Live Artemis 2 Take Off

[Dustparticle]

 

[Thomas Walker]

Squee!

[Dages]

That was buggy but everything went fine for the rocket itself. Nice

[Barbllm]

Whoo!

 

One of my friends was flying home from a trip to Morocco, and caught the launch mid-flight.

 

[➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone]

Next burn was completed successfully.

(PS I'm glad they got the toilet fixed.🚽 

It could have been a long and uncomfortable flight. Lol)

https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/02/artemis-ii-flight-update-perigee-raise-burn-complete/

Edited 23 hours ago by ➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone

[➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone]

[Note: I heard $30Mill to remotely fix the toilet.

How much for 'IT' support to get the email working?]

 

In short:

The four Artemis astronauts have successfully fired up their spacecraft's engine to break away from Earth's orbit and zoom towards the moon.

 

The so-called trans-lunar ignition came 26 hours after lift-off.

 

The crew said the views as they left Earth on their 10-day flight around the moon, were "phenomenal".

 

Details: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-03/nasa-artemis-ii-orion-astronauts-rocket-towards-moon/106529936

 

Commander Wiseman faced a minor tech issue when his initial attempts to use Microsoft Outlook to check emails failed.

 

"I also see that I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working," he could be heard saying in the spacecraft.

 

"If you want to remote in and check the Optimus and those two Outlooks that would be awesome."

 

Mission control said the issue would be fixed quickly, and patched the problem shortly after it was reported.

 

Relief for astronauts as toilet fixed

Not long after the successful launch, astronaut Christina Koch alerted mission control in Houston to a red blinking light signalling a problem with Orion's toilet, housed in a small compartment within the crew cabin...