NASA is targeting Sat. Jan 17 for the rollout of the Artemis II SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft for final integration, testing, and launch rehearsals.

The 4-mile journey to the launch pad at KSC using the crawler-transporter-2 will take ~12 hours. After system checks and tests, astronauts will conduct a final walkdown at the pad.

At the end of Jan, NASA will conduct a wet dress rehearsal, including fueling and unfueling of the rocket without astronauts onsite.

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Knock knock!

It is NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 arriving at the Vehicle Assembly Building at KSC for a pick-up!

Tomorrow morning Jan. 17, at ~7 a.m. EST. it will transport NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft + Mobile Launcher to Launch Pad 39B in preparation for the Artemis II crewed mission around the Moon on ~6 Feb.

At about one mph, the four-mile journey will take 10-12 hours.

Livestream starts at 7 a.m. at youtube.com/watch?v=nrVnsO_rde…

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A pair of crawler-transporters (nicknamed “Hans” and “Franz”) were built in 1965 to move the massive Saturn V rocket from Kennedy’s VAB to Launch Complex 39. After the Moon landing and Skylab programs ended, the crawlers were used to transport the space shuttles.

CT-2 was upgraded for the Artemis program around 2012.
CT-1 was originally planned for commercial launch vehicles but its future remains uncertain.

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Here are a few vital specs of the unique NASA crawler-transporter vehicles. No other vehicle comes close.

Each CT is larger than the size of a baseball infield and powered by locomotive and large electrical power generator engines.

The crawlers are designed to roll underneath the mobile launcher (ML) along with assembled rocket, pick it up, and steadily carry it 4.2 miles to Launch Pad 39B.

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The crawler-transporter is able to raise and lower its sides and corners independently using its hydraulic system. It uses its hydraulic suspension to keep the mobile platform and rocket level, as it climbs up the 2.9 degree slope to the the launch pad.

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More pics at images.nasa.gov/search?q=crawl…
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The NASA crawlers were built by the Marion Power Shovel Co., a manufacturer of steam shovels, power shovels and excavators. Their power shovels played a major role in mining, the construction of the Panama Canal and excavation of Hoover Dam and the Holland Tunnel.

The idea for a crawler-launcher platform started when a NASA engineer visited his father’s farm near Paradise, KY, and observed a giant strip mining shovel in operation.

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Here are a few videos of the NASA crawler-transporter in action in 2022 during the Artemis I mission.

youtube.com/watch?v=fhgPs0n3ph…
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Some amazing pics of NASA’s massive Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft, secured to the mobile launcher, inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at KSC, taken on Friday, Jan. 16, 2026.

All work platforms have been retracted in preparation for rollout to Launch Complex 39B at KSC in FL Saturday morning.

More pics at images.nasa.gov/search?q=artem…
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Assuming the weather cooperates and all goes well, the Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft atop the mobile launcher will look like this at Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in FL.

The pics below are of Artemis I in 2022 during wet rehearsals.

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THANK YOU. youtube.com/watch?v=hMUlp7T9ng…
Person: mental illness, trauma, abuse, neglect, etc.
Uncle Iroh, ffs: "That girl is crazy and needs to go down!"

Yes. Anyone, mentally ill / mistreated etc or not, can be dangerous to themself and others around them.
Literally anyone.

11:20 Except no, Ozai is another parent. He's more entrenched and beholden to this toxic culture, arguably, than Ursa. He still doesn't get to be absolved from being a bad father.
They can get a damn nanny, bring Iroh back, or just spend 2 seconds thinking about how to stop demanding carework from mothers as a matter of course.

I could see the flawed logic in "Azula is well-suited to this crappy environment, so I don't need to worry about her as much".
*Still* doesn't excuse treating her like a non-person.

Uncle Iroh to Zuko: "You alone can cleanse the sins of our family". A totally normal thing to say to a minor.

No one is 'bad'. Everyone is shaped by their situation and has incomplete influence over their situation.
Even if someone were completely 'bad', does that make them not human? Are their rights to be a person revoked?
If someone can feel any kind of pain, or have the same needs (food, water, organ maintenance in sleep, etc), then people in that world share stakes with that person.

People always need to cooperate, compromise, share, and make decisions. If nothing else, communication can always start from mutually understood context.
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44:00 "But with Mei, how can it be about fear as a form of control?"
Because she can connect the dots about what Azula has done and may consider?

55:19 "You're definitely gonna die if you don't, so you might as well follow my orders" might also apply to her in the Fire Nation's patriarchal exploitative system of power.

56:00 yes, finally, we get into the rampant sexism.

1:03:30 omg yes. I wish I could figure out the most effective phrasing in a given moment. Feels like she understands people around her in order to guess how to best survive.

1:07:00 yup. If she had a set worldview, she'd have yet one more thing to be targeted. I think the InfoSec phrase is 'attack surface' or something. 1:08:00 you can use people's misconception of you against them.

1:13:00 nope. "This person could be useful to us" is a terrible reason to help someone. Help them because they are a person who exists, not because you see benefit for yourself.

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1:24:40 YES! She's had shit in her life and impossible expectations, but she's still put in the work to solidify her skills. Omg yes, the solid creativity and adaptability. She's always had to be "better than [literally everything, including herself" so she has much less in common with other people who haven't.
Even within restrictive situations, you always have minor choices. Start with the tiny decisions and work up to bigger changes!

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"If you make me realise my mental model of the world was even SLIGHTLY inaccurate, then I will hurt you."

It feels like they don't like examples of people making positive changes. Or it feels like a responsibility to choose (within personal abilities in situation), therefore they feel the knowledge as criticism.

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how do we trick capitalists into getting therapy?

To show vulnerability to someone else is to communicate a lack of will to fight, or a sense of trust that they won't fight.
That starts a shared situation where you're coexisting. You then both have a motive to sustain this lower energy state.

You're not trusting a given person, exactly, but the idea that this event will not hurt you unduly.