Artemis III is not a social experiment but a high-risk, high-precision test mission meant to push hardware, procedures, and human performance to their limits. The priority is not optics; it is execution.
To this eye, the qualifications of this team seemed…outstanding, especially as this mission will be validating docking and crew transfer with newly developed commercial lunar landers.
- Commander Randy “Komrade” Bresnik: Former Marine fighter pilot and TOPGUN graduate; spent 149 days in space across a 2009 shuttle mission and a 2017 ISS expedition.
- Pilot Luca Parmitano: European Space Agency astronaut; Italian Air Force test pilot and first Italian commander of the ISS.
- Mission Specialist Douglas: Test engineer and Coast Guard Reserve commander; Artemis III will be his first spaceflight after serving as backup crew on Artemis II.
- Mission Specialist Frank Rubio: Army Black Hawk pilot and family physician; set a U.S. record with 371 consecutive days aboard the ISS (2022–2023).
Source: Watts Up With That?
Press releases
- Secretary Brooke Rollins Shepherds Another Anti-ESG Reform for USDA
- RIP Margaret Hamilton: The Software Engineer who Saved the First Moon Landing by Implementing Error Handling
- The refinery war and the vulnerability of modern society
- Dr. Judith Curry: ‘Michael Mann and the rest of that gang can go suck eggs’
- LIVE at 1PM ET – Suncor v. Boulder: Biggest Climate Case Ever — The Climate Realism Show #220
Alarmism Archives
- US September “Heat” Was No Record…Many Records Set Decades Ago
- Fiji Pre COP31 Climate Conference Panic: “is anyone listening?”
- Tom Cruise to Play an Oil Executive in a New Global Warming Movie
- New York’s Climate Circus: Same Clowns, Emptier Promises
- Doom Never Goes Out of Fashion: The Problem With PIK’s “Planetary Health Check”
Sea level Archives
- Throwing the baby out and keeping the bathwater, at NOAA
- New Study: The Antarctic Ice Sheet Gained Mass From 2020-2024 Due To Staggering Snow And Ice Accumulation
- New Study: Antarctic Ice Melt Has Contributed Less Than 1 Centimeter To Sea Level Rise In The Last 30 Years
- Technical Note on the Possible Variation in Sea Level Rise “Accelerations” over the Next 5 Years
- Pacific Climate Games
