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@robprogressive The actual announcement is over EV charges. EVs will get charged 3p/mile, so if they do 10,000 miles it will cost £300. Hybrids will get a 1.5p/mile charge, so £150 for 10,000 miles. Non-electric vehicles already pay fuel duty, so won't get an additional charge.

The more you drive, the more fuel you buy, & the more tax you pay on it (from money already taxed) Now Rachel Reeves is confirming a new £300 charge for anyone doing over 10,000 miles a year. Feels like drivers are being hit multiple times for the same thing. How many more times are we going to be fleeced by this Government?

@peterrhague It's ok. Found them again...

BREAKING: NASA has lost contact with the crew of Artemis II

@Pinboard Live view from the low-res external camera right now. Similar to what I posted:

@Pinboard But this is going to be a pretty good shot nonetheless

Unfortunately the Artemis II closest lunar approach (5,000 miles) is much further than Apollo 8 (60 miles), so there isn't going to be a new Earthrise photo.

@Javedakhtarjadu When Armstrong landed, the Moon was about 367,000km/228,000 miles from Earth. The Artemis II astronauts are currently 413,000km/257,000 miles. Quite a bit further

Astronauts further from Earth than any human before . BBC . Are they unwittingly saying that Armstrong actually had never landed on moon ?

The capsule is now less than 1 Earth diameter away from the Moon. The Moon appears over 30 times larger to the astronauts than it does on Earth. #ArtemisII #Artemis2 #Moon #Orion #Integrity

About 2 hours until loss of signal when the Orion capsule passes behind the Moon. They'll be out of radar contact for about 40 mins #ArtemisII #Orion #Integrity #Artemis2 #Moon

"The more I look at the Moon, the browner and browner it looks." Interesting color observation by the Artemis II crew as they are passing around the Moon's far side!

@husheruk If you toggle "set the time zone automatically" on and off, it should correct itself.

@husheruk Yes. Again. Has happened before where it's gone forward on the correct date, then given another hour a week later.

Is any ones computer clock an hour fast this morning?

@DP7840101276832 @WorkElizab Artemis II is like the Apollo 8 mission of the Apollo program. Moon landing missions are coming later in the Artemis program.

@WorkElizab And if we landed on the moon on 1969 why are we only doing a fly by in 2026🤔

I wonder 🤔🤔

@1aad7c82d8484e8 @planet4589 Relative to the Moon, the spacecraft is accelerating slowly - currently gaining about 10m/s (22mph) per hour, but that rate will go up a lot. They'll be something like 400m/s (900mph) faster at closest approach than now.

@planet4589 That is a real good question: I was just looking at at the official tracking site and saw "velocity" still going (slowly) down.

The Integrity spacecraft just entered the lunar gravitational sphere of influence, at 0438 UTC Apr 6. Wiseman, Glover, Koch and Hansen are now the 25th to 28th humans to have left terrestrial space.

@mysteryb0t Look at the posts from @s2a_systems It's very faint, but they've been able to track it.

Can someone with a high-powered telescope show us Artemis II on the way to the moon?

The Moon now appears the same size as the Earth to the Artemis II astronauts. The moon almost 4 times larger than seen from Earth. #ArtemisII #Artemis2 #Moon #Orion

@HOUmanitarian @danae_hudlow And I think I spy New Zealand as well

@danae_hudlow Good eye. Checks out.

Do I dare risk another geography tweet to ask whether we all agree that this is upside-down Australia? ("UPSIDE-DOWN" RELATIVE TO MAPS, OKAY? I KNOW THERE'S NO UPSIDE-DOWN IN SPACE)

@_United_Hindus @NASA @NASAArtemis Here. Oriental Basin is only partly visible from Earth. The far side of the basin is always hidden from us

@NASA @NASAArtemis Where exactly on the right edge of the lunar disk though?

History in the making In this new image from our @NASAArtemis II crew, you can see Orientale basin on the right edge of the lunar disk. This mission marks the first time the entire basin has been seen with human eyes.

@valitarosarina @NASA @NASAArtemis So Oriental Basin was in darkness for each Apollo mission, so would not have been visible. It was timed that way, to make the shadows longer at the landing sites.

@NASA @NASAArtemis What do you mean “the first time”? What about 1969?

@CerberusFella @NASA @NASAArtemis All the Apollo missions were timed to arrive at morning on the landing sites, to make the shadows longer to make the terrain easier to identify. Oriental Basin was in darkness for each Apollo mission

@NASA @NASAArtemis None of the previous Apollo missions saw it?

In about 12 hours, the Moon will appear larger than the Earth to the Artemis crew #ArtemisII #Artemis2

@CryptoWhale The exif data confirms the two photos were taken 19 seconds apart. One with an exposure 4 times longer than the other.

🌍 | Two different photos published by NASA. Today we learn that the clouds on the globe do not move at all. Another valuable lesson.