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Launch window opens at 1417 EDT with weather at the normal Florida summer which means a 60% chance of launch conditions. NASA is opening its full launch feed at 1245 EDT.
1 posted on 09/02/2022 7:30:00 AM PDT by SES1066
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To: SES1066

They’ll spend a trillion dollars to get that first black woman on the moon


2 posted on 09/02/2022 7:33:55 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: SES1066

The Artemis rocket uses four recycled Space Shuttle main engines.

Unlike the Space Shuttle, the Artemis booster throws away the engines into the ocean after launch.

How many used Space Shuttle main engines do we have in stockpile? I’m thinking maybe enough for three more Artemis launches?


3 posted on 09/02/2022 7:34:24 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: rktman

Ping.


4 posted on 09/02/2022 7:39:00 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: SES1066
Artemis is going in space?


5 posted on 09/02/2022 7:40:28 AM PDT by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: SES1066

Thanks. Hopefully they got the engine conditioning issue resolved.


7 posted on 09/02/2022 7:45:26 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: SES1066

$40 billion to get to this point.....wow


8 posted on 09/02/2022 7:45:43 AM PDT by wardamneagle
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Found it....

A report from NASA’s Office of Inspector General released in November 2021 outlines just how much development costs increased for SLS between its first iteration and now, and revealed how expensive each SLS launch will be. According to the report (opens in new tab), NASA will end up spending a total of $93 billion on the Artemis program between 2012 and 2025, and each SLS/Orion launch will have a price tag of about $4.1 billion.


10 posted on 09/02/2022 7:50:32 AM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: SES1066

Obsolete equipment demonstrated by an obsolete organization.


13 posted on 09/02/2022 8:06:56 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: SES1066
"There's no guarantee that we're going to get off on Saturday, but we're gonna try," Artemis mission manager Mike Sarafin said during a news conference this evening (Sept. 1).

( https://www.space.com/artemis-1-moon-mission-go-launch-september-3 )

I think I'd have worded that a bit differently...

23 posted on 09/02/2022 8:53:12 AM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: SES1066

Musk wanted to do this with manned capsules too but NASA made him do it the old fashioned way with parachute and splashdown/recovery at sea.

26 posted on 09/02/2022 9:00:22 AM PDT by Pollard (Worm Free PureBlood)
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Hope it works. Not surprised if it doesn’t.


29 posted on 09/02/2022 9:35:17 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SES1066

bump to the top


33 posted on 09/02/2022 9:13:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: SES1066

And yet we’re told that 50 years ago we landed AND TOOK OFF FROM THE MOON (WITHOUT A SUPERSTRUCTURE HOLDING THE ROCKET STEADY) AND DID IT WITH COMPUTERS THAT COLLECTIVELY HAD LESS POWER THAN ONE OF TODAY’S IPHONES.


45 posted on 09/03/2022 10:54:39 AM PDT by GOPJ (Biden's 'WAR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE' speech is history's Jimmah Carter's BIG RABBIT blunder..)
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