🌎 ARTEMIS II Launch...

[rick4bama]

I have read and heard there is a little problem on the Artemis II. I'm guessing these guys/gal. will find out how John Glenn felt when he didn't even have that problem.
As my Mom would say! Stick a match Rickey!

 

[TerryP]

MRI machines? I do not like.

CT in two and a half hours ... already talking myself "into" that damn tube.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

 

[TerryP]

Interesting? Yes. No doubt. Beautiful? Uhhh. Doubt.

 

[TerryP]

I find this wild.

I've been chatting with a friend who is on vaca in Ireland via my laptop. It was about 1 here, 6 in the morning over there. I could have done FaceTime on the phone, or just chatted via text, or, get this...actually just talked on the phone.

So, when I heard the reports this morning that Artemis and the ISS talked/communicated with each other this week and it's the first time two space "vehicles" have communicated with each other? I mean, I get it. Having two manned spacecrafts in space at the same time hasn't happened a lot; if ever.

It just seems ... wild. It just hits me like seeing a guy walk around with his iPhone and watch ... only to use a rotary phone.

 

[Bamabww]

it's the first time two space "vehicles" have communicated with each other?

Interesting. I would have thought the crews carrying supplies to the ISS would have "talked" to each other.

 

[TerryP]

Interesting. I would have thought the crews carrying supplies to the ISS would have "talked" to each other.

The whole story just hit and left me saying, "What?" I hadn't even thought about those trips. My first thought, "the ISS launched last century. How many times have shuttles been in orbit?" I don't know how many shuttle missions there were before the program was shut down. I'm confident in saying over 50; though not by much. Around two per year is what I remember so I'm also thinking less than 75.

I thought, assumed, there would be at least a "hi ya!" Ya know, the ol' drive by wave like you'll do with your neighbor?

(I did make note when I heard it: it was BBC News, just after 3 AM ET.)

 

[footballer]

They might have honked their horn as they passed.

 

[TerryP]

Dog goes to the dude, first.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

 

[TerryP]