grobi5d ago

TOPIC> Artemis II

2026 April 2

Liftoff!
Returning to the Moon
* Image Credit & Copyright: NASA/Bill Ingalls
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/liftoff-nasa-launches-astronauts-on-historic-artemis-moon-mission/
* Text: Ogetay Kayali (MTU)
https://www.ogetay.com/

Explanation:
We are one small step closer to returning to the Moon. A new chapter in human exploration began yesterday when NASA's Artemis II launched aboard the Space Launch System (SLS) from Kennedy Space Center. Carrying four astronauts, the Orion spacecraft's planned lunar flyby will be the first in over half a century. This historic test flight, echoing the legacy of Apollo while pushing beyond it, will carry its crew farther from Earth than any humans since 1972, looping around the Moon before returning home. During the approximately ten-day journey, Orion's systems--from life support to navigation--will be tested in deep space, while astronauts observe the lunar surface, including shadowed regions of the far side rarely seen with such perspective. After looping around the Moon, the astronauts will return to Earth, ending their journey with a Pacific Ocean splashdown.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_small_step
https://www.nasa.gov/mission/artemis-ii/
https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/space-launch-system/
https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/our-artemis-crew/
https://www.nasa.gov/the-apollo-program/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Cernan
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/apollo-12-splashdown/

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260402.html

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Show threadgrobi5d ago

Meet the Astronauts Who Will Fly Around the Moon

Four astronauts have been selected for NASA’s Artemis II mission: Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and mission specialist Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency. Artemis II will be NASA’s first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft around the Moon to verify today’s capabilities for humans to explore deep space and pave the way for long-term exploration and science on the lunar surface.

>> Video "Meet the Astronauts Who Will Fly Around the Moon":
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/our-artemis-crew/

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Show threadgrobi3d ago

2026 April 4

Hello World
* Image Credit: NASA, Reid Wiseman, Artemis II
https://www.nasa.gov/
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/our-artemis-crew/

Explanation:
From pole to pole our fair planet is captured in this snapshot from space, an evocative image from a window of the Orion spacecraft Integrity, From the spacecraft's perspective the Sun is moving behind Earth's bright limb along the lower right. Africa and the Iberian peninsula are in view on the pale blue planet's surface, while aurorae crown Earth's south and north poles at top right and bottom left. Commander Reid Wiseman took the historic picture on Artemis II mission flight day 2 (April 2), after the completion of the planned translunar injection burn. That burn boosted the spacecraft out of Earth orbit, sending spacecraft and crew on a trajectory that will take them around the Moon and back again. That's a journey humans last made over 50 years ago.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/fd02_for-pao/
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230513.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240913.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240118.html
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/02/artemis-ii-flight-day-2-orion-completes-tli-burn-crew-begins-journey-to-the-moon/
https://www.nasa.gov/
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap051210.html
https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/artemis/
https://www.nasa.gov/the-apollo-program/

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260404.html

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Show threadgrobi

2026 April 6

The Path of Artemis II
* Video Credit: NASA, GSFC, Artemis II, SVS
https://www.nasa.gov/
https://www.nasa.gov/goddard/
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/nasa-answers-your-most-pressing-artemis-ii-questions/
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Explanation:
Why doesn't Artemis II land on the Moon? The main reason is that Artemis II is primarily a test mission designed to make a future Artemis missions -- which will land humans on the Moon -- better prepared. Similarly, NASA's Apollo 8 and Apollo 10 went right near the Moon as tests before Apollo 11 -- which landed. As the trajectory in the featured animated video shows, Artemis II will loop around both the Earth and the Moon before returning to the Earth about 10 days after launch. The Artemis II mission will take humans outside the Earth's magnetosphere for the first time since the Apollo missions 50 years ago. In the video, particles from the solar wind are shown as streaks, while the Earth's reacting magnetosphere is shown in flickering green. The Earth's magnetosphere is important in deflecting powerful particles arriving from the Sun as well as creating picturesque auroras visible from the Earth's surface.
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/nasa-answers-your-most-pressing-artemis-ii-questions/
https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/artemis/
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/fap/ap181224.html
https://www.nasa.gov/mission/apollo-10/
https://www.nasa.gov/history/apollo-11-mission-overview/
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190717.html
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5622/
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/facts/
https://science.nasa.gov/moon/
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis/artemis-2/track-nasas-artemis-ii-mission-in-real-time/
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190818.html
https://science.nasa.gov/heliophysics/focus-areas/magnetosphere-ionosphere/
https://www.nasa.gov/the-apollo-program/
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/fap/ap000318.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetosphere#/media/File:Structure_of_the_magnetosphere_LanguageSwitch.svg
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160406.html
https://solar-center.stanford.edu/FAQ/Qsolwindcomp.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240818.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260210.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/fap/ap250210.html

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/fap/ap260406.html

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Apr 6 at 10:16amWeb
Show threadLouis A. M. 🇨🇦23h ago
@grobi Why doesn't Artemis II land on the Moon?
The main reason is that Musk hasn't provided a lander!