had already completed flight school in July 1969 when we landed on the moon the first time.Wow you’re old!
old man has such a negative connotation..I'm more like a seasoned citizenDamn, you think well for an old man. Respect
we've done this many, many, many times before...way back before 1969. Are all these current experts all Gen Z? They need pats on the back? They don' have records of how it was done before?
Jared Isaacman dropped out of high school at 16 and started a company in his parents' basement with $10,000 his grandfather gave him. Tonight he's on the deck of a Navy ship, waiting to welcome four astronauts home from the moon.
That basement company is now Shift4 Payments. It processes over $200 billion a year in credit card transactions, about a third of all restaurants, hotels, and casinos in the U.S. Went public in 2020. He ran it as CEO from age 16 until he stepped down to take over NASA last year.
He also co-founded Draken International, which ran a fleet of over 100 retired fighter jets whose entire job was playing the enemy in combat training for U.S. Air Force and NATO pilots. He sold it to Blackstone for over $100 million.
He has over 8,000 hours in the cockpit and can fly more than a dozen types of military jets. He personally owns a MiG-29, a Russian fighter that tops 1,500 mph, which he bought from the estate of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. It's the only one in private American hands. In 2009, he flew around the entire planet in a small Cessna jet in 61 hours and 51 minutes, a world record, to raise money for Make-A-Wish.
In 2021, he paid for and commanded Inspiration4, the first all-civilian spaceflight. Four people with no astronaut training, three days orbiting Earth, $250 million raised for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Then in 2024, he went back up on Polaris Dawn and floated outside the spacecraft, held to it by a 12-foot cable, in the first spacewalk ever done by someone outside a government space agency. That same flight reached 870 miles above Earth, farther than any human had been since the last Apollo crew in 1972.
He took over as NASA's 15th administrator in December 2025. In his first three months, he redirected $20 billion away from a planned space station around the moon and toward building a permanent base on the moon's surface.
Right now he's aboard the USS John P. Murtha, about 50 miles off San Diego. The capsule carrying the Artemis II crew is going to hit the atmosphere tonight at around 25,000 mph. If the heat shield holds (it took damage on its last unmanned test), if the parachutes open, four astronauts splash down at 8:07 PM ET after a 694,000-mile trip around the moon. And the person waiting for them has been to space twice, walked outside a spacecraft, owns the only Russian fighter jet in private American hands, and started his first company as a teenager in his parents' basement. His call sign is "Rook."
That basement company is now Shift4 Payments. It processes over $200 billion a year in credit card transactions, about a third of all restaurants, hotels, and casinos in the U.S. Went public in 2020. He ran it as CEO from age 16 until he stepped down to take over NASA last year.
He also co-founded Draken International, which ran a fleet of over 100 retired fighter jets whose entire job was playing the enemy in combat training for U.S. Air Force and NATO pilots. He sold it to Blackstone for over $100 million.
He has over 8,000 hours in the cockpit and can fly more than a dozen types of military jets. He personally owns a MiG-29, a Russian fighter that tops 1,500 mph, which he bought from the estate of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. It's the only one in private American hands. In 2009, he flew around the entire planet in a small Cessna jet in 61 hours and 51 minutes, a world record, to raise money for Make-A-Wish.
In 2021, he paid for and commanded Inspiration4, the first all-civilian spaceflight. Four people with no astronaut training, three days orbiting Earth, $250 million raised for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Then in 2024, he went back up on Polaris Dawn and floated outside the spacecraft, held to it by a 12-foot cable, in the first spacewalk ever done by someone outside a government space agency. That same flight reached 870 miles above Earth, farther than any human had been since the last Apollo crew in 1972.
He took over as NASA's 15th administrator in December 2025. In his first three months, he redirected $20 billion away from a planned space station around the moon and toward building a permanent base on the moon's surface.
Right now he's aboard the USS John P. Murtha, about 50 miles off San Diego. The capsule carrying the Artemis II crew is going to hit the atmosphere tonight at around 25,000 mph. If the heat shield holds (it took damage on its last unmanned test), if the parachutes open, four astronauts splash down at 8:07 PM ET after a 694,000-mile trip around the moon. And the person waiting for them has been to space twice, walked outside a spacecraft, owns the only Russian fighter jet in private American hands, and started his first company as a teenager in his parents' basement. His call sign is "Rook."
They stuck the landing. On the button from a target standpoint and almost to the second from a time calc standpoint. The burn sending the capsule to themoon was so on the money that they didn't need some of the planned course correction burns on the way back.
I asked AI to compare the apollo capsue comupters and went down a rabbit hole that was interesteing as hell. Your smart phone is like a million times more computing power than the apollo onboard computer. But the apollo computer was purpose built, totally optimized and engineers anticipated that it might become overloaded. And it was. They designed it to, when overloaded, to prioritize the most important tasks and leave less important stuff (like displays) undone. During the 1st moon landing the astronauts got error codes but the lander was performing as expected so they wer given a go for lunar landing.
I asked AI to compare the apollo capsue comupters and went down a rabbit hole that was interesteing as hell. Your smart phone is like a million times more computing power than the apollo onboard computer. But the apollo computer was purpose built, totally optimized and engineers anticipated that it might become overloaded. And it was. They designed it to, when overloaded, to prioritize the most important tasks and leave less important stuff (like displays) undone. During the 1st moon landing the astronauts got error codes but the lander was performing as expected so they wer given a go for lunar landing.
