There are cheaper ways for huge explosions, which would be short-lived regardless. I’d rather see a successful long lasting mission. A shame to see the launch scrubbed, but if anything is wrong, it is the right call to make.
News Update
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Huh… If you showed me the image without context, I would have guessed that it was painted…
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One step at a time, my dear Pixy. 
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Bu-but… where are all the stars?? 
It’s funny to think that compared to the cold of interplanetary space, Neptune is hot. And compared to the cold of interstellar space, our solar system environ is warm. And compared to intergalactic space, the Milky Way is warm. And compared to intercluster deep space, the galactic neighborhood is still a scouche warm. The Webb sure has a nifty Polaroid.
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And now we have a hurricane approaching so no Artemis launches
Watch this instead
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NASA’s DART Spacecraft on Approach to Asteroid Dimorphos
Tonight!
5:30 p.m. EDT (21:30 UTC): Live feed from the DART spacecraft as it approaches asteroid Didymos
6 p.m. EDT (22:00 UTC): Live broadcast coverage of the DART mission as the spacecraft attempts to deflect an asteroid from its path (impact targeted for 7:14 p.m. EDT)
8 p.m. EDT (24:00 UTC): NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) post-impact press briefing
Update:
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https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-juno-shares-first-image-from-flyby-of-jupiter-s-moon-europa
Is the image the not-very-high-resolution panorama with the long snow scooter tracks? I expected more water clouds or water fountains breaking through for some reason.
Come on, somebody just poke a hole in it and throw a gopro in, and live stream on Twitch, I want to see what’s in that ocean!
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SpaceX Crew Dragon 5 mission to the ISS
Targeted to launch on Wednesday, October 5th at 4pm UTC with the following crew:
Nicole Aunapu Mann (NASA), Josh A. Cassada (NASA), Koichi Wakata (JAXA), and Anna Kikina (Roscosmos)
Update: 30 minutes before launch !!!
So far all has been successful with the crew on their way to the ISS. Expected to arrive in about 29 hours.
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Also interesting to see Hubble in the news again…
NASA, SpaceX to Study Hubble Telescope Reboost Possibility
NASA and SpaceX signed an unfunded Space Act Agreement Thursday, Sept. 22, to study the feasibility of a SpaceX and Polaris Program idea to boost the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope into a higher orbit with the Dragon spacecraft, at no cost to the government.
Source: NASA 
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Well this is impossible to unsee
NPR: NASA caught the sun smiling down on us, but the grin could signal a solar storm.
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A Rocket Lab Electron rocket will launch the “Catch Me If You Can” mission on Friday, November 4, 2022 at 5:27 PM (UTC). The attempted catching is going to be done by a helicopter.
Update
Although the primary mission has been successful, the catch was not.
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For real this time???
NASA continues to target launch of its Artemis I mission from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:04 a.m. EST, Wednesday, Nov. 16. There is a two-hour launch window for the agency’s first integrated flight test of its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft.
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Source:NASA Blog
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So, they actually got her on her way… By doing what every firework technician tells you to never, ever do… 
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