NASA’s Artemis 2 mission has finally launched and TV star Jeremy Clarkson has shared a string of hilarious posts about the first Moon mission in more than five decades
Jeremy Clarkson fans have been left in stitches after the TV personality shared a string of hilarious posts about NASA’s Artemis 2 mission last night.
NASA’s Artemis 2 mission has finally launched marking humanity’s first lunar voyage in 53 years. NASA reported an issue with the flight termination system but clarified just over an hour before the launch that it has been resolved. The four astronauts are inside the Orion capsule on humanity’s first Moon mission in more than five decades.
The Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft will carry the four astronauts from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, into deep space. The crew includes NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen.
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The Clarkson’s Farm star took to Instagram to share two hilarious posts about the launch. Captioning the first post “Thought we’d seen the rocket launch. Now think it may be Venus.” One fan commented: “Or your camera has a hot dead pixel.” Another wrote: “It’s Santa checking everyone’s behaving.” A third wrote: “Just here for the Uranus jokes.”
Minutes later he posted again with the caption: “We’ve seen another rocket” as fans commented: “Jeremy do you have your glasses on??” another wrote: “Are you drunk Clarkson?”
The four astronauts will circle the Earth for about 25 hours before catapulting toward the moon. The Artemis mission will end with a splashdown homecoming into the Pacific. Navy recovery ships will be stationed off the coast of San Diego as Orion parachutes into the ocean.
Ahead of the Artemis 2 launch, Donald Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social: “We are WINNING, in Space, on Earth, and everywhere in between — Economically, Militarily, and now, BEYOND THE STARS. Nobody comes close!” He added: “God bless our incredible Astronauts, God bless NASA, and God bless the Greatest Nation ever to exist, the United States of America!”
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