To follow the mission: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/

gzt: 10 day mission - day by day overview

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/missions/artemis-2-breakdown-what-to-expect-from-each-day-of-nasas-historic-moon-mission

freitasm: To follow the mission: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/

For context, I've been watching youtube "apollo11space" channel, that delves into the engineering accomplishments and design of the apollo rocket stack.

How the scientists and engineers discovered and mitigated a myriad of issues

Guidance, F1 engines, lander, escape tower, platform,  etc.

Much would be relevant with today's launch 

gzt:

Batman: i don't understand why they could put humans on the moon when my grandfather was my age, but today it's a milestone to get humans flying near the moon?

It's a milestone because this is just one step of a longer program Also, the mission you refer to to was Apollo 11. There were obviously several Apollo missions before number eleven.

In the Apollo days they accepted or took risks . 
Now they cannot. 

Anyone sign up for the "Artemis Ticket" thing to have your name fly on this mission via a Mirco SD card I think. I'll admit I bought into it and signed up.

Hope we see some decent up-close HD video as they swing by.

Good job today though, did somewhat expect they'd still be trying to launch this thing in six month's time.

johno1234: In the Apollo days they accepted or took risks .Now they cannot.

Personally I thinks it's more a combination of less national urgency - SLS was not, literally, a moonshot - and also that this time they spread the work around way too many places in the name of political pork barrelling. It was always spread around, but I get the feeling that this time it was much worse.

The manned missions stopped because it was a huge outlay in money giving ever less returns in new discoveries.
There was less to excite public to open wallets to sustain, and would have slowed other programs

The space station giving far better long-term access to space for more people to learn and do more.
The LEO orbit giving fast turnaround, a better result for humans for longer stays from lower radiation etc. 

Looking forward to seeing high quality photos and videos of earth and moon

Hmph reading each days programme just realised they are only flying by the moon, not landing on it. What a disappointment.

As others have said it’s hard to comprehend how they actually managed to land on the moon without any of today’s tech. Think, radios were AM transistors, people used typewriters, photos were taken with rolls of film and taken to the Kodak shop to get processed a week later. Recording was on tape machines. Telephones were screwed to the wall or big clunky Bakelite things. No internet! That’s a biggie. Really, how did they manage it?

gzt: First time humans have earth left orbit since 1972

Well, sort of

The Orion command module and its support module were in an elliptical orbit with perigee of a few hundred km and apogee of several thousand km, and a 24-hour period.
AIUI, their TLI burn merely stretched the apogee of their orbit out past the Moon's orbit so they will swing around the Moon and return to Earth. So, technically they're still in Earth orbit -  a very elongated one, admittedly - and while they're hanging around at apogee, the Moon will 'just happen' to swing on past below them.
😂😂😂

really curious what the flat earth tube are saying about these pics. they have great imagination of invention those people.