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Artemis 2 crew have made it to lunar flyby https://www.youtube.com/live/z-j1uxBmis0
ABC has a live blog too
Celebrating the fact all their communications with earth for this flyby are through the Canberra Deep Space network antennae.
We are so good at space science and astronomy in Aus :-)
The moon and the earth in the same video frame, holy shit, my hair is standing on end
I could see your mum in frame too! They had to factor in her immense gravitational pull to the trajectory calcs x
Yes I think. Maybe. Not sure. Potatoes.
Your mum’s gravitational pull is responsible for redshift /s