The first re-flight of Blue Origin's New Glenn included another successful booster recovery. However, we never got any updates after the second stage reached orbit, until we were informed the payload was deployed into an off nominal orbit. AST Space Mobile's satellite may be lost.
It's been a week since Artemis II returned, and now I want to discuss what needs to happen to get Artemis III launched. There's a rocket to stack, a crew to choose, a mission plan to be finalized and SpaceX/Blue Origin need to deliver their hardware.
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The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex has lots of historic hardware, even the *gift shop* features this section of the launch tower used for the Apollo program
NASA have released a Moon Base Architecture Users Guide, here's hoping some of this becomes reality.
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The crew are powering down the spacecraft in preparation for recovery
Glad we have all the chutes!
Integrity is back in communications!
Into blackout, and
It looks so cool down there...
Earth now visible out the cabin window as they look backwards
Spacecraft are separated, saying goodbye to the european part of the mission:
Service module separation coming up in about 7 minutes
Recovery aircraft are in the landing area. Of course we can't see the ships, but we can make a guess based on where the aircraft are appearing.
And the best reason for aliens to visit Earth.
Earth is begining to look large
I noticed that someone had written all over a piece of art in my hotel:
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In the shadow of the Moon.
Here's the corona as the Moon eclipsed the Sun:
extremely bad time for an astronaut to find out he's a werewolf
It's been a good day today
Earthset and Earthrise predictions for Artemis II, while they're on the far side of the moon they will be out of touch with earth for 40 minutes.
Another day exploring KSC visitors center
Checking out the Orion suit helmet and gloves
From the launch
So, now that the propellent loading is effectively done can we call this April Fuels day?
#NASA #ArtemisII - Image from NASA stream shows NASA Administrator Isaacman talking with the Launch Director, Charlie Blackwell -Thompson
Going to be a good good night
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Artemis II is the fist test flight of Orion with crew on board, which kinda explains why ‘only’ going around the moon is still a big deal.
