Put her on a launching pad down at Cape Canaveral

[sovay]

spatch and I sat on the couch and listened to the 2022 BBC Table Number Seven and then we watched the successful launch of Artemis 1 and it was a very nice evening in several decades, presence of radio cat included. The heterosexual text of Table Number Seven really makes much less sense than the alternative, no matter how necessary a dodge of the censors it may have been at the time. I was so afraid the launch would not go off. I loved how much it looked like a meteor burning the other way.

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[naraht]

I was so afraid the launch would not go off.

I felt this so strongly that I had trouble believing it had actually happened, even while watching it.

Wonderful that we're finally, finally making steps back to the Moon. I was thinking this morning that despite all the political, economic and social chaos of the present day, when people are looking back in 500 years, they'll remember climate change and spaceflight. Everything else will be incidental.

[selkie]

I think we don’t deserve the moon, but I’m glad we remembered we could get there.

I shall upload a book tonight if it kills me (it may kill me!) so this was a nice piece of postmodern domesticity. Thank you.

[minoanmiss]

Try not to die!

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, cat, radio, and successful space launch is not a bad way to spend an evening, I'd imagine. <3

[asakiyume]

I only heard that the launch had happened this morning, after the fact. Belated hurrays!

[troisoiseaux]

I didn't stay up to watch the launch, but I did get a giggle out of a relevant exchange on my group chat:

A: Alright who's staying up until 1 am to watch the moon launch?
B: Where is the moon going?

[starlady]

Randomly tuned into the livestream on Twitter at T minus 6:00 and of course I was a little teary by the time it actually went off. Back to the Moon, and beyond! Hard to believe it's really happening finally.

[minoanmiss]

Hooray for returning to the Moon!

The heterosexual text of Table Number Seven really makes much less sense than the alternative, no matter how necessary a dodge of the censors it may have been at the time.

bwee! I'm trying to remember the first work that ever made me think this.

[gwynnega]

Yay moon launch!

[dewline]

I am trying to not burn my own candle at both ends, and so missed watching the launch as it happened. I am still grateful that it's finally happened for multiple reasons.