Tootfinder

watching the capsule plummet through the air before the chutes opened was definitely a little 😬
that was really great
#ArtemisII

They have landed!! #ArtemisII

NSF Green Bank Observatory Shares Images, Data From #ArtemisII Mission: https://public.nrao.edu/news/there-are-4-people-in-those-pixels-nsf-green-bank-observatory-shares-images-data-from-artemis-ii-mission/ - radar signals received by world’s largest fully steerable radio telescope tracked spacecraft with NASA’s communications network for historic lunar test flight.

12,217 pictures taken during the #ArtemisII mission have been dumped at https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/ShowQueryResults-Lightcycle.pl?results=1777772559122361 (thumbnails) and https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/ShowQueryResults-TextTable.pl?results=177781480697921 (table), so far without listed metadata or tags. At first glance no entirely new vistas beyond the PR releases out during / just after the mission appear in this vast collection, mostly endless exposure sequences and unlucky sky images - but amateur image processors can now stack and further enhance the Artemis II haul with a vengeance ...

In order to celebrate the successful return to Earth of the #ArtemisII, I have defrosted a chocolate muffin in the replicator, er, I mean microwave oven.
The future is here, baby!
<gif of Kermit drinking tea>

#Melodysheep, one of the best YouTube channels out there, has published a gorgeous tribute to #ArtemisII! 🚀
https://youtu.be/SGxz4LQfRpo

So far NASA hasn't released any post-flight images of the #ArtemisII heat shield (except for a weird under-water view) - but here is one, kind of, I have extracted from the series https://www.facebook.com/NavalBaseSD/posts/pfbid05mJ788QWZoVSugx81FqT9aqGMSmvdCNP9P7KQfXtc6GevGQMtCkh184xgFV3N26vl of images taken by the Naval Base San Diego during a series of precision crane lifts and movements to prepare the Orion spacecraft for its final cross-country trip to Kennedy Space Center.

Turns out the #ArtemisII reentry was visible from the #ISS . Amazing!
https://www.sen.com/video/e1cbd8ed-1363-4a

Know where a great place to have watched the #ArtemisII mission, from launch to splashdown, would have been? The Ontario Science Centre.
#onpoli

The #ArtemisII show goes on - in 10 hours at 18:30 UTC a press conference with the crew at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_43Ei9eQVww

Rob Navias: "From the pages of Jules Verne to a modern day mission to the moon, a new chapter of exploration of our celestial neighbour is complete. This mission is over but the melody lingers on."
Me:
#ArtemisII

The saga of the zodiacal-light-behind-the-Moon from #ArtemisII in search of a fully correct #caption continues ... The #NASA text for image https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55208682757/ published today finally does away with falsely claiming that this is the corona - good if shockingly late. But now it says: "The glow around the Moon is called zodiacal light, which describes interstellar dust that’s reflecting sunlight" - wrong again, it's interplanetary dust in our own solar system ...

Recap videos of #ArtemisII from NASA and LockMart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfRqrrBbT-Y and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwaLS3KLc5M. And what Gene Krantz thinks of all this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUfKtg1qbYk

Fresh off their return to Earth, the #ArtemisII astronauts will hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, April 16, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to discuss their historic mission around the Moon: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-host-artemis-ii-crew-postflight-news-conference/

Half an hour till a Live Q&A with the #ArtemisII crew at the Canadian Space Agency: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDOspdklOro (and if you can't wait: in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ES9WGxEMK0 they just spoke for an hour with Oprah).

The 2nd contact of the #ArtemisII solar eclipse filmed with an out of focus (!) cellphone: #corona streamers appearing. (During most of the eclipse only the #ZodiacalLight had been visible behind the huge Moon as the paper https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae71c8 - summarized in Japanese in https://www.tcu.ac.jp/en/news/all/20260609-71681/ which auto-machine-translates into English - has explained.)

The #ArtemisII crew on the John P. Murtha with their Orion - on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYY4nnfxKbU their arrival in Houston will be streamed from 20:00 UTC today!

What a sad moment when the 24/7 #ArtemisII live stream was shut down at 2:20 UTC ...had it on almost, well, 24/7. ;-) Little consolation prize: the Artemis II Post-Splashdown News Conference in a few minutes on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir2X1-FjDxg

Going to the Moon and back apparently makes you … very happy: #ArtemisII astronauts Glover and Koch in the helicopter after landing on the USS John P. Murtha.

Artemis II - Return to the Moon: #ArtemisII.

Brazilian technology helps NASA assess health risks for astronauts on mission to the Moon: #ArtemisII mission.

RE: #ArtemisII to the boat.

Just noted interesting parallels between #ArtemisII and Apollo 11 and 12, involving #SolarEclipses, either by the close Moon or by the Earth: during or after each of the three missions the astronauts described these events as their visual highlights. The Artemis II crew has done this several times - and in the post-flight press conference after #Apollo11 Neil Armstrong did it, too, in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz6nzutr7RU#t=42m19s in the segment from 42:20 (in the transcript https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED059051.pdf on PDF pages 21--22).
What he was describing is the eclipse just before arrival at the Moon of which I had re-processed the best image in https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid02mf6UK3L2j5SgPiQsJk9JVYmo6XvZwDDZ23BYpXwJPDszaSpUYzuinkMyHzh9RF8Rl -> https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/07/25/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-25-juli-2024/#Jul26 (and he is mistaking the zodiacal light they saw and photographed with the solar corona, the very same mistake made repeatedly during Artemis II).
Finally, a solar eclipse by the huge Earth observed from Apollo 12 just before splash-down was described by Alan Bean as "the most spectacular sight of the whole flight" while it happened: https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2019/11/24/eine-fette-sofi-fur-apollo-12-durch-die-erde/ (no images of totality were taken but Bean later painted the view from memory). The reason I had looked up the Apollo 11 presser was to see how this famously well-prepared post-lunar mission presentation looked like and when it happened: 19 days after their return.