[NASA's Artemis II Crew Launches To The Moon (Official Broadcast)] Apollo 8 goes up about 2026-04-01T21:20:00Z (UTC) hydrogen leaks willing..

That was SICK! Me and the wife audibly gasped at booster separation What a show. Spread your wings and fly :saluting_face:

Godspeed the astronauts. Happy to see they made it up.

If you were unfortunate enough to be watching on NASA TV you missed booster separation. Instead they were showing old people moving their plastic chairs. Very inspiring.

I think the secret objective of this mission is to deliver/release on the moon the epstein files to no one after can reach them :stuck_out_tongue:

Fun fact that no-one asked for. There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orb…

A great article about Christina Koch, who’s also a proud NC native and 2x NC State grad: [image] The Right Stuff In 2016, NC State magazine profiled Christina Hammock Koch ’01, ’02 MS as she had been named to NASA's 21st class of astronauts. Revisit her story as this week she joins the …

So, you’re saying the Caucasian astronauts can fearlessly enjoy Mexican meal options, now? :grin:

Not your grandfather’s spaceship. [Screenshot 2026-04-02 000701]

[image] BeachAV8R: Sounds like a battery temperature problem with one of the batteries for the launch abort system One could say that the system worked as intended, since it aborted the launch.

I was supposed to be home, on stand-by duty, watching this… But nooo… Had to work, of course. The whole day has been like Murphy playing an April Fools Joke on me. Well, godspeed, the crew of the Artemis II.

NASA's Artemis II Crew Launches To The Moon (Official Broadcast)

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Navynuke99 April 1, 2026, 11:48pm 25

A great article about Christina Koch, who’s also a proud NC native and 2x NC State grad: