Did anyone else get goosebumps watching the drama unfold? I watched the Apollo missions as a boy and we watched this one as a family. No ipads or androids etc.
My neighbor is in his early 30’s and has been part of the space program since Artemis was born. Really cool beans.
The whole thing was awesome. Even the Outlook Incident and the toilet breaking on Day 1 (of 10).
Nope didn’t want to jinx it, I kept close tabs through the whole mission but I don’t watch those things. I was in 3rd grade watching when the Challenger happened, then was on duty and watching when Columbia died on re-entry. I don’t watch those anymore.
An awesome spectacle, some amazing images.
With all the sh!t and hate going on, Artemis and associated scientific endeavour gives some hope for the future of humanity.
I had the YouTube channel on every minute I was home & awake… I too was fascinated by the Apollo missions as a kid, truth be told I still am. If you are an electronics geek, there’s a channel on YT that’s refurbishing original Apollo systems. They even managed to resurrect a guidance computer.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-_93BVApb59FWrLZfdlisi_x7-Ut_-w7
I watched the entire 30+ episodes of this restoration. Love this Curious Marc’s channel.
On one of my service calls many years ago the owner had pics of Apollo vehicles. I asked about them and he said they were from when he was building the video gear for the missions and after it was completed, NASA scrapped it because they wanted color and not black and white. He got paid and was laid off shortly thereafter.
I was working in a transmission shop and the news broke in on the radio and President Reagan spoke. Sad day. Then on my birthday, the Columbia crew perished on re-entry. I am curious to see what the heat shields on Artemis look like.
The comms is incredible too, but not yet finished…
We were watching the livestream of the touchdown just before the start and again during the intermission at the Snarky Puppy concert. 
I dunno. I disagree a lot with spending money on ‘space’ travel’.
So we just went 0.0000000001x10-23% further into the universe than ever before (rounded off there a bit). So? How about we take all that money and sweep up around the one planet we can actually live on, feed starving people, get meds to folks that need them, cure some diseases, buy something pretty for everyone, teach people to be cool to each other, and get Siri to actually answer a question properly.
Why not both? Money is a made-up construct. What we lack is not the money, but the collective will to do all those things.
Hmmmm … dunno! For people starving or nor being able to pay for medical care, the absence of money is a real thing…
I was a big fan of everything space, but now - for the most part - I think it’s just stupid vanity. We should put our efforts into making things better here on earth.
Even the Nutella flying conveniently in front of the camera did not convince me otherwise, and I really love Nutella!
The root of the problem is humans are selfish jerks.
We’ve got a good thing going here yet we’re managing to make a Horlicks of it.
We are a virus with shoes. Let the dolphins run things for a while
The space program has given us an awful lot of good science and tech over the years. If we’re going to stop spending money on something to take care of the least among us (which is what a country with any kind of compassion should do), I think the bigger bang for our buck would be to fund less of bombing kids in schools in the middle east. NASA accounts for a much smaller part of our budget than the defense budget (18 - 25B in recent years vs 850B - 1.5T dollars).
Is there a cooler job than being an astronaut? Other than a bass player, that is
^^^ this. How about we stop funneling imaginary wealth to oligarchs and do many useful things with all that potential.
No one said money doesn’t matter, it’s the rules we’ve made to play by. It’s the way we’ve collectively been duped into deciding to allocate all that abstracted wealth that is the problem.
I heard they left, does that mean something?
