Guess I’ll start one then. I was born just too late to see the Apollo missions. Apollo 17 happened just before my 4th birthday so I didn’t see any of them. I’ve been waiting 50 years to see humans go back to the Moon.
Re: What, no Artemis II thread?
Posted: 02 Apr 2026, 05:53
by Far Cough UKunt
Loved it when Buzz punched some idiot in the face for saying he never went to the moon.
Re: What, no Artemis II thread?
Posted: 02 Apr 2026, 00:09
by the coming of gary
Only 4 of the 12 Moonwalkers are still with us ;
Charles Duke - 90
Harrison Schmitt - 90
David Scott - 93
Buzz Aldrin - 96
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Re: What, no Artemis II thread?
Posted: 01 Apr 2026, 23:33
by yngwies Cat
54321
Let's Regentrify the moon.
Just for the rich.
Should be spending all that bunce at home.
Watch for 'All Mankind'..
Re: What, no Artemis II thread?
Posted: 01 Apr 2026, 22:13
by Takashi Miike
Bungo wrote: ↑01 Apr 2026, 21:58
I was once at Cape Canaveral when a shuttle was due to be launched. As so often happened, the launch was aborted with less than a minute left on the countdown.
A few years later I was in Orlando when another launch was scheduled. Lethargy hit me and I convinced myself that it would probably not happen again as I couldn't be bothered to drive to the cape. Inevitably that one took off as planned.
I watched a launch back in 98, we were a mile or so away but still a good view
*just looked it up, it was Discovery and John Glenn was on board*
Re: What, no Artemis II thread?
Posted: 01 Apr 2026, 22:08
by El Scorchio
Quite looking forward to this. It'll be thrilling when the mission comes where we return to the moon. Although I'm sure that orange egomaniac will want something with his name or face on set up there if it's under his watch and there will be some horrible declaration that the moon is theirs or something.
Far Cough UKunt" wrote: ↑01 Apr 2026, 20:21
Nothing will ever beat a Saturn V on full power.
Are you Northern Sold....???
What has happened to him?
I think he was a Vulcan man.
Re: What, no Artemis II thread?
Posted: 01 Apr 2026, 21:58
by Bungo
I was once at Cape Canaveral when a shuttle was due to be launched. As so often happened, the launch was aborted with less than a minute left on the countdown.
A few years later I was in Orlando when another launch was scheduled. Lethargy hit me and I convinced myself that it would probably not happen again as I couldn't be bothered to drive to the cape. Inevitably that one took off as planned.
Re: What, no Artemis II thread?
Posted: 01 Apr 2026, 21:15
by zebthecat
This was pretty damn amazing.
Thunderbirds for real.
Re: What, no Artemis II thread?
Posted: 01 Apr 2026, 21:12
by devonhammer
Far Cough UKunt" wrote: ↑01 Apr 2026, 20:21
Nothing will ever beat a Saturn V on full power.
Are you Northern Sold....???
Re: What, no Artemis II thread?
Posted: 01 Apr 2026, 20:21
by Far Cough UKunt
Nothing will ever beat a Saturn V on full power.
Re: What, no Artemis II thread?
Posted: 01 Apr 2026, 20:10
by zebthecat
I am just hoping that NASA have everything right on this one. This is the furthest that a manned rocket will fly on a mission.
My family was lucky to be living in Miami during 1969 and I was 3-4.
One my earliest memories is doing a tour of Cape Kennedy and seeing Apollo 11 in the huge construction building a couple of weeks before it took off and the rocket transporter was parked just by it.
It is one of my very first memories that survived.
