Mission mode change detected, now in Monument Mode Goodnight friends. After exchanging our final bits of data,
I will hold vigil on this spot in Mare Crisium to watch humanity's continued journey to the stars.
Here, I will outlast your mightiest rivers, your tallest mountains, and perhaps even your species as we know it.
But it is remarkable that a species might be outlasted by its own ingenuity.
Here lies Blue Ghost, a testament to the team who, with the loving support of their families and friends, built and operated this machine and its payloads,
to push the capabilities and knowledge of humanity one small step further.
Per aspera ad astra!
Love, Blue Ghost
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no you are actively crying over a dying robot on the moon i am doing just fine thanks
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This image was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, is a small fraction of the stellar nursery SH2-284.
This nebula is a cloud of dust and gas where many stars are forming. Dolidze 25 helps shape the nebula with wind and radiation, creating the complicated structures.
The radiation ionizes hydrogen gas, causing the nebula to glow.
The nebula has a very low metallicity, mimicking that of the early formation of the universe.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Andersen (European Southern Observatory - Germany); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
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Drawing I made 2 years ago, depicting the inside of the Rocketdyne factory while the Saturn V Apollo rocket's engines were being built.
Why did i draw this picture? More about the F-1 engines below!! They're a lost craft!!
The techniques used to built them have been lost with the engineers that have passed away in the 60 years since then, with nobody to pass them on. We have documentation, but not all the expertise. The engines required incredibly skilled welders, and practically everything was done by hand
this guy in blue isn't to scale! he's supposed to be the smallest person in the picture, with perspective (oops). The current SLS rocket powering the Artemis program uses surplus 1980s RS-25 engines meant for the Space Shuttle rockets, repurposed, modified, and stacked to give enough thrust.
The Rocketdyne F-1s made use of the labor of WW2 era engineers and welders, so absolutely no computerized manufacturing in sight
These guys are to scale. The colors used are my own artistic interpretation, and the drawing is based on a real photo from inside the factory :D I think they are still the most powerful rocket engines EVER built. They are absolutely enormous, and the Saturn V used five of them
Fran Blanche (incredible youtube channel about old technology) posted extensive videos about the Saturn V rockets and the F1 engines that allowed them to take off. Her work is amazing, her youtube channel is an absolute gold mine if you're interested in anything 1960s-1970s. Trans legend also
I can't find the original reference picture. But have this one for scale:
And here's a cool article that explains more about thz insane engineering of those engines, and why it's a marvel:
As we advance our technology ever forward, you would think that remaking a 50-year old design should be easy; however, things are not quite…
