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L-1! 🚀 @SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket has been rolled to pad at LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Vertical lift will begin later today along with final checks before tomorrow’s ViaSat-3 F3 launch.
Watch it live tomorrow at 10:21 a.m. ET: https://t.co/28VK7xIrPi
So much to celebrate @NASAArtemis and @NASAAdmin!
But 6 words spoken by Capcom Jacki Mahaffey define the mission of Artemis:
GUESS WE’LL HAVE TO GO BACK.
Unscripted.
A simple response that is now the marching orders for all of us who look to the Moon and beyond. 🇺🇸🚀
May not be cigars and American flags in MCC like days gone by, but the celebration was just as beautiful!
Congratulations to everyone at MCC! Incredible teams. Amazing people. 🇺🇸🫡
Welcome home to the incredible crew of Integrity.
Reid, Victor, Christina and Jeremy you have shown us in real time and in tangible ways what it means to reach for the stars.
We are grateful for your leadership, courage, humility and love for one another.
We need more of all of that.
Thank you!
@_MaxQ_@nevernorminal We shared this with many friends and colleagues and they all had a hard time registering that this is the opposite of what they see all the time…
“Crescent Earth” was not in our vocabulary.
Now it is. Forever.
There is indeed something utterly mysterious about the far side of the Moon to be sure, but at the same time it is also hauntingly beautiful. 🌕🚀
And this amazing crew also got to see glimpses of the south polar region, along with features in the South Pole-Aitken basin!
“You can see the surface of the Moon…we just went sci-fi.”
On flight day seven, images from our @NASAArtemis II crew amazed, turning science fiction to reality. From the lunar far side to a solar eclipse from the Moon, the views are EVERYTHING. No pressure to pick a favorite.
This man, our @NASAAdmin, Jared Isaacman, is laying an incredible foundation for an exciting, adventurous future for all mankind!
And as he does this, he is inspiring the next generations… and reigniting the passions of those of us who have held hope, but barely. 🫡🚀🇺🇸
As Artemis II continues its journey, it’s a good moment to recognize the army of a team behind that it takes to undertake such a mission.
From the engineers and technicians who built the systems, to the launch team, Mission Control, and the recovery crews preparing for splashdown - and everyone behind this mission.
Thank you to the workforce making this mission possible every single day.
Artemis II has reached its maximum distance from Earth.
On the far side of the Moon, 252,756 miles away, Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy have now traveled farther from Earth than any humans in history and now begin their journey home. Before they left, they said they hoped this mission would be forgotten, but it will be remembered as the moment people started to believe that America can once again do the near-impossible and change the world.
Congratulations to this incredible crew and the entire NASA team, our international and commercial partners, but this mission isn’t over until they’re under safe parachutes, splashing down into the Pacific.
Artemis II has reached its maximum distance from Earth.
On the far side of the Moon, 252,756 miles away, Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy have now traveled farther from Earth than any humans in history and now begin their journey home. Before they left, they said they hoped this mission would be forgotten, but it will be remembered as the moment people started to believe that America can once again do the near-impossible and change the world.
Congratulations to this incredible crew and the entire NASA team, our international and commercial partners, but this mission isn’t over until they’re under safe parachutes, splashing down into the Pacific.