[day 2] celebration
a festival that apollo remembers...
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"Elaborate explanations of central-channel fakery—NASA falsified the footage to help us win the Cold War!—are no longer really needed. One-size-fits-all cynicism that we can really know anything about anything is enough."
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Nasa has sent four astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years. For all the geopolitics, there’s something undeniably human about this moment, writes Minnie Stephenson.
Read the full newsletter: channel4news.substack.com/p/artemis-2-...
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my job at NASA was literally writing C# .NET apps for Mission Control (which was so unglamorous that I feel like it barely counts as having worked there) so this does not surprise me at all to see, lmao
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A picture of SLS with the lower end of the core stage and all four engines along with both SRBs, with the exhaust coming from the SRBs.
Gd, this picture from NASA just gives me such *Shuttle vibes*.
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NASA is sending four astronauts on a trip around the moon and back. Believe it or not, this is humanity's first voyage toward the moon in over 50 years (the last time was Apollo 17 in 1972)!
This just never ceases to amaze me. Human beings are so cool.
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Since yesterday was April Fool's Day and a major NASA space launch, I have avoided watching any Artemis launch footage until today.
(I know I'm not the only Gen X person who still thinks "please don't explode" every time I see a launch.)
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They explicitly want to turn NASA into Intuitive Machines, the guys whose lander fell over and they lost it.
Privatised space is a disaster.
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Although NASA AROW doesn't have as much telemetry as during Artemis I (boooohooo) it does have some interesting data...
After banging my bang a bit on the funky format, my app will pulls in the NASA AROW data file, and (tries) to computes velocity / distance from Earth and distance to the Moon
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A diagram showing the path of the Artemis II mission around Earth and then out around the moon and back. Below, text reads Artemis II's journey to the moon, day by day across 10 days
Highlights from the first half of the Artemis II mission include entering high Earth orbit on day 1, setting a trajectory toward the moon and back on day 2, practicing flyby procedures on days 3 and 4, and entering the moon's gravitational influence on day 5.
Highlights of the second half of the mission include traveling behind and photographing the moon on day 6, continuing experiments on days seven through 10, and reentry and splashdown on day 10.
NASA's Artemis II crew is on its way! 🚀 Here's a handy guide to the 10-day moon mission 🌔 Follow all our coverage: www.scientificamerican.com/report/nasa-...
Graphic by Amanda Montañez; Source: NASA (reference)
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While Trump gloats about NASA and this historic endeavor, reminder that his budget tried to cut NASA by ~25% and was only saved because of bipartisan pushback to such a backwards looking effort.
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Look all I'm saying is Trump has been tripping over his dick in ever-worse ways since Artemis II was fully assembled, & if that's not reason enough to fund the crap out of NASA I don't know what is.
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Those astronauts are incredibly brave to go to the moon after nasa spent years outsourcing so much of their work to the Exploding Rockets Guy
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Artemis 2 directly after liftoff- looking like the flame of a lit candle attached to long thick uniform dense white plume of exhaust trailing back to Earth. Photo is framed by the dark green leaves on branches of a tall tree to the left, and a thin gray/brown electric pole and wire on the right.
For #UrbanGaze - This one needs no post processing-Artemis 2 racing upwards, viewed from a city corner just a short walk away. 🚀
Congratulations 🥳👏🏻🥂 to all of the NASA crew for safe liftoff! Safe travels! 🩵
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Artemis II lifting off from the pad, the orange exhaust lighting up the ground while in the foreground is the water. Photographer is Sam Lott of NASA.
This is such a fucking hot picture from NASA for the Artemis II launch.
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People complain about NASA funding really think the money is like...inside the rocket....
The money went to developing engineering tools. The money pays to train hundreds of interns who will become scientists. The money goes to small local businesses who manufacture parts. The money goes to educati
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it’s important to remember that every dollar spent on NASA generates $3 in economic activity - it generates good jobs in science, engineering, and manufacturing, and it develops new technologies that often make their way into our everyday lives
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not to ruin the moment or anything but has NASA figured out wtf they're gonna do for Artemis IV if Elon's big dumbass rocket keeps exploding all the time?
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A NASA moon mission launched for the first time in my lifetime yesterday so naturally I stayed up and built the whole SLS rocket in CSS.
All CSS Art - no images, no SVGs, no JS. Just one <div>, a few keyframe animations, an unreasonable number of CSS linear-gradients.
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Photo of a champagne ferret curled up on a blanket on her back, belly up and paws sticking out
Photo of a champagne ferret looking up towards the owner who is holding her upper body up to get a picture of her. Sable ferret is barely visible, lurking in the background
Photo of a champagne ferret curled up sleeping, paws extended. Her sable ferret brother sleeping next to her, his butt right next to her head, with one of his feet draped over her head.
Photo of a sable (left) and champagne (right) ferrets curled up together in a hammock, their heads resting against each other
Happy #NationalFerretDay 🎉✨
Enjoy some noodles!
1st pic is the newest of Artemis, my sassy grandma, she'll be 9yo this year~
We both miss her brother Apollo so much, but she is doing well otherwise 💙
If you have ferrets too, show me them below!! 🤩
#ferret #pets #FerretsofMythos
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