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We'll probably start seeing some good quality photos from the flyby in the next day or two. They're usually first posted to the NASA Artemis II "Journey to the Moon" image and video page. Here's a link for anyone who wants to check from time to time. I'll be keeping an eye on it.

I cannot wait. Especially looking forward to the Earthrise and eclipse pictures. There's also the NASA app for those who don't care about having another app installed on their phone. It also provides a neat real-time 3D view of the mission - which is the main reason I have it installed.

Please just don't engage with conspiracy theorists, especially not in this thread.

Put them on ignore and forget they exist.
Agreed. Can the rest of you spergs stop proving you know about exposure time and focal length for one minute? I get it because the urge to argue is real but you will not change the conspiracy nuts' minds. It's pointless. Arguing with these retards only clutters up the thread with bad vibes. Let them seethe somewhere else.
 
The astros have reached the "Are we there yet?" portion of the trip back home. I believe they have a full day of rest with no/light mission requirements either today or tomorrow, I'd say they earned it.
 
It's completely pointless trying to argue with the 'spaceflight isn't real' skeptics. They've livestreamed everything with a million cameras, given live telemetry data, a ton of info surrounding the mission's parameters, tech, and hardware, and confirmed it all in unison with other space agencies and private partners. There is quite literally nothing else they can do past dragging the retards up there with them. It's always 'me too stoopid to understand, so me say it not real' as they smugly smile and shit their pants.

Anyways, Reid Wiseman's wife apparently had cancer and died a few years ago, and yesterday they named a particularly bright crater on the moon for her; Carroll Crater. They were all holding each other and it had me tearing up.
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So did those astronauts hit the moon yet or what
Just missed it, and they aren't trying to hit it again until Artemis 4. They got about 4,000 miles away from the moon this time, so close!

I look forward to the day you can scream "There's a man on the moon!" and people won't think you are completely crazy, throughout all of human history that's only been possible a few times :story:
 
Anyways, Reid Wiseman's wife apparently had cancer and died a few years ago, and yesterday they named a particularly bright crater on the moon for her; Carroll Crater. They were all holding each other and it had me tearing up.
Oh so that's what that was this morning in the replay. That's really sweet.

I didn't know what it was because I had the audio off because the 'communications' people running the stream are actual retards, or pretending to be. I had to mute it when one of them was literally saying 'Oh this is called the service module?' to the guy in charge of Orion. If they're faking it to generate more exposition for the public then so be it but there's still better ways than looking like a moron.
 
Anyways, Reid Wiseman's wife apparently had cancer and died a few years ago, and yesterday they named a particularly bright crater on the moon for her; Carroll Crater. They were all holding each other and it had me tearing up.
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Yeah, you could hear the shakiness in the guy's voice when he proposed the name and spelled it out for mission control. Sad but sweet.
 
Then is a good thing I like them for what they do and not what they listen too xD
Awesome team.

Not joking, it really was a good team selection. Someone mentioned a ticker parade at some point, that would be awesome!
Sportsball people parade themselves around for far far far less.

That Black Sabbath is what I would have chosen, but to each their own. Thanks @imbecile
 
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Today's wake-up music was by Glass Animals and Denzel Curry? Based lmfao


Weak song but the fact that astronauts used Denzel Curry as their alarm clock while hurtling through space is amusing to me.

I remember waking up along with the SpaceX astronauts when they used Black Sabbath's Planet Caravan as a wake-up song aboard Dragon six years ago and I had the stream running in the background.

 
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EARTHSET. April 6, 2026.

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I'm kind of surprised how good these pictures are.
 
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Can the rest of you spergs stop proving you know about exposure time and focal length for one minute? I get it because the urge to argue is real but you will not change the conspiracy nuts' minds. It's pointless. Arguing with these retards only clutters up the thread with bad vibes. Let them seethe somewhere else.

fuck you, this is the most educational of sperging, I have learned a lot
 
I like how Victor Glover (the black guy) said that this shouldn't be about "black history" this or "women history" that, but human history.
 
Here's a few more.

The Lunar South Pole.
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Partial frame of the eclipse with Venus off to the left. The greenish glow is so cool.
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ETA: Another shot of the Earthset from a different POV. Beautiful.
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The greenish glow is so cool.
It's called zodiacal light, caused by sunlight scattering off a ring of dust that surrounds the sun out to a little beyond earth's orbit. It's got a bit of a mystery to it, as it should have been cleared out by gravitational forces millions of years ago, yet it still persists. Looks pretty though.
 
I like how Victor Glover (the black guy) said that this shouldn't be about "black history" this or "women history" that, but human history.

Actual successful people from minority groups generally don't give a fuck about "special" weeks, months, etc. They just do cool shit like this.

I don't know what it is about the clips i've watched of this but i've teared up a little bit watching some of them. Such an amazing achievement and a once-in-a-lifetime thing to witness.

Shame that Trump and Bibi's jawa genocide is distracting so many people from it.
 
fuck you, this is the most educational of sperging, I have learned a lot
I've considered this before posting my reply but if someone's genuinely curious, they could always just ask. Engaging with bad faith conspiracy retards whose only goal is to tell everyone they're sheep always leads to thread derailment and unnecessary arguments. Got a question regarding something that looks off, still? Ask, nigga. We've got plenty of optics and photography spergs here, including me.

Fuck you, too, by the way.
 
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