Especially since suggesting this one week ago tonight, February 24th.
NASA is targeting April 1st for the launch of Artemis II.
NASA has fixed the problem that forced the removal of the rocket for the Artemis II mission from its launch pad last month, but it will be a couple of weeks before officials are ready to move the vehicle back into the starting blocks at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The biggest joke of a launch system launching on April Fool's Day is just too good to be true.
Screen Capture from NextSpaceflight. Image credit NextSpaceflight.com.
One of my favorite old jokes is from Jeff Foxworthy, who made a career out of "talk like a redneck" jokes. The joke was based on the word "sensuous". Jeff turned it into "since you is up, would you get me a beer?"
So what? That turns into someone saying to the Artemis II vehicle "since you is" in the VAB, how 'bout we fix another few things. More details in the Ars Technica article on this.
And I'mma bet nobody who reads this would have thought about that "since you is in the VAB" line.
Ha. Sure, April 1st. Now the real question is.... what year? 2026, 27, 28?
ReplyDelete...and that line is EXACTLY why I read you .... :)
ReplyDeleteOBOY, the Shuttle Leftover S*** system is launching on my birthday - Wotta gift!
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I think.
Sigh, nasa has become nothing but a political boondoggle and cash sink. Makes me sad to remember how good and effective the old NASA was.
ReplyDeleteBut apparently the waste keeps some people in office...
"The purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity."Theodore Dalrymple. Nasa is shaking my confidence so hard it seems intentional.
ReplyDelete*IF* (and that's a big IF) it launches an April 1st I just pray it's successful.
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