NASA said the Artemis crew has completed a manual piloting demonstration and reviewed their lunar flyby plan, including reviewing the surface features they must analyze and photograph during their time circling the Moon. Earlier, the astronauts kicked off their day with a meal that included scrambled eggs and coffee, NASA said, and had woken up to the tune of Chappell Roan's pop smash "Pink Pony Club."

"Morale is high on board," commander Reid Wiseman told Houston's Mission Control center as the space crew's work day began. The father of two girls was in high spirits in part because he had the chance to speak with his daughters from space. "We're up here, we're so far away, and for a moment, I was reunited with my little family," he told a live press conference. "It was just the greatest moment of my entire life." It's a feat Wiseman has dubbed "Herculean" and which humanity has not accomplished in more than half-a-century.

The astronauts have had geology training in order to be able to photograph and describe lunar features, including ancient lava flows and impact craters. They'll see the Moon from a unique vantage point compared with the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 70s. Apollo flights flew some 70 miles above the lunar surface, but the Artemis 2 crew will be just over 4,000 miles at their closest approach, which will allow them to see the complete, circular surface of the Moon, including regions near both poles.

The Artemis 2 astronauts have already seen brand-new perspectives. "Last night, we did have our first view of the Moon's far side, and it was just absolutely spectacular," Koch, the mission specialist, said during a live interview from space.

John Honeycutt, manager of NASA's Space Launch System program, shared at a briefing Saturday a new image transmitted by the astronauts. "On the far left, you can see features of the Moon that have never been seen by human eyes until yesterday," Honeycutt said, explaining that only robotic imagers had previously "seen" that region.

The Artemis 2 crew has been busy taking photographs including with smartphones, devices NASA recently approved to take aboard spaceflights. The space agency had previously released images from Orion that included a full portrait of Earth, featuring its deep blue oceans and billowing clouds.

The Artemis 2 mission is part of a longer-term plan to repeatedly return to the Moon, with the goal of establishing a permanent lunar base that will offer a platform for further exploration. It's a highly anticipated journey that demands exacting precision – but there's still room for the astronauts to live out their childhood dreams of spaceflight. "It just makes me feel like a little kid," said Hansen recently, describing the joy of floating.

So I'm assuming moon landing deniers just say this one is completely fake aswell? They have to, in order to be consistent, tight? Since one of their talking points has always been about the deadly space radiation.

>>1503768
Conspiratards are experts at goalpost moving and evidence inversion. Any effort made to disabuse them of their notions will simply drive them further into their fantasies because they genuinely believe that any pushback against their beliefs proves that they're actually in the right.

>>1503777
Unfortunately I'm well aware.
As a teenager and young adult I used to buy into some very wacky shit and I have family members who still do.
So I can related to how personal some of these theories are to those people, and how they might see it as a personal attack if encountering evidence contradicting their view. Changing your mind and admitting (even to yourself) that you were wrong about something, especially something you were passionate about, is hard.
Then again maybe I never was too deep down the hole, since what got me out of it was just getting educated and exposure to evidence that contradicted the conspiracies.

>>1503768
>Since one of their talking points has always been about the deadly space radiation.
Nigga knows so little about conspiracies that he can't even stereotype us correctly.
I'll spoonfeed you: The Moon "rang like a bell" for over an hour following Apollo 12 impact tests in 1969 according to NASA. The moon isn't what you think it is.

>>1503783
this nigga doesn’t know the difference between similes and metaphors

This mission has given me the courage to explore the dark side of my moon.
I'm going to use my cell phone to transmit video of my anus to my laptop

>>1503784
The important takeaway is that it rang for over an hour anon. Not whatever you think happened.

>>1503787
And NASA never picked up?

>>1503788
NASA is the primary source for this information, retard.

>>1503789
>NASA never picked up because they knew it was ringing
Whats it like being that low IQ?

>>1503791
Spend time with your family this Easter anon. Do literally anything else than wasting your finite time here.

>>1503793
ring ring

>>1503783
Here, read this. It explains in terms that even an idiot like you can understand about what they meant by 'rang like a bell'. (spoiler, the Earths earthquake vibrations are quickly absorbed by the liquid core, the oceans and atmosphere, while the moon, lacking such things tends to vibrate from vibrations much longer. Try it, ring a bell in an out of water)
https://www.michelegargiulo.com/blog/when-the-moon-rang-like-a-bell

>>1503698
Two penis shaped clouds. It'll make history.

>>1503768
Pretty easy to make it look fake though these days.

>>1503835
>lacking such things tends to vibrate from vibrations much longer
Bells make a distinct ringing sound because they are hollow anon.
You're not ready to talk about what purpose the moon actually serves.

>>1503845
Hence it's even easier for those kinds of clowns to call it fake without evidence and thinking they're super smart.

>>1503849
Even so people are already doing this on twitter mostly and exposing the lies and le derp trying not to lose perception on the reality. Whatever that is anymore loo. Central casting.

>>1503846
>Gives the actual explanation
>"Uh but the moon being hollow actually makes much more sense then this even though something behind hollow doesn't mean it would ring"

>>1503893
>>hurrr, scientists saying bells ring means the moon is hollow
>...Tuning Forks ring?
>>Stupid libs, only bells ring!
Its morons all the way down

I don’t know man it could be hollow but so what

>>1503893
>actual explanation
All conspiracy theories are true.

>>1503893
Plato cave is not complex concept and not hard to understand, but not for you

>>1503955
>Guys don't just believe in what others tell you
>Believe in my explanation for something I haven't studied and haven't experienced for myself
Yeah unless you've been to the fucking moon I think you can shut the fuck up.

>>1503970
>guys my television told me this is real, why wouldn't it be real?
>fucking conspiracy theorist cooks! how dare they question my television!

>>1504024
Anon you're literally insisting you know more about what someone said about their experience visiting the moon than the actual person who visited the moon.

>>1503846
Quadranium Battle Armor is too dense to ring, you sperg.

>>1504025
I'm calling you retarded for being unable to question what you've been told by people you've never met, have a long history of lying, and are totally unaccountable for their actions.

>>1504054
>I'm calling you retarded for being unable to question what you've been told by people you've never met, have a long history of lying, and are totally unaccountable for their actions.
And this doesn't describe you how? I can trust science. I can trust occam's razor. I can't trust your bullshit claim the moon is hollow based on personal headcanon and misinterpreting one remark from a moon mission.

>>1504024
>guys my television told me this is real, why wouldn't it be real?
This is always such funny projection from conspiracy theorists. Just because your so called "research" consists of hacks online telling you what to think and convinced you that watching their videos is basically the same as doing the research yourself doesn't meant that that's what everyone else is doing.

Strange they're all doing it during the war. Alot of prophetic stuff going on.

>>1503781
Who tf asked?

>>1504123
It was planned and the effort started long before there was a war going on or the people running the war were in office.

>>1503849
https://x.com/RjNol/status/2042795045426696420?s=20