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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.