Artemis II (+)

[Morrus]

The thread for folks following the moon mission.

I stayed up and watched it on Wednesday night on the BBC. First moon launch I've ever seen (which is no surprise since the last one was before I was born). I'm glad I stayed up to watch it.

As of now, they're currently in Earth orbit, and the translunar injection burn is scheduled for about half an hour's time as I write this. That will send them out of orbit and towards the moon.

 

[Morrus]

This is their current view of Earth.

 

[Umbran]

I was sad, as I got tied up in my commute, and didn't get to the feed in time to see the launch in realtime

The timeline goes like this:
Day 1: Launch and Earth Orbit
Day 2-4: Outbound Transit
Day 5-6: Lunar Flyby
Day 7-10: Return transit & reentry.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I was so nervous watching the launch. Seeing the Challenger explosion as a kid messed me up more than I realized.

 

[Zaukrie]

I was so nervous watching the launch. Seeing the Challenger explosion as a kid messed me up more than I realized.

Same. Though I was a bit older.

 

[overgeeked]

I was so nervous watching the launch. Seeing the Challenger explosion as a kid messed me up more than I realized.

That's why I didn't watch this one live.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I was so nervous watching the launch. Seeing the Challenger explosion as a kid messed me up more than I realized.

You me my wife and about half the people on Bluesky!

Not helping matters about two years later I literally saw the plane (or flaming wreck of, rather, not that I knew what it was at the time) hit Lockerbie, from about two miles away. I spent most of my teenage years just expecting basically any flying vehicle I saw to explode (except ones I was on, for some reason, and fortunately). And then when I was just about over it, we had Colombia in 2003.

But so far so good! Hope they manage to fix the loo if they didn't already! Also bloody Outlook, why on Earth is NASA running Microsoft bloatware on a spaceship! Come on guys! Again, hopefully they fixed it. Gotta be the trans-lunar injection burn pretty soon (I guess a few hours?).

 

[Blue]

I stayed up and watched it on Wednesday night on the BBC. First moon launch I've ever seen (which is no surprise since the last one was before I was born). I'm glad I stayed up to watch it.

A good friend has a story about moon launches. He watched the movie Apollo 13 when it came out in 1995 with his family. After the movie his father commented that it was a good watch, but nothing like that could ever happen.

Everyone looked at him like he was crazy.

It turned out my friend was born soon before the actual Apollo 13 launch in 1970, and his father was so nose-down dealing with a newborn that he completely missed all of the news about the problems on the ship.

 

[Blue]

I was so nervous watching the launch. Seeing the Challenger explosion as a kid messed me up more than I realized.

Oh yeah. One of my teachers had been the alternate for NJ. We were all sitting in Mr. Hanna's computer class but he'd checked out a TV on one of those big metal carts from A/V and we were watching live instead.

 

[Umbran]

I was so nervous watching the launch. Seeing the Challenger explosion as a kid messed me up more than I realized.

Yeah, the kink in the exhast cloud, the solid rocket separation. shiver