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On 4/2/2026 5:22 AM, Martin Brown wrote:

> Still it *was* a very successful launch and they are on their way. Not 
> sure that going to the moon with a manned mission is really worth it 
> apart from the opportunity to rub the deniers noses in it when they 
> bring back a couple of artefacts from an earlier Apollo mission.
> 
> ISTR Hasselblad offered a reward for bring back one of their cameras 
> from the lunar surface back in the day. I wonder what condition they 
> will be in after 50 years of hard UV and micrometeorites?


Nothing will ever convince the conspiracy-fucked, fugedaboutit.

>> 'Integrity' is a terrible name for a ship but though the rocket will 
>> never look as sci-fi cool as the Shuttle it's not entirely 
>> unattractive, in kind of a chunky, orange sort of way.
> 
> It looked red rusty to me like it had been part dipped in seawater and 
> left to rust, but I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I guess the foam is just that color "naturally", they painted the 
Shuttle external tanks for the first few missions then stopped bothering 
in favor of saving a bit of weight. I read that the age of the oldest 
part on Artemis II is circa 1982.

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OT: Artemis II network TV coverage bitrex <user@example.net> - 2026-04-01 22:54 -0400
  Re: OT: Artemis II network TV coverage Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-04-02 00:36 -0700
  Re: OT: Artemis II network TV coverage Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> - 2026-04-02 10:22 +0100
    Re: OT: Artemis II network TV coverage Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-04-02 09:53 +0000
      Re: OT: Artemis II network TV coverage Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> - 2026-04-03 13:34 +0100
        Re: OT: Artemis II network TV coverage Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-04-03 17:11 +0000
          Re: OT: Artemis II network TV coverage Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> - 2026-04-04 17:13 +0100
    Re: OT: Artemis II network TV coverage bitrex <user@example.net> - 2026-04-02 16:10 -0400
  Re: OT: Artemis II network TV coverage john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-04-02 08:12 -0700
    Re: OT: Artemis II network TV coverage Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2026-04-02 16:17 +0000
      Re: OT: Artemis II network TV coverage Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-02 09:24 -0700
        Re: OT: Artemis II network TV coverage Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-04-02 18:05 +0000
    Re: OT: Artemis II network TV coverage Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-04-02 17:02 +0000
      Re: OT: Artemis II network TV coverage Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-02 11:26 -0700
        Re: OT: Artemis II network TV coverage Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-04-02 19:37 +0000
    Re: OT: Artemis II network TV coverage Buzz McCool <buzz_mccool@yahoo.com> - 2026-04-02 11:34 -0700
      Re: OT: Artemis II network TV coverage john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-04-02 12:13 -0700
        Re: OT: Artemis II network TV coverage Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2026-04-03 07:44 +0000
    Re: OT: Artemis II network TV coverage someone <cffbf4deb9142bce48974efc0e64dede@example.com> - 2026-04-03 16:45 +0000
  Re: OT: Artemis II network TV coverage john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-04-04 18:18 -0700
    Re: OT: Artemis II network TV coverage Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2026-04-05 07:40 +0000

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