NASA launches first crewed lunar mission in half a century

Yep NASA feed has what you were looking for...

We watched the “official broadcast” on NASA’s YouTube channel. They had the best coverage and commentators.

And they cut away right before booster separation to show people on the beach recording on their phones. When they switched back it was over. It’s too bad there are no laws on the books that address a crime of this magnitude.

Thank you, I watched the launch from Ponce inlet. While this was my first ever launch experience I thought that the broadcast was disappointing.

The BBC had former astronauts as their commentators, Mae Jemison did a pretty decent job , well BBC is the gold standard for news presentation anyway.

i heard nothing about the launch until after it happened... you'd think that'd be the kind of historic moment that everyone would be talking about. frustrating.

It’s been so long since SpaceX or NASA did anything more than launch satellites and ISS missions, and the news focus has largely been on how some senile pedophile was launching an illegal war against Iran (something that was in my face with gas jumping over a dollar a gallon!) I literally didn’t hear about this mission until they were on the launchpad and 2 hours from launch. The article says it’s an orbit of the moon in preparation for a landing attempt before China does theirs. Huh. Very exciting to see us caring about this again.

Agreed, the coverage was c***.

This is strange as there was plenty of info during the launch and deployment of the James Webb. I honestly got teary eyed during that launch because it felt so huge for science and space exploration. The amount of Work that went into it. This being the first manned mission in a long time that wasn’t ISS related should’ve been just as big.

No Walter Cronkite and Wally Schirra. They worked so well together. Walter’s pause and look when the landed on the moon was iconic.

We chose to quote JFK because it goes hard

My 3 yr old son would repeat that particular section and the whole speech by obsessively watching the documentary about Apollo missions in his costume (real to him) spacesuit. Before that, we would have ritual reading of goodnight moon, take him outside to see the moon most nights so he would know it was bedtime. JFK had a way with words…but especially phrasing, that frequently astonishes me.

In 1969, after years of thinking a B&W TV was good enough to watch what TV she did watch or would let the kids watch, she decided to buy A GE COLOR TV !! It arrived in late June. We watched Walter Cronkite to see the Apollo 11 Launch. But by the time the Apollo 11 LEM touched down, Mom had developed a terrible respiratory infection, and she had to stay in bed, taking many drugs that made her sleepy and drifting in and out of lucidity. She made us all promise to keep her awake when Armstrong stepped out of the LEM. Which we were barely able to accomplish. The TV was set up a few feet from the head of her bed, and the blinds were drawn. She had just managed to draw a damp face cloth across her eyes when Armstrong descended the ladder to the lunar surface. She called us to fix the picture so the color would show, she couldn't see the color she expected. We had to explain to her that they were only using a B&W TV Camera on the Moon. She then froze as her situational awareness caught up and put it all together. She looked at each one of us in turn and then expressed, "So what did I buy a Color TV for if..." With a very audible groan, she flopped back onto her pillow and quickly drew the bedsheets up over her head. I will never forget that look of sad exasperation and corporate betrayal that raced across her face. In later years, it became one of her favorite stories. You see, my Dad worked for Grumman in Bethpage, the company that fabricated the Lunar Excursion Module, and he had never told her about the B&W camera they had installed to watch the Astronauts step onto the Moon.

Ill send you pictures when we get back

I watched it at age 21 from Maine then. I developed a friendship with an older man some years back who was an electrical engineer I found out that he designed the radio that went to the moon. I asked when did you finish it? he said 1965. He wasn’t that impressed. I was dazzled.

this isn’t true, this is a long running joke that people started believing as fact lol

Pretty sure this is just a mission around the moon with no landing mission unfortunately

> Man, I didn’t even know it was happening! ): This makes me sad, and I've mentioned this numerous times with friends/family who also had no idea this was going on. I'm a huge space nerd, but it makes me incredibly sad that the average person had no idea this was going on. We're more in touch with celibrity gossip and mindless scrolling on social media than we are humanity sending people back to the moon. 50+ years ago this was a "Everyone sits around the TV and watches history happen", today it's a quick news story that many won't even pay attention to. I know we live in different times but it's just depressing that something as monumental as this is overshadowed by pure internet brain rot.

Fun fact some of the moon rocks are actually earth rocks that are older than anything found on earth, > 4 billion years old.

Dude Never thought I'd meet someone from my generation who appreciates Space Rock as much as I do.

Yup. DOGE hit NASA hard. A ton of people were "retired.".

Oh man... I didn't even watch that long, the footage had already turned me off. I hope eventually we'll have access to everything unedited, because the edits are trash

\* well past Neptune, which is indeed past Saturn. The picture taken with Earth in the rings of Saturn as a similar 'pale blue dot' was Cassini.

Yeah, Listnook (besides the dedicated space sublistnooks) seems to be very anti-space travel. It's literally all over the news.

I really think this is just how pop culture works. Even when I was younger I didn’t know half the shit other people at school talked about, like celebrities, music, especially tv shows, etc.

Amen. My previous comment was a subtle and roundabout way of saying f*** FOX lol also come on ma jfc

They are heretics with their rapture bs. Sacrificing people at the alter of Israel.