Vice President tells NASA to get to the Moon in 5 years.

[RamjetFDO 10,655]

This toothy commentator is awful... and knows next-to-nothing.

She didn't know enough to explain the T-10 hold and actually wondered out loud if the astronaut launch suits were orange "because Artemis was orange".

Geebus.

[Updawg 2,388]

Exactly what I was saying earlier.

Sometimes silence and a view of the fucking launch vehicle is really nice.

You don't have to fill every second with something stupid.

Can you relay this to every football announcer

[Updawg 2,388]

Exactly what I was saying earlier.

Sometimes silence and a view of the fucking launch vehicle is really nice.

You don't have to fill every second with something stupid.

Can you relay this to every football announcer

[Updawg 2,388]

Exactly what I was saying earlier.

Sometimes silence and a view of the fucking launch vehicle is really nice.

You don't have to fill every second with something stupid.

Can you relay this to every football announcer

[Updawg 2,388]

Fucking tapa but the point stands

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Just now, RamjetFDO said:

This toothy commentator is awful... and knows next-to-nothing.

She didn't know enough to explain the T-10 hold and actually wondered out loud if the astronaut launch suits were orange "because Artemis was orange".

Geebus.

I don't like the silence about the countdown.

[Hagbard Celine 11,293]

while we're sitting here...  i blame worthy for not laying out or for the love of god catching balls that hit him in the chest

i do not blame sark

that said my god saturday was a fucking abortion

[Radical Larry 28,826]

[Sam Lin 3,606]

12 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

And at least fix your captions. We are drinking wine and laughing at all the mistakes. Wish I had taken some screenshots. 

igotchufam

[InkaUtexas 26,961]

2 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

I don't like the silence about the countdown.

we are not launching. All those people in Florida are heading to Denny's. 

I say hit the button and shoot it off if loaded and ready to go. 

GF just said the NASA bafoon looks like an OU grad, wanna be meteorologist. I guess we need more wine. 

And yeah, the spokeswoman sucks. But Snoopy is cool, 

 

 

[RamjetFDO 10,655]

This guy with the video board is doing a pretty decent job explaining the trajectory in layman's terms without being insulting.

He gets a solid "A" here from me.

[Hagbard Celine 11,293]

anyone following the arstechnica comments on today's berger article i posted above...

ken the bin is a connected dude... think CTJ

wickwick is the thujone in that community having coined the meme "wickwick event" which is a total destruction on the pad which takes out the service tower which is the only way to kill the largest pork project in history

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1 minute ago, RamjetFDO said:

This guy with the video board is doing a pretty decent job explaining the trajectory in layman's terms without being insulting.

He gets a solid "A" here from me.

Yeah, that's the guy who should be hosting the show, not the social media lady.  He's doing a great job of explaining everything, with cool graphics.

[Ghost of LL 15,705]

I’m getting the distinct feeling that this isn’t going tonight.

[Hagbard Celine 11,293]

 

Ken the Bin

Ars Scholae Palatinae

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Subscriptor++

New issue ... There is a sensor in the RTV that was liberated that is likely to come off. They've decided that there is no additional risk beyond what they already assessed.

 

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2 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

New issue ... There is a sensor in the RTV that was liberated that is likely to come off. They've decided that there is no additional risk beyond what they already assessed.

[Hagbard Celine 11,293]

1 minute ago, Ghost of LL said:

I’m getting the distinct feeling that this isn’t going tonight.

that's been the distinct feeling for every milestone for the last 8 years

but we are in to "go fever" mode unseen since navy (vanguard) was desperate to beat army (redstone) in '58

the problem for nasa here in november of '22 is that the SRBs on this vehicle have been stacked for 2 years and are already triple-waivered

there is a greater than 1% chance we witness a $4.1 Billion bomb detonate and surpass the soviet N-1 disaster as the largest explosion in the history of rocketry

[InkaUtexas 26,961]

7 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Yeah, that's the guy who should be hosting the show, not the social media lady.  He's doing a great job of explaining everything, with cool graphics.

Nah, sorry. Get someone who is not reading a green screen unless this is for tomorrow's classroom. And agree, stop the feeder shit. Launch the fucker. 

[RamjetFDO 10,655]

We may be getting closer here... stand by.

[Updawg 2,388]

I get the hate for the announcers but they need to get a new generation involved.

We are olds. Sorry.

[atomheartbevo 90,674]

Only a few minutes left before things might start ticking down.

So, night crew....

 

[InkaUtexas 26,961]

1 minute ago, Updawg said:

I get the hate for the announcers but they need to get a new generation involved.

We are olds. Sorry.

Daughter (no pics) is studying Aerospace engineering at a school on the east coast. Wallops is a field day for her. 

As a nation we are doing a great job including everyone in science. 

just heard we might go live. 

GO SNOOOOOOOOOPY! 

 

[RamjetFDO 10,655]

No constraints to launch

[InkaUtexas 26,961]

Let's go ARTEMIS! 

[elfenix 34,780]

"Go for launch"

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1 minute ago, Updawg said:

I get the hate for the announcers but they need to get a new generation involved.

We are olds. Sorry.

Don't get some millennial intern who doesn't seem to understand what's going on, and who seems to be in the job not because she loves spaceflight, but because she applied to a bunch of places when she got her degree in mass communications and social media and panicked when she didn't have a job lined up.

Get Amy Shira Teitel.  @RamjetFDO knows what I'm talking about.  Or Scott Manley.

 

 

[RamjetFDO 10,655]

Final poll in work

[elfenix 34,780]

mark!

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Just now, RamjetFDO said:

Final poll in work

Drop this "has no constraints"

I just want 15 people ripping out "GO" "GO" "GO" "GO" "GO" "GO" "GO" 

[Hagbard Celine 11,293]

fyi youtube is 10 seconds ahead of nasa.tv

 

[RamjetFDO 10,655]

T-10 and counting.

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7 minutes to go

Edited November 16, 2022 by atomheartbevo

[InkaUtexas 26,961]

LFG! Love hearing it live. 

 

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5 minutes to go.

[RamjetFDO 10,655]

T-5 minutes.

1247am CST is the new launch time.

[Hagbard Celine 11,293]

cnn has resumed coverage

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Just now, RamjetFDO said:

T-5 minutes.

1247am CST is the new launch time.

you're behind us, Youtube is a minute or two ahead of you.

We are at 3 minutes.

[InkaUtexas 26,961]

And fix the logo animation on the top. It jumps. And we trust you to go to Mars.

[elfenix 34,780]

[Hagbard Celine 11,293]

cnn is 5 seconds ahead of youtube

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Edited November 16, 2022 by atomheartbevo

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[elfenix 34,780]

[atomheartbevo 90,674]

Russians pulling out tanks from the 1960s to fight a war.

Meanwhile, we are headed back to the moon.

[elfenix 34,780]

and now kerbal sim

[Updawg 2,388]

[Hagbard Celine 11,293]

congratulations to the workers and teams for finally getting this program off the planet

artemis and orion together have consumed $40 billion and for tonight, they own the "throw weight" crown, regardless of cost

[Updawg 2,388]

That is a shit load of stress that came of a lot of engineers

Very happy for them and us

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The two at Kennedy at the desk...

[RamjetFDO 10,655]

Bonus trivia for your friends... they ran the RS25s at 109%. On Shuttle, we never ran them nominally at more than 104%.

If there had been a launch abort, throttling up to 109% was the profile, but those engines would not be reflown.

Since, sadly, SLS is just dumping these beautiful engines in the ocean, running them at 109% was the standard plan.