NASA Teaches the Moon a Lesson | LCROSS | End of Mission Episode 44 YouTube video by Pressure-Fed Astronaut

Need more Moon Joy after Artemis II? Say hello to hitting the Moon!

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Got any more of them Moon missions? This one was pretty fun. Can we do it again?

Please fund my no-budget space program.

Ladies, yes, I will name a Moon (or other body) crater after you given the opportunity.

(This is the part where you slide into my DMs and I forget to respond because I have crippling social anxiety.)

The Eternal President came to me again, asking about going to the Moon himself, mentioning the propaganda value of the whole thing.

When reminded of the expense of a moon program, he laughed and said he converted to Islam to get money from Gadaffi.

Guys. Someone laid eggs in my house.

This isn't funny anymore.

Also, the President said what?

Heck of a thing.

ICPS separation.

YES!!!!! IT'S GOING!!!!

It's happening.

And, as always:

What? No Protein Crystals? | Artemis II | End of Mission Special Episode 16 YouTube video by Pressure-Fed Astronaut

Going back to the Moon! Best of luck to the Artemis II crew despite their lack of protein crystal growth experiments.

(And yes, the ending half hour is incoherent rambling about the changes to the program.)

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He's going to use the Iran War and oil issues as a basis, harkening back to the original Space Based Solar Power studies of the 70s.

Soviet space hardware has a certain look to it I like.

(This is from the Energia-Buran Archive.)

Mir, late June 1995, taken during STS-71.

Making renders for the End of Mission Interstellar Probe special is going well. Building a 1000km diameter solar sail is easy, right?

Both space and ground.

I've been re-reading "The High Frontier". It's interesting to see how the issues of the 1970s play a role in some of the logic behind the 'whys' of these proposals--and how things have changed (solar power being the big one).

My most pessimistic science fiction book has a backstory like this. Oops!

Best case scenario: a few Moon missions then Commercial-ish ISS until the next Moon program. No Mars.

Worst case: maybe a Moon landing, Commercial stations flounder from lack of funding. US-based human spaceflight dead/dying by 2040.

The best way to run a space program is to cripple it in every possible way and change it up right as things were starting to get going.

I wonder when the ISS will no longer be the basis for spacecraft in movies.

"Project Hail Mary" is quite a lot of fun. Very pretty movie.

I have this sneaking suspicion that the current NASA Administrator is a proxy for someone else and is currently sabotaging the space program for that person's benefit.

Where do these ideas come from?

Last night I was under a tornado watch, had a tinge of sunburn, and enjoyed lighting dancing across the darkened clouds. Now there's an inch of snow outside.

Wat.

Someone Cooked Here | Stardust | End of Mission Episode 42 YouTube video by Pressure-Fed Astronaut

Count dust at a Wild 2 party!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmQC...

He also just suggested using a modified Babylon Gun to shoot barrels of oil over the Straight of Hormuz.

The Eternal President came to the launch site today, asking if I would give him a campaign speech before a launch.

I reminded him of two things: 1) not part of the contract and 2) elections were suspended after the coup.

He laughed and walked away.

Plenty of room for space alternate history writers, at least. Look at all you're going to get to work with!

It appears Artemis has been crippled. The program will limp forward, but is ultimately going to expire sooner rather than later. Mars is as far as ever.

All because people refuse to acknowledge that space travel isn't easy. There is no magic "make it work" button. Utter stupidity.