Wow, they sewed the Apollo spacesuits with TREADLE SEWING MACHINES

MIT Press: The Bra-and-Girdle Maker That Fashioned the Impossible for NASA

"...Key to these demands were NASA’s painstaking engineering standards, which pushed the very limits of the equipment and seamstresses’ own techniques. The tolerances allowed — less than a 64th of an inch in only one direction from the seam — meant that yard after yard of fabric was sewn to an accuracy smaller than the sewing needle’s eye. To achieve such precision, many women used a modified treadle that, instead of starting and stopping a Singer sewing machine’s operation, fired one stitch per footfall through the multiple layers of a suit’s surface. ..."

h/t @wtrmt

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bra-and-girdle-maker-that-fashioned-the-impossible-for-nasa/

#space #nasa #sewing

#Space #SpaceX #Artemis2 #NASA #MoonShot #NoBillionaires #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich #FuckJeffBezos #FuckElonMusk

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rivlafleuriste Turns out I wasn't sick of hearing about space, I was just sick of hearing about Elon and Bezos

Props to Victor Glover, first African American to see the dark side of the moon in person.

https://www.nasa.gov/people/victor-j-glover-jr/

#Artemis2 #VictorGlover #BlackMastodon #NASA

#InTheNews on the en.wikipedia front page:

🐧 The #emperor #penguin (pictured) is added to the endangered species category by the #IUCN due to the effects of climate change.
🚀 #NASA's #Artemis II lands in the Pacific Ocean, completing its crewed #lunar flyby mission.
🏀 In #NCAA Division I #basketball, the #Michigan #Wolverines win the men's championship & the #UCLA #Bruins win the women's championship
🇲🇳 In #Mongolia, Nyam-Osoryn Uchral is sworn in as prime minister.

🔗 https://w.wiki/U$w

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Two adult Emperor Penguins with a juvenile on Snow Hill Island, Antarctica. (Ian Duffy, CC BY 2.0)

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116381997881074562

While NASA celebrates, things are not going so well for SpaceX...

#ArtemisII #NASA #SpaceX

🚀 We just sent a team of humans to the moon and safely home.

Not one bit of generative AI was used or needed.

You don't need it in your office or organization, either.

We can do great things without pillaging public resources and funds for a scam.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #NASA #Artemis #moon #genAI #generativeAI #slop

#JoyScrolling #ArtemisII #HiddenFigures #CelebrateScience #CelebrateWomenScientists #KatherineJohnson #NASA

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Cartoon by Steve Breen for the San Diego Tribune, shows Katherine Johnson (NASA legend, 1918-2020) writing equations and calculations on a blackboard (which is also space), ascending left to right, towards the Moon, and an astronaut in a white NASA suit 'space walking' on the equations like a staircase.

Splashdown in around 6h45m from literally as I post

eta: they just said 5:07pm Cascadian/Pacific time for splashdown so now you have a clock time too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs

#Artemis #artemis2 #space #nasa

Pictures from the pickup ship:

#Artemis #artemis2 #space #nasa #splashdown

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Four still frames from video from the pickup ship, one showing ocean and a radar bulb, one showing two helicopers on a pad atop the ship, one showing a big interior hanger area with some sort of yellow scaffolding in front, and one showing a large mechanical deployment arm and two runabouts with inflatable-style edges and seating for several people on each.

whelp here's the "NASA PR0VES E4RTH IS FL/-\T!" photo that the nutters'll be using for the next 10 years

#nasa #ohHereWeGo #artemis #Artemis2

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A picture of earth and Artemis 2 taken from the Artemis 2 onboard camera, with an angle that really does make the Earth look like a fl4t disc because of camera distortion. sorry for the inline 4, I just don't want it easier for the f-lat earth lunes to find.

LORGE

#nasa #artemis #Artemis2 #space #moon

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Shot from the Artemis's outboard camera, the ship on the left, a section with side instruments mostly visible and the bottom of the N and A from NASA just peeking up from the bottom, upside down. Beyond the ship, the earth, half lit, the light side up in the photo, lots of clouds and land and ocean. You know, the Earth.

just under a minute to separation

#artemis #artemis2 #nasa

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nasa ship artemis in space

POW

#artemis #artemis2 #nasa

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european service module separating visibly from the integrity crew module, with sparks and such going everywhere

here we goooooooo

#nasa #artemis #artemis2

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earth seen from something close to orbit from integrity, a big curve of earth along the bottom of the window, no longer visible as a globe

visual identification confirmed from air assets

#artemis #artemis2 #nasa

Voice comms restored with Integrity, projection nominal

#artemis #artemis2 #nasa

long range

#artemis #artemis2 #nasa

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A glowing flying saucer-like shape flying through the atmosphere

drouge chutes deployed

#artemis #artemis2 #nasa

main chutes deployed

#nasa #artemis #artemis2

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a tiny space capsule with three giant parahutes seen over water

Splashdown confirmed. Integrity stable in the water at 7:07.47 pm NASA (Central) time, mission duration 9 days 1 hour 31 minutes 35 seconds unofficial.

#artemis #artemis2 #nasa

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Integrity properly oriented in water as it hits, three parachutes falling to the right and deflating.

ffft, stupid satphones don't work for astronauts either

can't even leave voicemail, not that anybody checks voicemail

#artemis #artemis2 #nasa

NASA's going to try to call the astronauts' phones, see if that works better

I'm not even making this up

#artemis #artemis2 #nasa

i mean it's not like they don't know where they are, worst case they can just pop over and knock

#artemis #artemis2 #nasa

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Integrity with four boats immediately nearby, floating in the ocean, helium-filled balloons all deployed to help keep the Integrity capsule right-side up.

nobody mentioned bedazzling the outside of the hull

guess that's what they got up to on the far side

#artemis #artemis2 #nasa

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integrity capsule looking very, very sparkly as it floats in the ocean with its helium balloons deployed, waiting for the arrival of the "front porch" offboarding floating ramp

"Refined" splashdown and mission duration times:

Splashdown: 7:07.27 pm NASA (Central) time

Mission duration: 9 days, 1 hour, 32 minutes, 15 seconds.

#artemis #artemis2 #nasa

Capsule is on full shutdown, doing gas safety checks. Still waiting for the "front porch" inflatable.

#artemis #artemis2 #nasa

BOAT

#artemis #artemis2 #nasa #boat

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A boat directly next to the Integrity capsule, still floating, hatch closed, in the water.

y'know this _really did_ look like a Gerry and Sylvia Anderson "UFO" TV series UFO as it came in

#artemis #artemis2 #nasa #UFO

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Integrity, back when it was still incoming but without parachutes yet deployed, looking like an SFX shot from the TV show UFO (1969).

KNOCK KNOCK

#artemis #artemis2 #nasa

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the floaty boat hooking up to the front door of the integrity capsule, seen from three-quarters above

Hatch is open!

#artemis #artemis2 #nasa

open hatch

#artemis #artemis2 #nasa

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the integrity space capsule floating on the ocean with the hatch now open and a yellow cover of some kind on the door

kinda me waiting for them to hurry up with the front porch

#artemis #artemis2 #nasa

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Donald ( @getfiscal ) on pre-Musk Twitter me: “So, Karl Marx, that’s basically what the world is like in 2018. What's your analysis of the situation? Is capitalism still doomed?” Karl Marx: “Holy shit, you went to the moon?” me: “Does communism still have a future?” Karl Marx: “The moon in the fucking sky?”

"stabilisation collar"

#artemis #artemis2 #nasa

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An orange ring around the Integrity capsule now, with divers in the water around it. apparently this is part of the front porch.

oh once it's inflated you can stand on it, it's like a tiny deck

#artemis #artemis2 #nasa

I HUNGER

#artemis #artemis2 #nasa

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the capsule with red pupils and red eyebrows added to the two centre windows making it look angy

crew members going onto the porch, finally

#artemis #artemis2 #nasa

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the front porch and capsule two crew members on the porch but it's impossible to see who is who

all four crew off the ship and onto the smaller floaty ship

#artemis #artemis2 #nasa

THERE we go, some good picture

#artemis #artemis2 #nasa

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all four astronauts clearly visible on the "front porch" floaty boat, about to be moved by helicopter to the john p murtha

_starting_ to relax

last time i watched one of these things live (where it really was _live_ live and not a Soyuz drop in Asia) it ended up in a debris field across Texas so _I have been nervous_

but this one worked right

#artemis #artemis2 #nasa #scary

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