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They are talking as of this message.

they need to reset all PCDs for some reason, that's the most surprising thing.

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I've been focusing my attention on the way the first few stages of the rocket work.

As far as I can tell, the Saturn V/Apollo launch works like this:

First stage (ends up in the Atlantic ocean) -> second stage (ocean) -> third stage (ocean?) -> TLI stage (heliocentric orbit, or impacts moon)

Apparently Artemis works like:

First stage+solid boosters (ocean) -> TLI injection (where does it go? moon impact?)

Is that about right? if so, it's impressive that we (apparently) combined three Saturn V stages into one, with the same result.
 
They showed the window during a "wastewater dump" so we got to see astronaut pee instantly frozen in space, looked like little sparks flying lol
 
Zorak Prison Pod said:
First stage+solid boosters (ocean) -> TLI injection (where does it go? moon impact?)
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From the mission graphics I could find, it looks like the TLI stage will separate from the capsule before splashdown, so it's probably hitting the pacific ocean too.
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Edit: I believe the staging was also:
1: Main liquid and solid boosters (ocean)
2: ICPS second stage for setting earth orbit (ocean)
3: TLI stage for lunar orbit and return trip (stays attached to capsule until back in Earth's orbit, likely ocean as well)
 
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Those lazy SOBs eventually let us in, or should shortly.

Was that a commercial plug for iphone?! not even space is safe
 
I just had a thought stemming from the pictures we’ve gotten so far: I hope they brought an old fashioned film camera for taking moon pictures, the digital cameras just look sort of… off in comparison.

I’m no photographer, but am I alone in noticing that?
 
so for those who haven't been here since the start, TLDR:
SLS launched without issues.
Circled earth and did some tests (fixed toilet?)
TLI-trans lunar intjection? went well
They will fly further than any other humans ever.
All is nominal.

Disdainer of the Plebs said:
I just had a thought stemming from the pictures we’ve gotten so far: I hope they brought an old fashioned film camera for taking moon pictures, the digital cameras just look sort of… off in comparison.

I’m no photographer, but am I alone in noticing that?
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I thought was the D6
AI:
NASA has selected the Nikon D5, a 2016 DSLR, as a primary handheld camera for the crew of the Artemis II mission, which is scheduled to orbit the Moon, making it a critical "old school" tool for deep space photography.

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Screenshots of the livestream, not a DSLR5 :P
 
MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti said:
This brings up interesting thoughts, does the electric shaver have some kind of vacuum to capture shaved hair, or do they just do it next to some other kind of suction tube to make sure nobody breathes a cloud of powdered hair in space?
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Summaries back in the Shuttle days talked about shaving as a non-event. spinning type electrics suck in the hair naturally. They might modify it a bit these days...
Kwisatz00 said:
I thought was the D6
AI:
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So the one on screen at this very moment:
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Has a side door and latch which neither the D5 nor 6 has. It looks like a mirrorless Z9 (source: I have one), and Google implies they last minute added it because the Commander wanted to check out performance of a newer camera. If the earth shots were taken by it, I believe it, its low light performance is much better than the D5 even at higher res, given that the D5 didn't have a backside illuminated sensor. Attached to the Z9 (but way too low detail to be sure) might be a FTZ II adapter which lets you use DSLR lenses on the Z series. There was a 35mm D-type lens floating about earlier, which COULD be used with that but it would not have automatic autofocus (it being the very old 'screwdriver type' AF of old Nikons). They just showed another camera floating about which looked more like the D5 they're also supposed to have (with maybe a 70-200G or similar on it).

Pleeeease try to do some video out the window with that Z9 guys, fucker can do 4k120 and 8k60 now. And yes, you can do all that with a phone now but the quality can be exceptional.
 
Screamer_2 said:
Open up the live stream and this is what I get

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I know it's cramped in there, but can't he reduce his toe jam somewhere that isn't exactly right next to people eating :stress:

Troonos said:
Got a video link and timestamp?
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Not at my PC to be able to pull a time stamp properly, but it's this stream:


And it's around -5 hours ago as of 6:56 CST
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But I ain't gonna make you scrub that footage, I'll just screen record on my phone :story:


 
mlanguishi said:
I am pretty sure almost all Apollo vids we see except for very few were film recordings that were developed later on Earth. It's still weird that the original Apollo 11 landing live feed is 'lost footage' and all we have now is a recoding off a TV camera that was live feeding from the surface.

I'm hopeful we'll get near instant views, so far the images are fairly grainy. Just FYI on these...


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The decision to even take live tv footage from the surface of the moon was made very late. There were some NASA officials that didn’t want to bother with it. Imagine the fuel that would have given to the schizo conspiracy theorists…
Zorak Prison Pod said:
Is that about right? if so, it's impressive that we (apparently) combined three Saturn V stages into one, with the same result.
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Not quite, the Saturn V could launch a heavier payload and send it to the moon.
 

Interview the crew.

One interesting thing to note is you can see general relativity play out in real time during the interview. All of those beats and pauses between when you hear a question and get an answer isn't a bad connection. Its because the distances involved between earth and integrity, as well as the Deep Space Network they are using to communicate with. The communication signals may be moving close to light speed, but it still takes light a few seconds to get from where it is to where it going.

Now, if you really want to start tripping balls, everyone on earth is also moving through time slower then the integrity crew is because we are at the bottom of earths gravity well and they are further away. Admittedly, the time dilation is so small as to be meaningless, but it is there.
 
mindlessobserver said:

Interview the crew.

One interesting thing to note is you can see general relativity play out in real time during the interview. All of those beats and pauses between when you hear a question and get an answer isn't a bad connection. Its because the distances involved between earth and integrity, as well as the Deep Space Network they are using to communicate with. The communication signals may be moving close to light speed, but it still takes light a few seconds to get from where it is to where it going.

Now, if you really want to start tripping balls, everyone on earth is also moving through time slower then the integrity crew is because we are at the bottom of earths gravity well and they are further away. Admittedly, the time dilation is so small as to be meaningless, but it is there.
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If you really really really want to start tripping balls, if you could hypothetically survive the extreme tidal forces and radiation of a black hole and had a propulsion strong enough to hover you basically at the very surface of the event horizon, while seconds pass for you, thousands or millions or billions (depending on the mass of the singularity) of years pass for the universe due to the extreme time dilation that's strongest at the event horizon.
 
Some good quality pics are starting to be posted by NASA. All of these were taken yesterday.

The moon is slowly getting bigger.
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Pic taken by a crew member.
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The Earth is getting smaller.
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My only question is what makes the SLS cost 2-4 billion dollars a launch while the Angara-A5 or Space X Falcon heavy are way cheaper to launch.
 
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