Artemis 1 Launch

Sod that, Ive seen 'Apollo 18'. The rocks are all alive! Theres some dead Ruskies up there too.

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Back home and back to work. Sucks that it scrubbed but I was mentally prepared for it. Drove to the Space Coast airport at 2:30am, took a shuttle bus to a viewing area with 39B in view (though still fairly far away). Then came the rain, and the scrub just as the launch window opened. Bummer, but my oldest daughter and I still had a good trip. She’s in grad school with a crazy schedule and it was good to hang out for a few days. Went straight to an Irish pub in Melbourne. Cool place.
Some of us from Stennis are going back for the second attempt this weekend but ill be watching from home. Fingers crossed again, over 5 years of hard work invested in this first flight.
 
Steverino said:
Back home and back to work. Sucks that it scrubbed but I was mentally prepared for it. Drove to the Space Coast airport at 2:30am, took a shuttle bus to a viewing area with 39B in view (though still fairly far away). Then came the rain, and the scrub just as the launch window opened. Bummer, but my oldest daughter and I still had a good trip. She’s in grad school with a crazy schedule and it was good to hang out for a few days. Went straight to an Irish pub in Melbourne. Cool place.
Some of us from Stennis are going back for the second attempt this weekend but ill be watching from home. Fingers crossed again, over 5 years of hard work invested in this first flight.
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It rains a lot in Florida but this year during hurricane season it has been every single day for the most part.
It makes me question why they built KSC in a state that has such a high likelihood to have scrubs.
Is there something special about the location?
 
MonkeyZero said:
It rains a lot in Florida but this year during hurricane season it has been every single day for the most part.
It makes me question why they built KSC in a state that has such a high likelihood to have scrubs.
Is there something special about the location?
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Of the options available when KSC was first built, it was probably the best location. It's on the coast, so any launch failures happen over water instead of populated areas. It's in a decent spot to launch into an orbit inclination that can be consistently tracked from ground stations (a major consideration back in the 60s) yet still passes over a lot of the Earth's surface for earth obs stuff. Also, from a logistical point of view, it's easier to maintain launch facilities, bring in employees, transport needed materials since it's on continental US soil.

Lots of other reasons too, but those are the main ones.
 
Think they’ll be able to launch today?

Does anyone know if there will be amazing video feed from Orion once it’s aloft?
 
BlockInlay said:
Think they’ll be able to launch today?

Does anyone know if there will be amazing video feed from Orion once it’s aloft?
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Looks like it won’t happen this month. :angry:

And yes, I read somewhere on the NASA site that there will be crispy video once they get her up.

The vid from the moon once we get there should blow Apollo away.
 
Shame it's been scrubbed but these guys know what they're doing.

I've mentioned it before but on a nice clear evening with the moon overhead I really enjoy sitting in the tub with some tunes on just looking up at it. My brain can't even come close to comprehending how we not only got people up there but back home from it too. Incredible what we're capable of when we get our shit together.
 
BlockInlay said:
They'll have plenty of cameras beaming back amazing footage of the moon from orbit, right????

I hope the crew that is next to land on the moon (2025?) are able to do something to prove they're actually there to shut up all the denier morons. I know a giant "Fuck you guys" neon sign would be slightly impractical.
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I would donate money to help get that sign made.
 
jbj said:
Shame it's been scrubbed but these guys know what they're doing.

I've mentioned it before but on a nice clear evening with the moon overhead I really enjoy sitting in the tub with some tunes on just looking up at it. My brain can't even come close to comprehending how we not only got people up there but back home from it too. Incredible what we're capable of when we get our shit together.
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I read a few years ago abiut some gent in Ireland who discovered a new star and got to name it. He was using a telescope "observatory" he built in his back garden.
 
when you read the article, it refers to creating a permanent outpost on the moon :eek:

WHY??
 
mongooz said:
when you read the article, it refers to creating a permanent outpost on the moon :eek:

WHY??
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Because if we are going to Mars, we need to build the ship in lunar orbit. Here's the thing that everyone seems to ignore about a Mars mission: once you are outside the Earth's magnetosphere, there is a high level of nasty high energy radiation. It's kind of like living inside a microwave oven. The only fix is to use inches of steel or feet of concrete for shielding. Now multiply that by the huge size of the ship required to hold food, oxygen, and other supplies for a two year mission to Mars and back.

Trying to get that much mass into orbit from Earth is practically impossible. If we make concrete from lunar rock, on the other hand, it is easy to boost into lunar orbit.
 
GomezAddams said:
Because if we are going to Mars, we need to build the ship in lunar orbit. Here's the thing that everyone seems to ignore about a Mars mission: once you are outside the Earth's magnetosphere, there is a high level of nasty high energy radiation. It's kind of like living inside a microwave oven. The only fix is to use inches of steel or feet of concrete for shielding. Now multiply that by the huge size of the ship required to hold food, oxygen, and other supplies for a two year mission to Mars and back.

Trying to get that much mass into orbit from Earth is practically impossible. If we make concrete from lunar rock, on the other hand, it is easy to boost into lunar orbit.
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getting enough water to the moon to make concrete is going to be just as difficult. :idea:

so will getting enough electricity up there to weld steel
 
mongooz said:
getting enough water to the moon to make concrete is going to be just as difficult. :idea:

so will getting enough electricity up there to weld steel
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Boosting the water from earth will be a chore, but less so than steel, and certainly less than concrete. There's also the possibility of mining asteroids for water.

Electricity is easy: solar panels or a small nuclear power plant.
 
Ad Astra showed a pretty realistic view of the infrastructure needed for interplanetary travel within the solar system. Not to mention, a spaceship that is built in orbit will require a lot less fuel for the trip, thus saving mass and offsetting the shielding needed to protect the crew.
 
I remember around 25 years ago, a local university (Rice, maybe?) obtained some moon dust/soil to test creating concrete. They had only 1 cubic inch to work with since the stuff is rather rare.
 
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