By mrfahrenheit211 on Skatehive
Picture Shows: The Artemis II crew, pathfinders for what is to be hoped more Lunar exploration by humans. I’m watching in awe at the journey of the Artemis II spacecraft that is going to be going closer to the Moon than any manned mission since the early 1970’s. It is a wondrous achievement for NASA and although NASA have far more computing power involved in this mission than ever was present in the Apollo programme, the fact that they’ve managed to get this crew into lunar orbit is still gobsmacking. There are a whole load of firsts with the Artemis programme. There’s the largest number of crew on a lunar mission, the furthest humans have travelled, the first time female astronauts have travelled so far, and the first time in decades that NASA have sent humans to a lunar environment that NASA once put humans on. It is also, as the humorists have pointed out, the furthest away that a human crewed vessel has had a toilet related problem and the longest distance that a problem with Micro