Artemis systems are ready to fly astronauts …
A hot fire test of an Artemis rocket engine …
And educating and inspiring the Artemis generation …
A few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
Analysis of Data Confirms Successful Artemis I Moon Mission
After extensively reviewing data since last year’s successful uncrewed Artemis I flight test around the Moon and back, NASA has confirmed initial observations that the agency’s Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft, and ground systems are ready to fly astronauts on missions to the Moon. The agency plans to do just that on Artemis II – by sending an astronaut crew around the Moon and back.
Test Series Continues for Redesigned Moon Rocket Engine
On March 8, engineers at NASA’s Stennis Space Center conducted this year’s third hot fire test in the current test series to certify the redesigned RS-25 rocket engines. Four of the engines will help power NASA’s Space Launch System rocket on future Artemis missions to the Moon.
Second Gentleman Joins Students for NASA Artemis Activities
Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, NASA astronaut Yvonne Cagle, and NASA Ames center director Eugene Tu joined students and their families at an Oakland, California educational event, hosted in honor of Women’s History Month. The event featured hands-on STEM activities, and NASA items to inspire the students to learn about NASA’s Artemis Program, which will land the first woman and person of color on the Moon.
New IXPE Image of Vela Pulsar Wind Nebula
NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, or IXPE captured the light blue color in this new image of a pulsar wind nebula in the constellation Vela. The light blue represents the first-ever X-ray polarization data for Vela. The pulsar itself is near the center of the image. Measuring polarization could improve our understanding of how cosmic objects like pulsars accelerate particles to high speeds.
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NASA just this week lectured us on climate change (scitechdaily “We Asked A NASA Scientist: Are Wildfires Getting Worse). Meanwhile they’re test-burning rocket fuel? Looks like it burns! 5.5 tons of fuel per second, and it holds 2.8 million litres. Did they already forget their climate change narrative? All to make more rockets to go back to the Moon, again. They didn’t know what to do there the last times they went, playing golf driving a lunar golf cart.
They want to “inspire the Artemis generation”? By 1970, virtually nobody in the Apollo generation cared anymore or started caring since. Without building a permanent moon settlement, apart from politicians and contractors nobody will care about going to the Moon, unless the mission explodes.
They’re going to “land the first woman and person of color on the Moon”? So that’s the point. This is a literal guilt trip, because NASA neglected to send a sufficient chromatic skin spectrum in the 70s and didn’t bring a woman. Consider the cost and opportunity cost and risk just to bring racialism and feminism to the moon, dragging space exploration into the culture war. Staffed by diversity hires, maybe it actually will explode. These bigots aren’t even putting LGBTQI2S+& or undocumented or disabled astronauts on the moon. Can we please just ask Harrison Schmitt to self-identify as a black woman instead?
I love NASA, but come on. Boldly going where we’re bored of going? In the name of DIE? What mighty things is this daring?
Honestly, Mars or bust.