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  • ?Artemis 2 astronauts enter quarantine ahead of historic NASA moon laun

    From Lynn McGuire@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, January 29, 2026 03:08:21
    Subject: ?Artemis 2 astronauts enter quarantine ahead of historic NASA moon launch?

    ?Artemis 2 astronauts enter quarantine ahead of historic NASA moon launch?

    https://www.space.com/space-exploration/human-spaceflight/artemis-2-astronauts-enter-quarantine-ahead-of-historic-nasa-moon-launch

    ?Artemis 2 will send NASA's Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina
    Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a
    roughly 10-day flight around the moon aboard an Orion capsule.?

    ?The mission will not land on the lunar surface or even enter orbit
    around Earth's nearest neighbor. Still, it will be the first crewed
    flight to lunar realms since Apollo 17 back in 1972.?

    ?As NASA's Friday statement noted, the agency is eyeing a liftoff as
    soon as February. There are five potential launch dates next month: Feb.
    6-8 and Feb. 10-11.?

    I had no idea that Artemis 2 was getting ready to launch.

    Lynn


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  • From Thomas Koenig@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, January 31, 2026 13:31:31
    Subject: Re: ?Artemis 2 astronauts enter quarantine ahead of historic NASA moon launch?

    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> schrieb:

    I had no idea that Artemis 2 was getting ready to launch.

    You must not have been following the news.

    Seems there are a few concerns about the heat shield, which is
    a different design from the one used Apollo, and for which there
    are concerns about gases developing inside the shield, which can
    then blow off parts of the shield.

    https://futurism.com/space/experts-warn-moon-rocket-nasa-heat-shield

    Looks like normalization of deviance to me - shades of Challenger
    and Columbia. By the way, the "Columbia Accident Ivestigation Board"
    report is excellent reading. I printed it out when it came out,
    but it is still available online.

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