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   Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 07:59:04 JST Steve's Place

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   • Fraser Cain

   @fraser You know, all it took for disaster once was a bent o-ring. One of the guys I worked with went to Morton Thiokol to make sure it never happened again. I can't imagine this government will pay for the sort of triple-checking necessary to ensure flight safety. I fear for anyone flying in anything right now. We're not a country anymore. We're just the plaything of billionaire fascists without a shred of human empathy or concern for the lives of others. Rules and regulations deeply annoy them. This is one launch I dread.

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     Fraser Cain (fraser@m.universetoday.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 07:59:16 JST Fraser Cain

     Until someone tells them otherwise, engineers at NASA are continuing to prepare for the upcoming Artemis II mission, where 4 astronauts will take an Apollo 8-style flight around the Moon in an Orion Capsule and return to Earth. As part of this mission, technicians fully stacked the twin Space Launch System solid rocket boosters in the Vehicle Assembly Building. They started stacking the twin rockets in late November 2024, completing them on February 19th.

     https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/artemis-ii-rocket-booster-stacking-complete/