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[MelissaBaby]

So that they know that the new US moon program is called Artemis because Artemis was Apollo's twin sister.

 

[SimonDoom]

229,000 + miles from Earth now, according to the NASA tracker. Amazing.

 

[anthrodisiac]

Legit one of the coolest things I've seen in a while.

 

[SmilingLez]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c87wy05wr4no

Reminds me of TBBT where Wolowitz had to go to the space center to fix the toilet

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I watched the originals.

This is just a rerun. Skip.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

So that they know that the new US moon program is called Artemis because Artemis was Apollo's twin sister.

I'm pretty sure it was because Artemis was a lunar goddess, too.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I watched the originals.

This is just a rerun. Skip.

Yep. Dad rented a TV so we could watch Apollo 11, and as kids we watched the whole moon walk in the school hall.

I can vaguely recall the very blurry video feed from the first landing, then the later landings with the moon buggies. By that time the video feed was better.

The one that astonished me was the first Shuttle launch. I thought that was a game changer, which it was for a while. And then the really bad jokes started...

 

[MelissaBaby]

I'm pretty sure it was because Artemis was a lunar goddess, too.

To an extent, all goddesses with any association with childbirth were considered moon goddesses, but THE Greek goddess of the moon was Selene. It was the Romans who merged the two of them together, and because her brother was the sun god, it made sense that his sister would represent the moon.

Interesting that Apollo in the Roman pantheon is Mercury, another NASA program.

 

[SimonDoom]

To an extent, all goddesses with any association with childbirth were considered moon goddesses, but THE Greek goddess of the moon was Selene. It was the Romans who merged the two of them together, and because her brother was the sun god, it made sense that his sister would represent the moon.

Interesting that Apollo in the Roman pantheon is Mercury, another NASA program.

As i recall, Apollo is Apollo in both. Mercury is Roman; the Greek is Hermes.

 

[MelissaBaby]

As i recall, Apollo is Apollo in both. Mercury is Roman; the Greek is Hermes.

Oh yeah. Thanks for the correction.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

As i recall, Apollo is Apollo in both. Mercury is Roman; the Greek is Hermes.

Actually, I believe Apollo, Mercury and Hermes are all English. I'd have to pull up Google Translate to find out what the Latin and Greek words are.

 

[Luci_nerdy_kink]

So that they know that the new US moon program is called Artemis because Artemis was Apollo's twin sister.

I’m not even gonna talk about Isis because with people these days…

They’ll put me on a watchlist for being fascinated by all kinds of mythology lol

Different mythology tho so hopefully I can sneak it in there without anyone noticing

 

[MrHereWriting]

I watched the originals.

This is just a rerun. Skip.

You're so cool.

 

[Luci_nerdy_kink]

To an extent, all goddesses with any association with childbirth were considered moon goddesses, but THE Greek goddess of the moon was Selene. It was the Romans who merged the two of them together, and because her brother was the sun god, it made sense that his sister would represent the moon.

Interesting that Apollo in the Roman pantheon is Mercury, another NASA program.

Just for the record… the nerds (like me lol) who name all of these programs also really like mythology so we just kind of find things that fit.

And it works out really cool because it makes everything look really symbolic.

But a lot of it is just a marketing trick

 

[TheLobster]

So that they know that the new US moon program is called Artemis because Artemis was Apollo's twin sister.

I'd be content if they simply paid enough attention to know that this is even happening, instead of following another stupid TikTok trend or something.

 

[ADirtyPerv]

So that they know that the new US moon program is called Artemis because Artemis was Apollo's twin sister.

I heard a couple (of dumbasses) in their sixties talking at a diner yesterday. They mentioned the launch.

She: "Oh, did you watch the, uh, Arminiss launch? The moon one?"

He: "No, what is that, some Iran thing?"

America is doing really well, guys.

 

[TheLobster]

America is doing really well, guys.

US was seriously bogged down in the Vietnamese quagmire during the entirety of the Apollo program. A regularly scheduled Middle Eastern war that doesn't even involve ground troops (yet?) isn't really comparable.

Your dumbass boomers are just an example of the mainstream media not doing their job properly once again.

 

[anthrodisiac]

I'd be content if they simply paid enough attention to know that this is even happening, instead of following another stupid TikTok trend or something.

I thought everyone knew about this. Horribly disheartened when exactly my dad knew it was happening and not a single other person I know.

Space is cool. Pay attention to it, people!

 

[Nynah]

I watched the originals.

This is just a rerun. Skip.

You know, every so often I find myself pitying you when you post things here and it's clear that you're sad, old and lonely.

Then you say shit like this that is not only ignorant and completely tone-deaf, but needlessly rude for no good reason at all. If this is how you choose to interact with other human beings, then you absolutely deserve to be sad, old and lonely.

On-topic: If anyone wants to keep up with live transcription of Artemis II's progress along with some cool data, I've been following this very nifty-looking tracker. Space is awesome, and we're so lucky to be able to follow along with this trailblazing trip back to the moon.

 

[TheLobster]

I thought everyone knew about this. Horribly disheartened when exactly my dad knew it was happening and not a single other person I know.

Space is cool. Pay attention to it, people!

Funnily enough, although I'm very much into space myself — but mostly from the astronomy/cosmology/SETI/etc. angle, not day-to-day operations of space agencies like NASA — I almost missed the actual launch, because it's been postponed so many times that I eventually stopped paying attention.

One justification I can think of for not caring too much about it is that it's kinda stretch to call Artemis II a Moon mission. Yes, they're going in this direction, but they'll neither land on or orbit it, merely use it for gravity assist to return back to Earth. It's basically Apollo 13 sans the exploding oxygen tank (or Tom Hanks), except not even that since they'll pass the Moon away within many thousands kilometers rather than a bit over a hundred.

My understanding of this mission is that it's mostly for closely evaluating the impact of deep space travel on human body, since we haven't done that since the 70s and we now have rather better technology to do it. That's in addition to the more overrarching goal of routinizing the whole Earth-Moon travel thing and launching things beyond LEO.

 

[MrPixel]

I've mentioned it before. Dad worked for NASA during The Right Stuff era, and Neil Armstrong was a poker buddy while he was assigned to a moon landing training program at Dad's facility. History was happening in my family's kitchen and I had no clue.

I'm excited that we're going back to the moon, but the vast changes in technology and program administration since then leave me with a yucky "corporate" feel about it all. Today's NASA is not the NACA/NASA I grew up with.

God Speed to the astronauts up there taking incredible risks (yes, Apollo 13), and my best wishes that the mission checklist is fully met in preparation for the future mission's safe landing and return.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I've mentioned it before. Dad worked for NASA during The Right Stuff era, and Neil Armstrong was a poker buddy while he was assigned to a moon landing training program at Dad's facility. History was happening in my family's kitchen and I had no clue.

I'm excited that we're going back to the moon, but the vast changes in technology and program administration since then leave me with a yucky "corporate" feel about it all. Today's NASA is not the NACA/NASA I grew up with.

Margaret Hamilton would never have had two non-working copies of Outlook running on the Apollo computers!

 

[JGittes]

....

On-topic: If anyone wants to keep up with live transcription of Artemis II's progress along with some cool data, I've been following this very nifty-looking tracker. Space is awesome, and we're so lucky to be able to follow along with this trailblazing trip back to the moon.

And there's so much of it.