Don't forget about Artemis
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I feel like this should be a bigger news, they rolled out Artemis 2 to the launchpad this weekend, it’s cool that they use the same crawler I believe that was used during the Apollo missions. I believe the earliest possible lunch date is February 6, with other launch dates spanning throughout the spring.
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Old-ish news but the price difference is interesting.
India successfully performed a soft touchdown near the lunar south pole on Wednesday, August 23, for its Chandrayaan-3 mission.
By doing so, it made history by becoming the first nation to land on that region of the lunar surface as well as the fourth country to ever land on the Moon.
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Impressively, Chandrayaan-3’s $75 million budget means it cost less than a number of Hollywood sci-fi blockbusters. Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic ‘Interstellar’ cost $165 million, while ‘Gravity’ and ‘The Martian’ each cost around $100 million to make.
To put things further into perspective, NASA’s Artemis I mission last year, which sent an uncrewed capsule around the Moon and back, cost approximately $4 billion.
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LOL
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60 minutes piece (Bill Whitaker is a favorite of mine)
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In short, Artemis 3 is changing from a crewed mission to the lunar surface to an Earth-orbit rendezvous of NASA's Orion spacecraft with one or more of the program's moon landers in 2027, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced on Friday (Feb. 27). The program's first moon landing will now take place on Artemis 4, in 2028, with a potential second landing that same year with Artemis 5.
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NASA just posted the "menu" of food that will be served on Artemis 2 mission.
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis/artemis-2/artemis-ii-whats-on-the-menu/
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“If you look at the data over time, over the lifespan of just building new rockets, right, the data would show you that one out of two is successful. You're only successful 50 percent of the time,” Honeycutt said. “I think we’re in a much better position than that.”
I know I have mentioned this before, but I was once able to attend a talk by Buzz Aldrin (US astronaut on the first mission to the moon.). He mentioned that prior to going, they figured there was a 90% chance they would make it to the moon, but about a 60% chance that they would come back.
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It’ll be a night launch. Wish it was daylight but that’s only possible for one or two of these dates in April.
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It’ll be a night launch. Wish it was daylight but that’s only possible for one or two of these dates in April.
I'm glad we got lucky with the April 1st date. As I noted earlier, there were a few options that had a daytime launch, and what a spectacular launch that was. I know there's recency bias, but to my eyes and many who've seen plenty of launches, it was one of the most beautiful launches (visually) they've ever seen.
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