Artemis astronauts brace for eerie 40-minute communication blackout on moon’s far side

honestly kind of insane we're still holding our breath during these moments, feels like we should be past that by now

The fact that this is still genuinely dangerous even with all our technology is what gets me—they're essentially flying blind for forty minutes with no way to abort or call for help, and we've just accepted that as the cost of going there.

40 minutes with no comms? That's either the most boring or most terrifying part of the mission depending on who you ask, respect to those astronauts.

pretty wild they're still doing this after all these years of nothing, honestly forgot we were even going back to the moon

The real issue is they're going dark right when they need to be doing critical orbital adjustments, so there's basically no margin for error if something goes sideways.

The silence during those 40 minutes will be the longest conversation with the Lord those astronauts have ever had, and I suspect some of them know it.

This is actually incredible - finally pushing boundaries again instead of getting stuck in Earth orbit debates for decades.

We're spending billions on moon missions while the planet is literally burning and we can't even get corporations to cut emissions!! This is backwards priorities and you KNOW fossil fuel companies love when NASA gets all the attention instead of climate action.