Cool feed leading up to the Artemis launch this afternoon. A bit of an auspicious date for a historic launch, but I'm going to have it going while I'm working this afternoon.
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I'm hoping to watch it from my backyard, if this cloud layer will dissipate.
Skies are blue to my north! T-4 min!
Looks like the launch window starts at 6:24 eastern time.
yeah, crew is in place, SLS is fueled and they are running checks and such
Not going to lie, starting getting a little emotional watching it. Not only am I thinking about the people in the 60s and 70s being able to witness the space program do these amazing things, but today was my first day in a new job with an aerospace company and how one day parts that I have touched and worked on will be going up into space
Parts you have handled in your clean room suit ...dont want contamination
Well West of the Cape, but was hoping to get some photos of the flight but heavy cloud cover to the East....nada visibility 👎🏻👎🏻
View from my backyard:
Dude that is so freakin awesome!
It really was! Been here 15 years, and launches never get old. I got lucky this time, though. Just a few hours earlier and that view was 100% overcast. The clouds blew out just in time!
Back before the CBBT was under construction for expansion, me, Mrs MattBoard and a friend of ours with her kids went and saw a night launch from the pier on the tunnel island (launch was from Wallops Island). It was like a payload launch for the ISS or something, but it was a perfectly clear night. The fishermen had no idea the launch was happening or why these nerds and kids where at the pier at night.
No trees to block the view, unobstructed all the way to the eastern shore on the bay. The launch lit the whole horizon. it was so awesome.
Saw a night shuttle launch at Canaveral back in 01, unbelievable to see the whole sky lit up like that.
Wife, kids, and I saw many of these when we lived in Indialantic. They are incredible.
Oh, my pic above is from right near there. I'm mainland side, just a few miles south of the causeway, near Palm Bay Hospital.
That would 99% be the NG cyngus launch which are the ISS resupplies, not much else is launched out of the Wallops Island facility these days. If it was May 2018 then I worked on part of the docking system for that vehicle, which that Cygnus actually docked to the ISS and then was used to raise the attitude of the ISS.
I'm jealous. I grew up just south of New Smyrna Beach and loved watching the shuttle launches as a kid. Especially the night launches.
Mims? Edgewater? Oak Hill? Bethune Beach?
Yes sir, Edgewater.
Nice, great little town. We lived in Satellite Beach, Indialantic, and then Grant (Grant Farm Island specifically).
Brevard and Volusia Counties have a special place in my wife and my heart. Loved it there. Enjoy!!
Absolutely! I love the mountains of Virginia, but sometimes I really miss the vibes of a small beach town.
I worked on (a very small piece of) that back in 2012
Go on...
So it's your fault the toilet needed fixing?
Not...enough...bread crumbs
Very proud to be a NASA hokie today. I also used to work with one of the alternate astronauts back when he was still an engineer. It's been a weird, rough year, but we call this one of the good days
Flyby coverage starts around 1
You literally cannot buy this kind of product placement
And apparently the automated waste disposal system for the toilet broke on day 5 of the 10 day trip.
As they passed the Apollo 13 distance-from-earth record:
"We challenge this generation and the next that this record will not be long-lived"
Also, they found two previously unnamed craters and proposed naming them Integrity (for the vessel) and Carrol (for Commander Reid Wiseman's late wife who passed away last May). He broke up a bit mentioning the latter and the entire crew embraced him as he finished the request. It was really touching
Integrity: We can see the moon out of window 2 and the earth out of window 4 and it gives us our best idea of the scale so far.
Houston: Amaze, amaze, amaze!
I love these nerds so much
Listening to them vocally describe what they are seeing back to the science team is fascinating.
Also, the fact that they are using a t-shirt to help shroud the window to reduce LED reflections is brilliant and hilarious to me.
edit: they have the astronauts split into two teams essentially. Two photographing and the other two providing live sitreps back to the science team edit2: one doing sitreps, the other providing camera support as needed
Homer Hickam on the panel of guests on Fox weather channel during the landing of artemis.