Anyone else staying up to watch tonight's Moon mission launch?

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Anyone else staying up to watch the launch to navigate the moon? I didn’t realise until this evening it’s the first launch in 5 decades!

The comms blackout was a bit tense, and the wait for the parachutes. But it looks like everything worked remarkably well. Phew!

Waiting for Tom Cruise to sweep in on a jet ski to sort it all out.😂

Me neither!

I woke up with it on the news and now all teary and grateful that they have returned safely. Blessings.

So amazing to watch, I'm wide awake and have an early start tomorrow! Well done team 👏👏

Artemis IIb is just going to be us watching them bob about in the Pacific for another 9 days.

A friend of mine said she couldn’t watch it because of the ammonia of fuel used to send it up. 75,000 gallons gone just like that. Enough fuel to run a car for 150 years.

Tell your friend about speculate to accumulate. They’re trying to find fuel sources on the moon. (I think)

Come on! I want to see astronauts!!! Are they giving it a power wash or scanning for aliens that hitched a lift....

Aagghhhh - I’m too tired, so will have to go to bed! Had really wanted to see them exit the capsule! Will just have to see it tomorrow!

I just said to DP that I think just bobbing around in the ocean for so long would be worse than being in space!

For such a high tech achievement, the process of recovery seems to be quite basic…

They do realise they don’t use the same fuel as cars don’t they?

Artemis uses LOX (liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen). Cars do not.

It must be hard for the astronauts to have to hurry up and wait now that they’re down. Between the heat from reentry and the potential gases that need to dissipate they’re obviously going to play it safe.

I had the same thoughts about them bobbing around on the water 🥴☺️!

That looked hopeful for a minute

I feel a bit sorry for the commentators desperately trying to pad out time

Ooh looks like something is happening?

I watched Garron too 😁. He’s fab (‘delicious!’).

I can’t go to bed until they’ve been recovered, and we’ve had a glimpse of them.

Just in case you didn't know, the astronauts are in excellent condition!!!!!😴

Oh here we go looks like they are coming out now

The door is open.

Eight people in that tiny capsule!! 😮

I generally support science and discovery, because it does generate new technology and progress things. So I am not against the endeavour.

But it is strange it became so unique so quickly. We were sending people up to orbit semi regularly until very recently which is no less difficult of a launch, and was doing so in a "space age" reusable vehicle until not that long ago overall. Basically nobody was watching those launches or reentry.

It's not like they even did something new overall either. The whole "furthest away" thing was fairly inconsequential, it was no more difficult in reality just marketing even though true. And every single original moon mission had humans circumventing the entire moon including the other side multiple times.

There hadn't been a moon mission in my lifetime, and I'm middle aged. So forgive me for finding this exciting.

I suppose it's because this one is the practice run for going back to the moon?

I know what you mean, though.