fun fact: there is an area on the Moon called the Sea of Moscow that was discovered by (who would’ve guessed) Russia in the 1960s

however, the rules for naming places on the Moon said that you couldn’t name them after anything political, and the city of Moscow fell under that category

but the soviet union was determined
so they argued that the city of Moscow was “a state of mind” and so not political

and it WORKED

your daily reminder that the United States Space Force has a classified “fleet” of space planes very similar to the Space Shuttle but with no crew and they only do military stuff

they’re called X-37s and every once and a while one will launch, stay in orbit for a few months, and come back down
what they do up there is classified
we have no idea what is on board


(it’s probably just spy satellites and stuff but i like to tell people this because as much as people like to joke about the Space Force, it’s a serious organization that actually does stuff)

so i’m sure you guys know boeing at this point
the airplane company that keeps having doors fall off their planes and other wacky events

well a lot of people don’t know that Boeing is also a space company and has launched things into space

and now they’re working on the first crewed flight test of Boeing Starliner, which is a new vehicle meant to take people to the International Space Station

let’s go over a brief history of Boeing Starliner because it is the worst crewed spacecraft since Apollo 13

the first flight test of Starliner occurred in 2019, it didn’t have people on it and was just trying to get to the ISS
It was almost ready to approach the ISS and then MISSED

the second test, also with nobody on it, went fine a few years later
keep in mind that Boeing wanted people on Starliner in 2018. It’s now 2024 and a crewed flight test is just now about to happen

istg if Boeing kills a bunch of astronauts I think that’ll just be the end of the company
the first company to kill someone in space
let’s hope that doesn’t happen

hey look outside your car is on fire! ha ha april foul

time to perform ritualistic sacrifices to Artemis, Selene, Chang’e, Chandra, and whatever other moon gods i can think of for the successful landing of the VIPER rover sometime this year
dear god this thing needs to succeed
we aren’t sending humans back to the moon without it

no time to explain

the tin can (starship, the most powerful rocket ever built that will eventually send humans back to the Moon and to Mars) hopped (launched successfully, reached orbit for the first time, we are so back, humans will be back on the moon before the end of the deacde)

here's something interesting I found
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtdcdxvNI1o
an interview with Neil Armstrong about what being on the Moon was actually like (what the sky was like, could they see stars, what did the surface look like, etc)
interesting stuff

published a new video about space colonization
Colonizing Space to Save Earth
youtu.be/P_nP6W9lsJM

The Artemis Program

These are the rockets that will be sending humans back to the Moon for the first time since Apollo 17: Space Launch System and Starship.

lots of news about china’s plans to put people on the moon today

1. their Chang’e 8 mission (launching 2028) plans to use lunar material to build bricks in preparation to build a larger base on the moon

2. China’s spacecrafts they’re planning to use to send people to the Moon now have names, Mengzhou (the thing they will use to go to the moon) and Lanyue (the lander)

things are happening
dont be surprised if china sends people to the moon before 2030
my guess is 2029 or 2030 for chinese crewed moon landings
things are about to get fun

GUYS WE DID IT

IM-1 IS ON THE MOON
THE FIRST AMERICAN MOON LANDING IN 52 YEARS
THE FIRST LANDING OF THE ARTEMIS PROGRAM (which will eventually put humans back on the moon AND create a permanent base there)

WE ARE SO BACK