Artemis countdown…

[Paratus]

Three good chutes

 

[Paratus]

Splashdown

 

[K1052]

nice

 

[sdifox]

should I be looking for a Humpback whale now?

good job NASA for getting it done.

 

[eelw]

SPLOOSH!!! Snoopy has returned

 

[Paratus]

5 good uprighting bags and Orion is stable and upright on the ocean

 

[Paratus]

Recovery forces confirmed no hazards to recovery. (Orion uses hypergolic prop for its thrusters which it fires on the way down to maintain orientation and you don’t want to breath that stuff in)

 

[eelw]

How did Orion take a selfie?

or is this from the j.webb telescope?

JWST can’t aim back towards earth

 

[Paratus]

It’ll be up to two hours now before recovery as we are testing the ammonia boiler coolers - this Orion doesn’t need it but crewed ones might to keep the crew from overheating before recovery.

 

[JEDI]

minor update:
The Artemis program is a collaboration of government space agencies and private spaceflight companies, bound together by the Artemis Accords and supporting contracts.
As of September 2023, twenty-nine countries and one territory had signed the accords,[12] including traditional U.S. space partners (such as the European Space Agency and agencies from India, Canada, Japan, and the United Kingdom) and emerging space powers (such as Brazil, South Korea, Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates).

According to plan, the crewed Artemis 2 launch scheduled to take place in Nov 2024, the Artemis 3 crewed lunar landing in 2025, the Artemis 4 docking with the Lunar Gateway in 2028, and future yearly landings on the Moon thereafter. However, some observers note that the program's cost and timeline are likely to be overrun and delayed

 

[JEDI]

The program's long-term goal is to establish a permanent base on the Moon to facilitate the feasibility of human missions to Mars.


Dumb question:
Why implement VERY expensive human missions to Mars?
Why not stay with robot/machine landings?

Unlike the tech in the 1970's moon landings where humans can outperform machines, modern hardware allows machines to waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay outperform us.

1/4 of nasa's proposed $27B budget (not yet approved by the House) for 2024 goes to the Artemis program

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

I personally see no need for any of this. If not for weather and other Earth based services, I'd support shutting NASA down. I would certainly stop all funding for anything beyond the Moon's orbit.

 

[JEDI]

I personally see no need for any of this. If not for weather and other Earth based services, I'd support shutting NASA down. I would certainly stop all funding for anything beyond the Moon's orbit.

I like NASA.
I want unmanned missions to outter space to discover what's out there, but do it efficiently.

Sending people to Mars is horrible cost/benefit compared to unmanned.
What can people do on Mars that current machines can't?

 

[sdifox]

I personally see no need for any of this. If not for weather and other Earth based services, I'd support shutting NASA down. I would certainly stop all funding for anything beyond the Moon's orbit.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is what a JTK Dick Blocker looks like.

 

[Paratus]

I personally see no need for any of this. If not for weather and other Earth based services, I'd support shutting NASA down. I would certainly stop all funding for anything beyond the Moon's orbit.

How short sighted of you.