Artemis II: Nasa’s crewed rocket lifts off to begin 10-day lunar journey – as it happened

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I do hope the doomers who think that the entire US government has been completely gutted will take note of this. The government workforce is in a bad spot for sure, SLS is far from a perfect program, but this still demonstrates that we are doing some real work still.

I have a really hard time telling if this is despite the current administration’s best efforts, because the current administration’s policies, or just an artifact of government inertia.

Top level: Super excited to witness this in my lifetime.

Edit: Also, my 40 years of life leads me towards the latter category.

Definitely despite.