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NASA's 'Moonikin' mannequin boards Orion spacecraft for Artemis 1 moon mission
space.com ^ | Scott Dutfield

Posted on 07/31/2022 9:18:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Moonkin Campos — named after Arturo Campus, an electrical engineer who was a key player in bringing the Apollo 13 mission safely back to Earth — is a human-sized test dummy that is now strapped into the commander's chair at the head of the capsule.

During the mission, Moonkin will provide NASA scientists with vital data on what future human crew members may experience during flight. Artemis 1 is NASA's first launch test of the Space Launch System megarocket and an uncrewed test flight to the moon for NASA's Artemis program. The data from Moonikin will help NASA prepare astronauts who will fly around the moon on the Artemis 2 mission in 2024 and the Artemis 3 astronauts who will eventually land on the moon.

These vital measurements will be collected by two sensors placed behind the commander's seat and under the headrest which will record the acceleration and vibration generated throughout the mission to the moon. Campo is also equipped with two radiation sensors to measure exposure.

(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: artemis1; mannequin; moonikin; nas
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Exemplar only. NOT the actual Moonkin/Moonikin Campos/Campo.

1 posted on 07/31/2022 9:18:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Send Pelosi — she likes to travel.


2 posted on 07/31/2022 9:21:01 AM PDT by twister881
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To: BenLurkin

We should have had lunar bases a long time ago.


3 posted on 07/31/2022 9:25:36 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: BenLurkin

??
Haven’t we been there a few times?
Seems a waste of millions


4 posted on 07/31/2022 9:28:52 AM PDT by RWGinger (LGB)
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To: twister881

She’s altready a lunatic, ahem.


5 posted on 07/31/2022 9:35:46 AM PDT by blam
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To: BenLurkin
The "Real" Moonkin:


6 posted on 07/31/2022 9:39:30 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: RWGinger

If we are going to industrialize space, we need a low gravity launch pad that has rocket fuel materials. At this point it’s not about exploration, but exploitation. As such, we should be giving tax credits to private companies to do the heavy lifting. One simply needs to read the history of the colonization of North America to establish a model. And, the bonus is (probably) no indigenous people to hurt.


7 posted on 07/31/2022 9:41:47 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: BenLurkin

Campos and Helga might get “familiar” with each other during those long, lonely days up/out there. But you never know about Zohar. He/She/It is bafflingly unpredictable.


8 posted on 07/31/2022 9:45:57 AM PDT by Theophilous Meatyard III
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To: RWGinger
Haven’t we been there a few times? Seems a waste of millions

It would be much better spent on more 10 year long "Compassionate" wars, costing multiple trillions, even if we don't win anything. Or subsidizing tens of millions of illegals to the tune of many billions.

9 posted on 07/31/2022 9:50:34 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: BenLurkin; Alas Babylon!
That morning Ken expressed qualms about the mission...

mannequin

so she packed the alternate hands in his duffel bag.

10 posted on 07/31/2022 9:59:52 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Fortunately despite aging I've been spared the ravages of maturity.)
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To: BenLurkin

Suddenly NASA is concerned about radiation (at least publicly).

Interesting.


11 posted on 07/31/2022 9:59:58 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: BenLurkin

Copying SpaceX merely shows lack of imagination


12 posted on 07/31/2022 10:07:06 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: BenLurkin

Steve Mnuchin had no comment.

13 posted on 07/31/2022 10:33:12 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: BenLurkin

He has the right face and knows what’s about to happen to him ,LOL


14 posted on 07/31/2022 10:37:30 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: dragnet2

Well there is that.
Hopefully that stops soon


15 posted on 07/31/2022 10:39:03 AM PDT by RWGinger (LGB)
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To: dragnet2
“It would be much better spent“

There isn't a pile of money somewhere waiting for orders. It’s not the government’s money. The money you suggest shuffling is in the pockets of workers.

Stealing is bad no matter how wonderful the thief imagines he is.

16 posted on 07/31/2022 10:59:52 AM PDT by Born in 1950 (Anti left, nothing else.)
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To: BenLurkin

Great. Next up: MOONkeypox!


17 posted on 07/31/2022 11:04:51 AM PDT by null and void (No world is so large that it can't fit within the pages of a book)
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To: BenLurkin
The should have gone with Kerbals.


18 posted on 07/31/2022 11:12:25 AM PDT by Textide (Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
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To: Textide

Poor Kerbals ,LOL


19 posted on 07/31/2022 11:34:14 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: MikelTackNailer

Excellent.


20 posted on 07/31/2022 11:43:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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