The stages of the Artemis 1 mission to the moon.
(Image credit: NASA)
Posted on 08/21/2022 2:29:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Live event coverage will air on Space.com courtesy of NASA Television, the NASA mobile app(opens in new tab), and the agency's official website(opens in new tab), with prelaunch activities on Monday, Aug. 22. For anxious toe-tappers, the launch countdown(opens in new tab)starts Saturday, Aug. 27, at 10:23 a.m. ET.
Sure, it might not provide the same epic experience that the Earth-shuddering blastoff will offer, but it's the next best thing and you don’t have to worry about the heat, parking hassles, or huge crowds.
The stages of the Artemis 1 mission to the moon.
(Image credit: NASA)
The Artemis 1 launch countdown will begin at 10:23 a.m. EDT (1423 GMT) on Saturday, Aug. 27. Flight controllers will be called to their stations on this day and begin the two-day countdown to the final launch target.
On Saturday, Aug. 27, NASA will hold a two briefings to discuss the Artemis 1 mission. The first will be at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT), when mission managers will meet to review the launch plan for Artemis 1 as well as its mission goals.
On Sunday, Aug. 28, NASA will hold a short briefing at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) to give an update on the launch progress for Artemis 1.
NASA's full launch coverage webcast for Artemis 1 will begin on Aug. 29 at 6:30 a.m. EDT (1030 GMT).
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Whoops, mid-morning on Monday, August 29th.
“I used to work with one of those guys. There was NO CONVINCING him otherwise.”
I am “one of those guys”.
Nice to meet you.
;-)
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The best book on this subject from “one of those guys”:
https://www.amazon.com/One-Small-Step-Great-Dominate-ebook/dp/B07NB2QL13
Nice to meet you too!
You’re not gonna change my mind, and I’m not gonna change yours on this subject, but there are a thousand other subjects we probably do agree on.🙂
there are lots of ways to watch a launch, not just on NASA tv, me personally i watch at Nasaspaceflight.com youtube channel. lots of other place on youtube to watch.
no seat cup holders should have speakers on the roof just because
My son designed key rocket technology for this system. He’s got us front row seats at the launch site and we’re heading down there in a few days.
This will be fun!
Will be watching from my backyard.
Pretty soon no one will be able to duck the full meaning of,
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
Go big or go home. Secrets of the universe-level stuff. 🙂
If the government spent as much money on the space program as it has on welfare over the years, we would probably have bases on the Moon and Mars by now. Now THAT’S being progressive, instead of flushing it down for the past 60 years.
While NASA claims differently, throwing money at it could not have fixed deep systemic management problems (including wokeness of various kinds).
It quickly became a bloated bureaucracy (as we typically see with mature government agencies).
Private manned space exploration is going to be the future in the US, and I would expect China (and perhaps Russia) to also have bases on the moon and eventually on Mars.
Imho the US private ventures will also fail unless they fully decouple from government funding and government control. That may be easier said than done since Con-gress loves to use regulation to cripple private industry.
Eventually the private ventures may be forced off-shore to locations where they can focus on the missions without pesky outside interference.
I can’t disagree with the word you’ve written, Government is the 800 pound gorilla that the private space companies have to deal with.
I totally agree with the foreign space programs, too.
I would not be surprised to see SpaceX do that, at least partially.
I rather enjoyed this article, esp. the descriptions of the 3 mannequins going on the ride...
https://www.theverge.com/23321544/nasa-artemis-sls-orion-explained
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