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!

If all goes well, when do they anticipate them landing on the moon?

As far as I understand this mission is to around the moon

Amazing and so brave

Absolutely! My Dad was a BBC journalist and was a correspondent all over the world but he always talked about the Apollo launch 💙

I don't know much about this but why did it look like it went up then looped down again? I would have thought it was just blasting up? Not being a tin foil hat person just genuinely confused. I'm watching on the nasa youtube

They are not landing I don’t think. They are doing a circuit around the moon before returning.

I believe their plans are a base on the moon to start running experiments

Oh ok.

thank you for the reply 🌷

Yes!

To clarify NASA in general, not this mission

What, they're not landing!

They're gonna miss out on all that cheese!

Watching it when dcat decided to sit right in front of telly😂

It's pointless if so 😅

I think this mission is to go around the moon and see the other side that has never been seen..apologies if I am wrong 😑

Technology has changed so much since '72, but it's still an enormous challenge.

That's my understanding too @Nuffpills

Oh you mean ‘The dark side of the moon’? 😉

Amazing!

We have a holiday house over on the Gulf of Mexico. If the skies are clear, we can see the trail of shuttle launches. I’m gutted we’re not there to see this historic moment.

Yep! Just watched it here in Vancouver, CAN.

Just watching it, did go outside like some idiot thinking maybe i just might see something in the syk.
Yes im that stupid.

😅😅Loved that album back in the day 😂

What time is it there? It's midnight here

What a shame 🥹

Apparently it should take four days to get there and four days back.

No we have been around the moon before, as they orbited as part of the Apollo missions, but we haven't been around the moon since '72.