Posted on 11/27/2022 11:28:41 AM PST by mowowie
LIVE View Artemis I Orion Flying Over The Moon (Angle 2)
I was disdainful of NASA and the Artemis project after seeing problem after problem before the launch. I am gladly eating crow, and hope that the projects keeps going this well. We need things like this - produced by folks who can actually produce useful results. I see enough failures when I have to glide by CNN whilst switching channels, or accidentally click on a like to some silly media joke pretending to be news.
Live Internet streaming from moon orbit! Imagine that. Just incredible. Is that a first? I don’t recall that before, but I’m sure it’s been done.
Watching all the chatty, bubble-headed, unserious women before and during the launch, I really expected it to go KA-BLOOEY on the pad. There wasn’t a man to be seen anywhere on camera. I sure miss the white shirt and crewcut deadly serious demeanor of Mission Control in the 60s. It isn’t a child’s birthday party.
That’s hilarious!
Outstanding
I completely agree. And the kids doing the live feeds for SpaceX and Blue Origin aren’t much better.
Don’t forget about this PoS. Thankfully, he’s dead but his legacy lives on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Proxmire
Great music on the moon utube. Almost calms the savage beast, not quite though.
“...the kids doing the live feeds for SpaceX and Blue Origin aren’t much better.”
Yeah, I thought THEY were bad, but NASA just set the bar at an all time low for badness.
It is all fun and games so far.
The serious stuff is when they start the human missions using the European Service Module.
It looks like they will use the Covid vaccine approach—test it on live subjects first and ask questions later.
I wonder if his position was due to the fact that little of NASA’s spending made it to Wisconsin.
;)
His blessing.
Virtually all manned space missions are test programs. The shuttle, SpaceX, and maybe the BDRs from Russia are the closest to being more than just experimental.
BDRs = Big Dumb Rockets
The downfall of the shuttle program was that it was dependent on 1980s IT technology almost to the very end. I had read reports of how engineers had to scour landfills and scrapyards looking for old PCs and hospital equipment just to scavenge the circuit boards for parts.
Any new space program must have IT that is upgradable and swappable with new tech if it's going to be sustainable.
-PJ
The skips in video must be the data buffer getting overloaded..
“Any new space program must have IT that is upgradable and swappable with new tech if it’s going to be sustainable.”
Agreed—and one of the big flaws of the Artemis program is its dependence on the European Space Agency.
I have nothing against that agency, but it is easy to imagine how political instability in Europe could cripple the program at a future date.
The more complex the political arrangements the greater the likelihood of long term collapse.
If someone had told me after the last LEM left the Moon that 50 years would pass and we wouldn’t have returned, I’d have laughed at them. Not just Mars, I believed we’d be at Europa by now.
> LIVE View Artemis I Orion Flying Over The Moon
It’s not a live view. they just want your clicks.
Except guys are being systematically excluded from college these days by the extreme feminization of public education.
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