[Zizu]

Originally Posted by arista

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/n...mission-update

Good job, the Toilet
has now been fixed

Surely that was an April Fool ?

[arista]

Originally Posted by Zizu

Surely that was an April Fool ?

No
Malfunctions are common

[Crimson Dynamo]

The distance is more than you may think

If Earth was a ball 8 inches in diameter, the moon would be 2 inches across and orbit 20 feet away.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by arista

No
Malfunctions are common

Well why share something so insignificant when there are a thousand other interesting things to share

[arista]

Originally Posted by Zizu

Well why share something so insignificant when there are a thousand other interesting things to share

It was on Every News.


This is a First,
Never before was there a toilet


So, as it took off, it was not working
now it is

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by arista

It was on Every News.


This is a First,
Never before was there a toilet


So, as it took off, it was not working
now it is

I just don’t want to know that these super heroic people are going to the toilet full stop .. never mind going in plastic bags


There’s so much else to keep us enthralled

[LaLaLand]

I’ve been checking updates all day, fascinates me all this stuff. The NASA Orion camera has been a bit patchy though - just a blank, blue screen for most of the afternoon.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by LaLaLand

I’ve been checking updates all day, fascinates me all this stuff. The NASA Orion camera has been a bit patchy though - just a blank, blue screen for most of the afternoon.

Same .. apart from toileting issues

[arista]

Yes, on their return (10days)
it is due to come in faster

[James]

Originally Posted by James

🚀 Artemis II – Timeline After Launch

T+0 → Launch
Liftoff aboard Space Launch System

T+8–12 minutes → Earth Orbit insertion
Core stage shutdown and separation
Orion inserted into temporary Earth orbit

T+1.5–2 hours → Translunar Injection (TLI)
Upper stage performs burn to send Orion toward the Moon
Orion separates and begins independent flight

T+1 day → Systems checks & outbound cruise
Life support, navigation, communications fully tested
Crew conducts manual flying demonstrations

T+3–4 days → Lunar flyby (closest approach)
Orion passes behind and around the Moon
Free-return trajectory set for Earth return

T+4–5 days → Begin return to Earth
Spacecraft heads back after lunar swingby

T+8–10 days → Re-entry & splashdown
High-speed atmospheric re-entry
Splashdown in Pacific Ocean

⏱️ Total mission duration
Roughly 8–10 days from launch to splashdown

ChatGPT was a bit inaccurate here. I couldn't find a timeline for this when I searched on Google.

[arista]

[Zizu]

That damn toilet apparently cost Ł17.4 million




Someone please explain

[bots]

Originally Posted by Zizu

That damn toilet apparently cost Ł17.4 million




Someone please explain

it's not a mass produced item, and it has to be super lightweight.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by bots

it's not a mass produced item

…I did actually Google ‘loos for space rockets retail suppliers’ and Portaloos Hire came up…all online suppliers anyway, nothing on the high street that I could find…which is good because a high street supplier would probably be loo-ted atm…

Spoiler:

[bots]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…I did actually Google ‘loos for space rockets retail suppliers’ and Portaloos Hire came up…all online suppliers anyway, nothing on the high street that I could find…which is good because a high street supplier would probably be loo-ted atm…

Spoiler:

It certainly wont be armitage shanks

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by bots

it's not a mass produced item, and it has to be super lightweight.

I could make one out of Aero bubbles for less than 17 million quid !!

[Zizu]

Soooo there must be chance of an asteroid or something smashing into this vessel ?

[arista]

[Parmy]

Good one.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by arista

The Flat Earth Society are gonna be well vext

[Zizu]

Just spent nearly 15 minutes having a heated discussion with our son in law who is a conspiracy theorist who believes the world is flat , this mission and of course the original moon landing were faked …. how could they land on the moon all those decades ago but we haven’t got the technology to land now ..

Totally exhausted..

[Blue.]

The idea that we could do it then but not now only sounds convincing until you look at the context properly.

We did not lose the ability to go to the Moon. We stopped going because the space race ended and the political and financial backing disappeared. The Saturn V programme was shut down, the infrastructure was dismantled, and focus shifted elsewhere. That is how large scale projects work when the driving force behind them is no longer there.

It is also worth remembering the Moon landings were not simply an American claim. They were tracked and monitored globally, including by the Soviet Union, who had every incentive to expose any deception at the time.

If the argument depends on dismissing decades of evidence and assuming that thousands of scientists and engineers across multiple countries all maintained the same lie, it does not really hold up.

And we are going back. NASA’s Artemis programme is already underway, with missions completed and more planned to put humans back on the Moon in the near future. It is not a question of whether we can do it, it is already in progress.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Blue.

The idea that we could do it then but not now only sounds convincing until you look at the context properly.

We did not lose the ability to go to the Moon. We stopped going because the space race ended and the political and financial backing disappeared. The Saturn V programme was shut down, the infrastructure was dismantled, and focus shifted elsewhere. That is how large scale projects work when the driving force behind them is no longer there.

It is also worth remembering the Moon landings were not simply an American claim. They were tracked and monitored globally, including by the Soviet Union, who had every incentive to expose any deception at the time.

If the argument depends on dismissing decades of evidence and assuming that thousands of scientists and engineers across multiple countries all maintained the same lie, it does not really hold up.

And we are going back. NASA’s Artemis programme is already underway, with missions completed and more planned to put humans back on the Moon in the near future. It is not a question of whether we can do it, it is already in progress.

I wish you were here at the time to help me out

I have no knowledge of such things as it’s never really interested me

I basically said that he spends too much time visiting conspiracy theorist sites that basically feed his appetite for conspiracy theories

[Blue.]

Well you wasn’t wrong doing that either.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by arista

amazed that failing MSM rag did not have a food pull our promo about cheese on the same page