My heart is in my throat waiting for the #Artemis launch today. Strapping humans to large canisters of explosives is one thing. Doing it when those canisters are knit together through thousands of private sector contracts with never enough money allocated to do it right is another.
@cyberlyra I'm legitimately worried for the four people going up, mostly because it'll be a week and change before we know whether the heatshield holds, and it barely scraped through the unmanned test: https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly.htm
Maybe I'm a walking emotional wreck lately, but the last line of that article got me.