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Artemis II...

rootabaga

rootabaga

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The new spaceship is set to launch in about a half hour. This mission is essentially a replica of Apollo 8 in December, 1968.

Who's following the mission?
 
I geek out on all things space. Growing up as the space program was growing up, I can't imagine not being fascinated. My interest sparked an interest in my children as well. I invested in an 11" Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain go to telescope that we spent countless nights together in pure admiration of space. We managed to get our signatures on the Cassini signature disk that studied Saturn and it's moons for 20 years. Our signatures were deliberately crashed into Saturn's atmosphere to end Cassini's mission. Space is fascinating. It might well be man's promising future. I doubt anyone in the beginning had a clue what the discovery of the Americas would do for mankind.
 
The vastness of space is mind blowing.
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cbsewell said:
Like Apollo 8 in that they are going to cislunar space, unlike Apollo 8 in that they are not going into lunar orbit. It's actually more similar to Apollo 13 minus the problem.
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My mistake, I thought they were going to orbit the moon. Thanks for the correction.
 
I watched the splash-down and the removal and transport of the astronauts tonight. I was streaming it on my PC while I was watching baseball on TV.
The stream was a bit interesting but it seemed very drawn out. I guess it's because we've all seen this picture show before. Perhaps not in hi def but it was familiar footage. It seems the verbiage that was conveyed with most of the show and mission as well was to interest a new set of young minds in space exploration. I'm not saying that's a bad thing. I was hoping to be wowed by this mission and I wasn't. I don't think I was the target audience. My daughter that was born in 1989 was on the edge of her seat the entire mission. She was the target. It is her generation and her children that will have to carry the exploration torch.
 
^^^ I wasn't able to watch the splashdown live, but I thought about a couple of things. First, there were concerns about the heat shield design since it was the same as Artemis I wish had some issues. Second, it was the first time (at least that I know of) that a manned capsule was returned close to San Diego, and while I certainly don't understand the details os orbital, reentry and landing trajectories, it seemed like that might have a smaller margin of error. But I do wish I lived closer to SD; it would have been cool to hear the sonic boom from the reentry!
 
It was a flawless reentry and splashdown... but they took so long building that front porch that I went to bed, confident that if NASA can get them around the Moon and back again, they can get them out of the capsule... I finally crawled into bed at 8:30 and my fumes were on fumes.
 
The fact that it was a flawless re-entry was mentioned countless times as they were trying to kill the time consumed by the endless front porch procedure. I would have given up watching but my team was actually winning a baseball game that had my attention. I do think the splashdown was spot on. My daughter and her husband live in Winchester. They drove to their favorite winery and watched the show from their outdoor venue. They had hopes of hearing the sonic boom. She said it was a bust but the wine was good.
 
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