Artimis Program

[Icarus]

Launch scrubbed today.  Problem with one of the engines.  Rescheduled for this coming Friday.  They have to get this thing right because it cost an unimaginable sum of dollars. We have only one chance to get it right the first time.  The Artemis is a beast, it is more than 300 feet tall, longer than an American football field. I do not know the gross weight but it must be a big number.

Among the less crucial disappointments was that there were tens of thousands of would be close up spectators who had traveled to the Cape..  Nearby hotels and other accommodations had been sold out for months. Now all those disappointed spectators will have to rethink their high adventure.

Here is hoping that the launch goes of well this coming Friday.   

[Tank]

I was watching the program and one point of interest is that the main booster uses old refurbished shuttle engines. If it works don't fix it!

[Ecurb Noselrub]

It is called Artemis because she (Artemis/Diana) was considered a goddess of the moon. 

[Asmodean]

God of the Moon, you say.

What is the Moon, The Asmo asks?

Well, it is round. Also, kinda gray. Somewhat lumpy. Potentially made of clay (of sorts)

This... Might mean something

[Ecurb Noselrub]

Certainly it means something. It may provide you with a place from which you can launch a devastating attack on Luxembourg.

[Asmodean]

Precisely.

The Moon has, in fact, been working for The Asmo the whole time.

[billy rubin]

waxing now

third day past new

[Asmodean]

Yes, getting all old and soggy. The Asmo shall have to see to procuring a new one eventually.

Every. Bloody. Month! 

[Recusant]

  I'm with you in preferring the waxing crescent🌛 but the waning crescent has its charms as well.