Posted on 04/01/2026 10:10:36 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
NASA is counting down to the first crewed mission to the Moon in over 50 years. Launching on SLS and Orion, a crew of four will fly around the Moon as a precursor to humans returning to the surface.
Artemis II Stakeout
- NASA's Crewed Mission Around The Moon | Live
NASASpaceflight | 1.44M subscribers | lots watching now | 4/1/2026
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Get on your bad motor scooter and ride...
Is this the all-female slumber party? Or is that later?
EST?
I still don’t understand why they don’t go into a lunar orbit for a few dozen laps the way Apollo 8 did.
AvidSpace (formerly LaPadre)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lZMyop2nxU
Everyday Astronaut (Tim Dodd)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsSRRBMNoc
The Launch Pad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n15V_fCsl_c
NASAspaceflight channel coverage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JFBCbb2Ulo
Next Spaceflight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c-GAkIzpGE
New York Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnlLfO3VBP8
Spaceflight Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut729170L0M
Sky News (Australia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbHQ9CSQgLM
VideoFromSpace:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WqfHregfMY
What about it!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X9PM3ZeuVg
Yup.
I’m watching the astronauts being suited up. WAI (What About It) YouTube channel.
Thanks for the thread—good to see from the opening picture that the NASA graphic artists have revved their engines and are ready to go.
Lol.
Okay, Apollo 8 did 10 orbits around the moon…
With the computing power 1/1000 the power of the average smartphone.
6:24pm ET
Apollo missions all did equatorial orbits. The ultimate goal is a south polar landing, so I suspect that is getting a test with this mission.
It’s not going to be all-female, Laz is going to stow away.
The whole thing is an April Fools Joke.
I may watch just to see how badly the SLS fails
Apollo 7 was the first crewed Apollo mission. (Apollo 1 was intended to be crewed, but tragically it ended on Earth in a flash fire that killed the crew). Apollo 7 lasted 11 days and was in Earth orbit only.
Apollo 8 had to perform a lunar orbit insertion an deorbit burn. If either of those burns had failed, the crew would have been lost in deep space. Artemis II is using a free-return trajectory, which does not require a major engine burn. If something goes wrong, the crew still returns home.
Apollo 8 was not the first crewed launch of Apollo. Artemis II is. So, Artemis II is combining similar testing that was done with Apollo 7 & 8.
Further, during the cold war, there was a willingness to accept a higher risk to beat the Soviets to the moon. That motivation isn’t present this time.
Felix! I think he just moved his family here from Germany.
I’ve been streaming the NASA feed, but I figured others have their personal faves.
I can’t believe they used 100% oxygen atmosphere on Apollo 1.
Even as a 10 year old boy watching I thought that was a bad idea.
That makes sense. Will any Surveyor-type missions touch down on the South Lunar Pole ahead of a crewed landing? I remember when NASA crashed a LCROSS probe and a spent Centaur rocket stage there back in 2009.
Yeah, them orbital mechanics is tricky like that.
Rumor has it this space ship built by Boeing is poorly constructed.
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