spoiler
We’re sending astronauts around the Moon for the first time in 50 years. Come watch with us.
NASA’s Artemis II mission is scheduled to lift off from Kennedy Space Center on April 1. The two-hour launch window starts at 6:24 p.m. EDT (2224 UTC).
Four astronauts — three from NASA and one from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency) — make up the Artemis II crew:
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NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander
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NASA astronaut Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot
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NASA astronaut Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist
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Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, Artemis II mission specialist
After launching into space atop NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, the crew will journey around the Moon and back in their Orion spacecraft, named Integrity, on an approximately 10-day mission. Artemis II will be the first crewed flight test of SLS and Orion, testing the technologies we’ll need for long-term lunar exploration and human missions to Mars.
Damn this was pretty cool to watch with the kiddos.
hasn’t this been scheduled and cancelled like 3 times already for various issues?
It’s had a rocky history but I’m all for being as cautious as possible with spaceflight unless it’s a billionaire’s passion project. It would suck to lose a platform that could launch the next generation of space telescopes and a crew over-educated enough to do that to some stupid Challenger engineering failure.
Yeah, but this time it’ll work, trust me.
There will be a manned moon landing sometime in the next few years. But they’re not going to be American. I just hope the Chinese live stream has English subtitles.
yeah same. Hopefully by then AI can just auto-transcribe/dub languages
It pretty much can, can’t it?
yeah to some degree, but no one really does it for any state-media :(
Hell yeah, launch was phenomenal
damn missed the first bit I guess they didn’t blow’d up yet at least
T-10m hold lifted we are
YAY CONFIRMED FOR LAUNCH. T-10.
