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[–] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 7 points 6 hours ago

Yeah I kinda cringed on that "god bless america" speech before the launch. Isn't there 2 Canadians on board and a big part of the Orion was made/designed by ESA? All they got "and our partners around the world" in that speech.

I'm happy that "we" are going back there but this propaganda sillyness is disappointing. I know its always been a part of governments doing space projects, after all I think the only reason "we" are going back there is because the Chinese are going back there. The disappointing thing is that when I was a kid I really thought we would be over ourselves by now, but turns out that seems to be impossible and we are just going back to throwing rocks at each others. Plaaargh.

Anyway. Cool launch, that thing jumped off the pad as if someone kicked it in the nuts. Impressive stuff.