Artemis II astronauts lose contact with Earth for 40 minutes as they move behind Moon

See you in the car!

12-14 hr workdays. 5 days on 2 days off on ISS for astronauts. I imagine due to the limited duration, Artemis astronauts won’t be having any days off on this particular mission.

At the cost it takes to get them up there, I’d imagine they don’t waste any of their precious time.

Can I interest you in a quantum-entangled modem?

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> All someone needs to know is that radio requires line of sight and it makes sense. Most people don't know this which is why it sounds like something bad happened. Look man, I'm just answering the guy's question. There's no reason to even reply to me in the first place.

The engines aren't the issue. They are de-risking the flight by having the moon handle the return conditions rather than Orion's main engine. If they aim for a low lunar insertion and the engine explodes, the moon would slingshot them into a much higher orbit instead, and even with a functioning engine they don't have the fuel to get home from that. So they aim for a higher lunar orbit that permits a "free return trajectory" which sends them back to low Earth orbit without them having to do anything. Same method as Apollo 13.

Nah they did all this extra stuff around earth first. Obviously the next Artemis will enter moon orbit

And curiosity knows no bounds, right? Tell a bunch of privileged kids from the 90s they can be anything they want and hand out participation trophies. The naive musings of a bygone era missed out on the fact that the Tragedy of the Commons was a warning which we didn’t head. It’s disgusting to see the pipe dream of hope being argued as justifying a veil of ignorance to the suffering of humanity. There are more important issues here on earth than exploring the predictable profitability of those who are seeking to benefit from their investment in this vanity flight. This all meant something when the ideas/solutions space flight and research made became public info, now it’s just corporate R&D.

Actually, the Artemis II mission could technically have been completed without a crew, similar to the uncrewed Artemis I mission. The primary goal of Artemis II is a crewed test flight is to validate life support, navigation, and display systems in deep space to prepare for future moon landings. Good thing they know how to use the toilet in space now. The bigger question is do we need to go the moon? If we do go to the moon who will enjoy the rights of what we actually do once we are there? So far, all of this appears to be corporate R&D and this won’t provide actionable information for most Americans to benefit from. We should have keep the Goddard Space Flight Center open. It actually supports NASA mission. This idea that we need to focus on deep space survival rather than how to live on this planet it part of the NASA rebranding under climate denialist and energy sector deep pockets. We should be pumping money into the Earth Science Division and focusing more on climate adaptation and how to survive on earth.