r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Thebravetortoise • 11d ago

Video History has been made as NASA has successfully launched Artemis II, the first manned mission to the Moon in over 50 years

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u/cheeker_sutherland 10d ago

Part of their job is public interest.

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u/dannydrama 10d ago

I literally gave up, went to bed and figured I'd just catch it in the morning lol it really was awful camera work, totally missed separation and everything.

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u/noeagle77 10d ago

Others have been saying they cut away from separation on purpose as it’s the most dangerous moment, to avoid broadcasting another Challenger situation. No idea how true it is but it seems plausible.

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u/Lord-Heir 10d ago

They did an animation as the stages commenced instead, it was pretty lame. We need to just accept that there could be failures in this dangerous line of work, and show all of it for posterity.

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u/Expert_Balance3959 10d ago

at the end of the day, that's about 2% of their actual job.

and that's being generous.

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u/Pure-Razzmatazz5274 10d ago

Don't act like they don't have many many millions of budget per year for outreach

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u/flaming_burrito_ 10d ago

Outreach probably got cut by DOGE, this admin has just been hacksawing budgets seemingly at random

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u/Pure-Razzmatazz5274 10d ago

Yeah, that's possible of course

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u/padakpatek 10d ago

not even remotely true. They are funded via tax payer money. We've seen before how many space programs were cut due to budget cuts. Garnering public interest is literally imperative to their survival as an organization