Good morning!

manxie and Rog, yes! curly, try again.

Good Morning everyone! Wide Awake Double Dark Brew is ready.

Starting to see buds on the trees and my forsythias are starting to add a beautiful shade of yellow to my yard! Spring has finally sprung!

Enjoy your Friday!

Gerry

Want! Thanks, Ana!

Thanks for this.

I've been playing it and its well done. I'm enjoying it.

Good idea.

Spankie, my deepest condolences on the loss of your husband. Such a difficult thing to endure.

I understand about games being one's salvation.

I hope the glitch you are experiencing will soon get fixed, one way or the other. You take care.

8. pay attention

Day 9

Artemis II Daily Schedule and Moon Mission Daily Agenda

Live Coverage

Live Views From Orion - images not available at times but rare

Track Artemis - This is a 3D view driven by real time technology. Left click hold to swing around. Click on bottom left for more tracking options

Mission Updates

* Check Day 8 for changes / updates

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EDIT - Artemis II is scheduled to begin re-entry into Earth's atmosphere around 7:50 pm EST and Splashdown at 8:07 pm EST April 10th. Weather remains a go

This is the most dangerous part of the flight with the heat shield experiencing approximately 5000 degrees F while entering earth's atmosphere. After traveling beyond the Moon, nearly 270,000 miles from Earth, the capsule will work up a speed of 25,000 miles per hour upon entry slamming through Earth’s atmosphere. Friction will cut that speed to 350 miles per hour in a matter of minutes. The result is heat – and a lot of it

Orion and the Service Module will separate before re-entry leaving the service module to burn up in Earth's atmosphere. Orion has to position itself at the right angle so not to bounce off earth's atmosphere thrown back into space, for another try splashing down elsewhere, or burn up entering earth's atmosphere. There will be a 6 minute blackout period during this time

How it Works - A 2014 video a NASA engineer explains the heat shield on Orion


Splashdown

Once in earth's atmosphere traveling at 350 mph a series of parachutes will deploy slowing the craft down to around 17 mph splashing down in the Pacific ocean off the San Diego coastline at 8:07 pm EST. After splashdown recovery efforts begin. The USS John P. Murtha will be onsite to start the recovery efforts

Artemis 2 Earth re-entry, splashdown and recovery plan explained by NASA

Good video of Recovery

Launch to splashdown


Re-entry of the Orion capsule will start around 7:45 pm EST. Communications between Orion and Mission Control on re-entry will be going on all day preparing. If you have followed the Artemis II mission or not this is something you will want to watch. It will be shown live on NASA's Live Coverage as well as live return coverage on NASA+, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Netflix, HBO Max, Discovery+, Peacock and Roku starting at 6:30 p.m EST

That 6 minute blackout period will feel like hours not only to the crew, Mission Control but all watching around the world

Thanks flotsam.

I really must give it a go so have just fired it up

Thank you for your thoughts, flotsam! Glad you are enjoying it!

Thank you Drac!

Ana

My impulse is to dive in, but I'll wait for reviews, too, as I'm still entrenched in my current game. Anyway, I need to see if it will play on the Steam Deck as this laptop ain't going to be working any time soon. (if ever....)

Looks good though, but I wonder how much of the original "eurojank" appeal would be lost. That was part of the joy of it, even in more recent games like Elex.

Thanks Ana.