It will all end in flames
NASA’s Artemis II mission blasted off from Florida on Wednesday evening, sending four astronauts on a journey around the moon in the first crewed deep-space flight since Apollo 17 in 1972. The orange-and-white rocket successfully lifted off at 6:35 p.m. from the Kennedy Space Center, drawing cheers from tens of thousands of spectators. Commanded by NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, the crew...
Continue Reading on https://www.theamericanconservative.com/The most momentous launch since the Apollo era was about to begin, and along Florida’s space coast, a secondhand exhilaration was working its way through the assembled crowd, as though all of us, and not just the astronauts, would soon ride out of Earth’s gravity well on a pillar of fire. The space faithful had started arriving at the A. Max Brewer Bridge in Titusville before dawn, under the...
Continue Reading on https://www.theatlantic.comStagnation and entropy are cousins. Movement is the key to prosperity, and the day we stopped looking at the stars and trying to figure out how to get to them was a very sad one, not just for me, but for humanity. It's my very firm belief that space, as deadly and unforgiving as it is, is the key to humanity's survival. If not that, then I know it's the essential component to our advancement...
Continue Reading on https://www.redstate.comAround the Moon and Back in 10 Days The four astronauts of the Artemis II mission are preparing NASA for its next lunar landing. Far side MOON EARTH EARTH MOON NASA is sending four astronauts — three from the United States and one from Canada — on a trip around the moon and back without landing there. This is the first time that anyone would travel this far from Earth since Apollo 17 in...
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