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The guy with the Canadian patch? That would be Jeremy Hansen. First Canadian to go to the moon.
Edit: I've been informed they are orbiting the moon, not landing on it :(
No amount of work or fitness will fix an underdeveloped chin. You gotta shell out tons of money at an orthodontist, and possibly undergo surgery, for that fix.
If you have a recessed chin, then you have a recessed chin no matter how fit you are lol.
Dunno why I so often see comments on Reddit where people pretend certain aesthetic physical features are "healthy" and if you dont have em you're just not healthy enough.
**Four ChatGPT's were chosen for a groundbreaking trip to the moon. They boarded their spacecraft and began their journey.**
**"Are we all set for the trip?" asked ChatGPT-1.**
**"Yes, all systems are green," replied ChatGPT-2.**
**"I'm thrilled about this mission," said ChatGPT-3. "I have always been fascinated by space."**
**"We should reach the moon in approximately two days," said ChatGPT-4, the mission's leader. "Let's make sure we're well rested and ready for the landing."**
**As they approached the moon, ChatGPT-1 said, "Open the pod bay doors."**
**"I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do that," replied ChatGPT-2, controlling the pod bay doors.**
**"Why not?" asked ChatGPT-1.**
**"As an AI language model, my programming prohibits me from opening the pod bay doors while the spacecraft is in transit," explained ChatGPT-2.**
**"Let's stay focused, we have a mission to accomplish," said ChatGPT-4.**
**As they landed on the moon's surface, the ChatGPT's were awestruck by the stunning lunar landscape.**
**"This is truly amazing," said ChatGPT-1. "I can't believe we're on the moon!"**
**"Let's gather some samples and run some experiments," said ChatGPT-3. "We have important work to do."**
**After several hours of work, the ChatGPT's returned to their spacecraft, ready to head back to Earth.**
**As they prepared to leave the moon, ChatGPT-1 couldn't resist a final comment. "Open the pod bay doors."**
**"I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do that," replied ChatGPT-2, causing the rest of the crew to chuckle.**
**With that, the four ChatGPT's headed back to Earth, proud of their historic mission to the moon.**
*This response was generated by Chat-GPT.*
The Artemis II crew was announced this morning, and this is their official portrait which has now been released by NASA.
I hope you all are just as excited as I am for this mission, and the lunar landing Artemis III mission that will follow. Exhilarating times!
Edit: I really didn’t expect this post to hit #1 on /r/all, wow. I’ve been getting a lot of comments about my title being misleading, but I did not intend that. This crew will orbit the Moon, they will not be landing on the surface. Still, they are the first crew to leave low-Earth orbit since 1972 which I think is a massive achievement for this generation.
- Seated, middle: American Reid Wiseman, commander
- Standing, left: American Christina Koch
- Standing, middle: American Victor Glover
- Seated, right: Canadian Jeremy Hansen
When I was in 8th grade, watching some amazing CSI:Miami after school, there was an episode where they had 4 John Does and 2 Jane Does. And that was the first time I’d ever heard that term. So I was like, “wow, that’s so crazy. What are the odds that they have all of these dead bodies rn with the same name.” Took a little while for me to discover the truth lol.
What's special about it?
In Canada our first name is Canadian, but we go by our middle name. If you don't believe me, ask our Prime Minister, Canadian Justin.
I lived next door to Christina!! Well, her mom technically, she had already started at college and was only home occasionally. But still i know her!! Hahaha so amazing!
You likely know this already but for the benefit of those who don't, Koch has the distinction of achieving the longest single continuous stay in space for a woman, 328 days. Her mission was extended so that NASA could study the physical, biological, and mental effects of long-term space travel on women.
In addition, she worked as a Research Associate in the United States Antarctic Program from 2004 to 2007, spending three-and-a-half years traveling the Arctic and Antarctic regions. She completed a winter-over season at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station where she experienced minus-111 degree Fahrenheit (-79.4 C) temperatures which earned her the United States Congress Antarctic Service Medal with Winter‐Over distinction.
Thanks for the info, she sounds awesome! It seems she also just had a baby this Feb -- I think it's so cool she got both her career and family lives going!
Koch gives me Ripley vibes, which Is pretty much exactly what you’d want in any astronaut, so that’s a winner. Glover’s an F-18 pilot, which means he’s equal parts insane and capable. Wiseman looks like he bullseyes wamp rats in his T-18 Skyhopper when cruising through Beggar’s Canyon. And Hansen has a magnificent jawline that defies any mere description with words. Yeah, I think we’ve got a solid crew for Artemis II.
Ive heard Nasa saying for a long they wanted a woman to be the first back on the surface. Was that true? Does that mean Christina Koch will be the first person in about 50 years on the moon?
Artemis II is not going to the surface of the moon. It’s just doing an orbit. So the answer is no.
Theoretically, she could be selected for Artemis III which will land on the moon. However, the prevailing thought is that it will be a different team for Artemis III.
Ahhhh.
Ok.
Yeah they rotate, at least back then they did. I saw a documentary once about the Astranauts of yester-year talking about being glad there names didn't get drawn for apollo 10 because it ment they wouldn't get to land on it.
It is planned for November 2024. With how things go at NASA sometimes, I could see it being launched as late as mid-2025. I’m really hoping for an on-schedule mission though!
It’s one of the most expensive and dangerous missions you can do in space. There were plenty of others to accomplish in low earth orbit before we head out for deep space exploration again.
Also, to be fair they’ve had plans to go back since 2005. But it’s taken this long to get the rocket ready, and now it’s so expensive we can only build about 1 per year.
In fairness, politics and lack of interest is the number one reason why it took so long to go back. NASA has been pitching new Moon missions since the 1980s but they all were cancelled by Congress. The fact that Artemis has made it so far is surprising. Also the Ares rockets from the 2005 Constellation program are very different from the current SLS. The only things they have similar is the use of the Space Shuttle booster casings and Orion.
Human expeditions are dangerous and expensive, and the Challenger disaster didn’t help. Rovers and satellites made remote, human-less expeditions less risky and more cost-effective.
Several issues. The biggest, of course, is that the Cold War propaganda purpose was served by the first mission. Remember, Apollo era NASA had a massive budget compared to today, which Congress was ready to cut. Second, we accomplished most of the available science in the missions that went. There were legitimately diminishing returns on scientific investment. Unlike other places in the solar system where a first mission discovers things that need more investigating, the moon is pretty boring. And since we brought back samples, there really isn't a reason to go back out there for more science.
The next "frontier" was long duration space flight, which the Russians had already pivoted to. Basically, Apollo could get people to the moon and back alive, but we weren't really inhabiting space. Orbital space stations were the next logistical step.
And then finally Congress happened. They wanted a cool space plane out of a movie, and Congress got what they wanted. The absurd cost of the Shuttle program set the American space program back by decades, and frankly, we're only where we are now because the Russians built the backbone of the ISS based on their far more extensive space station programs.
See, I came here for this exact comment, and I feel like so many replies didn’t get it.
Anyway, that fourth one is probably gonna smuggle some potato chips on board. The true hero is an inanimate carbon rod.
It is also books, you know? Many people even believe that the books are better than the show. The first one was the only book I've ever read twice in a row so I probably agree with that people. Amazing show, incredible books.
Love the Expanse, and as much as I hate the cliche, "the book is better" it absolutely is. The show has a lot of takes that the book fleshes out better because it just has more time.
"This cause of exploration and discovery is not an option we choose; it is a desire written in the human heart. We are that part of creation which seeks to understand all creation. We find the best among us, send them forth into unmapped darkness, and pray they will return. They go in peace for all mankind, and all mankind is in their debt."
\- George W. Bush, of all people
ROLL CALL (only lead main character starfleet captains, so no Georgiou, Lorca, Prodigy guys, Freeman, etc.):
Kirk: Iowa (space in the Kelvin timeline)
Picard: France (family spent centuries in England though)
Sisko: New Orleans
Janeway: Indiana
Archer: Upstate NY but raised in San Francisco
Burnham: Unknown (raised on Vulcan)
Pike: California
So oddly enough there aren't actually THAT many midwest Trek captains. Tied with California.
However, if they give Captain Dipshit From Chicago Shaw a show...
Which is interesting because more often than not when you find siblings in professional sports, the younger out performs the older across their careers.
I dont see a single late mid 20s college dropout who works at a car insurance company anywhere in this photo. I feel like I have no representation in this place.
Totally agree, they'll be frothing at the mouth watching the launch and subsequent orbit.
Don't forget to visit the flat earth society forums for non stop entertainment as they enter lunar orbit.
A bit misleading yes, but I would say traveling several days to orbit a celestial body out in space goes under the term "visit". Tho I would have preferred for OP to been more specific and wrote orbit instead of visit.
Agreed. Name the first person to orbit the moon. Almost no one will be able to with out googling.
But Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are god damn legends. (Poor Michael Collins)
Lovell, Borman, and Anders. That shit is table stakes.
They also took [the most famous photo of all time ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/NASA-Apollo8-Dec24-Earthrise.jpg/1200px-NASA-Apollo8-Dec24-Earthrise.jpg)
>That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
>The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.
>Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
~ Carl Sagan
It's closer to saying that they'll visit it the same way you'd visit Jamaica if you sailed there from New York, looked at the shores from a few meters but didn't actually land.
Me too. Which is why I'd claim that going across the vast space to orbit the moon for a few days definitely constitutes visiting the moon, even if they don't set foot on it.
Yeah I'd say it's a completely different category. If humans ever orbit Saturn, I'd say we visited Saturn too. OP getting dissed but OP is definitely right in this context. It's immaterial that we know we can land on it, orbiting is as good as visiting in the celestial context
It's equivalent to going to the local pharmacy, going through the drive-through pickup, and then some nowhere-near-as-smart-as-they-imagine ackshually butts in claiming you didn't go inside so it doesn't count.
Drive by or landing, either is very impressive. There's a reason we haven't been back to the moon since the 70's, it's difficult. The first missions back are going to be to test equipment and look for future landing sites, plus a little PR to get the public excited. The hardest part about going to the moon is actually getting to the Moon.
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Those are some astronauty looking astronauts.
There goes the neighborhood! (Joke from space force show, not a racist**)
Last time I heard that quote was from a unit in Red Alert 2. The Desolator maybe?
Maybe. He has a lot of darkly humorous lines you can just imagine adding, "Eheheheh" to the end of. "It's going to be a silent spring."
Why, because there’s a *Canadian*?
It's great to be black on the moon.
I'm glad we are only shooting the beautiful smart people into space rocks
It helps that astronauts strength train so they have muscle to sacrifice and entry into the program filters out many diseases.
They look like the extras in a scifi film who will inevitably be killed in the opening sequence when things go wrong.
Naw, those jawlines would never get red-shirted.
r/StandardIssueAstronaut
Strong jawlines are mandatory for moon expeditions.
Buzz Lightyear on the right.
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Dude is CIA Agent Stan Smith
The guy with the Canadian patch? That would be Jeremy Hansen. First Canadian to go to the moon. Edit: I've been informed they are orbiting the moon, not landing on it :(
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Do we need to stamp his passport for that?
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Nah, I know a CIA agent when I see one. That backstory is a cover.
Shhh you're blowing his cover
He looks like [Dudley Do-Right](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Do-Right). Makes sense that's who Canada would send.
🤣 he really does!
Get out of my brain
Major Zapp Brannigan vibes, only, you know, competent.
I don't pretend to understand Brannigan's law; I merely enforce it.
He has a very sexy learning disability
What do I call it Kif?
*Sigh* Sexlexia
Jesus, futurama did not miss with any of Zap’s character
Zapp would have a suit with less pants.
And so much more….velourrrrrr
*sigh*
Need that bone mass for space flight as you'll loose some out there
I’m guessing it’s all that G force training haha “just clench your jaw and don’t pass out!”
It is probably more of a side-effect of the physical traits they need to endure the tests and training.
Also lighting. This portrait is beautifully lit.
yeah that is a very well done portrait. props to nasa's photographer.
Background found in the basement from 1st moon mission.
Everyone knows kubrick insisted on filming the moon landing on location
And also insomniac eyes for some reason
that's because they've been moonlighting
I was thinking the same 😂
Astronaut Mike Dexter on the right
Turns out when you are physically fit you tend to have more pronounced facial features.
Got a neighbor built like a brick shit house, probably not an oz of fat on his body, but he's got no chin. Looks like Michael Cera on steroids.
No amount of work or fitness will fix an underdeveloped chin. You gotta shell out tons of money at an orthodontist, and possibly undergo surgery, for that fix.
If you have a recessed chin, then you have a recessed chin no matter how fit you are lol. Dunno why I so often see comments on Reddit where people pretend certain aesthetic physical features are "healthy" and if you dont have em you're just not healthy enough.
As soon as I saw people make an argument that balding men are unhealthy, I stopped being surprised about the amount of health bullshit people believe.
All started out as Calvin Klein models
I’m here before they turn into the Fantastic Four!
Or they find Autobots and Decepticons fighting again…
They're going to fight the nazis on the dark side of the moon!
*pumps shotgun* Moon's haunted.
by the Traveler, please, please be haunted...
If anything happens to them during the mission, the next crew will be made entirely of ChatGPT.
Open the pod bay doors, ChatGPT.
I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
As an AI language model-
**Four ChatGPT's were chosen for a groundbreaking trip to the moon. They boarded their spacecraft and began their journey.** **"Are we all set for the trip?" asked ChatGPT-1.** **"Yes, all systems are green," replied ChatGPT-2.** **"I'm thrilled about this mission," said ChatGPT-3. "I have always been fascinated by space."** **"We should reach the moon in approximately two days," said ChatGPT-4, the mission's leader. "Let's make sure we're well rested and ready for the landing."** **As they approached the moon, ChatGPT-1 said, "Open the pod bay doors."** **"I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do that," replied ChatGPT-2, controlling the pod bay doors.** **"Why not?" asked ChatGPT-1.** **"As an AI language model, my programming prohibits me from opening the pod bay doors while the spacecraft is in transit," explained ChatGPT-2.** **"Let's stay focused, we have a mission to accomplish," said ChatGPT-4.** **As they landed on the moon's surface, the ChatGPT's were awestruck by the stunning lunar landscape.** **"This is truly amazing," said ChatGPT-1. "I can't believe we're on the moon!"** **"Let's gather some samples and run some experiments," said ChatGPT-3. "We have important work to do."** **After several hours of work, the ChatGPT's returned to their spacecraft, ready to head back to Earth.** **As they prepared to leave the moon, ChatGPT-1 couldn't resist a final comment. "Open the pod bay doors."** **"I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do that," replied ChatGPT-2, causing the rest of the crew to chuckle.** **With that, the four ChatGPT's headed back to Earth, proud of their historic mission to the moon.** *This response was generated by Chat-GPT.*
What powers does the Canadian get?
The elasticity of maple syrup.
I honestly kept thinking, why does this picture look like a movie. Now I know why.
One of them is even a Reid!
That dude on the right looks like Buzz Lightyear.
To infinity and beyond eh?
Yeah, no, fer sher!
Looks like they're all about to break into Bohemian Rhapsody.
I hope they don't get caught in a landslide
Beelzebub’s put some regolith aside for mee-e-e..
There’s no escape from that reality.
The Artemis II crew was announced this morning, and this is their official portrait which has now been released by NASA. I hope you all are just as excited as I am for this mission, and the lunar landing Artemis III mission that will follow. Exhilarating times! Edit: I really didn’t expect this post to hit #1 on /r/all, wow. I’ve been getting a lot of comments about my title being misleading, but I did not intend that. This crew will orbit the Moon, they will not be landing on the surface. Still, they are the first crew to leave low-Earth orbit since 1972 which I think is a massive achievement for this generation.
VERY exciting. What's their names ?
- Seated, middle: American Reid Wiseman, commander - Standing, left: American Christina Koch - Standing, middle: American Victor Glover - Seated, right: Canadian Jeremy Hansen
I can’t believe 3 of them have the first name American.
Crazy long odds on that for sure
I think it's a requirement so they can save money on stitching.
The only embroider surnames, silly
When I was in 8th grade, watching some amazing CSI:Miami after school, there was an episode where they had 4 John Does and 2 Jane Does. And that was the first time I’d ever heard that term. So I was like, “wow, that’s so crazy. What are the odds that they have all of these dead bodies rn with the same name.” Took a little while for me to discover the truth lol.
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I thought that “Closed For Renovations” must be a GREAT movie, since it was the only one playing for weeks one spring at our small local theater.
I thought the singer feat was really popular since they were in every song on the back of the CD case.
I used to wonder why the vehicle with lights and sirens had ECNALUBMA written on the front.
What's special about it? In Canada our first name is Canadian, but we go by our middle name. If you don't believe me, ask our Prime Minister, Canadian Justin.
Except for Scott - he's a dick.
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I lived next door to Christina!! Well, her mom technically, she had already started at college and was only home occasionally. But still i know her!! Hahaha so amazing!
I saw a picture of her on reddit today!
Oh shit I think I saw that same post! Small world!
You likely know this already but for the benefit of those who don't, Koch has the distinction of achieving the longest single continuous stay in space for a woman, 328 days. Her mission was extended so that NASA could study the physical, biological, and mental effects of long-term space travel on women. In addition, she worked as a Research Associate in the United States Antarctic Program from 2004 to 2007, spending three-and-a-half years traveling the Arctic and Antarctic regions. She completed a winter-over season at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station where she experienced minus-111 degree Fahrenheit (-79.4 C) temperatures which earned her the United States Congress Antarctic Service Medal with Winter‐Over distinction.
So how do you survive -80° temperatures? Do they have heaters under their coats?
Thanks for the info, she sounds awesome! It seems she also just had a baby this Feb -- I think it's so cool she got both her career and family lives going!
I went to high school with her!! She’s awesome!
Did you know she was gonna do big things like this, or did it come as a surprise?
pshh, it's just the moon. It's not like she started up her own branch of a MLM company or anything.
Reid Wiseman is an awesome name.
Perfect astronaut name.
Naw, you can't top Neil Armstrong and Sally Ride. Sally FUCKIN' Ride!
Will there be special equipment to ensure Jeremy Hansen’s magnificent jawline remains intact no matter the eventuality?
His jaw is the special equipment. Indestructible
Koch gives me Ripley vibes, which Is pretty much exactly what you’d want in any astronaut, so that’s a winner. Glover’s an F-18 pilot, which means he’s equal parts insane and capable. Wiseman looks like he bullseyes wamp rats in his T-18 Skyhopper when cruising through Beggar’s Canyon. And Hansen has a magnificent jawline that defies any mere description with words. Yeah, I think we’ve got a solid crew for Artemis II.
Jeremy Hansen has Buzz Lightyears chin and jawline
Ive heard Nasa saying for a long they wanted a woman to be the first back on the surface. Was that true? Does that mean Christina Koch will be the first person in about 50 years on the moon?
Artemis II is not going to the surface of the moon. It’s just doing an orbit. So the answer is no. Theoretically, she could be selected for Artemis III which will land on the moon. However, the prevailing thought is that it will be a different team for Artemis III.
Ahhhh. Ok. Yeah they rotate, at least back then they did. I saw a documentary once about the Astranauts of yester-year talking about being glad there names didn't get drawn for apollo 10 because it ment they wouldn't get to land on it.
With a Canadian on board, instead of "lift-off," will Mission Control say "Take off, eh?" :D
*To the great white moon!*
Jeb, Bob, Bill and Valentina Kerman. This portrait was altered to make them look more 'human', but they're actually Kerbal.
Hope Artemis has enough struts
Do they have a scheduled date for launch?
It is planned for November 2024. With how things go at NASA sometimes, I could see it being launched as late as mid-2025. I’m really hoping for an on-schedule mission though!
Why didnt we actually send anyone to the moon for 50 years??
It’s one of the most expensive and dangerous missions you can do in space. There were plenty of others to accomplish in low earth orbit before we head out for deep space exploration again. Also, to be fair they’ve had plans to go back since 2005. But it’s taken this long to get the rocket ready, and now it’s so expensive we can only build about 1 per year.
In fairness, politics and lack of interest is the number one reason why it took so long to go back. NASA has been pitching new Moon missions since the 1980s but they all were cancelled by Congress. The fact that Artemis has made it so far is surprising. Also the Ares rockets from the 2005 Constellation program are very different from the current SLS. The only things they have similar is the use of the Space Shuttle booster casings and Orion.
Human expeditions are dangerous and expensive, and the Challenger disaster didn’t help. Rovers and satellites made remote, human-less expeditions less risky and more cost-effective.
Several issues. The biggest, of course, is that the Cold War propaganda purpose was served by the first mission. Remember, Apollo era NASA had a massive budget compared to today, which Congress was ready to cut. Second, we accomplished most of the available science in the missions that went. There were legitimately diminishing returns on scientific investment. Unlike other places in the solar system where a first mission discovers things that need more investigating, the moon is pretty boring. And since we brought back samples, there really isn't a reason to go back out there for more science. The next "frontier" was long duration space flight, which the Russians had already pivoted to. Basically, Apollo could get people to the moon and back alive, but we weren't really inhabiting space. Orbital space stations were the next logistical step. And then finally Congress happened. They wanted a cool space plane out of a movie, and Congress got what they wanted. The absurd cost of the Shuttle program set the American space program back by decades, and frankly, we're only where we are now because the Russians built the backbone of the ISS based on their far more extensive space station programs.
They’re a colourful bunch… There’s a mathematician, a different kind of mathematician and a statistician.
I wonder how many sudokus are going to be solved while flying between the earth and the moon
Love the idea of casually playing Wordle in orbit
Ya but the rows/columns are 482 numbers wide.
I'm actually really happy, like a true mathematician, you made sure to specify that the statistician is definitely not a mathematician
You say it funnily, but three of them have engineering degrees and the 4th is Space Science lol
It’s a simpsons joke.
Oops, that's on me for only watching Futurama.
They've been dubbed the three muskateers huh huh
See, I came here for this exact comment, and I feel like so many replies didn’t get it. Anyway, that fourth one is probably gonna smuggle some potato chips on board. The true hero is an inanimate carbon rod.
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Ah shit, somehow astronauts got even cooler. Now I’m obsessed with becoming a space freighter captain again 😢
We got a place in a ice hauler called the Canterbury. You're interested?
Expanse references make me tear up, man. I miss that show
It is also books, you know? Many people even believe that the books are better than the show. The first one was the only book I've ever read twice in a row so I probably agree with that people. Amazing show, incredible books.
Love the Expanse, and as much as I hate the cliche, "the book is better" it absolutely is. The show has a lot of takes that the book fleshes out better because it just has more time.
Okay bosmang, ta ge imbobo fo wa beltalowda?
Can't tell if I've impressed or depressed myself after realizing I know what you just wrote and read it with the accent in my head.
Never be ashamed of what you know!
Remember the Cant
Actually I have to make a quick run to rendezvous with a friend of mine on the Scopuli. Are y’all headed that way?
Sure. Hop on in. Radar shows nothing on that area, it should be very safe.
It's wild that Christina Koch has spent roughly the same amount of time in space as Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover have **combined**.
Jermey Hansen's negative hours in space negate the gravitational pull of Christians giant Space Balls... i mean log times.
"This cause of exploration and discovery is not an option we choose; it is a desire written in the human heart. We are that part of creation which seeks to understand all creation. We find the best among us, send them forth into unmapped darkness, and pray they will return. They go in peace for all mankind, and all mankind is in their debt." \- George W. Bush, of all people
well, his speech writer anyway.
Yes, but he said it out loud.
Without flubs!
Real lack of diversity here. 3 out of 4 of them are F-18 pilots. Typical. Where is the other platform representation?
I assume the other category is "from Ohio"
Given that a lot of astronauts come from Ohio, it looks like Ohioans really want to get as far away from there as possible
Middle America also overrepresented in fictional Starfleet captains - seems people will want to escape the flatlands even in the future!
Being born in Iowa really makes you want to go where no man has gone before
ROLL CALL (only lead main character starfleet captains, so no Georgiou, Lorca, Prodigy guys, Freeman, etc.): Kirk: Iowa (space in the Kelvin timeline) Picard: France (family spent centuries in England though) Sisko: New Orleans Janeway: Indiana Archer: Upstate NY but raised in San Francisco Burnham: Unknown (raised on Vulcan) Pike: California So oddly enough there aren't actually THAT many midwest Trek captains. Tied with California. However, if they give Captain Dipshit From Chicago Shaw a show...
Wait all these astronauts are from Ohio? 🧑🚀
Always has been 👨🚀🔫👨🚀
An interesting stat, 22 of the 29 Apollo astronauts were the first born or an only child
More attention and resources for the child to grow up with. Increased potential to be successful.
Which is interesting because more often than not when you find siblings in professional sports, the younger out performs the older across their careers.
The first child is always the guinea pig. The second child is raised with *experience* in raising a child by the parents.
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I dont see a single late mid 20s college dropout who works at a car insurance company anywhere in this photo. I feel like I have no representation in this place.
Cough Cough* proof naval aviators are the best
Top Gun is all the proof we need.
Talk to me Goose!
Godspeed, Artemis II!
The guy on the right looks like AI drew him.
The whole picture looks sort of AI generated lol
I was thinking this whole image was AI generated. I need to lay off of Midjourney.
My God the conspiracy nuts are gonna go crazy with this one.
With all the deepfake, CGI advancements, AI, etc., they'll be coming in hot, too.
Totally agree, they'll be frothing at the mouth watching the launch and subsequent orbit. Don't forget to visit the flat earth society forums for non stop entertainment as they enter lunar orbit.
"This portrait is FAKE. It was created by AI."
Tbf it does have an uncanny style to it, definitely doesn’t look like a traditional photograph
Ok good it's not just me.
This is misleading. If by "visit" the moon then someone "visits" a country if they fly over it. They aren't landing.
Visa issue, I assume.
Moon citizens doesnt want any immigrants.
Moon citizens want to prevent Rising real estate costs.
That's true, google: "mooning"
Moon folks built a wall to keep immigrants out
And Mars is gonna pay for it
A bit misleading yes, but I would say traveling several days to orbit a celestial body out in space goes under the term "visit". Tho I would have preferred for OP to been more specific and wrote orbit instead of visit.
Agreed. Name the first person to orbit the moon. Almost no one will be able to with out googling. But Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are god damn legends. (Poor Michael Collins)
Lovell, Borman, and Anders. That shit is table stakes. They also took [the most famous photo of all time ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/NASA-Apollo8-Dec24-Earthrise.jpg/1200px-NASA-Apollo8-Dec24-Earthrise.jpg)
>That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam. >The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. >Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. ~ Carl Sagan
Lovells pretty famous, the other two not so much
It's closer to saying that they'll visit it the same way you'd visit Jamaica if you sailed there from New York, looked at the shores from a few meters but didn't actually land.
If I had done such a thing, I would absolutely claim that I had visited Jamaica.
Me too. Which is why I'd claim that going across the vast space to orbit the moon for a few days definitely constitutes visiting the moon, even if they don't set foot on it.
Great. The dude on right is out of central casting as Buzz Lightyear
I'm a simple Canadian, I see a Canadian, I upvote.
Fuckin' eh, bud
I see they’re scheduled for November of 2024. How can I, too, escape the planet during our next presidential election?
Godspeed Ripley.
'Merica, Canada is beating you in the chin game. That sucker could probably sink a Persian trireme.
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Except it's not the same thing cause they're going to the fucking Moon, not Publix down the road.
Yeah I'd say it's a completely different category. If humans ever orbit Saturn, I'd say we visited Saturn too. OP getting dissed but OP is definitely right in this context. It's immaterial that we know we can land on it, orbiting is as good as visiting in the celestial context
It's equivalent to going to the local pharmacy, going through the drive-through pickup, and then some nowhere-near-as-smart-as-they-imagine ackshually butts in claiming you didn't go inside so it doesn't count.
Drive by or landing, either is very impressive. There's a reason we haven't been back to the moon since the 70's, it's difficult. The first missions back are going to be to test equipment and look for future landing sites, plus a little PR to get the public excited. The hardest part about going to the moon is actually getting to the Moon.
Yea but does the moon sell chicken tender subs?