Artemis Launch…
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Impressive. I would hope NASA has precision engineering mastered but still….impressive.
For those needing context, one of the major milestones between the Earth and the moon is something called a correction burn to precisely get it into the exact track needed, it looks like it was not needed at all after the initial burn near earth.
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Good video!
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Loss of signal confirmed. Beautiful words prior to it. Hope to hear from them in about 40 minutes. Really cool to see the crescent Earth in the distance as it “earth set” behind the moon’s horizon. Can’t wait for the HD video and pics that will be uploaded eventually.
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No doubt about it, this mission has brought us all a level of positive intensity amid everything else that is confronting us with the opposite.
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That is hilarious.
Also, hard to not get choked up on this one. The astronaut who lost his wife in 2020 has a moon feature named after her.
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https://babylonbee.com/news/look-out-shouts-female-astronaut-as-orion-gets-within-5000-miles-of-moon
SPACE — Astronaut Christina Koch reportedly played a pivotal role in the success of NASA's Artemis II lunar mission on Monday when she helpfully screamed in the pilot's ear as they were just 5,000 miles shy of colliding with the lunar surface.
"Look out!" Mission Specialist Koch cried out as she placed her hand on the Orion spacecraft's dashboard. "Use the space brakes! The space brakes!"
The crew's pilot, Victor Glover, reportedly jerked the ship awkwardly in response as he was startled by the female crew member's reaction. "It's OK, I'm looking at it," he said.
According to NASA sources, it was impossible to say whether the Orion spacecraft the crew occupied would have made contact with the moon or not. But what was clear, Koch pointed out, is that they absolutely did not crash into the moon after her warning.
"As mission specialist, it's not my job to be a backseat driver, but I didn't expect Victor to fly so close to the moon either," Koch said, who referred to her role as being exhausting. "I can't exactly relax when he's flying us around at over 1,000 miles per hour. That only gives us five hours to react. I just wanted to make sure he was paying attention."
At publishing time, Koch had helpfully instructed Glover to turn left once they reached the moon.
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