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re: NASA has announced that Artemis II is go for launch...
Posted on 1/2/26 at 9:51 pm to UKWildcats
Posted on 1/2/26 at 9:51 pm to UKWildcats
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What are their objectives on this mission?
To make sure their shite works. Duh.
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Posted on 1/2/26 at 9:56 pm to RollTide1987
SLS actually going to launch an Orion and carry humans.
Been a long time coming
Been a long time coming
Posted on 1/2/26 at 10:06 pm to RollTide1987
Why? We’ve been told there wasn’t any reason to go back
Posted on 1/2/26 at 10:27 pm to The Boat
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Why are they orbiting so high? Apollo 8 was 70 miles above the moon.
Apollo 8 actually inserted into a lunar orbit. Artemis II will just do a flyby on a free return trajectory. So that’s part of the reason.
That said, even for a flyby on a free return trajectory, it’s very high compared to the Apollo missions. I believe the Apollo free return trajectories put them something like 160 miles above the Moon. So there must be some other mission requirement affecting it as well.
Posted on 1/2/26 at 10:34 pm to Pepe Lepew
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Why? We’ve been told there wasn’t any reason to go back
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Posted on 1/2/26 at 10:41 pm to shutterspeed
It’s for a moon base. No other reason. Rare earths up there. It’s the new oil.
Posted on 1/2/26 at 10:47 pm to The Boat
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Why are they orbiting so high? Apollo 8 was 70 miles above the moon.
Completely a guess, but I think they are keeping a lot of clearance as a safety factor. You know we are super extremely cautious compared to 1969.
This post was edited on 1/3/26 at 11:40 am
Posted on 1/2/26 at 10:49 pm to RollTide1987
Does this mean that eastern St Tammany gets a break from the rockets test firing every week? 
Posted on 1/2/26 at 10:49 pm to Btrtigerfan
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More government funding.
They have fallen very far behind the US commercial sector and China.
Money won't speed progress, but it supports the grifters.
1. In what world has NASA “fallen very far behind” China?
2. The US commercial sector exists primarily because of NASA / US government funding. This is especially true when it comes to heavy launch systems like Starship and the Super Heavy booster.
That said, there is grift involved with SLS.. but it’s Congress, not NASA. They’ve managed to keep SLS alive in spite of recommendations from multiple NASA administrators over the years to kill it, because a handful of senators really wanted to keep the jobs in their states.
Posted on 1/2/26 at 11:05 pm to RollTide1987
I miss the NASA Gemini capsule piggy bank I bought in the 60's. Every time I watch To Kill a Mockingbird, I think Scout's ham costume looks like that piggy Bank. Old guys are selling their youth for $69.99 on EBay.
This post was edited on 1/2/26 at 11:13 pm
Posted on 1/2/26 at 11:12 pm to soccerfüt
That's a great picture of her. How can someone that pretty look that sweet?
Posted on 1/2/26 at 11:41 pm to The Boat
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Why are they orbiting so high? Apollo 8 was 70 miles above the moon.
So the female pilot doesn’t crash. Doubt they’ll have a bible or Jim Lovell on board so better give that big wheel of cheese a wide berth.
Posted on 1/3/26 at 12:04 am to Lonnie Utah
quote:They have no problem dismissing satellite images we of those sites that we can now see
I know. But it will be fun to watch the gesticulations for them trying to explain it away....
Posted on 1/3/26 at 12:09 am to RollTide1987
No ones says we haven't flown around the moon or put shite.on the moon. Most that have an issue with the moon landing is the human aspect of the whole deal. All theyre doing is flying around the moon.
I bet that the china/russia teamup put humans on the actual moon before we do "again".
I bet that the china/russia teamup put humans on the actual moon before we do "again".
Posted on 1/3/26 at 12:12 am to RollTide1987
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The mission should take 10 days from liftoff to splashdown
I remember when we could do it in 6 days back in the 60s.
Everything was easy back then before we knew it was hard.
Posted on 1/3/26 at 12:31 am to Btrtigerfan
quote:Complaining that NASA is behind China while mocking funding is incoherent. China’s advantage is sustained state funding and centralized direction, and it didn’t happen by not funding their program.
More government funding.
They have fallen very far behind the US commercial sector and China.
Money won't speed progress, but it supports the grifters.
It makes no sense to invoke China as a benchmark while simultaneously complaining about paying to change that dynamic.
Posted on 1/3/26 at 7:31 am to HattiesburgTiger5439
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No ones says we haven't flown around the moon or put shite.on the moon. Most that have an issue with the moon landing is the human aspect of the whole deal. All theyre doing is flying around the moon.
I bet that the china/russia
Seriously? No one???
Idiots like CADX don't think we can get past the radiation belts. Explain that!
Posted on 1/3/26 at 7:50 am to Btrtigerfan
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They have fallen very far behind the US commercial sector
When is elon sending a rocket designed to carry humans to the moon??? Because that time will be his first
same question again, but swap elon with china 
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:06 am to chinese58
Well go buy you one if it gives you joy.
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:19 am to RollTide1987
Told this news to my teenager son and his reply was an emphatic, "Were back baby!"
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