Image-top, a 3-line miniature poem, dated 2024, with author's name above, accompanied by image-below, a screen capture of a tv news story 11Jan2024, about an ill-fated lunar exploration journey, with a graphic showing the curtailed trajectory of the Peregrine Lunar Module, re-directed by mission control to burn up in Earth's atmosphere on re-entry. The trajectory describes an arabesque in space. The launch of the Vulcan Centaur spacecraft (not depicted in the graphic) was a success, as was the second-stage propulsive "trans-lunar injection" (TLI), but the Peregrine module failed its space maneuvers, under its own power, shortly after it began its planned 46-day journey to the moon. The poem is in referernce to the ashes--a set of four (4) samples of human remains--stowed on board, that never made it to their intended lunar graveyard. More context: While the ashes intended for the moon instead burned up on re-entry, another set of some four (4) samples of human remains of the OG Enterprise crew were apparently succesfully inserted into heliocentric orbit, to circle the sun for all eternity, as part of the same launch/same mission. In the screencap, img-bottom: Unrelated chyrons about other news-of-the-day display below the tv graphic illustrating the main story. And bottom-left, tv station identification.
Same launch, #instapoem inspired after-the-fact: When the event transformed into a speedy disintegration in Earth's upper atmosphere, the outcome provided a kind of second demise for the other guests on board
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#PeregrineFAIL
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