Artemis 2 going to the moon - editionprevious >>16939290
SLS is redeemed. That was a sexy launch
>>16944543yeshttps://x.com/elonmusk/status/2039923691916800053
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RwfNBtepa4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n1GGe0fUBs
Holy kino
>>16944593Holy shit…Haven’t seen something this good since Apollo.
>>16944593'ery noice
>>16944593
Omg
>>16944593where is this from? my X feed is mostly ragebaiting at the moment
>>16944600The atmosphere, the night lights coming on across SpainOh my God… it even has auroras
>>16944602I took the pic
>>16944600>those aurora's at the top and sunrise peaking over from the other side>the lights along the spanish coastKINOKINOKINOKINOkino alert.
>>16944605you can see the aurora's of both poles actually.
>>16944604how much you think a pad lizard makes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBYXljV7FK4>Artemis II - TLI Burn to head to the Moon
Earth is the coolest planet, we just have sensory adaption to it and consider it boring because we live here and interact with it everyday. But in a vacuum it’s magnificent
>>16944612>Earth is the coolest planetnot even close. we’re the third hottest planet, fourth if you count the moon
>>16944612>consider it boringthe people who consider it boring have lost touch with reality and don't go outside human environments.forests, coastlines, geology, ocean lifeall of it is fucking beautiful man, you have to stop and appreciate it sometimes.except for beetles, fuck beetles.
>>16944612>Earth is the coolest planet, we just have sensory adaption to it and consider it boringIf you didn't have sensory adaptation to it, you would find it disgusting and horrifying.Any kind of flesh-horror movie or other media you've ever consumed is basically what we live in during our daily lives. Anything from eating, fucking, breeding to nature itself is disgusting from the point of view of someone who's not adapted to this. Even your own body is a nauseating, pulsating bag of flesh with strange colour and growths all over it.
>>16944618Are you some kind of crystal
>>16944619God, I wish.This corporeal form is a punishment beyond measure.
>>16944619some kind of krystal you say?
>>16944618>>16944620
Is it supposed to be spinning?
>>16944600It would nice if the crew demonstrated why you can’t have both stars and sunlit bodies in the same photo. It confuses normalfags badly and gives rise to dumb posts
>>16944600Magnificent. I'm guessing all those bright spots are dust in the foreground?
>>16944627yes, its passive thermal protection, basically prevents one side from being in the sun for too long
>>16944625Fuck off, nigger.
>>16944593>>16944600Sublime>>16944168The only time the Apollo program had a net approval rating from the Ameriburger public was the week after Apollo 11, the only reason the program got off the ground was was because space was an extension of the cold war arms race, and the only reason Apollo wasn't canceled before it could land on the moon is because JFK was killed before he got cold feet.
>>16944604some quick sloppie before the flight never hirt anyone, so long as she doesn't have the clap.
>>16944632Thank god JFKs head exploded.
>>16944593No crew selfie?
>>16944600Well, i guess we didn't get low light photos like this from Apolo.
https://x.com/ulalaunch/status/2040068344519197182>The U.S. Space Force weather squadron at Cape Canaveral predicts a 90 percent chance of acceptable conditions for the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launch of the Amazon Leo mission tonight at 1:45 a.m. EDT (0545 UTC).
>>16944646Can't see shit in Jacksonville smdh...
>Space Shuttle was a more ambitious design (for its time) than Starship, and worked first time.It never worked. Its main objective was to make access to space a lot cheaper but it failed spectacularly, giving the concept of reusability a bad reputation for decades.The design also proved to be inherently unsafe.Starship is the shuttle done right.
>>>done
>>16944600Wait, is this THE first picture ever of the globe without any cgi?
>>16944585now count the billions used to built it
>>16944647Might be clearer by 2 AM
https://x.com/CNSpaceflight/status/2039976387810099302>SPACE-PIONEER's highly anticipated Tianlong-3 rocket failed during its debut launch from Jiuquan hours ago.
>>16944657was it a reusable rocket?
>>16944600uuuh which landmass am i looking at? i'm completely lost
>>16944659not anymore its not
>>16944654Every SHLV costs billions>>16944650>donezozzle >>16944638Had he lived he probably would have tried to get a joint US-Soviet mission going, he didn't want to back out on going to the moon, but he was feeling that Apollo was going to be a boondoggle. A joint mission was his preferred out.
>>16944654You mean the billions that could have been allocated to poor starving trans gay black indian quadriplegic midgets of african descent?
>trump is asking for $1.5 trillion for next year's military budget>part of the cost increase is due to golden domethat's a lot of money
>>16944631disgusting bag of flesh confirmed (emotional)
>>16944654half that already sent to ukraine in the last few years.
>>16944667>poor starving trans gay black indian quadriplegic midgets of african descent?Nonsense, Israel and G-d's Chosen need that money Goyim!>>16944668>billions for Missile Defense System that doesn't workI'd say Theodore Postol is rolling over in his grave at such news, but he's still alive and has been saying that ballistic missile defense is impractical since the end of the gulf war.
>>16944659Not in the configuration they launched this one in, but they're planning on putting legs and grid fins on it eventually.
>>16944656based
>>16944593>>16944600Faith of the heart
https://x.com/SpaceIntel101/status/2040038152996356287>Russian Space Forces launched Meridian-M No.21 satellite on a Soyuz 2.1a rocket from Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43/3 to LEO
>>16944612Of course. Earth is the crown jewel of the Universe.
Our SpaceX pledge. Fractional ballistic arc to a fiery crash in the Indian Oceans by May! June at the latest.
They used to fly every couple months, why have they stopped?The new launchpad is done, right? It's been since last fucking summer.
>>16944684The new launch pad is "done" in the same sense that ML-2 was done: it's not. Most of the major construction is finished but there's still a lot of checks that need to be run and maybe more fitting out that's hard to spot from a livestream. Starship might be designed for mass production but the launch complexes certainly aren't
>>16944660are you dumb? the highly populated peninsula to the bottom left is spain, the big desert is the sahara desert, you're looking at africa but from a nearly upside-down perspective anon.
>>16944688They were able to attempt a static fire a few weeks ago.
>>16944673it wasn't, the figures that contrarians like stating in regards to that are assuming that all the outdated equipment that was due for replacement sent in physical aid had the exact same dollar value when it was made.
>>16944665>Had he lived he probably would have tried to get a joint US-Soviet mission goingin that case LHO was an unwitting patriot for peeling that big mick melon
>>16944665do you think we could create a space program by attaching small probes to the buttons on nagi-san's shirt and telling her to puff up her chest?
>>16944693*from when it was made
A toast to the cislunar future
>>16944694It would have been better if the cold war got dialed down in the mid 60s and that the US and USSR spent money on building spaceships together rather than building 10s of thousands of nukes.
>>16944629camera sensor noise. image is really amplified to get colors
>>16944600>This looks like it's a daytime shot, but, it's actually taken from the dark side of Earth, with the planet illuminated by moonlight. This lets faint details like the aurora, stars and the sodium layer show up without over exposing the planet.https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2040076111216800064
>>16944684Grok, have an opinion on this?Sure do! As of early 2026, the interval between Starship tests has shifted from a "rapid" ~1–4 month cadence in 2025 to a much slower glacier like pace, with the 12th test flight (Flight 12) delayed for 7 months. Maybe 8 months. Sorry. We suck. It's the drugs man. We're going to detox to get clean.
>>16944698Translunar rights are human rights
>>16944696Depends on how big pierce brosnan can make her tits
>>16944701but I guess there has to be SOMETHING there to scatter the light since that part closer to the sun appears brighter which it wouldn't be in a pure vacuum.so yeah some dust and residual atmosphere has to be involved too.or maybe it's just some leakage inside the camera from the brightest part of the horizon?
SpaceX: Theranos with more explosions.
>>16944709As much of an anti-muskfag that I am this is an unfair comparison. Falcon 9 actually works.
Lighting up one of these when Artemis II returns safely
>>16944682what happened to april?
>>169447102 more years
>"In the military, there’s a saying that there are no atheists in foxholes. There aren’t any on top of rockets, either, I would think."based glover
https://spacenews.com/chinas-commercial-tianlong-3-rocket-fails-on-debut-launch/Oh no, that sucks.
>>16944706>that fat nagithis would be detrimental to her ability to hunt for roggs, she wouldn't be able to fit down the mineshaft.
>>16944709>>16944715are you just that lonely? go find some company that's not people calling you a retard because you're pretending to be a retard online.
>>16944668>The Golden Dome missile shield would get $17.5 billion in FY27. However, that would be reliant on passing reconciliation, with only $400 million for the program included in the base budget request. That sum would be a slight step down from the $25 billion approved for Golden Dome in the first reconciliation bill, which the administration plans to spend in FY26. despite the budget going from $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion, golden dome is actually getting a budget cut
>>16944660Earth
>>16944720https://breakingdefense.com/2026/04/trump-to-propose-1-5-trillion-defense-budget-banking-on-350-billion-from-reconciliation/
>>16944716it's a cute sentiment, but it's just the kind of thing that religious folk tell themselves because they think being non-religious means being non-spiritual.they are projecting onto others what they think they would become if they were non-believers: nihilists.ultimately most religious people are simply too weakminded to find their own modus operandi and know they would turn into animals without a centralized religion to guide them, some people like me are just built different and don't need that coping mechanism to function.
>>16944690oh yeah now i see it. but you needn't call me dumb
>>16944717no it doesn't
speaking of budget cutshttps://spacenews.com/white-house-again-proposes-steep-nasa-budget-cuts/
>>16944725i'm sorry anon, that was mean and unnecessary of me.
Uhhh why are /sfg/ memes in my reels
>>16944727>The White House’s proposal would increase spending on exploration programs by nearly 10% to $8.5 billion. That would fully fund the various elements of Artemis and includes $175 million for new robotic missions to help establish a lunar base, plans outlined by the agency last week.in exchange they would gut nasa's science budget along with the ISS budget
>>16944400I'm gonna kms this time, I really am
>>16944727Moon base next year btw. Trust isaac.
>>16944719Don't be mean to Elon! He's going to detox to get clean!You're every teenage girl who has a boyfriend with an unsigned band.
>>16944731There's no way that's enough for the moon base.
>>16944728yeah i mean come on, if you dont know the earth is upside down and from what distance the picture is taken it's kinda hard to make sense of it
>>16944684>they launch too much, why are they rushing and crashing so much???11>they launch too little, why are they so slow and doing nothing?????11
>mom just told me she was disappointed because she thought we were landing people on the moon, not going around it>she said the news was misleading:(
>>16944734>b-but muh strawman >y-you think thisyou don't seriously believe anything you're saying, you're a very lonely guy who never learned how to get positive attention in real life, and thus seeks negative attention to fill the void online.
>>16944729>technological warfareas opposed to non-technological warfare? Is this guy living in the Pliocene?
>>16944693im just going on common figures for shit sent to ukraine V total SLS/artemis program cost to date.
>>16944712He doesn't know...
>>16944628It should be possible now with HDR
>>16944736to be fair anon, the shape of africa is pretty recognizable from any angle, and there's basically no other desert on earth that size.
>>16944600>>16944593so what is the point of going to space if we are already in space
>>16944753Staying sedentary sows stagnation.
>>16944706There's a girl at my job that's shaped just like this but smaller, the problem is that's she's married
>>16944698I will die with this view BTW
>>16944755so what, that means you only have to compete against one guy instead do the whole world. Flirt and become the office husband.(word of advice though, generally recommended not to dip your pen in company ink)
Why hasn't Elon said owt about Artemis II?
>>16944755There are plenty of them out there for you, architect fag.>>16944758Do you want someone to do this to you?
elon should be laser focused on starship HLS. instead he's laser focused on local californian politics even though he doesnt live there.blue is our only hope now
>>16944737>>they launch too much, why are they rushing and crashing so much???11I have never said this, and I wouldn't care if they crashed once a week so long as they were launching once a week in the first place.I want my 25 flights in 2025 Elon
>>16944761Uhm you don't understand sweatyHe's actually optimizing califorbia! Yeah! Starship is going all according to plan and and that's why he's not bothering! There's gonna be a launch in two weeks.Trust the plan!
>>16944761If Elon is so pissy mad, close Hawthorne and the Tesla plant. Or is he still collecting state gibs for those?
$2 trillion valuation, can’t get it up or get HLS ready
can someone explain the animosity people hold towards sending actual people, instead of a rover, to space? even "the grass" chicken man has fell for this meme.even if we subscribed to the dogma that space exploration is purely scientific, the rovers we send to mars and the moon shit the bed after like 3 months.
>>16944769Sagan gets the blame imo
Key holidays in May 2026 include Memorial Day on Monday, May 25th, Cinco de Mayo on May 5th, and Mother's Day on May 10th. No chance Flight 12 launches before Cinco. Mother's Day is iffy. By Memorial Day perhaps?
>>16944778why would a minor holiday matter to flight 12
>>16944776With her wife. Yeah, that's sounds like Goddard.
>>16944779Anon, it's not the holidays holding SpaceX back. Fault is not in the stars and so on.
Reminder that the only trve astronauts are exochads, LEO scrubs dont count
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEsWakeup time for wagies in a minute.
>>16944785why don't they stream the rocket in like postcard resolution so the quality doesn't shit the bed every second, maybe keep the bitrate low too since not that much happens
>>16944778>Cinco de MayoOnly American holidays count, mexican skeleton day or whatever is not relevant.
WH nasa budget is absolutely gutted, along with a >50% cut to NSF.
>>16944788never been more over
>>16944682Jan 26, 2026>“Starship launch in 6 weeks” Feb 21, 2026>“Starship flies again next month”Mar 7, 2026>“Starship V3 first flight in about 4 weeks” Mar 18, 2026>“Getting closer to Starship launch! ” Apr 3, 2026>“Next flight of Starship and first flight of V3 ship & booster is 4 to 6 weeks away”
>>16944788is that why NSF is always shilling their merch on stream?
>>16944788If only, but the Republicans in Congress won't go there. Current year +20% minimum.
>>16944789luckily congress didn't impliment it last time, hopefully they'll do it again. the problem was the between period where NASA starting shutting shit down before it was official. hopefully jared won't do that
>>16944792we need an actual spacex employee to tell us when the real date is
>cool livestream of the actual capsule>cuts to gay cgi
>>16944600Always love a good Blue Marble shotHope they get another one for the return flight
I demand to be spoon-fed comparison between apollo CM and Orion. >endurance stats >dV>maneuvering capabilities >re-entry tolerance
>>16944798Watch this stream anonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RwfNBtepa4
>>16944798>>cool livestream of the actual capsuleyou don't have to lie like that it's a grainy camera that just barely shows any of the capsule doing nothing in a blank void
>>16944802>not a void enjoyerngmi
Wakey wakey Integrity. We need you guys to take more cool Earth/Moon photos.
I was going to sync it to a GOES pic since you can see SA and goes captures that, but I'm too lazy to find the right frame
Salt on the Burger:Eric BergerIt's hard to get too exercised about the ridiculous White House budget for NASA, because Congress will address a lot of its issues. But this will make Isaacman's job a lot more difficult than it need be!Are Eric and Izzy going steady or something? Burgy always leaping to the defense.
>>16944802>a blank voidanon, what do you think space is and why do you think it's called "space"?
>>16944808space is a big inconvenient nothing that stands in the way of us getting to all the cool roggs
I still cry over Oppy
>no deep space EVABooooo!
>>16944758that's dishonorable behaviour, don't do that.
>>16944812They don't have an airlock type of hatch. Yes, really. It was a cost cutting thing. They'll install one for A3 honest!
>>16944807
sped up 10,000%https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002m1200920011_Apogee_Raise_Burn
>>16944812i told you guys to not cancel gateway but all you did was scream "TOLLBOOTH! TOLLBOOTH! TOLLBOOTH!" back at me
>>16944757I don't think you will live that long but let's hope you do
>>16944819>They don't have an airlock type of hatch.Neither did the CM, didn't stop them
>LEAH>CHESHIER>MUSTACHIO
>>16944825how much of this is automated and how much do they do in real time?
>>16944600Is this the brightside of the earth?
>>16944829Airlock probably not the right term. Docking adaptor and hatch. CM had that. Although, the side hatch on Apollo could open in space. Apollo did some spacewalks using that.Don't know if the Orion hatch has that capability.
welp, yet again zoomer DOGE keyword search is responsible for getting rid of ISRU money because it's 'woke'
>>16944832mustachio is kinda based name but not on a woman. you'd guess it belongs on an 17th century musketeer or adventurer
>>16944833Fully automated.Only manual flight was during the prox ops test.
>>16944837what exactly are these in space sustainability goals?
>>16944838It's a fake ass name and therefore cringe.
>>16944837that entire budget will be rejected. i wouldnt read too much into it
>>16944841aha ok. yeah then it's very cringe if it's something she added herself
>>16944840sustainability is for libtards
>>16944839they will be doing another manual control test later in the mission (i do not recall when)
>>16944846yeah but i'm curious what they really entail and if they somehow accidently scrapped something that was useful.
>>16944835Hey, I know who to ask! Grok?Design & Function: The side hatch is engineered for extreme security, tested to operate after withstanding harsh space pressure changes.Emergency Use: If a quick exit is needed in space, pyrotechnic, or explosive, devices can instantly release the latches for immediate opening.Opening Mechanisms: While normally opened by ground teams before launch and after splashdown, it has manual mechanisms for crew access to the docking hatch or for emergency procedures.So, no. Unless you're never coming back.
>>16944839so what are they doin in there?
