taking over 40 minutes to get off after touchdown? What is this, United airlines??? #artemis

you know that space capsule sounds like when you put your ear on a small boat, exaggerated sloshing and splooshing sounds as it wobbles in the waves, probably doing wonders for the gang desperate to use an earth toilet #artemis

Welcome home!

#Artemis #Artemis2 #NASA #space

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A capsule splashing into the sea, three parachutes are relaxing above

wonder if the #artemis astronauts have drawn straws about who gets first dibs on a working toilet

Getting ready for 6 minute black out then splash down.

#artemis

There's an unusual NASA airplane patrolling the waters west of San Diego: Martin B-57 Canberra #Artemis #NASA

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Screenshot of airplane tracker showing a Martin B-57 airplane circling west of San Diego

Getting ready for #artemis splash down.

Fingers crossed.

Is anyone having any luck watching Artemis via the NASA app on Apple TV? We've got audio but not video on there, and have switched over to YouTube, which is unfortunate because of the ads. #AppleTV #Artemis #NASA

Just had a quick look at the Artemis 2 live-stream now they are nine days into their trip and the astronauts look a little over each other to be honest

#Artemis #space

RTC burn completed, velocity's gone up a bit (+1 mph? May be more, I'm just using on-screen display)
#artemis #space

I missed that intentionally, but I now see that I really missed the opportunity to LMAO online. Though this of course is a much better take that anything I'd have to offer.

Those lovely spacesailors proved once again what has been obvious from the first day: they are exceptional people, in all aspects.

Please watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmmuJ64bnBE

#Orion #Artemis #NASA #Solarocks #Space

I wanna see the astronauts' iPhone 17 photos.

Also, can you imagine being an Android sales guy & hearing that? Just like, shut your biz down & go home.
#space #artemis #apple

"Looks like a dinosaur foot running to the northwest, but is now clearly a crater with more craters around it."

OR: GAMERA PROVEN‽
#space #artemis

Mission briefing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs
#artemis #space

Question for my astronomer-on-speeddial @uastronomer (or AstroFedi!)

I asked over on Threads, and received a couple of plausible sounding speculations, but nothing definitive. Wonder if you can shed more light on this.

When I view the projected trajectory on NASA’s official Artemis tracker page (https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/), if you align it to match the plane of the Moon's orbit, you will notice that most of the outbound coast (including the original orbit of the Earth) happens mostly in the same plane as the Moon's orbit, i.e. only moving in the X and Y axis, but no real movement in the Z-axis. But the fly-by results in a dip “downwards” (from the reference of my recording) in the path, i.e. Orion doesn’t stay in the exact same plane as the Moon's orbit after flying by the Moon, but rather starts moving along the Z-axis as well, by quite a bit. What is the reason for that Z-axis movement in the trajectory post fly-by?

#Artemis #ArtemisII #NASA #artemis2 #Orion

FAR SIDE!!!
♥
#space #artemis

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"Earth, we love you from the Moon."

Get around the Moon, 40 minutes blissfully free of Humanity.

Immediate new tasks:

+ Toilet maintenance.
+ Corona is the Solar eclipse, not a beer.

#space #artemis

We should commemorate this day of going around the Moon, by naming the first day of every week Moonday!

#space #artemis