NASA is going back to the Moon - Artemis I is scheduled for launch today
I'm copy/pasting the NASA PR materials here.
Artemis I is the first integrated test of NASA’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the ground systems at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I is an uncrewed flight test that will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration and demonstrate our commitment and capability to return humans to the Moon and extend beyond.
- Launch site: Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida
- Launch date: Aug. 29, 2022
- Launch window: 8:33 a.m. EDT to 10:33 a.m.
- Mission Duration: 42 days, 3 hours, 20 minutes
- Destination: distant retrograde orbit around the Moon
- Total mission miles: approximately 1.3 million miles (2.1 million kilometers)
- Targeted splashdown site: Pacific Ocean, off the coast of San Diego
- Return speed: Up to 25,000 mph (40,000 kph)
- Splashdown: Oct. 10, 2022
During this flight, Orion will launch atop the most powerful rocket in the world and fly farther than any spacecraft built for humans has ever flown. Over the course of the mission, it will travel 280,000 miles (450,000 kilometers) from Earth and 40,000 miles (64,000 kilometers) beyond the far side of the Moon. Orion will stay in space longer than any human spacecraft has without docking to a space station and return home faster and hotter than ever before.
This first Artemis mission will demonstrate the performance of both Orion and the SLS rocket and test our capabilities to orbit the Moon and return to Earth. The flight will pave the way for future missions to the lunar vicinity, including landing the first woman and first person of color on the surface of the Moon.
With Artemis I, NASA sets the stage for human exploration into deep space, where astronauts will build and begin testing the systems near the Moon needed for lunar surface missions and exploration to other destinations farther from Earth, including Mars. With Artemis, NASA will collaborate with industry and international partners to establish long-term exploration for the first time.
NASA has the best graphic designers and 3D artists money can buy 😄
https://youtu.be/ewnrAmjLakQ
3, 2, 1... Lift-Off of the Artemis 1 Mission to the Moon
Hear the countdown and see how NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), the world’s most powerful rocket, will send the Orion spacecraft to the Moon on the Artemis 1 Mission. This video takes you through the pre-launch sequence at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and through all the flight operations as SLS launches Orion and sends it on to lunar orbit. For more information:
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
One thought I was having recently was if they could/did fake the moon landing all that time ago, why not just fake it again with higher resolution technology.
Unless of course it's because there are too many powerful telescopes in the hands of too many members of the public??? (I have no idea how powerful domestic telescopes are and what can be seen with them).
Given I no longer believe man has ever been to the moon, this story interests me.
Of course, I'm also skeptical now though, assuming this mission will result with a report that there is a big asteroid coming directly for us to destroy the planet and the only way to save humanity is to give trillions of dollars to a wealthy elite class to save us from it....
I wasn't aware of the Artemis project at all 🤨 - maybe that's my fault, but there doesn't seem to have been much media coverage. I got this info from my Twitter feed. I usually check major news websites every day and haven't seen coverage of the historic launch happening today, 29 August 2022.
BBC has a story at the top of their home page, but not the ABC? Odd...
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62707…
Artemis: Nasa ready to launch new era of Moon exploration
The clock is counting down to the debut flight of the rocket that will eventually send people back to the Moon.
BBCMy gut feel is that there are fundamental unsolved problems with sending humans beyond low earth orbit. They have not done it for over 50 years. This in itself casts doubt on the whole Apollo series where they seemed to do it with ease and no consideration for the dangers of the Van Allen belts and cosmic radiation.
The VA belts start to get intense at around 500Km which is is why the International Space Station is so low, about 120Km. They don't want to take any chances.
Even now, despite all these impressive plans and publicity material, they offer no proof that they are able to get a manned mission even into high earth orbit. They haven't even tried it yet!!! Why, if it was so easy 50 years ago? Makes no sense to me...
This could be another elaborate PR stunt by NASA. The first article I saw about it was on CNN and they proclaimed that the purpose of the mission was to put the first woman and the first "person of color" on the moon. Vomit inducing.
Found the ABC article lol...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-08-29/art…
‘This is a very risky mission’: NASA’s push to the Moon begins tonight
The launch of the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built is scheduled to happen this evening from the same launch pad used by the last Apollo mission 50 years ago.
ABCI must say I hadn't heard of it at all either.
I'm not one to listen to much mainstream news, however it does play in my office every day and I'll usually notice a couple of the headlines on the yahoo uk main webpage when I'm logging into my e-mails a couple of times a week.
But yes, this I heard and saw nothing about - however did hear it mentioned on the radio today.
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My wife just figured it all out! (Btw - she hadn't heard anything about this mission either).
Once the unmanned mission is "on the moon" - it will be detected (as I predicted) that there's a giant asteroid coming to destroy Earth (ala Armageddon, Don't Look Up, etc).
However my wife had realised the solution will be.... Vaccines!! The science will have discovered this magnificent element called graphene or something else, which if enough of us all get injected into us, coupled with the magnetic characteristics of our hearts and minds, we will collectively be able to have a strong enough magnetic effect on the asteroid and adjust its path. But again, this is ONLY IF WE'RE 100% ALL VACCINATED.
Don't you want to save the planet, you racist, anti-science bigot!? If you don't get the vaccine, you deserve to die!!!
This scenario is so absurd that I'd say it has about a 40% chance of actually eventuating given the gullibility and severe lack of wisdom among people.