Going back to the moon......Artemis I......

[Gogar]

LOL Freddy you gotta be careful with yer yammering, there's a few guys in here who actually make those candles you wanna shoot off all willy nilly

[fisher22]

Weather is not looking good at the Cape on Friday. NASA announced the next launch attempt will be Saturday. The launch window opens at 2:17pm ET.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Technology/live-updates/artemis-1-launch/?id=88941570

[stevej37]

When they took that engine off the shelf holding the Shuttle parts....they saw that it was tested by A.B. Normal.

[MysticLlama]

Have a friend there that went down to see the launch and is holding on coming back to hopefully catch it Saturday. Big space junkie, really hope he can catch it and doesn't end up having to come back just to miss it by a couple of days.

I hope to get the chance to go see a launch one day. Should at least be easier these days than the past with the amount of launches.

[URY914]

I've lived in FL all my life and have never seen a launch from the Cape in person. I have seen them go up from Orlando and other places but not up close.

[stevej37]

I was there for the last shuttle launch...the only one I've seen. (in person)

[Baz]

I watched the very first shuttle (Columbia) go up and took pics from the roof of the family (Mom and Step-Dad) Winnebago. 35mm, telephoto lens, tri-pod, and slide film...April 12, 1981!







Seen MANY others since......never gets old!!!

[CurtEgerer]

Wow! Great shots. ^^^

I've seen one shuttle launch from the Cape (1997 or so?). It was impressive. Can see many of them from my driveway now some 100 miles away. If the weather looks good I might drive over to the coast for better viewing Fri. More powerful than Saturn V? I'm in.

[CurtEgerer]

This is what it looks like from 100 miles away. This was a SpaceX Falcon Heavy last year. It's one hell of a show at night. Cellphone pics.

[fisher22]

That's awesome. Loud?

[CurtEgerer]

Can't hear a thing from where I'm at. The ground rumbles at the Cape with a several second delay in the sound.

[fisher22]

Originally Posted by CurtEgerer

Wow! Great shots. ^^^

I've seen one shuttle launch from the Cape (1997 or so?). It was impressive. Can see many of them from my driveway now some 100 miles away. If the weather looks good I might drive over to the coast for better viewing Fri. More powerful than Saturn V? I'm in.

First attempt is supposed to be Sat. See above. But the closer, the better. Crazy cool.

[Baz]

Originally Posted by CurtEgerer

Wow! Great shots. ^^^

Thank you. Coming from you, that's quite a compliment, Curt.

I'm no expert - and those images are digital conversions from the original 35mm slides. I'm not even sure I cleaned the slides first....

I miss having a decent camera and telephoto lens. Since the digital cameras came out all I've used are the point and shoot units. One day I will get back into it....

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by Baz

For the Artemis I mission, four veteran engines were selected, with a combined 25 flights between them, according to NASA:

Engine E2045: The most veteran engine with 12 flights, including a docking with Mir in 1998 and John Glenn's flight, also in 1998
Engine E2056: Four flights, including STS-109, a Hubble Telescope servicing trip and Columbia’s last successful mission
Engine E2058: Six flights, all to build the space station
Engine E2060: Three flights, most notably STS-135 Atlantis, the final shuttle mission

And this will be their last flight.

[CurtEgerer]

Saturday! Thanks. I wonder what the odds are of this thing actually launching? Just seems like so many glitches and delays. Local radio this morning said they're expecting 400,000 lining the roads to see it

Baz - pretty inexpensive to get back into it these days. You can find a nice used DSLR for a few hundred. Even 12-14MP is more than enough. Like always, "it's all about the glass". Something cellphones will never have. I've got adapters to use old manual focus lenses on some of my digital equipment.

[flipper35]

What Curt said. Our Rebel can take the new lenses or the old lenses out of the box which is nice.

[Baz]

Originally Posted by CurtEgerer

Saturday! Thanks. I wonder what the odds are of this thing actually launching? Just seems like so many glitches and delays. Local radio this morning said they're expecting 400,000 lining the roads to see it

Baz - pretty inexpensive to get back into it these days. You can find a nice used DSLR for a few hundred. Even 12-14MP is more than enough. Like always, "it's all about the glass". Something cellphones will never have. I've got adapters to use old manual focus lenses on some of my digital equipment.

Originally Posted by flipper35

What Curt said. Our Rebel can take the new lenses or the old lenses out of the box which is nice.

Thanks for the info - I will look into it! I still have my old lenses....

[flatbutt]

I guess they just don't make them like they used to.

An H2 leak of all things.

[CurtEgerer]

and they just scrubbed the launch window. "Later this year" they say

[fisher22]

An abundance of caution. Oh, and the Hydrogen leak.