MachPoint78
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Why you can’t see any stars in photos from Artemis II thehill.com/homenews/nexst…
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@HalenMattison Yet it just put four humans around the moon of the first time in 53 years while all of the commercial options are still being in development. I say build TEN more!

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Everyone knows SLS is based on Shuttle tech
But we forget it’s literally the same parts from the Space Shuttle
The engines were taken out of museum vehicles to build SLS because of the broken legacy hardware supply chain, and inability of legacy contractors to deliver on time.
One of the orbiter engines on the Shuttle that docked with Mir in 1998 was used to launch SLS for Artemis II last week.


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@TheCatholicEngr 400,000 people weren’t “running calculations.” Stop getting your history from bullsh*t Hollyweird movies. Most of those people were technicians doing the grunt work that got us to the moon.
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@LeadingReport So Carhartt is reverse engineered from alien tech?!!!!
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@Aszod_ @MrLeadslinger What to the exclusion of males? How did lunar science become the realm of veterinary medicine where all of the girls just want to play with puppies and kittens all day? Are moon rocks that cute?
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@MrLeadslinger These rooms full of woman got us back to the moon.
Not entirely sure what you are trying to argue here.
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I’ve watched the Artemis mission stream a little bit every day since launch to keep up with it. It’s weird how nearly all the public facing NASA employees at Mission Control are women. Seen a few dudes at desks in the background and a couple at the press conferences but I think every voice I’ve heard on the stream, other than the three male astronauts, has been women.
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@MrLeadslinger I mentioned this to my family tonight. It’s the @NASA PR commentators….literally every person they grab to do an interview is a female. There are plenty of men around, they just choose to do DEI.
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@BrittMcHenry Haven’t seen it yet. But @NASA Artemis II is giving Hollyweird a run for its money right now!
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@IntelPointAlert @sarahadams “Offset”. Okay. Never heard of him. 🤷🏻♂️
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@BellikOzan You missed the biggest thing. Isaacman WON’T be on Artemis III. That was the central point of the “Polaris program” 🙄. It was all paid for by Isaacman with the prerequisite that he would “command” every mission. Get it yet?
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@KristyT Agreed. This has been so much bigger than “rich guy buys a ride to space.” There’s a reason that the Artemis II patch literally says “ALL”‘ on it.

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@TukiFromKL The Lockheed Martin Orion spacecraft is doing an amazing job on its first manned flight. Better than Boeing Starliner did on a far less complex mission. It couldn’t bring the crew home safely. They had to wait for SpaceX to get them, and cost two other astronauts their mission.
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🚨 BREAKING: The most expensive spacecraft ever built.. $93 billion to get us back to the moon.. is being rotated toward the sun because the $30 million toilet vent froze and filled the capsule with the smell of frozen piss..
it’s 2026.. astronauts are peeing into backup bags because the high-tech plumbing on our return-to-the-moon mission needs sunlight to thaw.. apollo guys did this in 1969 with duct tape and a prayer.. we came back half a century later with a $30 million toilet that still can’t beat zero degrees..
they built an entire launch system over seven years.. spent more than the GDP of 100 countries.. and the mission is being run like a student housing maintenance request..
“can you turn the heat up.. the bathroom is frozen again.”
nasa is fighting physics.. it’s also fighting a procurement machine that charges taxpayers $93 billion to deliver the same bathroom the apollo boys had when richard nixon was president..
this is the most expensive smell in human history.
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: The Artemis II toilet’s vent froze over, potentially causing the terrible smell astronauts reported. NASA is tilting the space ship toward the Sun to try & thaw it out.
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@CelticMco @GenChuckYeager @NASA I once worked at an airline that had five fatal crashes in five consecutive years. Yet people kept showing up. Necessity trumps fear.
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@GenChuckYeager @NASA Same NASA that blew up a second shuttle and had the audacity to actually launch again. Only built 5. Lost 2; you flying on that airline?
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Had NASA listened to Chuck Yeager, Gus Grissom et al would have lived a lot longer; that accident would never have happened. Chuck Yeager liked Gus Grissom & the others & was very angry about that event & NASA's arrogance. #ChuckYeager #GusGrissom #Astronauts #NASA @NASA @NASAAdmin
National Air and Space Museum@airandspace
100 years ago today, Gus Grissom was born. One of the original seven Mercury astronauts, Grissom was the second American in space and the first NASA astronaut to fly in space twice.
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