Snipping neckties after a successful liftoff is a tradition, and Artemis 1 launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson was happy to continue it.
was a huge milestone for NASA. The agency's long-term crewed moon plans, and the infrastructure required to support it, have faced budgetary issues, production delays, restructuring and pushback from critics who view the nearly $40 billion dollars spent in development, and the SLS's estimated, to be too high a price for a rocket built around space shuttle-era technology.
Artemis mission manager Mike Sarafin also attended the briefing."Today, we got to witness the world's most powerful rocket take the Earth by its edges and shake the wicked out of it," he said."And it was quite a sight." The sight of SLS's two blindingly white solid rocket booster ignitions brought back memories for SLS program manager John Honeycutt, of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama.
"Well, for once, I might be speechless," Blackwell-Thompson, NASA's first female launch director, said to the whole of mission control."I want you to look around, look around at this team, and know that you have earned it. You have earned your place in this room. You've earned this moment. You have earned your place in history. You were part of a first."
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