Did anyone else follow the Artemis II moon mission?

[korn469]

The U.S., Europeans, and Canada sent four people around the Moon and back for the first time in more than 50 years. Did anyone else follow the mission? I loved it, and watched the launch, the Moon pass, the splashdown and tons of the other coverage. It was truly exciting and inspiring in my opinion, but what are your takes?

I know DanS used to be into space, so it’s a shame he’s not active on here any longer.

[BeBMan]

Not intensely, but watched/read some bits here and there. It was cool indeed

Still waiting for some more revealing infp from the dark side of the moon

[Lorizael]

No, I don't have a giant rocket.

[giblets]

People have been to the moon. I don't really care.

[Lorizael]

You're not required to, of course, but in terms of why you might want to if you would have the first time around, I'd suggest watching this:

[N35t0r]

A bit, but it's kind of hard to get excited with the US space program atm.

[BeBMan]

At least noone (afaik ) in the US gov did complain about the thing being too woke, with a Woman, a Black Guy and a Canadian in space...

[Dauphin]

At least noone (afaik ) in the US gov did complain about the thing being too woke, with a Woman, a Black Guy and a Canadian in space...

They were told it was a deportation from Earth and they were cool with it.

[Geronimo]

I am disappointed that NASA was mandated by law to incorporate shuttle hardware into the vehicle. Reusing any of it one last time as a disposable one off might have been ok in theory I suppose but none of it should be rebuilt from scratch as this point as it has all become obsolete. Building new copies of obsolete expensive reusable hardware for use on a fully non-reusable launch platform is just a bad idea all around. Each newly built RS-25 legacy engine costs $145 million each. What's worse, Nasa abandoned rebuilding the existing 16 RS-25 engines due to cost so apparently it was cheaper to expand the contract for new ones than it was to get those engines back in usable shape, probably because the re-use refurbishment has only gotten dramatically more difficult and expensive with time. Congress should immediately amend or repeal the NASA Authorization Act of 2010.

[Serb]

Whenever Americans go to Moon, their scientists and engineers start to disappear and die soon after.
Holywood clowns.

[Serb]

I am disappointed that NASA was mandated by law to incorporate shuttle hardware into the vehicle. Reusing any of it one last time as a disposable one off might have been ok in theory I suppose but none of it should be rebuilt from scratch as this point as it has all become obsolete. Building new copies of obsolete expensive reusable hardware for use on a fully non-reusable launch platform is just a bad idea all around. Each newly built RS-25 legacy engine costs $145 million each. What's worse, Nasa abandoned rebuilding the existing 16 RS-25 engines due to cost so apparently it was cheaper to expand the contract for new ones than it was to get those engines back in usable shape, probably because the re-use refurbishment has only gotten dramatically more difficult and expensive with time. Congress should immediately amend or repeal the NASA Authorization Act of 2010.

All your new engines had been stolen and reverse engineered from the Soviet "RD" series you have utilized for decades after the fall of the Soviet Union.

[Serb]

Just like you have stolen Yak-41 innovations for you VTOL version of F-35.

[Geronimo]

All your new engines had been stolen and reverse engineered from the Soviet "RD" series you have utilized for decades after the fall of the Soviet Union.

no. the new engines are drastically different methane reusable engines. They have negligible engineering overlap with Russia's world class kerosene engines.

[N35t0r]

Even for kerosene engines, US ones have tended to be gas-generator (like the F-1 in the Saturn V first stage or Falcon's Merlin), much different from the Soviet kerosene engines which are oxidizer-rich.

Historically, US engineers did not believe it would be possible to be able to make alloys capable of withstanding hot, oxidizer-rich output from a pre-burner, so they went for simpler gas-generator designs (since with RP-1, they tend to be better than fuel-rich staged combustion).

Soviets managed it fine, although they really struggled with larger combustion chambers, which is the reason why many of their larger engines have two to four combustion chambers.

Of note, the main engines of the first and second stages of the Soyuz rocket are gas-generators, although this is because they are direct descendants of the V-2's engines and were developed in the 1950s. Initially intended to power the first ICBM for Soviet nuclear weapons, it had to be so large to be able to carry the first Soviet thermonuclear devices that it then could be readily adapted to the space program. Each of the four of it's first stage boosters, as well as the central second stage, have four main rocket nozzles (as well as two or four secondary vernier nozzles for attitude adjustment) each with it's own combustion chamber connected to a single turbopump and has generator.

[Serb]

You better tell me how righ you were to kill hundreds of fishermen, finish them-off in the water, destroyed a lot of buildings, kill hundreds of civilians and finally kidnapped a legitimate president and his wife of a sovereign country (a memeber of United Nations).

Please tell me, how right and good stealing of Venezuelian oil and gold was.

You can also can tell me how good and right your agression against another sovereign country (another memeber of UN) really was
.
You have devastated a country, killed thousands, including hundrends of children, but still dare to deny it wasn't you who have killed 168 little Iranian girls in a school with your Tomohawks.

You are not just killed the head of the sovereign state and his one year old granddaughter and many top leadership of Iran.

You have killed the Ayatollah - the supreme leader of all Shiites.

Iran is a theocracy like Vatican or United Kingdom. So killing Ayatollah is absolutely the same as killing Pope or the king of England.

Your country is a bunch of MURDERS, BANDITS and ROBBERS.

So, please, keep lecturing Russsia about whatsoever!