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Artemis II Launch Day Updates

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Post by NetMageSCW »

yokoprime wrote: post #304
0xffff2 wrote: post #282

I do hope the doomers who think that the entire US government has been completely gutted will take note of this. The government workforce is in a bad spot for sure, SLS is far from a perfect program, but this still demonstrates that we are doing some real work still.

While the current administration has multiple areas of improvement and isnt really taking feedback in an adult manner, the federal workforce has some of the most competent people working for it inside certain parts of the organization. im thinking especially of NASA and NASA JPL.

NASA also has some of the most incompetent people working for it, and a lot of them are responsible for overseeing SLS and Orion. JPL hasn’t been doing to well lately either (Mars Return?).

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Post by lnx01 »

stephenhuey wrote: post #341

Just listened on the radio driving the kids to swim class! I'm curious, does anyone think the show For All Mankind provided any peer pressure or influence to help propel NASA to this moment?

I doubt it, SLS and Artemis predate 'For all mankind' by many years.

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Post by y1n0 »

stephenhuey wrote: post #341

Just listened on the radio driving the kids to swim class! I'm curious, does anyone think the show For All Mankind provided any peer pressure or influence to help propel NASA to this moment?

I think spacex and now blue origin lit a fire under their butts.

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Post by layer8 »

sd9 wrote: post #320

Minutes after launch they reached "ten thousand miles per hour". That's 2.78 miles per second. Nuts. No doubt the speeds go even higher later too. I'm sure people here are already familiar with the speeds these things go, but that's the first time I've confronted a fact like that and it blew me away.

Escape velocity is 25,020 mph (6.95 mps), so not completely surprising.

Note that escape velocity applies to a situation without continued propulsion and also without air resistance, but still you can imagine that the order of magnitude is similar.

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Post by y1n0 »

lnx01 wrote: post #422
stephenhuey wrote: post #341

Just listened on the radio driving the kids to swim class! I'm curious, does anyone think the show For All Mankind provided any peer pressure or influence to help propel NASA to this moment?

I doubt it, SLS and Artemis predate 'For all mankind' by many years.

True but they have been drag-assing for years.

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Post by general_reveal »

mikestorrent wrote: post #392
general_reveal wrote: post #365

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well. You are getting down voted but here I am in later stages in life watching this Moon launch, and unlike other times in past, I didn’t feel any inspiration. Honestly, it’s a waste of money. That’s my final answer, there’s kids that need food. I am no longer inspired by this stuff. I’ve seen enough advanced technology for many lifetimes, we need something else as a species (more of that humanity thing).

I understand your side to some extent. It helped watching my 11yo watch the launch - for him it's more meaningful, more imminent than it can be for a jaded person like myself. I don't think it's mutually exclusive with food aid, though. If anything, it's taking money that probably would have gone into bombs and aeroplanes instead if we didn't have a space program. Honestly, it feels like we could redirect the entire…

Yeah totally. Ideally, I’d like it if we feed the kids that need the food, educate them, and have them build the rocket and have them take the glory of that achievement (the glory being we as a society uplifted ourselves, literally … to the moon).

Right now it feels like the privileged are being sent to the moon. Many babies and young adults are on battlefields right now.

But thank you for reminding me how important it is for the child to see something magical.

The truth is definitely quite deep.

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Post by NetMageSCW »

jamiek88 wrote: post #318
0xffff2 wrote: post #282

I do hope the doomers who think that the entire US government has been completely gutted will take note of this. The government workforce is in a bad spot for sure, SLS is far from a perfect program, but this still demonstrates that we are doing some real work still.

It’s Orion that’s dodgy as fuck not the booster. I.e the new thing. Not the decades old, proven, launch engines. Let’s wait for the back patting when they splash down. I genuinely hope not but i am worried about this craft.

Just like to point out the a SRBs aren’t really the same.

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Post by mrexroad »

stephenhuey wrote: post #341

Just listened on the radio driving the kids to swim class! I'm curious, does anyone think the show For All Mankind provided any peer pressure or influence to help propel NASA to this moment?

As a huge fan of Ron D. Moore’s shows, and especially For All Mankind, I don’t see how it could possibly have (or have had) any meaningful impact on NASA or NASA-adjacent efforts. Especially Artemis.

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Post by NetMageSCW »

none2585 wrote: post #366
0xffff2 wrote: post #282

I do hope the doomers who think that the entire US government has been completely gutted will take note of this. The government workforce is in a bad spot for sure, SLS is far from a perfect program, but this still demonstrates that we are doing some real work still.

We are basically going this to funnel more tax payer dollars to musk or bezos. What a moment for humanity

Wrong in every way.
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