Hey, y’all, I know it sounds like an April fool’s joke, but America is launching people into space in 2 hours. You can watch on a variety of channels around the world.
The mission will send NASA astronauts Reid #Wiseman, Victor #Glover, Christina #Koch, and #CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy #Hansen on an approximately 10‑day journey around the Moon.
Godspeed, you magnificent astronauts! Tell the mothership I’m ready and waiting, wouldja?
@MissConstrue I'm watching the NASA stream, too.
During the last (crewless) mission, I kept a window up so I could watch the live stream from the spacecraft as it rounded the moon.
I took a screenshot as it headed back to Earth on November 21, 2022.
@mpotter I’m a total space junkie. One of my very first memories is sitting in a room with what felt like a crowd, watch a tiny black and white TV for the Apollo mission. We lived not far from the Cape, and had seen the launch live. My biofather was still around then, and he loved science and science fiction and I remember him crying at the landing, out of I think, pure joy. He left not long later, so I never got to ask what he was feeling at that moment.
One of my biggest disappointments was finding out I was too short to fly jets, and I could never be a test pilot, which at the time, looked like the only way a woman was going to get a space flight.
MissConstrue
Michael Potter