NASA: Artemis I [3 Sept 2022, Saturday, Launch info]

NASA ^ | 09/02/22

[SES1066]

All eyes will be on the historic Launch Complex 39B when the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket lift off for the first time from NASA's modernized Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Artemis I will be the first in a series of increasingly complex missions to build a long-term human presence at the Moon for decades to come.

The primary goals for Artemis I are to demonstrate Orion’s systems in a spaceflight environment and ensure a safe re-entry, descent, splashdown, and recovery prior to the first flight with crew on Artemis II.

[Campion]

They claimed this would be faster and cheaper by using "proven" technology.

That mandate was handed down by Congress. Lawyers and grifters telling engineers how to get things done.

Those idiots probably think that a brand-new 1957 Chevy should be cheaper than last year's Toyota. After all, the 1957 Chevy is "proven technology".

Take it from an engineer: building stuff to use "proven" old technology is often harder than using contemporary tech.

[Campion]

It should be safer than the shuttle. That's not saying much.

It turns out that strapping a manned spacecraft with no launch abort mode to the side of rocket is a bad idea. Strapping it to the side of a solid-fuel rocket is a really, really bad idea.

[Paul R.]

"There's no guarantee that we're going to get off on Saturday, but we're gonna try," Artemis mission manager Mike Sarafin said during a news conference this evening (Sept. 1).

( https://www.space.com/artemis-1-moon-mission-go-launch-september-3 )

I think I'd have worded that a bit differently...

[Paul R.]

As a hotlink: https://www.space.com/artemis-1-moon-mission-go-launch-september-3

[OHPatriot]

$4.1B, DOUBLE that number and you might be close. Same BS used in the 70’s to convince Congress that the Shuttle was Cheap and Quickly turned for next launch. I think their estimate was off by a factor of 4 and Quick turn ended up being just under a year for only the last launch. Lots of issues with the Tiles staying on.

[Pollard]

Musk wanted to do this with manned capsules too but NASA made him do it the old fashioned way with parachute and splashdown/recovery at sea.

[tennmountainman]

It was a lot of tax payer money.
For that kind of investment it should have been ready to launch…
with bells and whistles.
4 Billion each launch? Wow.

[RainMan]

Those tiles were cool. My dad was a programmer that built the programs for a lot of the tiles. Cutting each tile had to be programmed individually, and there were like 30,000 tiles. If it was off by more than 1/100 of an inch the tile was rejected. We used to have 3 of them in the house. For his work on the project, we were invited to the rollout of the Columbia, and I actually got to go onboard. They were held don’t to shuttle with the equivalent of glass velcro. Dad died several years back, and now I live in Florida near Space Coast. I will be going out to the beach to watch the launch tomorrow.

[Secret Agent Man]

Hope it works. Not surprised if it doesn’t.

[pierrem15]

I hope if it is going to blow that it does before they stick astronauts on board.

I meant to add that.

If they had given the money they'd spent on Artemis to Musk, we'd have a moon base already and be on our way to Mars.

[Reily]

Thanks!

All those past years of grinding my teeth...wasted!

[GingisK]

Those self-landing rockets are not powerful enough to lift a Luna-bound payload.

[BenLurkin]

bump to the top

[Ezekiel]

I think the later is more than likely what will happen. I hope if it is going to blow that it does before they stick astronauts on board. I fear we are looking at another Apollo 1 event.

NASA is 'go' for a second launch attempt of Artemis I today, but encountering fueling issues

At this rate, it'd be a miracle this sexist, racist mission goes up, instead of out in all directions.

On the heels of the MAGAman bad speech... what could go wrong?

[Justa]

$100 says it's scrubbed.

Leftist employment program.

Best of luck though.

[rktman]

Just checked Spaceflightnow and they are waiting for the Launch Director to give the official scrub for today. Still leaky.

[hoagy62]

I’ve been watching NASA Spaceflight on YouTube. Apparently, they’re having a problem with the liquid hydrogen fill pipes. One of the connections has sprung a leak due to the super-cold LH2, so they’re having problems filling the LH2 tank. The LOX tank is full.

The engineers are working on a solution, but I am not confident they can come up with one. They haven’t YET said so, but I predict a scrub for today.

[PghBaldy]

Mary Celeste (F)
Edmund Fitzgerald (M)
Andrea Doria (M)

Queen Mary (F)
Queen Elizabeth II (F)

[hoagy62]

OFFICIALLY SCRUBBED FOR TODAY.

Thought so.

[Ezekiel]

Thanks for the latest info. I haven’t had time today to follow the updates.

These people should be embarrassed. It’s hard to have a good vibe about a “science” program whose mission is about filling affirmative action quotas.

But hey, nothing’s too specious when the taxpayers are footing the bill.