The Artemis II Space Launch System and Orion stacked at KSC [credit: Lockheed Martin/NASA]. This is the first time in 53 years we have a crew-ready Moon rocket sitting the VAB!
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![The Artemis II Space Launch System and Orion stacked at KSC [credit: Lockheed Martin/NASA]. This is the first time in 53 years we have a crew-ready Moon rocket sitting the VAB!](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/u1tgu6z46ixf1-768x1024.jpg "The Artemis II Space Launch System and Orion stacked at KSC [credit: Lockheed Martin/NASA]. This is the first time in 53 years we have a crew-ready Moon rocket sitting the VAB!")
The Artemis II Space Launch System and Orion stacked at KSC [credit: Lockheed Martin/NASA]. This is the first time in 53 years we have a crew-ready Moon rocket sitting the VAB!
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If it’s ready to go now, we should launch now.
Feels like a breath of fresh air when a manned mission beyond LEO is actually locked and all but ready to launch.
Many space agencies are having high hopes for the next 10-15 years, but until we see the rockets stacked, it’s hard to believe they’ll actually come to fruition like most of the ambitions we had in the previous 5 decades. But hey you never know, maybe the new space race can lead to something this time around.
Would Artemis I not be considered an uncrewed crew-ready rocket? Didn’t it hold pressure the whole flight and run as if it had people inside?
The burnt orange donkey dong hasn’t screwed this over? I’m happy if it’s safe but man…I see it all falling apart and my faith…eh
Wait, is it actually going to launch? I thought it was canceled or postponed
Knowing humans are going into space, that astronauts will watch the moon through windows on the ship as they sail by just makes me feel… serene.
this thing is about as “moon ready” as a car on a dealership lot is ready to run the Indy 500. The Orion 1 was unmanned and orbited the moon, this capsule is Orion 2 and is manned yet has never even been launch tested to orbit and back with a crew. Lots of testing still to go, probably 2 years before a moon shot.
That’s an incredible looking building and it’s amazingto see how it’s put together! The fact that we’re going back to the moon is the cherry on top!
Took me a second to realise it was Kennedy Space Centre and not Kerbal.
Not going to the ISS is very excited even though I feel like we’ve backslid all the progress we made since Apollo
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
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|KSC|Kennedy Space Center, Florida|
|[LEO](/r/Space/comments/1ogsnmb/stub/nlkx5np “Last usage”)|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
| |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
|[SLS](/r/Space/comments/1ogsnmb/stub/nllkbrd “Last usage”)|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
|VAB|Vehicle Assembly Building|
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