I had no idea they were just about to launch a bunch of astronauts to circle the Moon today. Did any of you?
(nypost.com)https://nypost.com/2026/01/30/us-news/nasa-stalls-artemis-ii-moon-launch-due-to-rare-arctic-florida-outbreak/I mean I would have thought this was kind of bigger news. It's certainly going to devastate all the people who say we could not have gone to the Moon because people couldn't have flown through the radiation belts.
Secondarily I think it's very hysterical that for those who don't know this whole rocket which is cost billions of dollars and is of course budgeted busted its budget 10 times over is built from pieces of the old space shuttle design with the solid rocket boosters that failed during the cold weather launch so many years ago being the exact same type of solid rocket boosters attached to this rocket which is now been canceled for launch today because get this it's too cold.
Anyway that's sort of a secondary stupid engineering decision criticism which many people made in the very beginning when this rocket design was chosen and has now proven once again just how dangerous this rocket design is.
Nonetheless my main point is that it's kind of amazing to me that they're about to launch a bunch of people to go around the Moon for the first time since the 1960s and 70s and quite frankly I haven't heard anything about it.
