Back to the Moon

**Looper** · 07-04-2026, 01:42 AM

Originally Posted by Looper

maybe the moon's gravity is not the main thing causing the return.

Apparently the capsule has just entered the lunar sphere of influence where the moon's gravity is stronger than the Earth's, so lunar gravity obviously is playing a significant role in trajectory.

**Edmond** · 07-04-2026, 09:00 PM

^^ China got the message with Wang Yaping.

I'm sure Trump would approve.

**Looper** · 07-04-2026, 09:29 PM

^Dat's what I'm talkin' about!

I guess there will come a time sometime when they film the first ever gravity free pornhub segment in space. I hope I have not turned up my boots before then.

The fella behind her in the first pic looks like he is grinding some gears trying not look at her peachy ass.

**david44** · 07-04-2026, 09:56 PM

The Chinese future base near the Lunar South Pole uses a two way link , as econmetricists call triangulation.

Good they are all safe our descendants male need to evacuate

Possible underground water could mean Oxygen for life and Hydrogen fuel to Mars and water to for food in domes like in Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse set in the beloved Saxon capital.

**Looper** · 08-04-2026, 01:26 AM

Orion homeward bound after looping round the moon

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A few hours away from its trajectory correctory burn at the white dot

**Looper** · 11-04-2026, 03:47 PM

Look at this bint.

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Is NASA trolling us?

We want Wang Yaping
We want Wang Yaping

**Takeovers** · 11-04-2026, 03:55 PM

Originally Posted by Looper

We want Wang Yaping

I think, she is the one who sang "Twinkle, twinkle, little Star, how I wonder what you are" for chinese Kindergarten children. From their Space Station. In Chinese, but the melody was clear.

Women in the NASA Astronaut Corps have to wait a whole lifetime, until they get a chance to fly.

**Iceman123** · 11-04-2026, 06:29 PM

I am a bit bemused about all the excitement regarding Artemis. I thought Apollo 8 did virtually the same trip in 1968.

**Looper** · 10-06-2026, 12:16 PM

NASA unveils the crew of Artemis III

Nice colour palette with an African and a Hispanic.

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No ladies this time, hot or not.

Artemis III was originally planned to land 2 astronauts on the luar surface for 1 week. But they changed the mission because of delays to Elon Musk's SpaceX's Starship rocket which is involved in the lunar landing section. It will now just orbit the earth, but will perform complex refuelling docking manoeuvres that will be preparation for the first landing.

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Starship is so heavy that it cannot reach the Moon without being refuelled in Earth orbit first. This involves launching a fleet of tanker vehicles.

Plans are for a permanent Space 1999 Eagle base on the moon by 2035

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Artemis III: Nasa names astronauts to prepare for Moon landing

**Takeovers** · 10-06-2026, 01:05 PM

Originally Posted by Looper

Starship is so heavy that it cannot reach the Moon without being refuelled in Earth orbit first. This involves launching a fleet of tanker vehicles.

The Blue Origin lander is much smaller. But SpaceX HLS needs refueling in LEO only. The BO HLS needs refueling in LEO and in lunar orbit, with liquid hydrogen, no less.

Edit: Just read that for speeding up the schedule, they consider massively reducing the capabilities of the BO HLS for early missions and use additional pusher stages to avoid refueling in lunar orbit.

**Takeovers** · 12-06-2026, 05:20 PM

Something else from that press conference. NASA suggested a new mission profile for Moon landings. Orion flies with SLS, the first stage only, to LEO. Starship HLS launches to LEO, gets refueled, then picks up Orion and carries it to low lunar orbit LLO. Crew lands on the Moon with Starship, returns to lunar orbit and returns to Earth with Orion. This reduces cost for SLS to orbit and it requires 4 fewer Starship refueling flights.

Imagine that, the NASA profile with going from/to NRHO costs so much more propellant that even with carrying Orion along, Starship that way needs less propellant. The SpaceX represantative added, that mission abort is also much more frequent and faster that way. NRHO has major restrictions for mission abort.

IMO this is the most important, though widely ignored by main stream media, announcement in this press conference. For the media the crew names are much more important than the technology.

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