Space stuff

We had more mosquitoes this year than any other year. We are a desert! The only thing we could think of were two reasons:
1) We did not get a freeze this spring which usually kills everything small, bugs and budding fruit trees.
2) Costs for things like, spraying the ditches and river edges with pestisides was cut and mosquitoes ran rampid.

We had mosquitoes until late November. Never in my life living here....

"AI and global warming are a clear and present threat to humanity as we know it".


(oh crap, this has nothing to do with 'space')
 
So far it looks like while they ran into the old friend of hydrogen leaks, the adjustments to the filling process they used to get Artemis I going seem to have worked and they were able to successfully fuel it. Looks like they lost about 2 hours in the countdown due to the troubleshooting, but they've continued with the subsequent steps in the countdown since topping off so I guess that means no show stoppers so far. At the moment the closeout crew is securing the rocket from the white room after a simulated crew entry.

They'll give a preliminary briefing on how it went tomorrow at noon.
 
Pumping cryogenic H2 is completely different. If the tank isn't cool enough, it flashes to gas, and that blows it back thru the turbopump. You can strip the blades if it's bad enough. They vent the tank while filling, until they get liquid. then it fills. Lot's to go wrong. Those clouds coming out are flammable as fuck.
 
Better march than blowing up on the pad. On the good side, they figured out they weren't launching soon.
 
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