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

[Nuffpills]

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!

Nope. It's going to be turned into a big bill-board advertising Coca-Cola.

Fly around the back of it see what China has done

Oooooooooooooooooooo

👋 count down!

As much as I despise Trump’s America and the shitshow they’re creating everywhere. I remember watching the first one when I was very little!

I’m watching it, but I’m in the same time zone.

Commencing Countdown

Even if we put solar panels up there how would we get the energy to here...

I think the ISS is nearing the end of its life - I think the plan is to establish a new base on the moon to replace it and act as a staging for further exploration in the future.

It was the year I was born!

Can’t bear to go to bed at the minute. All fingers crossed.

The King sent a letter to the Canadian astronaut who is going on the mission, Jeremy Hansen.

This is a test mission, first time humans have been in an Artemis rocket. So practising manoeuvres and all the separation stages.

They are “just” going to circle the Earth a few times, go to the moon, circle that and fly back.

I worked a 12 hour shift today and am sooo tired but am powering on with a glass of wine and hoping it happens very soon and it all goes well! Cannot imagine how the astronauts are feeling and their families…everything crossed 🤞🙏

Also watching, very exciting (and a little tense!)

I agree. We’ve trashed the Earth and can’t all cooperate to save it. Well doubtless trash the moon and Mars too.

I’m here too. Hope everything goes to plan. I remember the one that didn’t many years ago

One idea is that a base there it will serve as a stepping stone to Mars.

We need the moon just as an aside. Tides, gravitational pull etc. no moon = big problems. It's also our back up cheese supply

I'm up but not watching. I can't get excited about this after watching actual moon landings in the past. Nothing will ever match that.

Thankyou

Space based solar power - beam it back to Earth as electromagnet waves.
They (NASA & others) understand it and research it. Sounds wild now but so did smartphones a hundred years ago!

Just put it on the iPad. My stomach is in knots already. I'm not cut out for this 🤣🤣

if it all goes to plan, when will they get back?

So excited for this. T-5 mins now. Godspeed Artemis II

That would be amazing