Mòrag 🏴I just saw a news report that said the crew of Artemis will be the first humans to travel to the far side of the moon. Didn't Michael Collins do that with Apollo 11? Maybe I misunderstood.
craignicol@morag the fact I heard is that they will be the furthest humans from earth when they go round the back, which I trust more than "the first to travel to the far side"
According to this, Collins was on the dark side of the moon 14 times https://airandspace.si.edu/amp-stories/dark-side-of-the-moon/index.html
@craignicol maybe that's what I heard and I just misinterpreted it. It was whoever was doing the NASA coverage earlier so I'm confident they know more about this stuff than me.
Scottish Lass@morag I think you're right. He was still in orbit when Neil and Buzz were cutting aboot the lunar surface 👨🚀🌓
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7137833-i-am-alone-now-truly-alone-and-absolutely-isolated-from
@morag I also think some of the earlier Apollo missions orbited the moon too. Remember seeing a doc about 10 which did everything like 11 except land and they deliberately made sure there wasn't enough fuel for the astronauts to go rogue and attempt to land 🤣
Patrick Hadfield@scottishlass @morag all Apollo missions orbited the moon. Apollo 8 definitely did - Christmas 1968. For those Apollo missions which landed on the moon - Apollo 11 onwards (excepting Apollo 13) - the astronaut who remained in the command module orbited the moon many times.
Curiously, all accounts of Artemis I've read so far indicate that Artemis won't orbit the moon, but instead will loop around the moon and be feeling back towards earth!
@patrickhadfield @scottishlass love the idea of Buzz and Neil "cutting aboot" the moon 😂