All things Space (1 Viewer)

[PaulPUSB]

Thought I would start this thread as lots happening in the next month!

Starting tomorrow Artemis II launches sending Humans around the moon. Launch is scheduled for 23:24 GMT and can be watched live on youtube (BBC or ITV may pick it up aswell).

In the next few weeks we have SpaceX launching Flight 12. This consists of Starship39 which is a brand new design (V3) and Booster 19 which is also a slightly new design but with the new Raptor 3 Engines. Nothing has blown up yet in testing which is good but when its all put together!

Also this month Blue Origin will be for the first time attempting to reuse one of their Boosters on a New Glen flight.

Exciting times!

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[chiefdave]

Starting tomorrow Artemis II launches sending Humans around the moon. Launch is scheduled for 23:24 GMT and can be watched live on youtube (BBC or ITV may pick it up aswell).

BBC have a daily podcast running which you can find under 13 Minutes Presents Artemis II

 

[RegTheDonk]

Re. the cost, I don't understand the practicalities or major benefits of re-visiting the moon, other than perhaps the far side being shielded from earth radio waves thus enabling more sensitive radio telescopes etc., but for prestigue and from a humanity point of view, quite excited to be seeing people back around the moon. I'm hoping there will be live streams during the trip with images a bit better than when I follow it 50 odd years ago. Believe the higher orbit will also set a record as the furthest from our planet any living person has every been (other than alien abductions, of course! lol).

 

[AOM]

Can we get promoted first please before we bring any alien life back to earth?

 

[Covkid1968#]

Going to see Prof Brian Cox later this year.....whilst I am no geek, I do like a bit of space exploration.

 

[PaulPUSB]

Going to see Prof Brian Cox later this year.....whilst I am no geek, I do like a bit of space exploration.

I saw him afew years back at Warwick Uni... my head was by the end of it

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[AOM]

Going to see Prof Brian Cox later this year.....whilst I am no geek, I do like a bit of space exploration.

He's really good and the visuals on the screen were impressive. The discussion about black holes was interesting but also eerie.
Not sure if he still has Robin Ince involved as well, but he made it a bit more accessible to the audience

 

[chiefdave]

Going to see Prof Brian Cox later this year.....whilst I am no geek, I do like a bit of space exploration.

He did a warm up for the tour at Warwick Uni a couple of weeks back. Very good as usual.

Makes some pretty complex things understandable. Whether you could explain it to someone else the next day, or even retain a lot of it, is a whole other thing!

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

Good thread, I started a 3iAtlas one last year, got quite a few interested too. I'm fascinated by Space and what's out there.

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

A few glitches on Artemis ll and slightly behind schedule by the sound of it

 

[chiefdave]

Planned hold anyway so just had to extend it a bit to complete checks but nothing that should stop the launch

 

[PaulPUSB]

Is it morbid of me to think this is gunna explode?

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[chiefdave]

Is it morbid of me to think this is gunna explode?

Whenever I watch launches as soon as they get to the bit where they start jettisoning parts I always think something has gone wrong.

 

[PaulPUSB]

For me Nasa Is miles behind SpaceX and still stuck in the 70's... the rockets have Hardly changed and the interior is just a mass of wires and switches compared to clean lines and touch screens in the Dragon Capsual. It wouldnt suprise me that eventualy they may scale back and slowly hand over to spaceX and other private companys

NASA has no plan in place to reuse rockets, Once Starship becomes as reusable as the Falcon 9 I think questions will be asked from Congress.

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[AOM]

Is it morbid of me to think this is gunna explode?

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I watched the launch live last night, and it's unsettling how often they sound like they're trying to convince themselves everything will be fine!
"Everything is looking good so far"
"The astronauts can cancel the launch at anytime if they're not sure"
I wouldn't want to hear that on an easyjet flight before take off!

 

[Captain Dart]

View from Atremis.

 

[PaulPUSB]

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View from Atremis.

Situated over leicester?

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