Artemis II Flight, current data

[RLB454]

6:30 pm mst they are only 224,223 miles from earth
What a road trip!

 

[CertifiedMike]

The dark side of the moon
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I think I can see Uranus in this pic! Space is beautiful!!!

 

[WickedFog]

I would be much more interested if the footage was live, clear and uncut by govt entities.
I believe theres a lot more happening in space than we are being told about.

I think its great that we are exploring space again. It just seems like we should be focusing on getting our own mess straight before we go and mess up a whole new planet too.

We're going after resources. Big corp, China, and a number of other organizations are seeing $$$, and have been planning these missions to rape the moon of resources for for years. Mars is already in the works as well.

 

[CertifiedMike]

We're going after resources. Big corp, China, and a number of other organizations are seeing $$$, and have been planning these missions to rape the moon of resources for for years. Mars is already in the works as well.

As exciting as a mission to the moon might be, I will never celebrate its exploration for exploitation.
I hope its WAY harder and more expensive than they plan on.

They spend our money to make them richer... Again.
Maybe thats why I'm not excited about this mission.

 

[Doom!]

C'mon guys, if we get a chance to take some chunks out of the moon we will all be knee deep in cheese!

 

[RLB454]

C'mon guys, if we get a chance to take some chunks out of the moon we will all be knee deep in cheese!

Oooh, I hope its gouda, I love gouda!

 

[RLB454]

7:25am mst, 204,058 miles from Earth. Traveling at 1,784 mph

 

[xjtorc]

7:25am mst, 204,058 miles from Earth. Traveling at 1,784 mph

and that speed is free floating through orbit with only a few puffs of the boosters once they are close enough to align with Earth's orbit. Absolutely freakin nuts.

 

[RLB454]

and that speed is free floating through orbit with only a few puffs of the boosters once they are close enough to align with Earth's orbit. Absolutely freakin nuts.

Yup, and will continue to increase speed to aprox 25,000 mph at point of re entry
And get really really hot

 

[majin]

my osn and i were on a trail walk thru a creek when he says dad at 6 their launching a shutle we need to watch it on youtube! i didnt think he would even understand the implications, but he was so stoked about it it got ME stoked for it
so we pulled up a rock and watched the rocket leave earth. was really cool
ill keep my political beliefs to myself (hang all politicians in the streets so the next generation learns to treat we the people better)
but seeing my son interested in it made me proud, i even kept my conspiracy theories to myself to simply encourage him to BE excited about it.
its been a pretty cool thing.
but my biggest problem with it??? how tf did they get the money for all that gas!!!!!! 10 gallons costs me over 40 bucks. for the cheap stuff.
it scares me to think of how much that gas bill is lol,

Approximately 700,000 gallons
The Artemis shuttle uses approximately 700,000 gallons of fuel during its launch, which includes super-cooled liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.

 

[RLB454]

And a pic from Orion. How can seeing something like this not cause us to be humbled and look beyond ourselves? Simply amazing,

 

[Lostinthewoods86]

how tf did they get the money for all that gas!!!!!!

They stole it.

 

[majin]

They stole it.

from us, ii tried to forget lolol

 

[RLB454]

Less than .5% of total government spending is allocated to space exploration and study. A huge portion of this mission and those like it are funded by private entities like Space X and Blue Orion, and other non goverment entities. Dont worry about your paycheck being smaller to cover this gas bill, I dont think you will notice the fraction of a penny they took out for it.
Obviously this could get into a whole different topic, but hopefully we can just be excited about whats happening right now between here and the moon.

 

[majin]

Less than .5% of total government spending is allocated to space exploration and study. A huge portion of this mission and those like it are funded by private entities like Space X and Blue Orion, and other non goverment entities. Dont worry about your paycheck being smaller to cover this gas bill, I dont think you will notice the fraction of a penny they took out for it.
Obviously this could get into a whole different topic, but hopefully we can just be excited about whats happening right now between here and the moon.

ill worry about my paycheck being 1 cent shorter thats 1 cent away from my rc cars!!! they get jealous when i spend money on things other than them or my family, in all seriousness, things like this are the few things i can justify my taxes for, id rather pay for the gas for an amazing discovery than to pay a politician to fill up their luxury limo thats for sure

 

[RLB454]

6:30 am mst, 155,680 miles to Earth and 2,601 mph. Estimated splash down is Friday 4/10 at 8:07 pm edt. Funny, they say 8:07 pm Eastern time, but it will be hitting the Pacific Ocean

 

[xjtorc]

6:30 am mst, 155,680 miles to Earth and 2,601 mph. Estimated splash down is Friday 4/10 at 8:07 pm edt. Funny, they say 8:07 pm Eastern time, but it will be hitting the Pacific Ocean

we should be using LTC afterall... lol
NASA Coordinated Lunar Time

 

[RLB454]

Splash down in about 1/2 hour

 

[RLB454]

Main cutes out, what a beautiful sight!

 

[RLB454]

Splash down! And the crowd goes wild!!!!!