America headed back to the moon!!!

[DeltaV]

 

[cr8crshr]

Gonna be an interesting trip for the crew, no doubt. Plus...Twice in my lifetime have I witnessed this taking place. Gotta Love It!!! cr8crshr/Bill

 

[khryslerkid]

I heard the "shitter" is a new design not like the original version with containment bags. They still have the old style for a backup on board.

 

[Richard Cranium]

I heard the "shitter" is a new design not like the original version with containment bags. They still have the old style for a backup on board.

And if that fails.....

 

[Dave6T4]

They shouldn't have chosen Taco Bell as their last meal on Earth!

 

[Dave6T4]

Walowitz to the rescue!

 

[wahya]

I remember Apollo 11 and its landing on the moon and was very interested in its mission. Funny that I don’t remember the second landing, Apollo 12 only about 4 months or so later ( had to look this stuff up). Then there was Apollo 13, April 11, 1970, the “successful failure” that I didn’t know much about back then, but have watched the movie 4 or 5 times now. I agree with statement made that it could be their finest hour.

 

[DeltaV]

Artemis 2 uses the same one developed for the International Space Station (ISS).

Boldly Go! NASA’s New Space Toilet Offers More Comfort, Improved Efficiency for Deep Space Missions - NASA.

 

[Budnicks]

Yep will circumnavigate around the moon
at a deeper space orbit, farthest ever...

Apollo 11, they took off a couple days before I turned 10, July 1969
1st maned moon landing, July 20th 1969, was 8 days after my 10th Birthday
I was enamored with everything NASA...
Laid in front of our 'Blonde Oak' RCA TV/Stereo Console cabinet watched live
on the 'multicolored green shag carpet' in our living room
while living in Concord Ca. where I was born July 12th 1959...
Fond memories...

Glad to see it & here it, been too long since NASA
did something interesting & worthwhile
it's all been the private sector since 2009,
took years to even get back into deep space

 

[Richard Cranium]

They shouldn't have chosen Taco Bell as their last meal on Earth.

 

[Coelacanth]

"In space, no one can hear you fart...but can still smell it."

 

[Cojohnso1]

I am in favor of manned moon missions. And even the beginnings of a lunar habitat. It's human missions to Mars that I believe we should hold off. There is still LOT of missions that can be fulfilled via robotics. That are a fraction of the costs, and of course, with much less risk.

There is an abundance of historical data that shows what happens if pushed before technical maturity. Many in the scientific community have said the US was very fortunate with the successes of the Apollo missions. As the space shuttle missions later revealed.

JMO

 

[Photon440]

Glad to see it & here it, been too long since NASA
did something interesting & worthwhile
it's all been the private sector since 2009,
took years to even get back into deep space

Even though the announcement of the cancellation of the Space Shuttle missions was planned and announced in 2004, to be done as soon as the majority of the I.S.S. was complete, they didn't fully wind down until the final landing in 2011.

 

[68-500]

I wonder how they got to the moon in 69 when a computer with half the capabilities of my phone took up an entire room. And then they just said ok been there done that not going back until 2026? And now they are spending more of our stolen tax dollars for something they probably won’t do a damn thing with? Complete waste of time and resources.

 

[Photon440]

I wonder how they got to the moon in 69 when a computer with half the capabilities of my phone took up an entire room. And then they just said ok been there done that not going back until 2026? And now they are spending more of our stolen tax dollars for something they probably won’t do a damn thing with? Complete waste of time and resources.

Almost all of the flight computations for weight, trajectory, burn time, balance and the like were done by women, in their heads and on paper. Including the design stages for figuring out specific impulse thrust of new rocket engines and nozzle shapes. There have been books written about them. This is a good one:

 

[wahya]

Trailer Hidden Figures. Good movie.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Trailer Hidden Figures. Good movie.

Great movie, however, I had heard that the racial aspect was played up.