Artemis crew reaches the moon, approaches record-breaking distance from Earth

> with a working toilet Miiiister Wolowitz nowhere to be found.

No working Microsoft Office though lol https://www.tomshardware.com/software/microsoft-office/artemis-ii-astronaut-finds-two-outlook-instances-running-on-computers-call-on-houston-to-fix-microsoft-anomaly-puzzled-caller-describes-two-outlooks-and-neither-one-of-those-are-working

Too bad they're all floating, otherwise they can pull a Sam Gamgee. "If I take one more step, I'll be the farthest from home I've ever been."

They put the ship in rotisserie mode to allow all to claim the title 

I always mention this but I remember a cut of LOTR where every time Sam is on screen and taking a step it plays “if I take one more step it’ll be the farthest from home I’ve ever been.” Every single step. It was 19 hours before it got taken down by YouTube.

They win the 'furthest anyone has been able to get away from Trump' award.

This has to be fake news. I know for a fact that Tom Hanks already went around the moon before, and was quite a bit further out.

Real drip is the “last furthest person from earth EVER” title.

No they don’t want the ship to tip over from the weight

Check on us tomorrow. Maybe we'll have things figured out by then.

But we don’t. Imagine how much better the world would be if we worked toward good things all the time

NASA is America at its absolute best, which is why we naturally have to completely gut the agency and send the money to billionaires, weapons manufacturers, and Israel

Very true but we’re basically seeing just the tip of the iceberg here. The Artemis program itself isn’t bereft of delays, funding issues, engineering issues, politics and what not. It’s still worth celebrating that, despite all the chaos, some good leaks out of it.

If only the billionaires pedo controlling us could f*** off and let society actually progress 

Best we can do is cut the nasa budget and increase military spending 500 BILLION.

Wheres the value to the shareholders in that?

Nobody owns the space between here and the moon... Yet.

There's a big difference between "can't" and "won't."

The perk of flying to the Moon is that no one lives between there and here. In Cali there's about a million NIMBYs and small towns that want their own HSR stop that would completely defeat the point of the HSR. That's the entire reason they can't build it. All of these small towns basically fully block it from being authorized.

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Or even across the smallest state

Yet somehow Florida did… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightline

Let me tell you about 3 miles in Seattle.

Youll drive to the mall but you wont build your own bike path to the grocery store? You must be dumb or lazy or both!

It took the US literal decades to get back to the moon. The seeds for the Artemis program started in the 90’s

They have portions built outside Fresno currently but we’ll see how far it’ll get

Not can we build a dump truck that doesn't spill rocks all over the highway

https://www.youtube.com/live/z-j1uxBmis0?si=2nw1-uepCck4W8Nj You can check it out, there are about 700,000 people watching and a live chat. There's a nice view of the aircraft approaching the moon. Artemis itself will reach the furthest point away from the Earth around 6:00 p.m. Eastern. At that point they will be behind the Moon (obv) so there won't be any signal of that, but there's a nice view right now 11,710 miles left until the moon right now, decreasing at a rate of about 0.5mi/sec (scientifically calculated by me using the Mississippi method). It's kind of sad seeing our only satellite in view, the entire Earth glistening as a blue ball right somewhere off camera, the famous Carl Sagan quote comes to mind.. > Every person who has ever lived or is ever living has been born on this rock just to log into YouTube and post their flag of the respective tiny slice of arbitrary geographical area, fighting with each other about which group of nearly indistinguishable people is in the right and which is in the wrong. Or at least I think it went something like that. Edit: for those who are curious: "The moon is its own body in the unvierse, when we have perspective and Wow, I went outside and the moon is so much bigger. Edit: I had a bunch more to say, perhaps I'll write it down here. Still, I suggest people take a listen to this recent update at around 17:10 EST by [Christina Koch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Koch) at.. aaaand I can't link to timestamps on a live broadcast. C***. Ugh, I'll type it out: > "Houston, Integrity for Sitrep. First of all, I'll talk about the experience that I had during Victor and mine observation time. It was an incredible experience, we definitely noted how much more you can see with the zoom lens even though we have a great visible eye image, there is just a lot of texture that just pops out at you when you can zoom in. So almost using it like a telescope, the camera lens. We really enjoyed our discretion time; that was a great innovation on the lunar targeting plan, we were both able to describe a lot more kind-of [?would slow?] I would say when were were talking to each other and we were also sort of -- we were able to bounce ideas from each other and reach some conclusions. We had I think a very successful talking through of some of some contrasts between different colour areas both in the mare and in the highlands, and we identified some really unique texture areas as well. > At one point towards the end of the images of my time at Window 3 I just had an overwhelming sense of being moved by looking at the moon; it lastsed just a second or two and I actually couldn't even make it happen again, but something just drew me in suddenly to the lunar landscape and it became real. And the truth is the moon its own unique body in the universe, it's not just a poster in the sky that goes by, it as a real place. And when we have that perspective and we compare it to our home of the Earth, it just reminds us how much we have in common, everything we need the Earth provides and that is in and of itself is somewhat of a miracle and one that you can't truly know until you've hard the perspective of the other."

Opens up twitch, gets hit with 8 ads in a row

It won’t be the same was the Apollo 10 video. That flight came within 70 miles of the moon, this comes within 4000 miles of the moon. So the moon will be much smaller and won’t take up the whole horizon

Will nothing please you??

We're going to get a lot of photos upon their return. It's tough to transport high res photos over such low bandwidth

I bet we likely will but not live since they will be coming out of the coms blackout during that time. 

Its not like they aren't recording video.

do we know we won't get that? The data rate they have between the Orion capsule and the ground is low enough that we're only getting maybe a handful of low resolution images each day from the Nikon DSLRs and one mirrorless they have on board. A not insignificant part of their mission during the flyby is to take staggering number of specific photos to observe all kinds of things we've never seen before. There's a lot of photos and videos we won't see until they are safely landed in the Pacific. Sort of terrifying to think just from a disaster preparedness / data backup perspective. They have 2-3Mbps connection with over second latency, and obviously radio comms and all the ship sensor data takes up quite a lot. Plus it seems they're maintaining a near constant live video call with the ship even when we're not being shown it on the livestream.

Okay. Like what is sleeping schedule for them ? Definitely won't be like us, right ?

Plutonians are teh suck

There is no dark side in the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark.

Any Colour You Like

There's also a wizard up there they may have to fight.

it has always been. reuters is news agency. originally they were selling news to media.

I am surprised Katy Perry wasn't put in charge of this mission....

Moon Unit Alpha or Moon Unit Zappa?

Nasa youtube.

I like the way you think!

["We have pictures of you so-called "mooners." And just because the pictures aren't of your faces doesn't mean we can't identify you."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shhJhGEui4U) - *Froyn stealthily pulls up pants*

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