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NASA Teams Readying Artemis II Moon Rocket for Launch - NASA

Launch teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida continue completing a sequence of highly choreographed steps readying NASA's Moon rocket for launch.
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Surprised there hasn't been more discussion about this. Personally I'm really excited to see this. This will be the first time out of low earth orbit in over 50 years.
 
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My FIL is one of the engineers that designed the crawlers NASA is currently using. When he retired from the engineering firm NASA hired him for the past few years to train NASA employees how to drive the crawlers. He's been down to numerous launches and NASA even gave him their "Snoopy" award.
 
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I absolutely cannot wait for this. Recently visited the Kennedy Center and have always been interested in space travel. Glad we are making it more of a priority again. Will be the furthest any human has ever been from earth. Praying all goes well.
 
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Urbandale2013 said:
www.nasa.gov

NASA Teams Readying Artemis II Moon Rocket for Launch - NASA

Launch teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida continue completing a sequence of highly choreographed steps readying NASA's Moon rocket for launch.
www.nasa.gov www.nasa.gov

Surprised there hasn't been more discussion about this. Personally I'm really excited to see this. This will be the first time out of low earth orbit in over 50 years.
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Will also be the furthest from Earth humans have ever gone, just barely.
 
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Letterkenny said:
Will also be the furthest from Earth humans have ever gone, just barely.
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Hey, New Mexico isn’t that far, bud! ;)

Seriously, great that we are starting this back up. Keep pushing the envelope on what we can do and technology. We seem to get a lot of advancements that help us in other things when we do this type of stuff.
 
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Urbandale2013 said:
www.nasa.gov

NASA Teams Readying Artemis II Moon Rocket for Launch - NASA

Launch teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida continue completing a sequence of highly choreographed steps readying NASA's Moon rocket for launch.
www.nasa.gov www.nasa.gov

Surprised there hasn't been more discussion about this. Personally I'm really excited to see this. This will be the first time out of low earth orbit in over 50 years.
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With all the problems in the world, I hope NASA can let us dream again.
 
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So this mission is scheduled to take 10 days. 50 years ago it only took Apollo 3 days each direction.

They stopping by mars for a few days?
 
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erikbj said:
So this mission is scheduled to take 10 days. 50 years ago it only took Apollo 3 days each direction.

They stopping by mars for a few days?
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A couple of points here.
- They are staying in low earth orbit for a day or two to check out systems on the spacecraft. I don't think the actual burn to send us to the moon comes until day 3 (friday). I'd have to look up when the TLI burn is though
- Going around the backside of the moon adds time (I think about a day)

It all adds up to 9 days plus a few hours so NASA rounds up to 10 days,
 
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