Artemis I Orion SLS

[August]

Originally Posted by Andreas86

Well, I believed it until I started to really think about it.

There have been a total of 149 manned space missions flown as of August this year with a total of humans in space time of over 21 YEARS. It's not at all surprising that they got to the moon with only a loss of three Astronauts and one nearly disaster.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_spaceflight

[Platapus]

And we were lucky too.


In reading the biographies/autobiographies of the Mercury Astronauts, evidently it was commonly understood that we would lose one of them during the Manned Mercury missions. Yikes


Of course luck favors those who are prepared. Reading about how the Mission Controllers were trained is most interesting. They trained for everything, especially for stuff that "could never happen".



It was not until the later Apollo missions that NASA had a "perfect" mission. Every mission before had some potentially disastrous problem that the team of the astronauts and ground controllers solved/mitigated.



Space flight was (and still is) risky. We had good people building good stuff and training good people to be even better. That's why we were lucky.

[mapuc]

OTD for 45 years ago I took the most important ride of my life atop Titan/Centaur-6. �� Not everyone remembers that my launch was delayed twice to prevent issues. But when it finally happened... it was termed "flawless and accurate."

https://twitter.com/NASAVoyager/stat...91886404481024

Markus

[mapuc]

When will the launch be ? I get a lot of different days-Today 9/6-22 seems to be cancelled once again.

Markus

[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by mapuc

When will the launch be ? I get a lot of different days-Today 9/6-22 seems to be cancelled once again.

Markus

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 8, to discuss next steps for the Artemis I mission to launch the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Audio of the call will livestream on NASA’s website at:

https://www.nasa.gov/live

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 8, to discuss next steps for the Artemis I mission to launch the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Audio of the call will livestream on NASA’s website at:

https://www.nasa.gov/live

Thank you Rockstar

Day before yesterday I sad and watched about an our livestream from NASA-Where I had some interesting discussion with others

So between 19 Sept. and 26 Oct. They will try to launch Artemis 1. I also learned about factors there are 6(if I remember correctly) who has to fit before they can launch. Whereof 3 of the factors had to do with the Moon.

Markus