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WIMUSKY

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Now they're talking later Sept into Oct at the earliest....
 
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Artemis is now "Go" for launch at 0104 Wednesday morning, 16Nov22.

I'll stay up late tonight and watch from my front porch and on TV, but the weather is calling for clouds, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to see anything or not. :cool:šŸš€
 
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Growing up in the 60's it seemed like there was a launch every month. Good ole' Walter Cronkite was always the announcer. Good times.
 
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poconojoe said:
Growing up in the 60's it seemed like there was a launch every month. Good ole' Walter Cronkite was always the announcer. Good times.
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I was glued to the TV on those days . . . Gemini, then Apollo. I had not kept track of the launch date for Artemis, since it was changed so many times. Woke up to find the new story online. Doubt I would have stayed up 'til 1AM to watch it though . . . way past my bed time :ROFLMAO:
 
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Didn't stay up to watch it, but did check it out as soon as I woke up today to make sure it went off ... looked pretty spectacular!
 
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Yeahh... I missed it too. I tried to stay up but fell asleep in my chair until about 1230. šŸ˜† By then they were saying the launch would slip because the upper tank was only 75% full. So, I went to bed.

Got up this morning and immediately checked status and was pleased to see that it got up there successfully! šŸš€
 
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Incredible. Over 16k mph. Can't fathom that speed. At one point they said 8.8m lbs of thrust...šŸ˜³
 
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Yup big numbers . . .

IIRC from my younger days, typical orbiting velocity is about 16K mph and 'escape' velocity is upwards of 26K mph. Since the spacecraft ends up getting pulled in by the Moon's gravity, I'm not sure the craft needs to quite get to escape velocity.

I just checked the live update and Artemis is about half way to the moon now going 2,300 (ish) mph.

The fact that NASA can do all this with an unmanned space craft is pretty remarkable.
 
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I remember when Grumman was building the LEM here on Long Island 1962-1972; there was a team of 7,000 people working on them. Grummanā€™s 1st spacecraft & one part of the Apollo program that never had a major failureā€¦andā€¦was the lifeboat for the crew of Apollo 13. In fact Grumman sent a towing bill as a joke to Rockwell (builder of the Command Module) for some incredible sum at the timeā€¦.those were great timesā€¦..
 
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Yes, and think about it . . if the Apollo mission had been further along when the service module O2 tank blew and the LEM had descended to the moon . . . they would have been stranded.
 
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