Godspeed the astronauts.
Happy to see they made it up.
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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.
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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 
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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 orbit. 
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A great article about Christina Koch, whoâs also a proud NC native and 2x NC State grad:
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So, youâre saying the Caucasian astronauts can fearlessly enjoy Mexican meal options, now? 
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.
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Watched a lot of launches when I was kid too. Lived near Cape Kennedy, starting about Apollo 13-ish. Seemed like for every manned launch there were 10 unmanned ones (launching what I donât know) - it interrupted PE class often enough.
The Shuttle launch was still the loudest thing Iâve ever felt. Was on a boat in the Indian River for it. Donât recall which one it was. The tanks on the sides were still painted white [they stopped that to save weight later] so it was an early one.
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Thereâll be a mod out soon to replace all that glass and add steam gauges. 
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Last night it was mesmerizing watching that flight deck view as they tested the RCS and the docking cameras. The pilot was doing it old school with every input viewableâand he clearly verbalized everything. He would count pulses and call time hacks. We could see the target and the grid on-screen. Opening and closing were judged by how many grid boxes were filled by the target over time, then if the planned number of pulses stopped movement. It was so simple. Yet I had never thought to do it that way. I figured it would be done with lasers or lidar.
@jross your emphasis on felt rather than hear was spot on. I was just a kid when I saw a shuttle launch from the employee viewing area at 2.5 miles. If just a little older than I am now, I think I would have had a heart attack
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I grew up having the NASA Direct channel on our downstairs TV any time I could get away with it when missions were flying. I even picked up an old copy of one of my favorite coffee table books a few months ago to share with the kids, as theyâre both super interested in space, the stars, and space travel. Richard discovered Crunch Labs a couple of months ago, and both kids have been absolutely mesmerized by the show and now making their own âinventions.â
The book in question: The Home Planet Book | Reflections on Early Space Travel
I told the kids about the launch Tuesday, just to make sure we were still on track for it happening, and after they âhelpedâ grill dinner, we all watched the last 20 minutes of the countdown and launch; Kimberly was so excited she was literally jumping around the living room. Especially every time she could hear Christina Koch on Vox or see her on the footage from inside the Orion.
Weâll watch the replay this weekend of the docking simulation and any highlights that NASA has up; theyâve done a pretty great job with creating those videos.
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Cool. I instantly went to a scene of my granddaugther hopping around yelling out the countdown, with a big âYay!â at T-0âŠ.and that was on Kerbal Space Program on my PC at the time! (years ago prior to V1.0; I did build it up a bit; cranked the volume to full; etc).
Itâs like kids âjust get itâ. Or something in us all âgetâs itâ I spose. Experiencing a Launch, either directly or vicariouslyâŠ
- Those rocket launches mentioned
- First time I voluntarily yeeted myself from a perfectly good aeroplane
- First F-16 ride when my âdriverâ applied the burners
- First time I decided to see just how fast can my âcrotch rocketâ would go; bike was smooth at 165+MPH, mirrors not so much; visceral.
I can still feel all the above. The first (or loudest) ones.
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Really interesting article about that.
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I feel bad for counting them all now, partially my fault I think 
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Watched the take off live. It was fire!
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The live view stream is pretty cool. That moon is getting bigger.
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