CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Found an original Hooked On Classics Vol. 1 CD at the thrift store, it is just so 80s

just want to congratulate CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen for achieving the greatest possible distance from Pierre Pollievre than any other Canadian in the universe, we all envy you this privilege

moon, now with canadian

moon really big

#NASA JSC YouTube has an "Artemis II Resource Reels" playlist which includes daily mission highlight videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTXQuaxXBKKz7ArqpTLfG6jn8Q79bBL4i -- those flight day highlight vids were standard for Shuttle, guess the PAO/Comms workflow for Artemis missions goes similarly. #ArtemisII #Artemis2 #space

moon big

Another cool Artemis II mission tracker that crams a bunch of data into a single screen, including live video, current activity, and telemetry data: https://artemis-1bq.pages.dev/

(found via the SA forums spaceflight thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3580990&perpage=40&noseen=1&pagenumber=3005#post551653016)

And another decent Artemis II live mission tracker from ISSinfo.net: https://issinfo.net/artemis.html

Pretty good Artemis II live tracker that shows mission elapsed time over the official flight schedule: https://www.sunnywingsvirtual.com/artemis2/

lol one of the astros just asked mission control to turn on the toilet (the proper euphemistic acronym on shuttle was WCS, or Waste Collection System) [edit] Oh on Orion it's called the UWMS or Universal Waste Management System: https://www.theautopian.com/a-quick-guide-to-americas-latest-space-toilet/

Currently appreciating this NASA KSC EGS crew member wearing a 3M Aura in the launch tower while he helps prep Orion Integrity for launch.

#NASA Artemis II launch live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_UjBMIzNo -- launch window opens at 1824 EDT (2224 UTC), Orion Integrity launching atop SLS to carry four crew on a free-return lunar flyby.

Also the Canadian Space Agency's launch live stream, since one of the crew is Canadian, Jeremy Hansen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcSnjRC6gwI

This guy was able to FOIA-request #Artemis1 slow-mo engineering footage from pad cams on launch: https://youtu.be/GLSDfPqgsCs

Multiple pad camera views of #Artemis1 launch: https://youtu.be/mielYHz-mxg

Over time I built myself up a little collection of SLS animations to watch how the plans for the rocket changed over the years: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIsZrw7Bv49ZWo_-c9m_Mje-Ulsg2zgFJ -- feels good to now cap off that playlist with the real-life video. (although I guess there may be animations for Artemis 2, which if it goes as planned, will have a human crew)

Some of those interviews (not all of them Artemis-related) eventually made their way to the public as "#NASAProud": https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIsZrw7Bv49YPUI9jjxK92cIwWbS5eLJj -- I had to re-edit the videos to use public domain music (thanks https://freepd.com !) and also make sure everything was ITAR and Sec508 compliant.

Launch of #NASA SLS/Orion Artemis 1 from KSC LC39B, uncrewed test flight to lunar orbit: https://youtu.be/CMLD0Lp0JBg?t=11800

I have feelings about this launch; when I worked at NASA part of my job involved editing internal video interviews with engineers and other staff working on this project, and I got really familiar with the 3D-animated B-roll of SLS/Orion as it evolved to its current form. Still messes me up to see it on the pad -- and now actually flying! -- IRL.

my gateway to classical music in the 1980s was "hooked on classics": the royal philharmonic earnestly playing classical medleys to a disco beat, which today sounds utterly comedic -- https://youtu.be/CQgUEL7Jiqk