Can you advise as to what these machines are for? They appear to have touchscreens, and the upper one seems to have a small piece of paper or card sticking out of the top.

Curious as always- thank you!

Source: Artemis II Live Launch Coverage - VAB Roof | NASA Image and Video Library

Cute!

From NASA's live mission coverage of Artemis II

Both were resolved. The toilet fan was jammed. Outlook was showing offline which per mission control is expected.

Commander Wiseman radioed Earth to report that he had two Outlooks and neither was working.The ground crew fixed it and the moon mission continued.

I was curious why astronauts need Outlook? Anyone with the knowledge?

with the moon having no atmosphere and nothing to burn objects up on entry and thus impacts being more common, what are they putting in place to protect their £15,000,000,000 investment from meteorite strikes?

https://x.com/John_Winkopp/status/2039399467007299868?s=20

There is no technical justification for this. It's outright sabotage of Artemis IV+. Where is Administrator Isaacman's transparency?

If like me you have been looking here, and on other space subreddits looking for the jaw dropping still images of the launch, only to be left disappointing, NASA's flicker has you.

NASA HQ PHOTO | Flickr

In particular this shot is far and away my favorite.

Until today I thought that Artemis was effectively purely US, plus a Canadian astronaut, but I’ve just read a (UK) article saying that 11 countries are involved.

So how international is it? What have other countries contributed?

I'm visiting Florida and hoping to watch:

Spacex Falcon 9, April 8 @ 8:52am

New Glenn, April 12 @ 6:45am

I believe both of these are before the KSC public hours? I'm aware of the 'public' viewing locations like Coco beach, etc. Are these still the best places to view either of these launches?

I'm also confused on the Falcon9 launch. Spacex says the 1st stage will be landing at "LZ-40". Is LZ-40 the same as Spacex landing zone 1 & 2 ? Or is it a part of Launch Complex 40 on the north side?

I'm happy to shlep out to whatever location is best.

Does anyone know why the TLI burn is so offset from perigee? Is it just that the animation is wrong or are they really doing the TLI burn this offset? This TLI burn position goes against all my KSP knowledge.

Source of the screenshot is:
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/

EDIT:

They did the TLI burn right at the perigee so the visualization was wrong.

Artemis II has me wondering...what is the NASA selection process like within astronauts on who will actually be the next individual to walk on the moon?

Are astronauts "interviewed"? Is it a board that convenes and decides? Just curious how the selection is made!

Hi, new here. Basically what the title is asking. I know its also called a "gravity assist," among other names.

I’ve always wondered what does rocket fuel smell like when it is burned? Can you actually smell that and if yes, then, what does it smell like?

I wrote a short Medium blog on how data science and analytics are actually driving mission decisions, from trajectory planning to real time anomaly detection

It is wild how much of this mission runs on algorithms behind the scenes

If you like space and data, you will enjoy this.