What's The Big Deal About Artemis - NASA's New Massive Moon Rocket

I hope they will double-check their staging before launch! (That's a mistake I did too many times.)

im actually going to see Artemis 1 launch on the 29th, i really hope it doesnt get scrubbed.

It's great that something is finally happening. Fingers crossed all goes well.

I'm super excited for launch. Playing Kerbal Space Program in high school and learning from your videos 10+ years ago was a big part of what brought me to my current job working on the SLS! Thanks for all your amazing educational content.

Hopefully NASA has remembered to include some good cameras on the Orion capsule. Would be cool to see new and maybe HD footage of a moon fly-by. Any ideas how close to the moon they're going to pass?

I worked on Orion up until Constellation was closed down. Then we were on life support for a while then most of us were let go. I don't think it was ever over budget during the time I was there, and it was a very workable robust design. All it needed was a rocket :( I would feel safer on an Orion than any other past or current manned spacecraft. Lockheed-Martin had over a hundred million of its own dollars on the table and had put a lot of its own resources into the project. NASA burned up a lot of money using Constellation as an analysis factory for various pet projects. There was also a lot of support as far as parts qualification, etc. going from Constellation to SpacEx.

Very cool! I love learning unknown details such as, I had no idea that the launch abort rocket faces upward into the downward pointing nozzles.

"We're pretty sure its gonna work" Not only did it not work, the main issue was the parts that we flew for a couple of decades.

I still think it's a damn crime that they're going to dump those beautiful, historic engines into the drink--never to be seen again.

I'm really hoping NASA has a TON of HD footage to record/photograph on this mission.

If they don’t have 4k cameras on that capsule my disappointment will unmeasurable

I'm glad Artemis used leftover shuttle parts to... (checks notes) "save money."

"for those who haven't been paying attention for the last decade..." I like the wording you used there

I was lucky enough to work on the first two Orion capsules for several years, and I'll be heading down to Florida next week to watch it fly. I know it's a gamble if it will actually go or not, and I'm not a betting person, but if there's any time for luck to be on my side, this is it!

great conversation. Thanks for keeping the content coming.

Scott, thank you. I have been your fan and i have spent years on the core stage. We plugged the rs-25s, wired the CAPUs you mention and built this rocket. We are also fans of you. We understand SLS is sort of the beast in the corner. But many of the engineers and techs on sls love your content. Let me know if you have any questions 😎

I've worked on the SLS program my entire career. It's so cool to see you make such an awesome video about it. Thanks Scott!

Thanks for another great one, Scott. I’m 62 and watched the Apollo flights with tremendous excitement as a kid. Then we forgot the moon. Now I find myself trying hard to work up some excitement for missions that should have taken place when I was a teen. No criticism of the great aerospace workers who watch your channel. Our Govt let us down big time or took the space program into the black project world. But that’s s whole other video…

6:57 It goes even further back then that! During the shuttle program they were investigating if they could fly the shuttle with 5 segment boosters and they actually fired a 5 segment booster (ETM-03) on october 23 2003

Nice work. Very welcome to see we are going amazing tech work.