Artemis Program

The Sandbox General
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They gonna fake this one, too?
/s

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:bump: :bump:

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Countdown has begun! T-7:00 or so.

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Gonna be so exciting!
Not.
Watched the OG ones, because I was alive at the time.

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Are you dead now?

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It is exciting.

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I guess it is all a matter of one’s own emotions.
I guess you could tell me why you feel that way, and I would probably still feel how I feel.

Going somewhere we’ve already been (allegedly) and wasting money to do it (not as much as a war, but still) makes me feel super-Meh.
Great distraction from real issues.

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Almost. I’ll get there on my own time, though.

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Is that “hours” or “minutes”?
(Or both?)

I guess I’m more in this category, but it costs money to read it so not certain:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/science/nasa-astronauts-moon-americans-mood.html

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Minutes. It’s in space now.

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I missed it??
Darn.
Keep me posted. Even if you have to wake me up.

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On a related note, season 5 of for all mankind has started back up again on tv. Season 2 covered the setting up of a permanent settlement on the moon, which is NASAs plan over the next few years (in compétition with china).

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So, it sounds like this will be the first time humans have traveled so far from Earth with an actual toilet (as opposed to being wholly reliant on waste bags).

Unfortunately, it sounds like the toilet isn’t working properly. (Fortunately, they have backup waste bags.)

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The toilet has been fixed.

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I bet it involved dumping a big box of available parts onto a table


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I haven’t been following this closely, but it seems they’re ‘going to the moon’ as in a flyby. Not actually landing? What’s the fun in that?

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I guess it’s just a matter of solving one problem at a time. First challenge was seeing if it could actually get to the moon, and now we’re trying to see if we could do it with people. If we could do that, then we can land next time.

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I guess it’s time to watch Royal Space Force again. Here’s a clip of what’s perhaps the most visually stunning 6 minutes of 1980’s animation.

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More critical systems issues with Artemis (/s)

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shoulda used Lotus Notes?

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