The report card for NASA’s Artemis 1 mission is in, and it’s a definite pass. The Orion spacecraft that orbited the moon as part of the unmanned 25-day, 1.4 million-mile mission last fall performed better than expected on its second test flight and its first into deep space, officials said on a Tuesday teleconference call, per Space.com. There was a hiccup on reentry, however, as Orion’s heat shield lost more material than anticipated, though not enough to be unsafe, per UPI. “Some of the expected char material that we would expect coming back home ablated away differently than what our computer models and what our ground testing predicted,” said Howard Hu, manager of the Orion program, per Space.com.
Hu noted the spacecraft returned to Earth on Dec. 11 at 24,500mph before slowing to land at 16mph. It landed within 2.4 miles of the target, well within the requirement of 6.2 miles, Hu added, calling it a “really great performance.” Though its mobile launcher suffered more damage than expected, according to NASA, the Space Launch System rocket also performed better than expected. It did “an outstanding job and met all our expectations and in fact exceeded most of them,” said John Honeycutt, manager of the SLS program, per Space.com. He added that “postflight data analysis continues to show SLS is ready to support crewed Artemis missions.”
Sure… and the Hillary/Michelle ticket will win the White House.
Satan sez, “Don’t laugh!”
Sure we are. 😜
Back? LOL
We’ve already been there. With the advancements in robotics it’s foolish to send manned flights to the moon.
They should just put a ‘Go-Pro’ on Alice Kramden….
I’d gladly contribute to sending Mitch McConnell on a one way trip
Ask Elon.
He’ll do it while smoking a Joint in one hand and tweeting that Jan 6th is a Lie with the other hand.
Send most of Congress. Seriously. Or let Putin vaporize DC.
With Slowjoe in charge – we’d be lucky to hit Canadia!!
Strap Fauci to the heat shield and launch.
You know it’s promising to be the most diverse moonshot. So many genders to choose from.
Fabulous I tell you.
I think it’s cool as hell to go back to the moon.
Billions of our tax dollars spent on a dick that plays piano and biden’s 10%.
May as well spend some on flexing our muscle, small even so, at the rest of the world.
But I’m biased, being a sci-fi fan.
Now we understand why Lori Lighfoot wuz voted out… to be the first black, female, homosexual, butch-dyke to be planted head first into the moon dust with a flag on her feet that sez “We Suck!”
What???? The Manager of Orion is Named Howard Hu’s??
I hope He leaves a decent Will this Time.
Nonypuss – 😆 …right!
Speaking of moving on, maybe this kitchen is juuuuuust a little too warm for you. I call ’em as I see ’em!
There is no Dark Side of the Moon … matter of fact, it’s all dark.
We shud sent a mission to the sun … at night, of course …
I’m all for a trip to Uranus … hee hee …
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Sitting on the Dock of the Bay . . .
Down to the Moon A Horse with No Name All Star Alta Mira And the Cradle will Rock Baba O’Riley Black Betty Black Hole Sun Born to be Wild Brass in Pocket Call Me Can’t Get It Out of My Head Caribbean Blue Children of the Sun Cloudburst Flight Dark Side of the Moon Distractions Don’t Fear The Reaper Don’t Forget to Breathe Don’t Pay The Ferryman Don’t You Forget About Me Down Under
ECHOS Every Morning
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It’s much more cost effective and beneficial to use buses and send Mexicans and other illegal “Aliens” back to where they came from.
There were no stars in the photographs of the 1969 moon mission, nor the missions to follow. Okay, 60’s and 70’s cameras being what they were. But now, 2023 and the pictures they sent back again contain no stars. Help me here considering I can snap a picture of a star on a completely sunny day with a cell phone. It’s fake, now and in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
The camera’s apertures on the moon are adjusted to get maximum contrast and definition to capture the moon’s surface, not the stars.
Side observation; I like how we measure space travel in miles.
Screw your Km’s, the rest of the world.