Inverse - 🚀 NASA sets new Artemis I launch date

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Oct 13 2022

Stop me if you've heard the "stop me if you've heard" jokes about the Artemis I mission before. Last year, NASA fans (and tired editors and reporters) waited and waited for the James Webb Space Telescope to launch. After multiple delays, it finally did on Christmas Morning 2021.

It feels like the Artemis I mission is the Webb Telescope of 2022 — only with a much better namesake. NASA's first step toward a return to the Moon has seen an almost equal number of stumbles to steps on its path to our own natural satellite, but maybe its third launch attempt on November 14 just after midnight will be the one that sticks.

What's New

MOONSHOT

Science

NASA sets yet another Artemis I Moon mission launch date

Artemis I has a launch date again — this time with a target of mid-November.

NASA announced on October 12 that its upcoming lunar mission is poised to launch on Monday, November 14 at 12:07 a.m. Eastern from NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. It will begin rolling out of the Vehicle Assembly Building, where it was stowed during Hurricane Ian, on November 4.

The launch would see the Artemis I mission finally fly after numerous false starts. The massive SLS rocket on which the hope of humanity returning to the Moon is pinned floundered through several “wet” dress rehearsals due to fuel leaks. Undeterred, NASA decided to proceed with launch attempts of the uncrewed mission, first on August 29 and then on September 3, but both were ultimately scrubbed.

Marvel

Movies

Why the Avengers: Secret Wars delay is actually a good thing

Ever since the pandemic changed everything we know about the movie business, delays have become more and more frequent. COVID-related delays have finally slowed down but, now that the precedent has been set, release date reshuffles prompted by all sorts of different reasons are common.

On Tuesday, Marvel announced that it was delaying several films, including Avengers: Secret Wars, which is slated to round out Phase 6 of the MCU. While waiting longer for a movie is never fun, this delay has a bright side.

Before the announcement, Avengers: Secret Wars was scheduled for November 7, 2025. Now it’s hitting theaters on May 1, 2026. Both dates feel a long way from 2022, but the initial release date was actually way too soon. Secret Wars is the second of two Avengers movies coming up; its partner film, Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, was unscathed in the reshuffle.

See the new schedule

Review

Gear

Google Pixel 7 Pro review: 6 features ranked from best to worst

The Pixel 7 Pro might look familiar.

Not just because Google announced its own phone months before release to get ahead of leaks. No, the Pixel 7 Pro is familiar because largely, it looks a lot like the Pixel 6 Pro.

Google’s new $899 flagship Android phone arrives in a year when the company isn’t so much trying to sell cutting-edge software or hardware, as it is an entire ecosystem of products including the Pixel Watch, Nest smart home devices, and Pixel Tablet (coming in 2023). Apple’s “walled garden” strategy is all about making its devices easier to use together and making the advantages inside the “garden” — like iMessage — too enticing (or hard) to leave behind. With this year's Pixel products, Google’s finally offering its far more benevolent take on the same idea.

This year’s Pixel smartphone upgrades aren’t as eye-catching as previous years, but they are quietly impressive. Whether you should upgrade from an existing Android phone or jump ship from an iPhone is entirely down to personal preference.

SLAM DUNK

Space

Earth’s first-ever asteroid defense mission worked, NASA confirms

It worked! NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully moved an asteroid, space agency officials confirmed on Tuesday, October 11. This is the first time humanity has knowingly changed the orbit of another planetary object and the first test of a system designed to protect our planet from a future extinction-causing asteroid impact.

“This is a very exciting and promising result for planetary defense,” Nancy Chabot, the DART coordination lead from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, told reporters at a press conference for Tuesday’s announcement.

NASA performed the DART test alongside APL and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to proactively find a solution to the potential for a future doomsday asteroid to threaten Earth. While no asteroids appear to be on a collision course with Earth, history tells us that these planet-wrecking rocks have emerged from space to annihilate most life on Earth in the past. It could, feasibly, happen again.

Interview

Gaming

20 years later, the director of the lost Kingdom Hearts TV show speaks out

On a dull January day, Seth Kearsley was T-boned while driving his 1973 Datsun 240z, fracturing most of his ribs, hips, and pelvis.

The director of Eight Crazy Nights, The Looney Tunes Show, and Trollstopia was pulling out of the parking lot of a recording studio when a brush with death changed his outlook on life. He didn’t want to have any regrets.

He says the accident prompted him to drop a Holy Grail of lost media onto YouTube: the unaired Kingdom Hearts pilot animatic created in 2003.

“Will I get in trouble for it? I don’t know,” Kearsley tells Inverse. “After my accident, I’m more than a little out of fucks to give. This was something I wanted to share with the fans so much it hurt.”

Read the full interview

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