imo, this is a key event for NASA.

Ummmmm not a hard call to make considering it's the second SLS launch (after much delay) and the first manned mission to leave LEO and go to the moon in what, 54 years?

Add to it they're live streaming the entire thing, so a less than successful launch is, at best, egg all over their face with a launch day scrub or, at worst, a catastrophic failure Challenger-level tragedy on even greater display.

All this with s*&^head, anti-science Republicans who would love nothing better than to cut NASA funding watching who would jump at the opportunity and have their fat, worthless faces before the cameras before the debris even hit the water.

ery poor journalism.

#2 | Posted by sentinel

That's science "journalism" in general. It's been that way for about 20 years.

The picture from 1500 miles behind the moon with the earth in view will be awe inspiring.

If they fail to show Earth Rise live they'll never live it down.

My son was sitting on my lap watching the launch with our TV volume turned up so loud the windowpanes were rattling.

He's been super in to rockets and space and the space shuttle lately, so he was in complete awe of the launch.

Was a proud might-have-shed-a-tear-or-two STEM Dad moment to see him so engrossed in something like this over the garbage most kids in his class are in to.