It's official, they have just traveled farther than any other humans without stopping to ask for directions.

Enjoying having the NASA stream on.
We had it going in the living room most of yesterday & I've had it going today in the office, too.

Mission control sure looks a lot different from back in the '70s.

A blue and yellow Stearman biplane flew over my son and me on the river today and I could not help but marvel how far humanity's ability to travel has advanced in such a short period of time.

The moon was really clear here after sunrise this morning, and it was kinda cool to look at it and think "hey, there's people up there somewhere right now about to fly around that in a tiny little capsule". Not something that's ever been the case before in my lifetime.

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Originally posted by 229DAK:

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After she makes the sandwiches.

Really?

Just a joke. Maybe a bad one, but still just joke.



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Estimated total people watching livestreams on YT: Millions.
Estimated total watching all content on YT: tens of millions.
Number watching NASA stream: 230,000.
We need more geeks!!

^ there's millions of channels restreaming the NASA feed.

Saw this video which I thought was interesting. Even at the moon, theu are still orbiting the earth, thankfully.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
It's official, they have just traveled farther than any other humans without stopping to ask for directions.

Further from earth. Not total distance traveled. I’m pretty sure that some folks in the ISS have traveled further.

Unless you count the motion of the earth around the sun. And the motion of the sun through the galaxy, etc. In which case it would be the oldest person that ever lived.

I didn't roll through the whole thread, but here's a link tot he virtual tracker if anybody hasn't seen it yet.

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/

I think its great to see what brilliant minds can accomplish and space exploration is one if not the greatest tests.
However, as somebody who grew up with the Space program and the "old" NASA I have dulled my enthusiasm a bit with the current NASA. This began when they went wildly woke.
24 Americans have already orbited the Moon starting with 3 in 1968.
12 Americans have been on the Moon. 3 Americans have gone twice.
That was 58 years ago.
All those "old" NASA engineers with the flat top hair cuts and the shirt pocket protectors holding slide rules should have a huge monument built to them for what they accomplished so long ago, and never losing anyone on a flight, only to be repeated now after this hopefully successful mission.

And, why on earth do we have a Canadian occupying one of the seats?

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Originally posted by armored:
And, why on earth do we have a Canadian occupying one of the seats?

Because Canada supplied many of the components.
And committed to the program. He earned the seat.
Canada was involved in suppling components for Apollo too.

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Originally posted by r0gue:
I didn't roll through the whole thread, but here's a link tot he virtual tracker if anybody hasn't seen it yet.

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/

Neat but not very mobile friendly. Will have to play with that at work tomorrow

^^^^^ Keeps disconnecting.

Get the app for mobile devices; it's much better.

The website tracker sucks on my iPhone and is even worse on my Samsung tablets.

Seriously, the app works.

How cool would it be if it is just a flat disc?

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Originally posted by r0gue:
I didn't roll through the whole thread, but here's a link tot he virtual tracker if anybody hasn't seen it yet.

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/

It is surprising how slow Artemis is going, 1220 MPH, this far out from earth. I expected much higher speeds at this point in the mission. Artemis will accelerate up to 25,000 MPH at atmosphere interface due to earths gravity, pretty wild stuff and similar to Apollo return profile

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It is surprising how slow Artemis is going, 1220 MPH, this far out from earth.

Gives them more time to enjoy the view and take pictures.

^^^Beat me to it. I type slow.

I thought they'd pickup speed as they got closer to the Moon, but they kept slowing down. They were under 1,000mph for quite awhile. I guess they needed time to gawk at the Moon.

Cosmic product placement?


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