Artemis mission

[kerouac2]

It was interesting to see the Artemis rocket take off a few minutes ago but not for the reason one might imagine.  During my childhood and adolescence, I saw all of the Gemini and Apollo stuff, so it doesn't dazzle me to see a rocket taking off from the Kennedy Space Center.  What was interesting was to see the reaction of the current journalists on television watching the event with stars in their eyes.  The vast majority of them are much too young to even have been born when the first astronauts landed on the moon more than 50 years ago.  They will follow the space missions for the next 20 or 30 years and see people on the moon again and maybe even Mars, if we don't destroy our own planet first.  While I don't feel jaded, it is nice to see a new sense of wonder emerge for the scientifically inclined.

[cheerypeabrain]

I got up early to watch the launch on tv and it didn't disappoint

[kerouac2]

You could have slept an extra 45 minutes.

[cheerypeabrain]

Up until the last second I wondered if it would be cancelled again

[mickthecactus]

How did they ever manage to get to the moon all those years ago?

[kerouac2]

I have often wondered that since the computers in those days were not even as good as our modern pocket calculators.

[onlyMark]

Nov 16, 2022 16:35:40 GMT mickthecactus said:

How did they ever manage to get to the moon all those years ago?

Ahh... but did they really?

I played truant from school to watch the moon landings. I think because I didn't get into trouble for it led me to continue over the years.

[onlyMark]

Nov 16, 2022 16:50:35 GMT kerouac2 said:

I have often wondered that since the computers in those days were not even as good as our modern pocket calculators.

"........pioneering computer scientist Margaret Hamilton stands next to the computer code that she and her team wrote to guide the Apollo spacecraft to the moon"