Burn complete and everything looking good.

They are off to the moon.

️ We are now 5 minutes away from the TLI burn. They are doing final attitude adjustments prior to the burn. The burn will last about 5 minutes. Good time to tune in.

Update: Orion is now in burn attitude

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OK. Apologies. No disagreement with your point about the DOGE reductions and other layoffs at NASA.

Fair enough. Not disagreeing with your point, or apologizing for racism at NASA. Just saying, having followed his career, that Glover is a super impressive guy.

That may be true, however Victor Glover, the pilot, is Black.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Glover

They are about 30 minutes from the Trans Lunar Injection or TLI burn, scheduled for 7:49 p.m. EDT, that will sent the spacecraft out of Earth orbit and to the Moon. They have completed the work with the exercise equipment and the contingency water collection. The pace of operations is increasing with the need to get things squared away before the TLI.

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Edit Wrong: [Apparently they continue to have problems with the PWD (Personal Waste Device...]

Edit: Toilet is fixed for more: https://apnews.com/article/nasa-artemis-astronauts-moon-6ef3f195b4d4f8abcbfa908cacea6da6

Correction: They are discussing gathering some water before the TLI as a backup since they had a water valve problem yesterday, which has been resolved, but as a contingency they want to gather water before the TLI burn.

They have just reported all GO for the TLI burn in about 3 1/2 hours. This is very good news.

h/t AkaSci: Artemis II TLI scheduled for 7:49 p.m. EDT.

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The astronauts are waking up now and getting ready for day 2 of their mission. All is going well.

Wiseman and Glover will begin their day setting up and checking out Orion’s flywheel exercise device.

Later, the main event of the day – the translunar injection burn, the maneuver that will set them on the path to the moon, will be done by Orion’s main engine on the spacecraft’s European Service Module.

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Everything seems to continue to go well. The astronauts are stowing gear and getting ready to sleep for four hours. They will then wake up and perform a burn to adjust their orbit. Then they will sleep again for five hours. After this sleep period they will begin preparing for the burn maneuver that will take them to the moon.

Pleasant dreams and good luck to our brave explorers.

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