NASA just(?) released a recording from inside Orion while reentering from Artemis 1! - The full 25 minutes!!! :nkoWhoaa: 🚀 :nasa: :esa: :ablobcatbongo:
NEW in my SHOP. There is a MUG and a T-Shirt as well.
Artemis - Artemis with her faithful hound, stalking monsters in the dark. Artemis, goddess of the hunt.
Fluid art. Digital art edited in GIMP. Using public-domain/royalty-free images.
The LPI #Lunar Summer program is open again for grad students (from anywhere in the world) interested in lunar science and exploration.
I was part of this program back in 2009, which was a lot of fun, despite the fact that we watched Constellation get cancelled from under us. This should be a much better time to get into lunar exploration, and a rare opportunity for non-US students to get their foot into the NASA door.
👨🏼🚀👩🏼🚀🇨🇦 Annonces de l’Agence Spatiale Canadienne : Joshua Kutryk sera le prochain Canadien à aller à l’ISS à bord de #Starliner-1, la 1re mission opérationnelle. Le lancement est prévu pour le début de 2025 au plus tôt.
Jenni Gibbons a été nommée comme astronaute réserve de la mission #Artemis 2 en cas de souci pour Jeremy R. Hansen
Was there perhaps a problem with the fuel feed system, I wonder?
Also, #NASA is apparently beginning to doubt if Starship can still meet the deadlines and get its licence + human rating in time.
Frankly, things are not looking too good for either #Starship or #Artemis right now. Jim Free doesn't seem happy or even hopeful at all.
Il y a des gens pour voler à bord de ce gros machin qui explose dans des proportions invraisemblables ? Curieux de lire le prochain communiqué de la NASA. 🤪 #starship#artemis
SpaceX starship lifts off.
Hot-stage separation.
First stage explodes.
2nd stage self-destructs.
Praises galore.
Artemis astronauts will have to a wait a bit longer.
Don't pack your bags for Mars yet. #starship#spacex
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Here is what SpaceX has to develop/test for Artemis 3 human lunar landing -
Launch a storage depot to Earth orbit (using Starship)
Launch tankers with propellant to the storage depot (using Starship).
Launch Starship human landing system (HLS) (using another Starship).
Refuel in earth orbit.
Travel to lunar orbit.
Transfer crew from Orion to HLS (Orion with crew launched by SLS).
Land.
Liftoff.
Transfer crew to Orion.
#SpacePolitics
“It got funded as a #rocket to #nowhere, and we at #NASA had to figure out something to do with it,” #Garver says. Legacy contractors like #Boeing continued to receive large bonus payments 💰 for working on the #SLS, despite delays and mushrooming #costs.
Critics of the #SLS argue that the rocket is #unsustainable by #design, relying on an old and potentially quite #expensive way to get to #space. Much of SLS is a holdover from the #spaceshuttle. But while the shuttle #orbiter, #engines, and external #tanks were designed to be #reusable, SLS and its engines were not.
“They’ve designed a rocket that is basically #unsustainable, because it’s completely #throwaway. The only bit that comes back is #Orion”
Ms. Stirone is a space writer. Dr. Chiao is a former NASA #astronaut. Ms. Garver is a former deputy administrator of NASA. Dr. Grinspoon is an #astrobiologist
#artemis#artemisapp is just throwing a blank screen when I start it up - no options to logout and back in, or anything apart from uninstalling really. Anyone else with the same issue?
@kkarhan oh, have I got news for you! In 2025, the game plan is to have #Artemis land on the Moon with scientists to do research. And they're doing a manned flyby around the moon next year.
Also, ISRO (the Indian agency) is planning manned missions to the moon for the late 2030s. So it's heating up again!
As for fixing problems on land... yeah, that's an ongoing project. The nice thing is, investment in research and space does net some really good outcomes for Earth.
It's becoming hard to argue, even for #SpaceX fans, that the company would be able to meet the Artemis III schedule of 2025 given the Starship delays.
#NASA's Jim Free said delays to Starship have inhibited other parts of the #Artemis mission, since NASA’s spacecraft Orion and the spacesuits being developed by Axiom are designed to interface with Starship.
And don't blame it on the FAA, #SpaceX is the "move-fast-break-things” company of aerospace
OC After Radio Silence, Kbin App Artemis Shuts Down (wedistribute.org)
After a long silence from the developer, project moderators stepped down. The mobile app for Kbin appears to have closed its doors.
Mod resignation from the Artemis project
Advisory:...
API to be unlocked in the next kbin update (kbin.social)
Ernest is on fire lately, and he has now confirmed that the API will be unlocked in the next release of kbin!...