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re: Artemis II has begun its rollout to the launch pad…
Posted on 1/17/26 at 10:18 am to RichJ
Posted on 1/17/26 at 10:18 am to RichJ
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Other than a cool trip, can anyone explain why we are really going back after 53 years?
It’s not only the US trying to establish a base there. The Moon is covered in Helium-3 that could power nations for centuries.
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Posted on 1/17/26 at 10:40 am to Aguga
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2 white dudes, 1 black dude, 1 Canadian. This is still a test trip and more dangerous can’t be blowing up females, it’s a bad look.
I thought there was a woman on this mission? The Canadian is the only one without space flight experience. The other three are more than qualified. I'm not saying the Canadian isn't, but he is untested.
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Reid Wiseman is a 27-year Navy veteran, a pilot, a father, an engineer, and a Baltimore native. He was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 2009 and served as Flight Engineer aboard the International Space Station for Expedition 41 from May through November of 2014. During the 165-day mission, Reid and his crewmates completed over 300 scientific experiments in areas such as human physiology, medicine, physical science, Earth science and astrophysics. This was Reid’s first spaceflight, which also included almost 13 hours as lead spacewalker during two trips outside the orbital complex. Reid also fostered a strong social media presence throughout his mission by sharing the raw emotions of spaceflight as seen through the eyes of a rookie flier. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, and a Master of Science in Systems Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He served as Chief of the Astronaut Office. Wiseman has been assigned as Commander of NASA’s Artemis II mission.
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Victor J. Glover, Jr. was selected as an astronaut in 2013 while serving as a Legislative Fellow in the United States Senate. He most recently served as pilot of the Crew-1 dragon spacecraft, named Resilience, which flew to the International Space Station, where he also served as Flight Engineer for Expedition 64/65. Glover has been assigned as Pilot of NASA’s Artemis II mission around the Moon. The California native earned an undergraduate engineering degree as a two sport athlete, while serving his community. Glover is a Naval Aviator and was a test pilot in the F/A-18 Hornet, Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler. He and his family have been stationed in many locations in the United States and Japan and he has deployed in combat and peacetime.
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Christina Koch is an explorer and engineer who became astronaut in 2013. She is currently training for NASA’s Artemis II mission, planned to go around the moon next year. Her previous experience in spaceflight was living and working on the International Space Station for almost all of 2019 in Expeditions 59, 60, and 61. For this mission, she flew on the Russian Soyuz rocket and trained extensively in Russia. Christina spent a total of 328 consecutive days in space and participated in the first all-female spacewalks. After this spaceflight and before being assigned to Artemis II, she served as Branch Chief of the Assigned Crew Branch in the Astronaut Office and did a rotation as Assistant for Technical Integration for the Center Director at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Prior to becoming an astronaut, Christina’s experience spanned both space science mission instrument development and remote scientific field engineering in the Antarctic and Arctic. Her hobbies include surfing, rock and ice climbing, programming, community service, triathalons, yoga, backpacking, woodworking, photography and travel.
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Jeremy Hansen holds a bachelor of science in space science (first class honours) from the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario (1999). He earned a master of science in physics from the same institution in 2000, with a research focus on Wide Field of View Satellite Tracking.
Special honours: Air Cadet League of Canada Award – Top Air Force Graduate from the Royal Military College of Canada (May 1999), Clancy Scheldrup Memorial Trophy – Outstanding Graduate on the Basic Flying Course (2001), Canadian Air Force Pilot Wings (May 2002), Canadian Forces Decoration – 12 Years of Good Service (October 2006), The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012), Gold Medal of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (2014).
This post was edited on 1/17/26 at 10:46 am
Posted on 1/17/26 at 10:46 am to RollTide1987
My son works for NASA at JSC in Houston. He and his wife won a "lottery" and have parking passes and tickets to actually be at Cape Kennedy on NASA property for the launch. He's pumped
Posted on 1/17/26 at 10:53 am to BottomlandBrew
You are correct, misread an article. Thank you
Posted on 1/17/26 at 11:02 am to RichJ
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Other than a cool trip, can anyone explain why we are really going back after 53 years?
It's a sort of Manifest Destiny for humanity. We must become inter-planetary for many reasons.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 11:29 am to RollTide1987
Boldly going where we have gone before
Posted on 1/17/26 at 11:43 am to Friscodog
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My son works for NASA at JSC in Houston. He and his wife won a "lottery" and have parking passes and tickets to actually be at Cape Kennedy on NASA property for the launch. He's pumped
Cool show over there. Ive done a few of them. Takes me about 4 hours to drive over there.
Hoping they launch at night and I will just watch this one from the pool deck or from the hottub with a cocktail.
This post was edited on 1/17/26 at 11:44 am
Posted on 1/17/26 at 11:51 am to BottomlandBrew
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We must become inter-planetary for many reasons.
lol, care to elaborate?
Posted on 1/17/26 at 11:53 am to RichJ
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lol, care to elaborate?
There are many
1 specifically being the Sun will eventually engulf this planet (A VERY LONG TIME FROM NOW)
Posted on 1/17/26 at 12:03 pm to 50_Tiger
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specifically being the Sun will eventually engulf this planet
Im certainly not a scientist, nor did I sleep in a Holiday Inn last night. But, I do realize in about 5 billion years, the Sun will exhaust core hydrogen, its core will contract, and its outer layers will expand dramatically, engulfing inner planets and becoming a red giant. That’s a long gaaaht damn time from now…
Posted on 1/17/26 at 12:11 pm to RollTide1987
Video of roll-out to the pad on the crawler. (live feed when posted)
Posted on 1/17/26 at 1:33 pm to BottomlandBrew
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Victor J. Glover, Jr. was selected as an astronaut in 2013 while serving as a Legislative Fellow in the United States Senate. He most recently served as pilot of the Crew-1 dragon spacecraft, named Resilience, which flew to the International Space Station, where he also served as Flight Engineer for Expedition 64/65. Glover has been assigned as Pilot of NASA’s Artemis II mission around the Moon. The California native earned an undergraduate engineering degree as a two sport athlete, while serving his community. Glover is a Naval Aviator and was a test pilot in the F/A-18 Hornet, Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler.
Callsign IKE (for I Know Everything)
I love Navy drivers
This post was edited on 1/17/26 at 1:34 pm
Posted on 1/17/26 at 2:20 pm to Darth_Vader
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Wow. So they’re going straight to the moon? And with a human crew? That’s ambitious. During the Apollo program it wasn’t until Apollo 8 that we sent men to the moon and Apollo 11 before they actually landed there
Apollo 8 was only the second crewed flight (Apollo 1 was retroactively applied to the Grissom/White/Chaffe ground fire, 2-6 were unmanned test flights).
Apollo 7 tested the crew module in earth orbit, 8 the full Saturn V stack and lunar orbit, 9 the lunar module in earth orbit, and 10 the lunar module in lunar orbit.
My understanding is that Artemis will rely on SpaceX Starship or a Blue Origin lander, so it is up to those companies to get the flight testing done, which reduces the number of Artemis flights. It also increases the time between flights.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 3:08 pm to RichJ
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lol, care to elaborate?
Why are you posting from the land of coonass? Because your ancestors wanted something different in life. It's what us humans do.
We need more resources.
We need to hedge bets against us destroying Earth.
We need to fulfill our innate human desire to explore.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 3:13 pm to RichJ
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Other than a cool trip, can anyone explain why we are really going back after 53 years?
Cause it’s fricking cool
Posted on 1/17/26 at 4:44 pm to RollTide1987
Dude. Calm down it’s all AI. muh radiation belts …
Posted on 1/17/26 at 4:49 pm to RichJ
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Other than a cool trip, can anyone explain why we are really going back after 53 years?
Beside what's already been explained, it's one step in a multi-step interplanetary travel plan with Mars being next.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 5:37 pm to Tifway419
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It will perform a fly by around the moon, pick up Jordan Seaton from Colorado and bring him to Lane Kiffin to be his LT in 2026.
Finally, NASA does something useful!
Posted on 1/17/26 at 7:48 pm to RollTide1987
Reid Wiseman is the man. Btw
Posted on 1/17/26 at 10:08 pm to RollTide1987
I was on break from school in florida and saw a shuttle launch. I think it took 2-3 days for the crawler to get back to the building it moves so slow.
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