NASA Just Released a Fireplace Video For The Holidays, And It’s Hilarious

The New York Times

There’s a new contender for your holiday fireplace video.
This one comes from NASA, and features rocket engines and boosters to light up your days with Space Launch System holiday cheer.
Instead, we can gaze contentedly as the Space Launch System’s four RS-25 engines and pair of boosters light up our video hearths.
The holiday video is a somewhat sanitized version of the real launch.
Traditionalists might scoff at this updated holiday fireplace video, and tradition is fine.

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Your holiday fireplace video has a new contender.

With its rocket engines and boosters, this NASA product will brighten your days with holiday cheer from the Space Launch System.

Bid farewell to the flickering logs in old Christmastime fireplace videos. We will miss the excitement of watching the fire burn to embers and watching the next log go into the fireplace.

As an alternative, we can watch with satisfaction as the Space Launch System’s two boosters and four RS-25 engines illuminate our video fireplaces.

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Savor the soothing, flickering glow created by the combustion of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. As their ammonium perchlorate oxidizer and aluminum powder, which are joined by polybutadiene acrylonitrile, burn, you can enjoy the intense white-hot fumes from the solid boosters.

This 8-hour looping video was produced by NASA from the Artemis 1 launch to the Moon in November 2022. A somewhat sanitized version of the actual launch can be seen in the holiday video. The actual launch was a roaring, booming show with a thorax-vibrating sound and a tall whirlpool of light. Here’s the actual launch.

This updated holiday fireplace video is sure to make traditionalists laugh, and tradition is okay.

While enjoying some turkey and eggnog, why not ponder the frontiers of humanity and our return to the moon? Progress is also good.

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