Moon launch?

[Ridgemont]

Artemis is taking astronauts to the moon for the first time in decades with a potential moon landing.

Just about to take off!

I’m excited! Are you?

[LHRFlightman]

Bring discussed here;

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[Ridgemont]

LHRFlightman said:

Bring discussed here;

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

And that will be a great science thread: we’re all about the news!

[wc98]

I'm up at 5am for work but don't want to miss the launch.

[Ridgemont]

And they’re on their way. Watched it with my kid: I was too young for the original launch but didn’t want him to miss it 50 years later.

[Russet Grange]

Impressive to say the least. The big milestone is when the do the burn tomorrow which will take them around the moon. No turning back from that, but for now there's a day in earth orbit.

[Ridgemont]

Such a buzz

[sparta6]

All that hydrogen, fire and noise.

Ed Milliband will be pleased

[The Leaper]

I was in Florida and saw a Saturn V launch to the spaced shuttle in, I think, 1994. Unforgettable.

R.

[kestral]

The Leaper said:

I was in Florida and saw a Saturn V launch to the spaced shuttle in, I think, 1994. Unforgettable.

R.

Do you mean you saw tha Space Shuttle launch to the Mir space station?

In 1994 there were no Saturn V launches, the last one was to Skylab 1n the 70's.

[fourstardan]

I saw Endeavour take off from Canaveral, it's quite a surreal experience, this dot appears on the horizon and it's gone in seconds, your brain can't comprehend it all. The weird bit was the speakers hearing the shuttle to ground transmission.

Artemesis is bigger so maybe you see more at distance.

[Byker28i]

Artemis II crew includes first woman, Black astronaut and Canadian ever flown to moon
https://www.reuters.com/science/artemis-ii-crew-in...

[V8LM]

kestral said:

The Leaper said:

I was in Florida and saw a Saturn V launch to the spaced shuttle in, I think, 1994. Unforgettable.

R.

Do you mean you saw tha Space Shuttle launch to the Mir space station?

In 1994 there were no Saturn V launches, the last one was to Skylab 1n the 70's.

Actually, the last Saturn V launch was Skylab (uncrewed). The crewed flights to Skylab were Saturn IB.

[Mammasaid]

sparta6 said:

All that hydrogen, fire and noise.

Ed Milliband will be pleased

You do know what Hydrogen and Oxygen makes?

[PurplePenguin]

Mammasaid said:

sparta6 said:

All that hydrogen, fire and noise.

Ed Milliband will be pleased

You do know what Hydrogen and Oxygen makes?

Peroxide

[Eric Mc]

kestral said:

Do you mean you saw tha Space Shuttle launch to the Mir space station?

the last one was to Skylab 1n the 70's.

Correction, the last Saturn V wasn't launched TO Skylab. It WAS Skylab. The top stage (SIVB) was the actual Skylab space station itseelf -




May 14, 1973

[Eric Mc]

Mammasaid said:

sparta6 said:

All that hydrogen, fire and noise.

Ed Milliband will be pleased

You do know what Hydrogen and Oxygen makes?

The exhaust from the Liquid Hydrogen/Oxygen is mainly water - so fairly harmless.

The exhaust smoke from the Solid Rocket Motors is a very different matter.

[airsafari87]

Eric Mc said:

The exhaust from the Liquid Hydrogen/Oxygen is mainly water - so fairly harmless.

The exhaust smoke from the Solid Rocket Motors is a very different matter.

I worked right next to the NASA rocket test stand at Stennis MS when I was working at Rolls Royce jet engine test stand and say quite a few rocket test firings in preparation for this Artemis launch.

The extreme violence of these things going off is something that will stay with me forever, it used to form a rain cloud in the sky above where I was working which then gave a 30 second or so rain shower.

Incredible.

[kestral]

Eric Mc said:

Correction, the last Saturn V wasn't launched TO Skylab. It WAS Skylab. The top stage (SIVB) was the actual Skylab space station itseelf -




May 14, 1973

It was 1973.FMS.

[Eric Mc]

FMS?