Wednesday at 03:53 PM4 days Author HOUSTON (AP) — Still aglow from their triumphant lunar flyby, the Artemis II astronauts made more history Tuesday: calling their friends aboard the International Space Station hundreds of thousands of miles away as they headed home from the moon.It was the first moonship-to-spaceship radio linkup ever. NASA’s Apollo crews had no off-the-planet company back in the 1960s and 1970s, the last time humanity set sail for deep space.“We have been waiting for this like you can’t imagine,” Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman called out.Read more about it here.
Friday at 10:41 PM2 days May as well bookend this properly. Here’s the channel for the livestream of their return:
Saturday at 11:32 AM1 day Amazing.I'm hoping that over the next two years, Artemis 3 and 4 will give everyone a reason to be hopeful and awestruck instead of constantly bitter. Edited Saturday at 11:40 AM1 day by MsKreed
Saturday at 12:08 PM1 day 32 minutes ago, MsKreed said:Amazing.I'm hoping that over the next two years, Artemis 3 and 4 will give everyone a reason to be hopeful and awestruck instead of constantly bitter.We watched right up until the astronauts walked (!) into the medical bay. You raise a good point. Neil DeGrasse Tyson warned that society shouldn’t get to a point of taking space exploration for granted again. Though I don’t know that we could, as each trip gets us closer and closer to Mars.On second thought, yeah, I’m sure it’d be all to easy to take for granted.
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