Now to get a line hoist raise up to the helicopter.
Can someone explain why this is such a big deal?
We did this 56 years ago in a tin can.
Genuinely question. I don’t get it.
A big deal because it was last done 56 years ago!
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Textbook until the grad left the key to the spaceship back at the boat.
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Ride a bomb to space, go around the moon, re-enter at 3,000+ degrees and get lifted into a helicopter. Not bad hey. So bad ass.
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Great to have this positive news when the world is experiencing so much negative news. Here’s to more of it.
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Also went further than any humans have ever been from earth. Saw the side of the moon we can’t see from earth, the only humans to have ever seen it. I’m so happy they got back safely.
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Didn’t the other guy see it while his mates were walking on it?
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I’m pretty sure all the Apollo missions saw the far side of the moon.
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Crap if it happens but I don’t think it will.
Same thing last year proposing a 25% cut but congress said FU and gave NASA a budget the same as the previous year.
With Artemis 2 being such a success, I cannot see congress reducing the NASA budget.
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I haven’t read all the post, so this may have been answered before. Over 50 years ago I watched the moon landing on 13 July 1969in Australia. I remember it all on a Monday morning being crowded into a school room watching a small black & white TV.
I don’t really get this latest adventure, but can you explain why they still splash into the sea on return and don’t land back in Houston. I am sure the technology is possible, so why has nothing changed in 57 years with landing.
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I assume it’s traveling much faster so they’d need to carry even more fuel to slow it down. Among many other factors.
Russia and China who are the only other countries that launch people into space at this time land on land and not water like the US.
Both have pros and cons.
Water landing is a bit move survivable if a parachute fails, but can sink if floatation devices or buoyancy of the capsule fails.
Dragon uses buoyancy of capsule and Orion uses floatation and buoyancy.
Once starship replaces Orion the plan is to cancel catch it with the “chopsticks”.
Not sure how Blue Origin plans to land with astronauts, but I expect it will be on legs.
Gus Grissom (Mercury-Redstone 4):
On July 21, 1961, the hatch on his capsule blew prematurely after splashdown. Water flooded the capsule, and Grissom was forced to exit. His suit began to lose buoyancy, and he nearly drowned before being rescued.
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The way the US did it yesterday with helicopters and navy ships was way over the top and was really designed to show US military might.
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Would take too long to cool down after coming through the atmosphere. Ocean landing cools it down so the frogmen can open the doors.
Disclaimer. Making it up. Haven’t got a clue. 
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I always assumed it’s just easier to do it that way.
Where is Starship at? Feels like they continue to do amazing things but also got a bit stuck?
Edit: looks like moving to V3, launch pad upgrades (BF’s chopsticks), and hopefully orbital refuelling as a major milestone.
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Both ready for static fire testing. S39 at Massey’s and B19 at the new launch pad.
Testing this week and flight 12 early may is my best guess.
Oh and the engines being exposed with no heat shielding is a thing of beauty. They don’t need heat shields as they are cooled with cryogenic fuel circulated through them in tiny channels before they enter the turbines and combustion chamber. Never been done before.
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Now there are some corinthian columns, Donald
Thanks, Joe
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I’m taking the last bit of your post as an go against Trump. While there are many reasons to go him, his policies, execution and just general sheetfuckery, this mission isn’t really one of them as it was him that made it possible.
I might be misreading your post so apologies if I have.
Under Trump, the goals of Artemis and architecture of the Artemis program was set in his first term and despite trying to continually cut science budgets (which I obviously hate), he has supported manned exploration budgets and put a space policy in place to achieve this great mission and the many to come.
The execution of the Artemis program has been a disaster as with most things involving Trump and governments with cost overruns and an unsustainable architecture. Hence SpaceX with Starship being given the landing contract in 2021 and Blue Origin a few years later. Process to award these contracts was done under Trump as then administrator Bridenstine realised the architecture issues.
Bush set up the Constellation program in his term which was supposed to take us back to the moon. It was a complete disaster and Obama cancelled it in his second term due to cost overruns and that it was not technically going to be able to deliver a moon landing. Obama did not replace Constellation with anything.
Orion which was a part of the Constellation program was kept as a part of Artemis and despite it being successful in the Artemis 2 mission, it was never the right decision to keep it.
Hopefully with Jared as administrator, Orion can get us to the moon and commercial space will land us on there moon.
Orion and SLS will be fully replaced hopefully post Artemis 5 with Starship and Blue Origin and they along with NASA and other commercial providers will build a moon base and then Mars.