Do you perhaps live close to the National Institute of Mental Health?

Arnold J. Rimmer energy

Lead in the gas; lead in the glass

Ramona has become a big space fan. Welcome home, Artemis II. What an incredible quest.

Tabby stands on hind legs with one paw outstretched toward a TV displaying a capsule above water.

NASA failed to predict the real splashdown risk.

If I took a shot every time this guy said "erected" I'd be dead. #artemis2 #artemis

NARRATOR: WE DID NOT IN FACT GET IT TOGETHER IN TIME

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Orion capsule underneath three red and white parachutes.

Three main chutes deployed!

SPLASHDOWN CONFIRMED!

There we go, for the first time in over half a century, humanity has reached the Moon and safely returned.

A small step in a journey of a thousand miles.

Congratulations to the crew, NASA, and everyone involved 🍾

A big splash in the ocean under the three red and white parachutes

Splashdown!

Welcome home, Integrity.

BUT DID IRAN AGREE?

TACO Tuesday

The Artemis II crew just reported several impact flashes—explosions from hypervelocity impacts of meteoroids with the Moon—during the solar eclipse.

We make a big effort to see a handful of these from Earth with telescopes.

That astronauts flying by the Moon saw >4 in tens of minutes is AWESOME.

scene from lord of the rings "this is it, if I take one more step it'll be the farthest away from home I've ever been"

Artemis II today.

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.

A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.

Several things to notice here:

For the first time in over 50 years, there are humans who are isolated and completely unreachable from any other humans or anything “Earth”

The frame contains everyone… all of us, all of humanity, including the four astronauts

The crescent earth on the limb of the moon

Goodbye Earth (for 45 minutes)

Integrity, crescent Moon, crescent Earth: we're all in this shot.

Just before loss of signal: "See you on the other side." #ArtemisII

The first time in 50 years that we have been unable to contact astronauts as they are traveling on the dark side of the moon.

I'm in this picture! And so are you!

I never signed a release

The #Artemis II spacecraft is now fully behind the Moon, and will be unreachable for the next 40 minutes or so. This is the expected "loss of signal." During this time, they'll reach their closest approach to the Moon (about 4067 miles) and then their greatest distance from Earth (252,756 miles).

Best Star Trek crew. Wrong answers only.

Zurek soup is world class and I will fight anyone else who says otherwise

Operation Prime Delivery was right there!