I just keep forgetting about the moon mission (too much awful US-related news, and also too much life stuff happening). Looks like they're actually doing it!
The part that I'm actually excited about is the perspective of looking back at Earth from the Moon. That is COOL. I spent some time my last night in NZ looking up at the Moon, thinking about astronauts, and also tilting my head to try to understand why the moon looked upside-down to me from NZ!
Pretty pictures here (thanks for the link, @merrdiff.bsky.social !)
I have SUCH mixed feelings about the whole mission... and rockets... and I want to be excited but also fuck Starlink....
NASA Image and Video Library, serving up consolidated imagery and videos in one searchable location. Users can download content in multiple sizes and resolutions and see the metadata associated with images, including EXIF/camera data on many images.
Does it help to remember that rockets generally do not burn fossil fuels? (I looked this up because it came up earlier -- the SRBs (first stage) are mainly aluminum powder, and the capsule engine is hydrogen + oxygen.)
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