10-minute HOLD was just removed.

Check list now confirmed to be Go.
No constraints.
3:20 pm pst.

All systems GO!!!

T minus 8 minutes

T minus 2 minutes

Listening to the pre launch babble is like listening to ACC broadcasters shooting the sh@it during a wipeout hoop game.

8 FULL MINUTES OF G's.

I cant even imagine.

The camera angles where it looks like the rocket is going parallel to the ground are creepy.

*I like the science commentator that dropped a Gil Scott-Heron reference about a concert in Oakland.

I know, right?

Thread theme song:



Everyone's Gone to the Moon" is the debut single by the English singer-songwriter and record producer Jonathan King. It was released in 1965 while King was still an undergraduate at Cambridge University.
Wikipedia


Starman had a ringside.

DiabloWags said:

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3:24 PM PST scheduled for launch.

A 10-day mission "looping" around the backside of the Moon.










Artemis II launch live updates as NASA moon mission counts down to historic flight

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What a waste of money.

bearister said:

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Everyone's Gone to the Moon" is the debut single by the English singer-songwriter and record producer Jonathan King. It was released in 1965 while King was still an undergraduate at Cambridge University.
Wikipedia

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memorable song, but eventually he disappeared into the dark side..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_King
> In September 2001, King was convicted of child sexual abuse and sentenced to seven years in prison for having sexually assaulted five boys, aged 14 and 15, in the 1980s. In November 2001, he was acquitted of 22 similar charges. He was released on parole in March 2005. A further trial for sexual offences against teenage boys resulted in several not guilty verdicts and the trial being abandoned in June 2018.

calpoly said:

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DiabloWags said:

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3:24 PM PST scheduled for launch.

A 10-day mission "looping" around the backside of the Moon.










Artemis II launch live updates as NASA moon mission counts down to historic flight

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What a waste of money.

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Unless this has value:

The Artemis program holds significant military value for the U.S. beyond its civilian science goals. It acts as a strategic "cislunar" (Moon-Earth space) initiative, ensuring U.S. dominance in lunar logistics, securing vital lunar resources, and advancing technologies in deep-space situational awareness, navigation, and communications crucial for future national security in space.

smh said:

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bearister said:

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Everyone's Gone to the Moon" is the debut single by the English singer-songwriter and record producer Jonathan King. It was released in 1965 while King was still an undergraduate at Cambridge University.
Wikipedia

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memorable song, but eventually he disappeared into the dark side..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_King
> In September 2001, King was convicted of child sexual abuse and sentenced to seven years in prison for having sexually assaulted five boys, aged 14 and 15, in the 1980s. In November 2001, he was acquitted of 22 similar charges. He was released on parole in March 2005. A further trial for sexual offences against teenage boys resulted in several not guilty verdicts and the trial being abandoned in June 2018.

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I guess it pays to read more than the first couple of sentences. Had I read the next sentence I would have come up with another thread theme song. F that guy!

bearister said:

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calpoly said:

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DiabloWags said:

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3:24 PM PST scheduled for launch.

A 10-day mission "looping" around the backside of the Moon.










Artemis II launch live updates as NASA moon mission counts down to historic flight

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What a waste of money.

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Unless this has value:

The Artemis program holds significant military value for the U.S. beyond its civilian science goals. It acts as a strategic "cislunar" (Moon-Earth space) initiative, ensuring U.S. dominance in lunar logistics, securing vital lunar resources, and advancing technologies in deep-space situational awareness, navigation, and communications crucial for future national security in space.

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All of those items can be done without sending humans into space which cost order(s) of more money than unperson spaceships.

dajo9 said:

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I'd rather have healthcare

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Obama gave you Obamacare.

Trump gave you the Covid vaccine if you wanted to take it.

RFK Jr. inverted your Food Pyramid.

The rocket was just too big.

The "terminal"
The difference between day and night.

From Artemis-2

It’s not a straight shot to the far side of the Moon! 🌕

Over approximately 10 days, the Artemis II astronauts will orbit Earth twice before looping around the far side of the Moon in a figure eight and returning home. pic.twitter.com/udjejhxgVx

— NASA (@NASA) April 2, 2026

You can see the thin atmosphere, the aurora borealis, and I think that's the moon bottom right.

bearister said:

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calpoly said:

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What a waste of money.

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Unless this has value:

The Artemis program holds significant military value for the U.S. beyond its civilian science goals. It acts as a strategic "cislunar" (Moon-Earth space) initiative, ensuring U.S. dominance in lunar logistics, securing vital lunar resources, and advancing technologies in deep-space situational awareness, navigation, and communications crucial for future national security in space.

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Or so they say.

BearlySane88 said:

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It's fairly weird that you think about Trump touching himself

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Stormy!