Artemis 2 launch (3 Viewers)

[Sky Blue Pete]

Anyone else watching?
madness at the same time as bombing another country to oblivion this is also happening

 

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[Sky Blue Pete]

That was exciting

 

[ajsccfc]

I've not been to the space centre itself but seen a live launch from the town across the way, it's a magical sight to see.

 

[chiefdave]

It's incredible stuff. Would love to see a launch live, very jealous.

 

[Macca]

Mind blowing. Ground to earth orbit in 9 mins

 

[derbyskyblue]

Again ,just mind blowing stuff.

 

[StrettoBoy]

Artemis 2 is currently travelling at 15,000 mph. If I could have borrowed it when I was still working my 20 mile commute would only have taken 4.8 seconds

 

[oscillatewildly]

Maybe I missed the brief or ‘mission statement’ as it were.
But what is the aim (other than the moon) of this latest launch?
What discoveries are they hoping to make that weren’t learned from the last Apollo launch in the early ‘70s?

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

I've not been to the space centre itself but seen a live launch from the town across the way, it's a magical sight to see.

We have and it was amazing

 

[chiefdave]

Maybe I missed the brief or ‘mission statement’ as it were.
But what is the aim (other than the moon) of this latest launch?
What discoveries are they hoping to make that weren’t learned from the last Apollo launch in the early ‘70s?

You can apply the same thing to all missions:

commercial - largely undertaken by private companies these days, this is the 'easy' and therefore profitable stuff
scientific - from the technology developed to actually get there to the experiments done on board
military - governments generally don't put the type of funding needed if there's not a military angle
get there first - nothing kicks governments into gear like the idea someone else will do something, in this case the Chinese

For Artemis itself this is mission 2, obviously hence the name, of 5 planned missions. Essentially following the same process they have used in the past, including Apollo. Each mission builds on the last.

So the first was an unmanned flight to test the space launch system & the Orion spacecraft and complete a lunar orbit. The current mission is the next stage, a manned lunar orbit.

3 will be to test the lunar landers, 4 will be a lunar landing, and 5 will a second lunar landing and starting work on a permanent moonbase.

That base is then planned to be use for work towards a manned mission to Mars.

 

[Marty]

You can apply the same thing to all missions:

commercial - largely undertaken by private companies these days, this is the 'easy' and therefore profitable stuff
scientific - from the technology developed to actually get there to the experiments done on board
military - governments generally don't put the type of funding needed if there's not a military angle
get there first - nothing kicks governments into gear like the idea someone else will do something, in this case the Chinese

For Artemis itself this is mission 2, obviously hence the name, of 5 planned missions. Essentially following the same process they have used in the past, including Apollo. Each mission builds on the last.

So the first was an unmanned flight to test the space launch system & the Orion spacecraft and complete a lunar orbit. The current mission is the next stage, a manned lunar orbit.

3 will be to test the lunar landers, 4 will be a lunar landing, and 5 will a second lunar landing and starting work on a permanent moonbase.

That base is then planned to be use for work towards a manned mission to Mars.

I'm guessing it's a lot easier to launch from the moon then for longer missions? Do they make use of things like 3D printers?

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

You can apply the same thing to all missions:

commercial - largely undertaken by private companies these days, this is the 'easy' and therefore profitable stuff
scientific - from the technology developed to actually get there to the experiments done on board
military - governments generally don't put the type of funding needed if there's not a military angle
get there first - nothing kicks governments into gear like the idea someone else will do something, in this case the Chinese

For Artemis itself this is mission 2, obviously hence the name, of 5 planned missions. Essentially following the same process they have used in the past, including Apollo. Each mission builds on the last.

So the first was an unmanned flight to test the space launch system & the Orion spacecraft and complete a lunar orbit. The current mission is the next stage, a manned lunar orbit.

3 will be to test the lunar landers, 4 will be a lunar landing, and 5 will a second lunar landing and starting work on a permanent moonbase.

That base is then planned to be use for work towards a manned mission to Mars.

Thing I get with using the moon as a base to get to Mars, it's like me going on a trip to Australia and having a stopover at the end of my garden.

 

[chiefdave]

Thing I get with using the moon as a base to get to Mars, it's like me going on a trip to Australia and having a stopover at the end of my garden.

I think its more a case of proving what is possible. They are going to establish a base there and then build the things they need rather than have to transport everything from Earth.

Guess the theory is that like the ISS if something goes wrong you can get things to them relatively quickly and easily so you prove the concept there before heading to Mars.

 

[olderskyblue]

I've not been to the space centre itself but seen a live launch from the town across the way, it's a magical sight to see.

I went there to watch a launch. I wasn’t that into it tbh, but because We were on a Disney holiday (the launch should have happened 2 weeks earlier but was postponed. a colleague from work actually went to watch this, and came home disappointed) decided the opportunity was too good to miss.

the day we were there, everything was set, we’d had the tour etc, then were moved to the viewing area to watch it go up. With an hour to go it was still on, then an oil tanker sailed into the “drop zone” and it would take more than an hour for it to turn around, so it was cancelled again.

it was announced the next morning it was going up that day, so we drove back over, and watched from 2 miles away. It went up !! The ground shook by us, it was phenomenal.

my colleague was happy to hear all about it when I got back to work…..

 

[ajsccfc]

The bit I remember most is that due to the distance between us and the shuttle the sound takes a few seconds to travel, as it started it was a bit 'should it not be louder than thiFUUUUUUUUUUUCKING HELL'

 

[Sky_Blue_Daz]

Its got a bleached asshole

 

[Johnnythespider]

Probably the only thing that would get me to the U.S would be to see a launch, but I'd have to fly in just before and out straight after.

 

[Joe King]

Probably the only thing that would get me to the U.S would be to see a launch, but I'd have to fly in just before and out straight after.

Agree with that! Never been the slightest interested in visiting the good ol' US of A!