Justin Sightes

I’m just here for the space and rocket stuff...

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@SciGuySpace Perhaps “Ten years ago, a Falcon 9 rocket exploded on a launch pad as part of a static fire test in Florida” would have served better, here.

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@JeffGreason @JoelSercel @deltaIV9250 I’ll award points for the Phantom Menace reference, even though spinning adds complexity.

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@JeffGreason @JoelSercel @deltaIV9250 That’s not the only reason. You solve for problems of human physiology by maintaining 1g for most of the voyage, without having to add a ton of complexity to your ship.

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@NASAAdmin @SciGuySpace We’re living in the golden age of NASA transparency.

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@ThePrimalDino Wholeheartedly agree. With such a low cadence, there is no need for an Apollo-style crew rotation. These four already know Orion like the back of their hands. They can spend all their training time on HLS.

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Welcome home!

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@AndySaunders_1 @NASA @NASAArtemis @esa @Astro_Jeremy @Astro_Christina @AstroVicGlover @astro_reid Cheers from Indiana, and echoing your hopes for a safe return. Pictured is my way of coping.

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The vibe tonight

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@Simberg_Space @cfishman @AP @APStylebook @MerriamWebster The Levant, the Netherlands, the Dardanelles, the Aleutian Islands, the Bering Strait, the Pacific Ocean. The Moon.

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@BellikOzan There are so many little things they could do to improve video coverage and make missions more exciting for the public, but they don’t prioritize it. It’s incredibly shortsighted, given who ultimately holds the purse strings.

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@TimOnPoint I agree. They’ve had years to prepare for this mission, and the public affairs side of things has been pretty much indistinguishable from a crew rotation mission to the ISS.

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"Thanks to you and to the whole team on the ground for building on our Apollo legacy with Artemis."

In addition to a wake-up song this morning, the Artemis II astronauts were treated to an audio message from Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke.

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@NASA @ThePrimalDino @GuyFieri What are the five?

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@NASAAdmin @ken_kremer @AegisSailor @SpaceX @NASA I appreciate your wanting to have your team’s backs, but how high of a launch cadence is required before you can hire a producer who knows not to cut to people in lawn chairs during booster separation? Is that really something that needs many launches to perfect?

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@ThePrimalDino @JimTussing It’s something for the specific people within NASA who were responsible for the video production to be embarrassed about, yes.

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@ThePrimalDino David, you do realize it’s not the same people running the video production and the mission, right? Like, they’re not pulling controllers off console to hold the cameras.

NASA can walk and chew gum at the same time, and that stream was inexcusably bad.

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@IMAO_ His tweets haven’t been written by him for years. It’s obvious.

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@aerohogg @WarbirdsNews Check the calendar.

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@peterrhague I hope you’re right, but I don’t know. When I met my wife, she had no idea we hadn’t been to the moon since 1972. She just assumed it had kept going. I think that’s probably more common than you think, and explains why this mission hasn’t gotten much purchase with the public.

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@Medicfox @SpaceNotJohn @freddo411 @Ellieinspace All of that is true, but the alternative is just to let the remaining gyros fail and end the mission, probably in the next few years. It’s like a terminal cancer patient opting for a risky experimental treatment. Reasonable under the circumstances.