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NASA delays Artemis moonshot with astronauts due to extreme cold in Florida

6 points by ck2

by floxy

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Today's story, from NASA:
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/01/30/nasa-updates-...
General Artemis II blog:
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/artemis/

by 1970-01-01

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40 years and two days since Challenger's cold launch. NASA made the right call this time.

by ck2

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I distinctly remember the horrors of "go at throttle up"
was due to extreme cold making the O-Rings fail
so I hope they have learned to be paranoid despite Sean Duffy
They must have replayed this thousands of times in 1986, etched to many minds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disas...