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The Artemis-2 mission is a test mission of the Orion Space Capsule.

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will be the first time we put humans on this rocket.

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We're going back to the moon because it's the next step in our journey to Mars.

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We were always going to the moon.

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Pushing ourselves to explore is just a core to who we are. That's a part of being a human.

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being a human.

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We shall return.

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Continuing to test out every bit of Orion.

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Coming back to Earth seven miles, seven miles.

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Humanity sets big goals.

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We can bring together genius from around the world.

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You have the best people on planet Earth putting this vehicle together.

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To innovate for the benefit of humanity and to inspire the world to discover it.

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Welcome to Artemis Mission Control here at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

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I'm Leah Cheshire-Mustachio.

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Right now, the Artemis-2 crew and Mission Control are preparing to support today's

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lunar flyby the first time we've sent humans around the moon in over 50 years.

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In integrity, you can use the OEs and your HHP camera for the milestone words at the Apollo 13 record distance.

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You'll notice that we pause every time we hear communications to and from the crew. They are the stars for today.

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This afternoon, the crew will have their closest approach of the moon and will surpass the record.

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That record just mentioned of the furthest humans have ever flown, set by the Apollo 13 astronauts in 1970.

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You're looking at a live view inside the Orion spacecraft and at our Artemis II crew members.

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They have just completed their post-sleep period during which they conduct any hygiene

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and cabin setup for the day.

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They also had a chance to eat breakfast before we got into our daily planning conference.

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The flight control team here in Mission Control Houston collecting information from

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all consoles around the room that we could relay up to the crew ahead of this monumental day.

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As you can see on your right NASA astronaut Christina Cook taking a video of NASA astronaut

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Victor Glover. We expect to have great views of the crew throughout the day as well as of course

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the Moon.

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We expect to surpass that Apollo distance record in 55 minutes and 50 seconds.

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We are now looking live at a camera mounted on one of the spacecraft's solar arrays,

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pointed to our lunar neighbor.

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We are currently just 14,200 miles away from the moon and 247,672 miles away from planet

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Earth.

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Houston integrity for AGA.

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Houston Integrity for AGA.

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Ready to copy.

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Carbon dioxide 2.3, oxygen which has the alarm 26.3, 73.1 degrees, 10.3 PSI, and one follow

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on question, we understand mouse gen words will be directly following the conference.

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Will that take the place of the PAO event or will the PAO event still take place per

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the timeline?

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Good question, Christina, the milestone words that we exchange at the record distance at

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the end of the conference will take the place of the PAO Timeline Activity, so that will

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be our moment to talk about this occasion, and after that there will be no more expected

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PAO words and you can get straight into your fly by copy all AGA.

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Okay, thank you.

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And final clarification, even though it's taken the place of it, it will all just be on OE 1 with HHP camera.

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No additional video.

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Is that right?

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Affirm.

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Okay. Thank you. Yep, so most had already heard that. Sorry about that. The second question.

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We appreciate it. Talk to you soon. No problem.

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Those communications between NASA astronaut Christina Cook

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and Canadian Space Agency astronaut

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and today's CAPCOM or capsule communicator,

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the one person here speaking with the crew right now.

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That is Jenny Gibbons.

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She is an Artemis II backup crew member here

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in Mission Control Houston.

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We are now four days, 18 hours and 30 minutes

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into the flight of Orion for Artemis II.

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The Artemis II crew inside Orion lifted off atop the space launch system rocket

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on Wednesday, April 1st from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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Those four crew members are the first to live and work inside the Orion spacecraft,

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which they have named integrity and have been busy conducting meticulously time-lined events.

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It was a beautiful asset from Kennedy Space Center.

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One of those early events was the Proximity Operations

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Demonstration, during which NASA astronaut Victor Glover,

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the Artemis II pilot, manually flew Orion after having just

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detached from the interim cryogen propulsion stage

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as if they intended to dock.

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This was practiced for future Artemis missions,

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during which astronauts in Orion will dock

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with the lunar lander that will take them

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to the surface of the moon.

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About 24 hours after launch, 25 hours actually,

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Orion then conducted TLI, the Translunar Injection Burn.

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This 5-minute 50-second burn committed Orion to departing high Earth orbit and set us up

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for today's flyby.

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That Translunar Injection Burn also served as the spacecraft's deorbit burn.

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It slingshots Orion around the Moon and sends the crew on a free return trajectory

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with splashdown approximately 7.07 p.m. central on Friday, April 10.

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Last night on Flight Day 5, the crew entered the lunar sphere of influence, the point

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at which the pull of the moon's gravity will become stronger than the pull of Earth's.

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We've also been getting some great views inside the cabin

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of the crew members living daily life, from working out to eating, taking photos

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and making memories together.

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They've also been taking some beautiful views of our home planet and of the moon.

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And we expect many, many more of those following today's activities.

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These live views back inside the cabin of Orion, but before we get into fly by, let's

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take a minute to get reacquainted with our crew.

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Reed Wiseman is the Artemis II commander and a Baltimore native.

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He's been in space once before.

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I think there were going to be some families heading into the viewing room today.

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If they and the showroom could use us to give us heads up when they're there so

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we can just wait for them on the camper.

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Absolutely.

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And that was the voice of Reid Wiseman.

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He has been in space once before as a flight engineer.

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If they don't, you can just fly to us and tell us over there.

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That'd be great.

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Thank you.

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We'll keep that in mind too.

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And he'll be here.

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Wiseman also has a great sense of humor.

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He was aboard the International Space Station from May

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through November 2014 as part of Expedition 41.

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This was a 165-day mission during which he

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and his crewmates completed more than 300 science experiments

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in areas like human physiology, medicine, science,

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earth science, and astrophysics.

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They set a milestone for station science

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by completing a record 82 research hours in a single week.

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He also served as Chief of NASA's Astronaut Office

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from December 2020 to November 2022,

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and here on earth he has two daughters.

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The Artemis II pilot is Victor Glover,

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selected as an astronaut in 2013,

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when at the time he was serving as a legislative fellow

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in the United States Senate.

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His first trip to space was in November 2020

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when he launched as a pilot

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of NASA's SpaceX Crew 1 mission.

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That was the first operational mission

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of NASA's commercial crew program

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which resumed launching American rockets from American soil

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to the International Space Station since the end

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of the shuttle program.

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Victor is a U.S. Navy captain and naval aviator

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who served as a test pilot, racking up more

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than 3,500 flight hours in more than 40 different aircraft.

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He also became the first person to pilot Orion the other day

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when we saw the crux ops demonstration shortly after launch.

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He and his wife have four children.

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Mission specialist Christina Cook is a native

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of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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She was selected to the astronaut corps in 2013,

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the same class as Victor Glover.

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She served as flight engineer on the International Space Station

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from March 2019 to February 2020.

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During that time, Cook set a record

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for the longest single spaceflight by a woman

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with a total of 328 consecutive days in space.

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She also participated in the first ever

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all-female spacewalk with her friend and colleague,

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Jessica Meir, now living and working aboard

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the International Space Station yet again.

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Before becoming an astronaut,

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Christina helped build space science instruments

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and led scientific field work

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in some of the most remote environments on the planet.

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Her hobbies include surfing, rock climbing, community service,

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yoga, travel, and photography.

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And she is certainly getting a chance to do that.

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First time flyer, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy

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Hansen is flying to the moon as a mission specialist

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on the Artemis II mission.

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The London Ontario native was selected as an astronaut

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in 2009.

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After that, he worked as Capcom at NASA's Mission

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Control Center here in Houston.

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Capcom stands for capsule communicator

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and is the single direct voice communicating

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with the astronauts in space.

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He also participated in training exercises,

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like living on the ocean floor off the coast of Florida

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to simulate deep space exploration for seven days.

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In 2017, he became the first Canadian

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to lead a NASA astronaut class.

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And he also enjoys getting out on a sailboat,

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rock climbing, and mountain biking.

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And he and his wife have three children.

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As you can see, the crew members have dimmed the cabin lights inside Orion.

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As they prepare for their lunar flyby, they'll be configuring the cabin as they'd like to have it

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have it to allow for proper positioning as they move about to and from the windows taking

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photos of the moon.

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Dimming the lights also helps prevent reflections from inside Orion onto the windows.

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Ahead of this lunar flyby, let's dive in and explain what you can expect over the

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next several hours.

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The crew has about six hours allotted to make observations about the moon.

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Throughout the flyby, their activities have been precisely timelineed.

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There are five blocks of time during which the crew will be observing the moon from Orion's windows.

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At any time, two members will be at the windows working in a pair.

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One crew member will be taking photos from window two with a blue shroud over the window.

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This can help prevent that glare or reflection from inside Orion.

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They have an 80 to 400 millimeter zoom lens to use.

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The other astronaut will be in window three using their portable computing device.

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that referred to as PCD to make annotations.

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Both of these crew members will make audio recordings

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of what they are seeing,

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and they'll wear headsets connected to those PCDs.

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Those audio recordings will be sent to the science team

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at a later date.

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We will not hear them live.

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The two crew members at the windows will swap roles

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and positions halfway through their timeline to block.

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The other two crew members who won't be at the windows

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at that time will be serving in the background as support.

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One will be conducting the science set reps

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or situation reports.

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This is what we will hear live from the crew.

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They'll be calling down a few times each hour

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to discuss what they are observing.

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Those situation reports include how the crew is positioned,

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any missed targets, or anything unexpected they saw,

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lunar target descriptions, any hardware issues,

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and of course their emotions and reactions

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as they fly by the moon.

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The other support crew member will take pictures

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of the astronauts at the windows

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and serve as camera support,

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providing new SD cards when needed.

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There's a 15 minute timeframe between each observation block

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during which the two support members switch places

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with the crew making observations.

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Two views, both coming from Orion.

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They're on the left, the inside of the spacecraft, and on the right, a view of our moon, the

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destination for today.

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During the lunar flyby today Orion will provide astronauts with a full disc

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view of the lunar surface. They'll have a higher vantage point much farther than

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Apollo's lunar orbits on average. These astronauts can observe both the holes and large-scale

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geologic features in a single view. And due to our April 1 launch date and current

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illumination conditions, the RMS-2 astronauts have become the first humans to directly

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observe certain far-side regions of the moon with unaided eyes.

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Thank you.

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You ready?

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Thank you all.

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We are now 36 minutes until we see the integrity crew past the Apollo 13 distance record and

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joining me on console I have Julian Gross, the Artemis curation lead.

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Thanks for joining me today.

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Thanks for having me.

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I'm very excited to be here.

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We're very excited to have you.

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So can you tell me about your role as Artemis curation lead and what that entails?

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Yeah.

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For the overall Artemis campaign,

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I'm in the Artemis Lunar Sample Curation Lead.

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I mean, I'm helping NASA to return the next set

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of lunar samples from the lunar surface.

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And for Artemis II specifically,

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I'm one of the science team leads

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and specifically I'm responsible

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or the voice for impacts, poles, and landing sites.

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Fascinating.

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So what helped us select the targets

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that the crew is going to be photographing today?

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So we had a plan coming in

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where we basically made a list of all the available targets

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during the April launch window,

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because before you launch,

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we wouldn't exactly be sure

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which targets would be visible.

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And so once we launched,

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we then were able to cut down on that list

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and prioritize our targets.

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And the five theme leads came together

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and really discussed and collaborative,

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talked through which,

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which targets we could then, which targets we could then see and prioritize.

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And so that made it into our plan.

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We worked then with Timeline to make sure that all the targets are visible.

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Some targets are time-dependent, like we're set or earth-rise.

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And some targets will rotate out of view when integrity starts going around the moon.

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And so we have, we put these in early so that the crew has a chance to describe those

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to us. Fascinating. I cannot wait to hear what they have to say. So we just heard them

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say that their long lens is configured. That's very exciting. And for us, when we look at

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the moon from Earth, what features are we seeing that the crew will also fly by today?

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Yeah, so I really hope that people on Earth who are in nighttime will look up into

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the moon tonight. The features that the crew will see that we can also currently

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see is Ars Tarkis Plateau. Grimaldi is another feature. They're going to be sort of on RLM

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and then Oceana's Prokolarum, that really dark, large area on the other side that we can see.

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The crew is going to see that in the beginning. The more they fly around, the less of that

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they will see. So those are targets we will hear them describe early on in the fly by.

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Fascinating. Well, and the crew has been training for years for this day,

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And so we're going to hear them make a lot of calls about what they are seeing on the moon,

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and they're going to use a lot of interesting terms that I myself need some brushing up on.

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So could you walk us through a few of the things that we'll hear them use to describe the moon,

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like albedo, exosphere, ejecta, just some of those major terms we expect to hear from the crew?

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Yeah, of course. Albedo is basically a term of a reflectiveness of the surface. And so

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So high albedo usually for the moon means bright areas and low albedo means like darker

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areas.

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And so when you look into the night sky you can see that the high albedo areas are the

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white parts and the low albedo ones are the darker areas.

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Ejecta is when you have an impact and it ejects or throws out material that then

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ends up on the surface and you can see that as sort of rays or ray systems.

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So you might hear them describe, oh I can see, ohm for example with its rays

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It has an esometric race coming out and so we're excited to hear them describe that.

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You might hopefully hear stuff about color or color hues and so if there's can see any changes

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in those color hues from like white to gray to maybe brownish we're excited to be here about that.

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Axosphere is the almost no existing atmosphere of the moon. It's barely there

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But there is dust on the lunar surface that can get lofted up through electrostatic forces.

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And when the sun goes behind the moon, it can scatter forward on those dust particles

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and sort of like create a little glow on the horizon.

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And so we're really excited to see if the crew can actually see that.

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This is so exciting. Thank you so much for walking through all of that with us.

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Julianne Gross, Artemis Curation Lead.

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We really appreciate you joining us here today and good luck to your team.

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Thank you, I'm really excited to be here.

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We are now MET four days, 18 hours and 49 minutes into the flight of Orion.

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This view of the moon from the Orion spacecraft as we get closer and closer.

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We're live here in Artemis Mission Control at Johnson Space Center

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in Houston, Texas just about 32 minutes away until the crew surpasses the record set by Apollo 13

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as the farthest astronauts to ever leave Earth.

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This view coming from a camera mounted on the tip of one of Orion's four solar arrays.

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Each array has a camera on its tip, and so we anticipate getting views throughout the lunar

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flyby. Of course, except during the point of loss of signal when spacecraft flies behind the

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the moon. Inside the cabin the crew are configuring the inside of Orion for

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today's flyby making sure they have everything and just where they want it

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to help them take the pictures that they are aiming for for the science team

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here on the ground. Coming up in just a few minutes we will have a pre-Lunar

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During that Lunar Flyby Science Crew Conference, our science officer here on console, Kelsey

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Young, will be speaking directly with the crew members about their targets, about their

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goals for today, what they expect to see and what we are hoping to hear from them.

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We have a lot of milestones coming up today, so make sure you don't miss them.

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The first coming up again at 1.56 p.m. Eastern time, the crew will pass the distance from

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Earth records set by Apollo 13 in 1970. At 2.45 p.m. lunar flyby officially begins. The crew

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will have that time on their schedules to begin photographing and providing audio recordings

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of what they are seeing on the moon. At 7.02 p.m. Orion will make its closest approach

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to the moon approximately 4,070 miles away. Of course all of these numbers are going to have

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to be confirmed following the flyby. These are estimates and we are working with orbital

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Mechanics. At 7.07 p.m. Orion reaches its maximum distance from Earth approximately 252,760 miles away

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from us all. At 8.35 p.m. the spacecraft will enter a solar eclipse. The crew will become the first

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to see a solar eclipse from the moon.

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Ahead of the official beginning of flyby today,

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Kelsey Young, Artemis Science Flight Operations Lead,

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will be conducting a pre-lunar flyby crew conference.

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She will give information on camera setup,

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remind the crew of their intended targets,

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answer questions from the astronauts, and more.

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Young will help the crew set their targeting timeline,

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which counts down the time they have to image each target

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and what they'll be capturing next.

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She'll also remind them that the ground team will be

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calling for science sit reps, also known as situation reports, those are

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essentially call downs to report what they've been observing. They'll continue

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to do this even through their LOS, their loss of signal, as those communications

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will come down later on after they reconnect with us on Earth.

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This view in the cabin, you can see the crew members are already using their cameras getting

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set up and they have dimmed the cabin lights to allow them better visibility outside of

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the windows and fewer reflections.

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Now 28 minutes until they become the humans to travel farthest from our planet.

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Houston integrity, we are ready for the conference on your call.

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Houston is ready for the conference, passing you over to science.

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Good morning crew, this is science.

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We couldn't be more excited for a full day of lunar

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and planetary observations today, the first one

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in over 54 years.

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How do you hear me?

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We hear you loud and clear and Kelsey,

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you just got to know you're pulling us away

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from the moon right now, so let's go.

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Message received. I will keep it tight here. I did just want to start with a thank you on behalf of the Lunar Science Team

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and the entire Lunar and Planetary Science community of which you are absolutely a part for what you've already done in this mission

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and what you're going to do today to inspire the next generation of scientists. I have to say Moonjoy is the new term

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that's already become our team's new motto, so thanks for that.

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In this conference we'll cover hardware and config reminders, and then I'll just briefly, as you said, cover today's science plan.

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I'm assuming you already have your LTPs up, confirm that, and I'll jump quickly into the

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cabin config reminders.

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Okay, we have the LTP up just to give you a sit-rep on board.

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You've got Reed and Christina on one PCD, and I guess his own, and Jeremy has his own.

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Copy that. That was going to be one of my questions for you and I'll ask a question

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back. Is that the config that you and Christina plan to carry throughout the day for PCD use?

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Negative Calci, our plan for PCD use is we have run the power cables to Windows 2 and

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And we are going to leave one PCD, the yellow PCD will be in window two, and the green PCD will be in window three, and we will do that the whole day.

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And then the red PCD will be a rover.

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Understood. Super helpful.

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I recommend when you guys switch in and out of PCDs to add your initials to your one note annotations, just so we can keep track of who this is who.

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And then given that you have three PCDs instead of four

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for the data transfer at the end of the day,

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recommend making a new sub-directory

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if it's entitled for science for your own photos

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or with your initials that we can keep track

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of which pictures came from which Bosch cards.

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So, Kelsey, I just want to just do the, here's what we're doing, we have community cards

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in all cameras on board and then when each astronaut approaches their camera, the intent

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is they will put their card into that camera for photos and then put the community card

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back in at the end of the session.

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But just now it is harder to manage cards than we thought and we don't want them in science,

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so it might end up a bit more disorganized.

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Understood. Thanks for that essay. Just read the flash card numbers down when you get a chance

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and we'll follow your lead on the best thing to do operationally during the flyby.

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With that, I'll move on to Windows.

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So the window characterization DFTO you guys did a few days ago

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Confirm that window 2 is ideal for imaging, so no change to config a photographer in window 2, observer in window 3, and science at reps in window 1.

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Coming up on the handover.

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The way we have it configured, tell us if this is going to be wrong.

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Window 2 is the long lens with a shroud.

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As you heard, science officer called to the crew.

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We are now in a handover time period.

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We will regain communications with the crew very shortly.

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These are tracked and we are currently

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on the deep space network.

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This is the first time humans have used the deep space network

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in over 50 years given that we currently use the tracking data

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relay satellite systems in the,

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for the International Space Station.

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This view from Artemis Mission Control on the right is Kelsey Young.

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That's who you hear speaking with the crew.

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Young is the Artemis Science Flight Operations Lead and we also look forward

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to speaking with her here today.

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Again, we are just about 22 minutes until we reach the Apollo record.

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We are in a handover of satellites with the crew aboard Orion.

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The T-shirt shroud for the Z-9 and solar and then window three will be for visual observations

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and window four is for floater.

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And thanks.

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And thanks integrity for that read.

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We had a handover during that time so I'm going to have to ask you to give that read

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back on window orientation for the crew again.

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Okay, we are happy to change it, but the way we have it

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configured right now is window one has a t-shirt shroud for

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the Z9 for solar, window two has the shroud for the long

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lens for both lunar and solar, window three is for visual

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observations, window four is for floater, and then the

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Docking Hatch window has had a great view so we've done a

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a lot of mapping through that as well.

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All right, copy all read.

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A note just on the window one, t-shirt shroud

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that you can remove that for the lunar observation block

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if you want to, if you want that extra view

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for another floater, but for you guys on that.

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You are go to use the full 400 millimeter zoom

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on the long lens, but where possible,

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try to keep the end of the lens flush

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with the window to prevent imaging

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through the multiple window panes at an angle.

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And if you have to take an image at an angle,

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recommend you limit the max focal length to 200 millimeters

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or simply acquire the images at multiple focal lengths.

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Last imaging update as a result of the DFTO

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is that if you can take the images

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out at the left side of window two where possible,

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that is the best half the window,

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understand that might not be possible with the shroud.

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Any other imaging questions from you?

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Okay, happy that.

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Okay, last couple of reminders.

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Don't forget the ability to take the WAVE files

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to tag imagery that you are wanting to follow up on

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using the FN3 button on your camera,

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and then a couple quick notes on your LTP.

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We have refined your precise flyby timing

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since generating the LTP.

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Optimus has the correct timing for the LOS and AOS,

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but the LTP identifiers for LOS and AOS

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are roughly two minutes later than they will be in reality.

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Final LTP timing update is that the green line

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on your LTP should start automatically

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45 minutes before the flyby.

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If it doesn't appear, let me know

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and I'll have troubleshooting steps for you.

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Last updates are on the eclipse,

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so only for that last hour today.

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Of course, remember if the sun is in view

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to use your eclipse glasses,

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and reminder that we will have a few activities for you

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prior to the eclipse to reconfigure all three cameras for corona and deep sky observations.

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These activities, some of which will occur during the forward link LOS,

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so we wanted to flag it for you now. Any questions before I cover the last two reminders?

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No, we have no questions on that.

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Last couple eclipse reminders, the sunset period

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and the first roughly 23 minutes of the eclipse will fall

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during that forward link, LOS, but we'll still have a return link

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and we're still looking forward to your science

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at reps and observations during that time.

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And I do have reminder for you on your preferred starting config

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for the eclipse in terms of role responsibility.

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Let me know if you want me to read that up or if you guys have

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that in your minds already and if no other questions on config I'll give you a few science

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focused reminders.

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Give us a quick high level, but we see it in optimus, and I think we got a score anyway.

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But give us your quick, Kelsey, high level.

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Okay. A couple changes from the first LTP you studied are that is that Glushko is the only feature

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that the same pair will be tight twice. That's Reed and Jeremy. That's why that's the only target

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you see that is marked as one of one and two, one of two and two of two. So Omen Oriental are

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in there twice, but they're by different pairs, which is why you don't see them marked accordingly.

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A note from feedback on your observations so far over the last couple days, a reminder

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that if you note structure and texture as well as color and albedo, please note any correlation

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between the two, and also a reminder that negative observations are still valuable science.

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So a lack of color or a lack of structure associated with color is also valuable.

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A reminder also that your observations so far indicate

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it will likely take some time for your eyes to adjust.

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We especially heard that around your terminator observations

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and your color observations.

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So a reminder to know that your eye adaptation

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is gonna kind of come in throughout your shift

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and let us know when you start to see that nuance.

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Last reminder is around earth set and earth rise.

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When you're viewing us back here at home,

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you'll be looking directly at Asia, Africa, and Oceania.

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So I'm sure people watching from those places here on Earth

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will want to give you all a wave

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as you take their picture.

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Any other questions from me?

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For me.

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And Kelsey, hey, when you're talking window 2 left and right side, just can you say towards

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window 1 or towards window 3 and then we'll know that we are talking the same language?

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Absolutely. So I mean that the side of window 2 closest to window 3 is preferred for imaging.

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Okay. The side of window 2 closest to window 3 is preferred for recording. Stand by. We'll talk to the group.

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Again, we are in our pre-lunar fly-by science conference

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with Kelsey Young.

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Kelsey Young is the Artemis Science Flight Operations Lead,

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speaking with the crew aboard Orion.

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They've been training for this moment for years,

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and this is their last opportunity

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to get some further pointers and information.

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Before the T-shirt shroud, what window does the science team think will have the best view?

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Is it window one or window four?

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The only time we're strongly recommending use of the windows.

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The window, the T-shirt window shop for the clips viewing, which window is primary for a C9?

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Window 1.

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Okay, awesome. So we have got that all set up.

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Just to be 100 percent sure, window one is the most port window by the food warmer.

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Window two is right in front of seat one.

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Window three is right in front of seat two.

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And window four is on the starboard side by the side hatch.

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Do you agree with all that?

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We agree on the ground.

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Good read back.

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Okay, that's awesome.

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Kelsey, we're going to close with happy words.

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It's just incredible.

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I wish you were up here to see all the smiley faces.

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to hear all these terminology being thrown around and we are just fired up to get started

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on this day.

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Let me pass them around if anybody has anything to add.

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Kelsey, it's so great to hear your voice on the loop.

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I just want to channel everything that you guys are probably feeling right through my

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eyes and heart.

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It is awesome to see the side of the moon.

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You guys made us excited for this day and we couldn't appreciate it anymore and we

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We are ready to hopefully deliver on all the awesome training you guys have provided.

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How does that, Kelsey?

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It is blowing my mind what you can see with the Naked Eye Fundament right now.

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It's just unbelievable.

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Kelsey and to the whole Lunar Science team, all of you, all the work you put into this,

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we're just grateful.

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Can't wait to get going.

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And thank you for the tipper, for Carol Crater, and for Integrity.

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can see them and we've damaged them and can even see with the naked eye.

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Quite impressive. Thank you so much.

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Beautiful words you guys. Thanks so much and I got video of the science team right now and

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they are all absolutely buzzing. Looking forward to today.

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Okay we're heading into the timeline. Cheers guys.

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of the Pre-Lunar Flyby Science Conference with Dr. Kelsey Young.

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Young has served as the Artemis Science Flight Operations League, getting the crew ready.

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And we're live in Artemis, Michigan, in Houston, but we are not the only room monitoring today's flyby.

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live eye as you heard young mention in this same building and just down the

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hall a multidisciplinary lunar science team supports the Artemis II crew in real

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time including experts in lunar geology impact cratering, volcanism, polar

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science, imaging and visualization. There are two integrated facilities and

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the first is the SIR which is what you have right here that's the science

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evaluation room they are embedded within mission control to provide

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science input during live operations like what we see today. Additionally and

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not pictured, we have the Science Mission Operations Room, a back room that processes

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data, evaluates imagery and supports rapid analysis. Our Science Officer on Consul and

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Mission Control Houston serves as the primary interface between the science team and the

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flight controllers, ensuring science priorities are represented during mission execution.

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Again, today that's Dr. Kelsey Young, who will be speaking with the crew during the

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time they're behind the moon. We will be speaking with her once the crew is

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behind the moon and out of communication with Earth.

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Back inside the Orion spacecraft on your left, closest to the camera, NASA astronaut Christina

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Cook.

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To her left, NASA astronaut Reed Wiseman.

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To his left, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen.

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And all the way in the back, NASA astronaut Victor Glover.

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Our Artemis 2 crew.

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We are now approaching eight minutes until the crew surpasses the Apollo 13 record.

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Currently 12,599 miles away from the Moon, 248,507 miles away from Earth.

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We, you know, you may also hear the Orion spacecraft referred to today as Integrity.

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This was named by the Artemis II crew.

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It is.

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Integrity crew, we have Reid's family in the viewing gallery.

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You're welcome to say hello.

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Well, whether you're being serious

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or you're getting around,

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that is awesome to hear.

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Thanks, Jenny.

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And hello to Ellie and Katie.

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I don't know who else is in here,

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but it's great to know that you're in mission control

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right now, following along

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where you're having a blast up here

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in the view of the moon is absolutely amazing.

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I'm seeing a lot of hearts come out of the viewing gallery, and even more smiles.

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Thanks, Rhys.

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Copy heart. Copy bracelet.

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That call from Capcom, Jenny Gibbons, Canadian Space Agency astronaut and Artemis II backup

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crew member, letting Reid Wiseman know that he has family here to support him today in

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the Artemis Mission Control viewing room.

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As I was mentioning, we have the Orion spacecraft flying today, however the Artemis crew members

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named their Orion spacecraft Integrity, so you will hear calls

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to this entire crew with the name Integrity.

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They say that the name Integrity embodies the foundation

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of trust, respect, candor, and humility across the crew,

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and the many engineers, technicians, scientists,

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planners, and dreamers required for mission success.

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This view live from the outside of Orion as we continue, preparing for our lunar flyby

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now less than five minutes from surpassing the records set by Apollo 13 astronauts for

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the farthest humans to travel from Earth.

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This will not be the farthest that integrity travels today.

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They will continue until they reach approximately a distance of 252,760 miles, that would be

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about 4,105 miles farther than Apollo 13.

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However, these numbers are our targets, and we will get confirmation on those numbers

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as soon as we possibly can and share them with you all.

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We talked a little bit about what to expect from the crew, whether that's taking photos

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or making audio recordings, to get a little more detailed.

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Reed Wiseman and Jeremy Hansen will be up first to capture imagery and record audio

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on the portable computing devices.

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You hear those referred to as PCDs, while Victor and Christina serve as the support members.

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The crew will switch windows and rolls halfway through their shift, and one hour and five

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minutes later, Victor Glover and Christina Cook will be the next crew members at Windows

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2 and 3 to take photos and make annotations while Reid and Jeremy take on those support

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rolls.

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There are five viewing blocks, and the crew will swap out with each one.

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During two of the blocks, the two support members will also be able to enjoy their

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midday meal.

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At least three times per block is a science set rep.

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Again, situational report.

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This is partially an operational status reporting back

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if they missed any targets or gotten any specific ones.

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If they have issues with their camera

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or any other operational items,

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the other part is an actual description of the moon.

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This task is done by one of the support team astronauts.

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So that's not the crew currently taking photos or making annotations,

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but they do have windows 1 and 4 that they can float up

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and provide that information from.

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If you watch the entirety of the flyby, you'll also notice the crew will be

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photographing some targets multiple times to get observations

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in different lighting conditions.

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This is due to Orion changing their location throughout the flyby.

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What this crew will be able to capture in a couple of hours of the same targets

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in different lighting would take orbiters years to do because of solar

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and spacecraft positioning.

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This crew has studied the moon extensively and they're also familiar

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with what the science team calls the Big 15.

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These are 15 features that they've memorized so at any time they'll be able

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to see five of those and help orient themselves and where they are around the moon.

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Those targets are diverse and complex in the geologic history,

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and observations of them could help answer some big picture science questions.

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If you've been following the mission, you can see that the configuration of the cabin

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is a little bit different than what it looked like on launch day.

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After Ascent, the crew were allowed to reconfigure their spacecraft.

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You can see that they've taken down seats.

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They have also taken away foot rests.

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This gives them more opportunity to move about the spacecraft.

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Orion itself has 330 cubic feet of habitable volume that's about the size of two mini-vans

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and is 60 percent more cubic volume than the Apollo spacecraft.

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We are standing by for the integrity crew aboard Orion to surpass the Apollo 13 record.

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Integrity Crew, on April 15, 1970, during the Apollo 13 mission, three explorers set the

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record for the farthest distance humans have ever traveled from our home planet. At that

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time, over 55 years ago, Lovell, Swigert, and Hayes flew 248,655 statute miles away from

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Earth. Today, for all humanity, you're pushing beyond that frontier. Integrity, over to

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you.

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Yeah, from the cabin of integrity here as we surpass the furthest distance humans have

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ever traveled from planet Earth, we do so in honoring the extraordinary efforts and

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of our predecessors in human space exploration.

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We will continue our journey even further into space before Mother Earth succeeds

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in pulling us back to everything that we hold dear.

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But we most importantly choose this moment to challenge this generation and in the next

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to make sure this record is not long lived.

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Thank you, integrity, and congratulations to you and the rest of the Artemis II team.

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Thank you, so we have a couple more things we'd like to take this moment for.

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Our science team helped us out with a couple of relatively fresh craters on the moon

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have not been previously named and our crew would like

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to propose a couple of potential names for those items

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or those areas and we spent a bit of time this morning looking

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up the window and we're able to see them now both

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with our naked eye and through the long lens

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and so we feel this is a good time to send this down

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in a special showdown to Kelsey

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for helping us with this.

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The first one we'd like to suggest is a named crater

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in honor of our great spacecraft integrity.

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And so, if you were to look at the oriental on the far side

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and then draw a line straight up to OAM on the far side,

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relatively in the middle is an unnamed crater.

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And we would like to suggest it be called integrity

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in the future.

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Next second.

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And the second one, and especially meaningful

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for this crew, is a number of years ago we started this

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and our close-knit astronaut family, and we lost a loved one.

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And there's a feature in a really neat place on the moon,

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and it is on the near side, far side boundary.

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In fact, it's just on the near side of that boundary.

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And so at certain times of the moon's transit around Earth,

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we will be able to see this from Earth.

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And so we lost a loved one.

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one, her name is Carol, the explosive reed, the mother of Katie and Ellie.

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And if you want to find this one, you look at Glushko, and it's just to the northwest

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of that, at the same latitude as home, and it's a bright spot on the moon.

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We would like to call it Carol and you spell that C-A-R-R-O-L-L.

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Thank you.

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Integrity and Carol Crater.

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Loud and clear.

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Thank you.

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As the Artemis II crew passed the record set by Apollo 13 for the farthest humans

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to ever fly from Earth at 12.57 p.m. Central Time, 1.57 p.m. Eastern Time.

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and space agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen.

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We're getting ourselves all put back together now

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and we are going to dim the cabin lights

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and prepare for our science objectives ahead.

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Thank you.

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Sounds good, we're doing the same down here

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and you're maneuvering to your observation attitude.

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As we pass that Apollo 13 record

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of the furthest humans to ever fly from Earth

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At 1257 p.m. Central Time, 157 p.m. Eastern Time,

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the Artemis II crew shared some poignant words,

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specifically Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen.

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The crew also called down two craters,

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not yet named, that they would like to name.

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One, integrity in honor of their spacecraft,

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which they have named.

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That's near the Olm crater.

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Another near Glushko, which is a bright spot,

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named Carol in memory of Reed Wiseman's wife.

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There was a moment of silence here in Mission Control, Houston.

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And now the team and the Artemis II crew

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are ready to begin their lunar flyby.

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We are four days, 19 hours, 31 minutes, mission elapsed time of the flight of Artemis-2,

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our four astronauts aboard Orion.

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Today is our Lunar Flyby Day.

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The spacecraft is currently about 12,000 miles away from the Moon, and you can keep up with

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the distance from Orion to the Moon and Earth by visiting nasa.gov slash track Artemis.

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Or you can just stay with us here because we're going to be telling you throughout the

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day.

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currently 248,834 miles away from planet Earth.

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Coming up next on the cruise timeline today will be their cabin configuration portion.

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heard some calls down to science officer Dr. Kelsey Young earlier about how they have configured

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the cabin so far. This is just a little bit more of timeline activity for them if they need to

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further do so. On flight day three the crew had time on their schedule allotted for configuring

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the spacecraft cabin for how they intended to arrange it today. Of course they had to

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take down that configuration for another test yesterday of their Orion crew survival

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system suits, but configuring it on Flight A3 allows them the opportunity to get a chance

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to see what works for them now that they are in the microgravity environment.

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Again, the crew is about to begin their cabin configuration portion of their timeline, though

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they have been working that already, as well as potentially during their post-sleep period

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this morning.

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The official lunar flyby observations are slated to begin in just about 40 minutes.

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That's when we'll have the crew at the windows, photographing the moon, as well

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as well as making calls down about what they are seeing.

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Again, we are live here in Artemis Mission Control for the duration of the flyby.

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Currently, the Orbit One flight control team is on console.

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This room is staffed 24-7 from the time before the astronauts stepped foot on the rocket

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until the time they are splashed down and are safely recovered in the Pacific Ocean on Flight Day 10.

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Again, this is Artemis.

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Mission Control here in Houston.

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We are now 11,777 miles away from the moon.

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We did pass the Apollo 13 record of farthest humans away

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from Earth at 1257 p.m. central time, 157 p.m. eastern time.

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That distance, 248,655 statute miles from the Earth continuing

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to be exceeded by the crew.

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They will reach their farthest distance

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from the Earth around 6.07 p.m. central time.

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At that time, they will be in an LOS or a loss of signal

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with us on Earth as they'll be flying behind the moon.

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As the crew gets into their cabin configuration preparations,

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we are joined by Dr. Sarah Noble, the Artemis Lunar Science Lead.

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Thanks for joining us here today.

01:18:41.860 --> 01:18:42.860
Yeah, it's quite a day.

01:18:42.860 --> 01:18:44.160
Yeah, we are very excited.

01:18:44.160 --> 01:18:46.360
I can only imagine how you guys are doing over there.

01:18:46.360 --> 01:18:50.860
So tell me a little bit about yourself and what your role is for Artemis too.

01:18:50.860 --> 01:18:51.160
Sure.

01:18:51.160 --> 01:18:53.360
So I'm the Artemis Lunar Science Lead.

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so over the entire campaign and my job is basically to make sure that as we have this

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big adventure back to the moon we actually learn new things about the moon.

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Fascinating. So why is the moon such an important destination today?

01:19:05.680 --> 01:19:09.280
Yeah so the moon is a pretty amazing place. It is a great place to learn about

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basic fundamental processes that happen on like all the planets like cratering and

01:19:14.880 --> 01:19:20.080
volcanology and also it is you know part of our earth moon system and you know the earth

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recycles it's rocks pretty well right through plate tectonics and weathering

01:19:24.560 --> 01:19:28.360
or whatever most of the rocks on the earth are geologically young but on the

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moon we have the entire record that goes back four and a half billion years

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until since we formed and so if we really want to learn about what was

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happening in that period like moon is really the only place we can go. We're

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also thinking about going back to the moon we want to go to the lunar

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south pole so what makes that such an interesting destination? Yeah the

01:19:46.680 --> 01:19:50.840
South Pole is cool, right? It's far away from the places we went during Apollo. It's different

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kinds of rocks. They're some of the oldest rocks on the moon. It's also a place where we think

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there might be resources like water. There are craters that really never can see the sun because

01:20:00.440 --> 01:20:05.240
the low sun angles there and they get very cold. And we think that water and other things can

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build up in those craters and so we're very interested to see what that might do for us.

01:20:09.160 --> 01:20:13.240
I'm very interested as well. So for some of our viewers who might be new to this, what

01:20:13.240 --> 01:20:17.120
What does lunar science look like during an Artemis mission?

01:20:17.120 --> 01:20:18.640
Yeah, it's pretty exciting for us

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as we built this from scratch to try

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to understand how we can best use the crew to support

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our science.

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And so we've developed a system.

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We've got a team in place.

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We've got a back room here here in this building called

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the SIR, the Science Evaluation Room.

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And there's a back room to that back room

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over in another building here at Johnson Space Center,

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where we've got our teams of scientists working really

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hard.

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They're actually speaking to this room

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through our science officer, this is now the first time

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we've ever had a science officer in flight control room.

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So we're pretty excited about that.

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So we have a really voice out and up to the crew.

01:20:51.940 --> 01:20:54.460
I know it's been so exciting to hear Dr. Kelsey Young

01:20:54.460 --> 01:20:56.700
speaking directly with the crew today now.

01:20:56.700 --> 01:20:59.180
So close to the moon and we have a live view here

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of the science operation or the science evaluation room.

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So this is where the majority of your team

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is today, is that right?

01:21:04.520 --> 01:21:05.360
Yeah, that's right.

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This is a big chunk of our scientists.

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You can see them and they're now working hard

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trying to get ready for the day.

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And then again, there's a second room

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where we have a lot of our data folks

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where the data will first come down

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and then sort of sift through the data

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and get ready for this team to take.

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What's the mood like right now in this, sir?

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It is, I would say giddy.

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I think we're all, we've worked very hard for this.

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They have done simulation after simulation.

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They have worked really hard

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over the last couple of years

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to get ready for this moment.

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And I think everybody's just really excited

01:21:35.880 --> 01:21:37.480
to see, you know, even already,

01:21:37.480 --> 01:21:40.540
we've had some descriptions from the crew coming down.

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It's so great to see their joy and on our joy our love for the moon come through yes

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We are in for a real treat today

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If it's been anything like their observations the past couple of days

01:21:50.340 --> 01:21:55.540
So how are the lunar science teams using this test flight to prepare for future missions to the moon?

01:21:55.740 --> 01:22:00.140
Yeah, absolutely. This is the way that we are building our foundation for the future from everything from

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You know, how do you train a crew to be a geologist?

01:22:03.540 --> 01:22:07.620
Right and so you know working through that getting them a classroom training field training

01:22:07.620 --> 01:22:11.380
building the science team, building these physical rooms that we are in,

01:22:11.380 --> 01:22:14.780
designing them, designing software that the teams are using, and then you know

01:22:14.780 --> 01:22:17.820
figuring out what happens to that data, they're going to take this data and it's

01:22:17.820 --> 01:22:20.920
going to come down and how do we get it out to not only our team but out to the

01:22:20.920 --> 01:22:24.060
world and the rest of the science community. Yeah that's a great point

01:22:24.060 --> 01:22:26.500
because when you hear these crew members talk you would never know that

01:22:26.500 --> 01:22:30.220
they're not geologists. Your team has trained them so well. They have been

01:22:30.220 --> 01:22:34.820
very good students. Who can blame them? It's a pretty great topic. One

01:22:34.820 --> 01:22:35.820
One more question for you.

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How does the science that we're doing on Artemis help support long-term exploration and including

01:22:41.620 --> 01:22:43.180
our sustained presence on the moon?

01:22:43.180 --> 01:22:44.260
Yeah, you know what?

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We have a saying in the Science Mission Directorate that science enables exploration and exploration

01:22:48.580 --> 01:22:49.700
enables science, right?

01:22:49.700 --> 01:22:54.300
So you need the scientists because we are the ones who are the experts in landing site

01:22:54.300 --> 01:22:57.460
and doing analysis of landing site and making sure we can find a good place to land

01:22:57.460 --> 01:23:01.740
to understanding the properties of the soil so we can design our systems to manage

01:23:01.740 --> 01:23:05.740
understanding the radiation environment, keeping our astronauts safe, all of these things, right?

01:23:05.740 --> 01:23:09.740
But, you know, in return, you provide us with opportunities where now we're going to be able

01:23:09.740 --> 01:23:13.740
to collect this data and collect samples and play our instruments and all of that.

01:23:13.740 --> 01:23:15.740
So it's a symbiotic relationship.

01:23:15.740 --> 01:23:19.740
That makes perfect sense. Well, Dr. Sara Noble, Artemis Lunar Science Lead.

01:23:19.740 --> 01:23:22.740
Thank you so much for joining us here today. Best of luck to you and your team,

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and I hope that you get to enjoy today too.

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Thank you so much.

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We are now getting closer and closer to our lunar neighbor, this live view coming from

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the Orion spacecraft and a camera mounted on one of its solar array wings.

01:25:26.740 --> 01:25:28.740
you

01:25:56.740 --> 01:26:00.740
Houston Integrity for Camera Serial Numbers.

01:26:00.740 --> 01:26:04.740
Ready to copy.

01:26:04.740 --> 01:26:12.740
Hey, Jenny, these are card numbers for the various positions.

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For the long lens on the D5, we will have individual cards.

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Victor's, 1008, Jeremy,

01:26:22.740 --> 01:26:37.660
Victor's, 1008, Jeremy, 1019, Reed, 1012, myself, 1015.

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For the Z-9, we will have one card that is dedicated for today, serial number 1007.

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For the cabin camera D5, we will have one dedicated card for today,

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so you're number 1022.

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All right, Christina, we copy all.

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Thank you.

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We just realized that we have Earth not window 1 and Moon not window 2 and we were out, sorry,

01:27:26.260 --> 01:27:33.260
Earth not window 4 and Moon not window 3 and it gives you the best idea of scale we have

01:27:33.260 --> 01:27:34.260
had yet.

01:27:34.260 --> 01:27:39.260
The Moon is about three to four times the size of the Earth and it is almost full in

01:27:39.260 --> 01:27:40.260
the Earth.

01:27:40.260 --> 01:27:42.260
It's just a small crescent out there.

01:27:42.260 --> 01:27:48.260
It's magnificent, I got a picture of it with the wide lens, it's such a majestic view out here.

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Amaze, amaze, amaze, thank you, Reed.

01:27:54.260 --> 01:28:12.860
Those are some of the communications we're excited most about today.

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Commander Reed Wiseman calling down their view right now.

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Obviously, a little bit different than what we can see from the solar array camera.

01:28:20.940 --> 01:28:25.120
They are looking through the windows of the Orion spacecraft, able to see at the same

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time Earth and the Moon.

01:28:28.440 --> 01:28:32.160
You also heard NASA astronaut Christina Cook calling down some of the cameras that they

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will be using today.

01:28:36.920 --> 01:28:42.560
The crew is in that cabin configuration portion and we expect the Lunar Flyby Observation

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period to start in just about 20 minutes.

01:29:12.080 --> 01:29:18.560
in on Orion's distance and speed. They are currently traveling 1,071 miles per hour,

01:29:18.560 --> 01:29:27.760
249,159 miles away from Earth, 11,293 miles away from the Moon and continuing to grow closer.

01:29:31.280 --> 01:29:38.160
At closest approach to the Moon today, the spacecraft will be just about 4,070 miles away

01:29:38.160 --> 01:29:43.200
from the lunar surface. This will be during our loss of signal with the crew as they travel behind

01:29:43.200 --> 01:29:49.600
the moon and we will await their return to get the official number for you for how close they come

01:29:49.600 --> 01:29:54.080
to our lunar neighbor.

01:30:38.160 --> 01:30:59.240
Inside the cabin today, the lunar targeting package is the primary tool guiding the crew

01:30:59.240 --> 01:31:02.600
observations and consists of two key components.

01:31:02.600 --> 01:31:06.960
The lunar geography review helped the astronauts study major lunar features in advance and

01:31:06.960 --> 01:31:12.560
help learn how to orient themselves during the flyby because of course the moon is not actually

01:31:12.560 --> 01:31:17.840
labeled like it appears here when we look at this map. The lunar targeting plan provides a detailed

01:31:17.840 --> 01:31:22.480
timeline of observation targets, background science context, and specific instructions

01:31:22.480 --> 01:31:27.520
for the pictures the crew should take as well as the verbal descriptions that will be helped

01:31:27.520 --> 01:31:33.440
fold to the science team reviewing them later. This is a screenshot from their lunar

01:31:33.440 --> 01:31:37.120
targeting package, and a screenshot specifically of that lunar.

01:31:37.120 --> 01:31:56.880
Hey Jenny, understanding we are in final attitude now for the Lunar Flyby, would it be possible

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to pitch the vehicle down five degrees.

01:32:00.440 --> 01:32:04.780
That would allow us to get the D5 long lens flush

01:32:04.780 --> 01:32:07.720
and have the least amount of window distortion.

01:32:11.840 --> 01:32:12.280
We're checking.

01:32:14.920 --> 01:32:17.200
That call from Christina Cook, NASA Astronaut

01:32:17.200 --> 01:32:19.320
and Mission Specialist on Artemis 2.

01:32:19.640 --> 01:32:24.280
Copy. The Orion spacecraft is positioned

01:32:24.280 --> 01:32:27.920
in a specific attitude to allow the crew to best see the moon

01:32:27.920 --> 01:32:31.360
outside of their windows today for this imaging opportunity.

01:32:31.860 --> 01:32:35.800
That call was a request for a potential attitude shift just

01:32:35.800 --> 01:32:39.260
slightly, another five degrees, to give them a better view

01:32:40.180 --> 01:32:41.800
and to give them a better opportunity

01:32:41.800 --> 01:32:43.300
to use their long lens camera.

01:32:47.840 --> 01:32:49.940
They'll also be using that lunar targeting package

01:32:49.940 --> 01:32:50.800
we were discussing.

01:32:50.800 --> 01:32:53.300
I am following along with that real time, so I'll be able

01:32:53.300 --> 01:32:56.900
to share with you exactly what targets the crew is looking at and when.

01:32:57.300 --> 01:32:59.600
They also trained with a lunar science passport.

01:32:59.600 --> 01:33:03.400
It's a little reference guide used on Earth to reinforce recognition

01:33:03.400 --> 01:33:04.800
of key lunar features.

01:33:04.900 --> 01:33:07.900
It is not on the flight, but it was a significant study tool

01:33:07.900 --> 01:33:10.040
for the crew to get them ready for launch.

01:33:11.200 --> 01:33:14.440
The apparent size of the moon will change throughout the flyby,

01:33:14.860 --> 01:33:18.320
and it'll appear roughly like a basketball held

01:33:18.320 --> 01:33:21.400
at arm's length at the crew's closest approach.

01:33:21.400 --> 01:33:26.400
That reinforces the need for careful planning and practiced observation techniques.

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Thanks.

01:33:27.400 --> 01:33:28.400
Houston Integrity for Timeline.

01:33:28.400 --> 01:33:29.400
Go ahead.

01:33:29.400 --> 01:33:54.400
Houston Integrity for Timeline.

01:33:54.400 --> 01:33:56.400
Go ahead.

01:34:11.400 --> 01:34:16.400
Hey Jenny, just to make absolutely sure that we start observations when expected,

01:34:16.400 --> 01:34:21.400
we are showing an optimist that observation time starts in about 15 minutes

01:34:21.400 --> 01:34:28.400
minutes and an LTP that our first target, Discussion 1, starts in about 29 minutes.

01:34:28.400 --> 01:34:35.400
Can you confirm you'd like us to start Discussion 1 in 29 minutes at 1900 GMT?

01:34:35.400 --> 01:34:52.440
Christina, we are tracking that discussion one should start at 1845, that's 15 minutes

01:34:52.440 --> 01:34:53.440
from now.

01:34:53.440 --> 01:35:12.600
Okay, copy all, it may be a granularity issue with LTP, but understand that we start that

01:35:12.600 --> 01:35:18.480
observation in 15 minutes and I bet when we get there the green line in LTP will match

01:35:18.480 --> 01:35:21.680
the start of the white band for discussion one.

01:35:21.680 --> 01:35:26.460
I think it's just a matter of the labeling and the granularity.

01:35:26.840 --> 01:35:27.640
Thanks for confirming.

01:35:32.240 --> 01:35:35.460
Copy, and we'll look into that a little bit more on our side as well.

01:35:45.000 --> 01:35:50.980
Christina, can you verify for us that your green line is moving on the timeline page of your LTP?

01:35:51.680 --> 01:36:06.680
Jenny, I do think we're good looking closer.

01:36:06.680 --> 01:36:11.680
I see the labels are just not aligned with the starter end times of the white visible bands.

01:36:11.680 --> 01:36:14.680
It fully makes sense now, so I think we are all set.

01:36:14.680 --> 01:36:18.680
We'll look forward to starting some observations in about 13 minutes.

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minutes.

01:36:19.680 --> 01:36:23.540
Copy, thanks Christina.

01:37:48.680 --> 01:38:07.480
As you heard discussed, we are expecting the crew's observation time period to start in

01:38:07.480 --> 01:38:09.760
about 10 minutes.

01:38:09.760 --> 01:38:15.480
First, they'll be conducting a warm-up, warming up to their science observations of the moon.

01:38:15.480 --> 01:38:20.200
They'll be discussing with each other, helping each other orient using the major landmarks

01:38:20.200 --> 01:38:21.200
that they've studied.

01:38:21.200 --> 01:38:22.200
I'm asking, what is familiar?

01:38:22.200 --> 01:38:32.200
If we roll left, port 5 degrees, that would get the moon closer to the left side of window

01:38:32.200 --> 01:38:33.200
2.

01:38:33.200 --> 01:38:34.200
Copy, Victor.

01:38:34.200 --> 01:38:48.680
Copy Victor, we'd like to know if it's pitch and roll or one or the other.

01:38:58.440 --> 01:39:02.140
Jenny, we actually thought you already put the pitch in.

01:39:02.140 --> 01:39:06.380
Have the pitch been put in already?

01:39:06.380 --> 01:39:08.820
No, we need a little while longer to talk about it.

01:39:22.460 --> 01:39:24.220
So Jenny, I guess what's happening is just

01:39:24.220 --> 01:39:27.500
as our orbit's changing, where it is and the window is changing.

01:39:27.500 --> 01:39:29.700
So maybe these fancy little adjustments

01:39:29.700 --> 01:39:33.280
or is the spacecraft going to keep the moon at the same point

01:39:33.280 --> 01:39:35.120
of the window if we adjust the attitude?

01:39:35.120 --> 01:39:36.400
I assume the previous.

01:39:36.400 --> 01:39:42.280
Right now, we are pointing the center of the window

01:39:42.280 --> 01:39:45.920
to the center of the moon with two degrees of dead band.

01:39:45.920 --> 01:39:55.840
Right now, we are pointing the center of the window to the center of the moon with two

01:39:55.840 --> 01:39:57.840
degrees of dead band.

01:40:25.840 --> 01:40:47.440
The conversation you hear happening now between the astronauts aboard Orion and Artemis Mission

01:40:47.440 --> 01:40:51.760
Control here at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. They're in the center of your screen

01:40:51.760 --> 01:40:57.840
seated at the CAPCOM or capsule communicator console. That's Ginny Gibbons, Canadian Space

01:40:57.840 --> 01:41:09.280
Agency astronaut and Artemis II backup. She was also the lead CAPCOM for Expedition 63 aboard the

01:41:09.280 --> 01:41:11.280
International Space Station.

01:41:19.280 --> 01:41:27.280
The crew is requesting some attitude changes to the spacecraft to allow them to better image the moon, our priority for today.

01:41:27.280 --> 01:41:35.280
Of course, those have to be discussed on the ground before they are put into work aboard the spacecraft, so the team is taking some time to do so.

01:41:35.280 --> 01:41:40.340
You also heard Giddens' reference that we are into dead bands.

01:41:40.720 --> 01:41:43.440
Dead bands are essentially keeping us in the lane

01:41:43.440 --> 01:41:44.760
in which we're traveling.

01:41:45.040 --> 01:41:46.780
If you're familiar with lane assist

01:41:46.780 --> 01:41:48.600
in your car, very similar in this case.

01:41:48.600 --> 01:42:14.280
We are now 10,870 miles away from the Moon, traveling 1,066 miles per hour and 249,390

01:42:14.280 --> 01:42:16.080
miles away from Earth.

01:42:16.080 --> 01:42:21.720
Again, we recently surpassed the Apollo 13 distance record of farthest humans have ever

01:42:21.720 --> 01:42:27.680
traveled and upon calling down some words during that milestone, Canadian Space Agency

01:42:27.680 --> 01:42:33.800
astronaut Jeremy Hansen noting that he hopes that this record that they are setting today

01:42:33.800 --> 01:42:36.200
is soon broken by future explorers.

01:44:16.080 --> 01:44:43.760
This is Artemis Mission Control.

01:44:43.760 --> 01:44:47.520
we are standing by for the beginning of Lunar Flyby.

01:44:52.520 --> 01:44:54.560
Expecting that to start in just a few minutes

01:44:54.560 --> 01:44:57.600
when the crew will begin a warm-up discussion preparing

01:44:57.600 --> 01:44:58.760
for the day.

01:44:58.760 --> 01:45:00.960
They will be capturing images along

01:45:00.960 --> 01:45:04.200
while discussing what they find familiar about the moon

01:45:04.200 --> 01:45:06.280
and what looks unexpected to them.

01:45:43.760 --> 01:46:08.560
Again, just minutes away from the official start of Lunar Flyby or when it is timelineed

01:46:08.560 --> 01:46:13.560
for the crew.

01:46:13.560 --> 01:46:17.520
We are currently 10,726 miles away from the moon.

01:46:17.520 --> 01:46:21.840
This view on the left side of your screen coming from the camera

01:46:21.840 --> 01:46:23.920
on one of Orion's solar arrays.

01:46:43.560 --> 01:47:02.000
Other conversation points while the crew are getting ready for their flyby today.

01:47:02.000 --> 01:47:09.400
They'll be looking to orient themselves using major landmarks and annotating their observations

01:47:09.400 --> 01:47:14.640
along with their discussion.

01:47:14.640 --> 01:47:17.480
They'll have 10 minutes for that warm-up discussion.

01:48:39.400 --> 01:49:07.400
We have two folks at the window, deep in discussion, talking to the other folks, and we have two

01:49:07.400 --> 01:49:12.400
and deep in discussion talking about all of the awesome features that they're seeing.

01:49:12.400 --> 01:49:21.400
We just had a huge moment realizing that Hertzsprung is about the same size as our incredible Oriental.

01:49:21.400 --> 01:49:25.400
We're really excited about this target that's kind of new to us.

01:49:25.400 --> 01:49:31.400
We're orienting on things like how we talk about Albedo, finding some of the prevalent things

01:49:31.400 --> 01:49:38.040
that we're used to from all of our training and just overall taking in this view.

01:49:38.040 --> 01:49:43.760
We also are noticing that the moon is still getting noticeably bigger as we go.

01:49:43.760 --> 01:49:48.180
Even when you're watching it continuously, it's great to see these two guys get warmed up.

01:49:51.180 --> 01:49:52.780
We love the report, Christina.

01:49:52.780 --> 01:49:57.260
Thanks. And you nailed it on why we added Hertzsprung as you'll see in the prompts.

01:49:57.260 --> 01:50:01.060
We're looking for comparisons to the comparatively much older Hertzsprung compared

01:50:01.060 --> 01:50:02.320
to the younger oriental.

01:50:02.720 --> 01:50:03.140
Great words.

01:50:03.440 --> 01:50:22.640
This is Artemis Mission Control.

01:50:22.640 --> 01:50:25.380
That was the voice of Dr. Kelsey Young speaking

01:50:25.380 --> 01:50:28.640
with the astronauts aboard Orion as they begin their

01:50:28.640 --> 01:50:31.800
observation period and lunar flyby.

01:50:31.800 --> 01:50:38.880
NASA astronaut Christina Cook reporting their view of Hertzbrunn Basin.

01:50:38.880 --> 01:50:44.200
The team here is looking for centered images of the basin at a full zoom and they're hoping

01:50:44.200 --> 01:50:48.440
that the astronauts can image and describe the inner and outer rings.

01:50:48.440 --> 01:50:53.360
This is considered a degraded basin with the floor rings and ejecta compared to a

01:50:53.360 --> 01:50:55.360
a younger oriental basin.

01:51:07.920 --> 01:51:08.420
We talked.

01:51:11.720 --> 01:51:16.880
We spoke earlier with Julian Gross, the Artemis curation lead,

01:51:16.880 --> 01:51:19.480
about some of the terms we will hear the crew use today.

01:51:19.780 --> 01:51:22.080
One of those just called out, that's albedo.

01:51:22.080 --> 01:51:27.080
looking at surface brightness or the amount of light a surface reflects.

01:51:27.080 --> 01:51:54.640
A few more terms that we hope to hear today during the cruise set wraps our situation

01:51:54.640 --> 01:52:00.740
reports include imbeying. This refers to one feature that surrounds another. That usually

01:52:00.740 --> 01:52:02.240
is a higher relief feature.

01:52:02.240 --> 01:52:08.920
In integrity, one report from the crew at the windows, we can actually see the moon and

01:52:08.920 --> 01:52:15.920
earth at the same time right now. It's interesting because the earth looks way brighter, so

01:52:15.920 --> 01:52:21.120
the earth itself seems to have a much higher albedo than the moon. We think this is

01:52:21.120 --> 01:52:26.140
independent of our eyes focusing because of course the Earth is much smaller than the

01:52:26.140 --> 01:52:32.140
moon in our view. So you could think that your eyes focus for the darker sky and that

01:52:32.140 --> 01:52:36.140
means that it only has a parent brightness more than the moon but since we're seeing

01:52:36.140 --> 01:52:41.640
both in the same view, we do think that this can be inferred as the Earth as a

01:52:41.640 --> 01:52:49.140
whole has a higher LBO.

01:52:49.140 --> 01:52:53.980
Great observation, Kristina, and reminder that as you're starting to look for those subtle color

01:52:53.980 --> 01:53:01.540
and albedo variations on the moon, the relatively bright albedo Earth might make those a little

01:53:01.540 --> 01:53:05.380
bit difficult, but as your eyes continue to adjust, we expect you to start to see more

01:53:05.380 --> 01:53:06.380
nuance on the moon.

01:53:06.380 --> 01:53:07.380
Thanks.

01:53:07.380 --> 01:53:08.380
Great call.

01:53:08.380 --> 01:53:09.380
Thanks for the reminder.

01:53:09.380 --> 01:53:18.020
Great call, thanks for the reminder.

01:53:18.020 --> 01:53:21.740
We're all going to be experts in lunar terminology by the end

01:53:21.740 --> 01:53:22.180
of the day.

01:53:22.180 --> 01:53:24.260
Another one we expect to hear is mares.

01:53:24.260 --> 01:53:26.940
These are dark regions paved or filled

01:53:26.940 --> 01:53:29.460
by volcanic deposits.

01:53:29.460 --> 01:53:32.020
You also can hear them called seas, oceans, lakes

01:53:32.020 --> 01:53:34.380
or marshes or other bodies of water.

01:53:34.380 --> 01:53:45.940
Again, we are live in Artemis Mission Control, but on the right side of your screen,

01:53:45.940 --> 01:53:48.100
that is the science evaluation room.

01:53:48.420 --> 01:53:51.220
Team members who have been preparing for this day for years.

01:53:53.020 --> 01:53:56.420
The crew has significantly darkened the cabin of Orion.

01:53:56.780 --> 01:54:01.700
This allows them better views outside the windows and fewer reflections from inside.

01:54:01.700 --> 01:54:07.180
They reported being able to see the moon and the earth

01:54:07.180 --> 01:54:09.380
at the same window at this time.

01:54:09.380 --> 01:54:11.740
We are really hopeful to get those photos.

01:54:11.740 --> 01:54:13.980
Right now, this view on the left side of your screen coming

01:54:13.980 --> 01:54:15.260
from a camera mounted on one

01:54:15.260 --> 01:54:18.460
of the solar array wings on Orion outside the spacecraft.

01:54:18.460 --> 01:54:25.220
The crew is equipped to 80 to,

01:54:25.220 --> 01:54:28.700
with 80 to 400 millimeter zoom lenses.

01:55:28.700 --> 01:55:47.260
The team continues their warm-up discussion.

01:55:47.260 --> 01:55:50.580
I should say the crew members of Board Orion continue their warm-up discussion.

01:55:50.580 --> 01:55:55.020
However, they are about to be prompted to move on to discussion number two, which is

01:55:55.020 --> 01:55:57.020
near side and far side.

01:55:57.020 --> 01:56:06.920
Some of the things that they are looking to capture, the ground has prompted them

01:56:06.920 --> 01:56:10.940
to photograph anything that stands out to them and to compare the near side

01:56:10.940 --> 01:56:15.900
versus the far side moire in color, albedo, topography, and texture.

01:56:15.900 --> 01:56:21.180
They also want the crew to compare the appearance of raid craters

01:56:21.180 --> 01:56:24.500
in the near side moire versus in the far side highlands.

01:56:24.500 --> 01:56:30.100
Of course, a reminder that some of the items that the crew or some of the landmarks the crew are seeing today is

01:56:30.620 --> 01:56:35.620
The first time that humans have ever laid eyes on those portions of the moon

01:56:35.620 --> 01:56:56.580
In the targeting package, there are a few reminders of the crew.

01:56:56.580 --> 01:57:01.940
For the crew, there are time-sensitive observation reminders

01:57:01.940 --> 01:57:04.940
and the science SITREP reminders.

01:57:04.940 --> 01:57:11.180
We have SITREP, the targets that are being discussed right now

01:57:11.180 --> 01:57:15.500
to the far side, near side comparison and hearing some great discussion

01:57:15.500 --> 01:57:18.340
of browns and greens and the Aristarchus Plateau

01:57:18.340 --> 01:57:21.020
and how those disappear as you go toward the north pole.

01:57:21.020 --> 01:57:24.540
And then over to the far side, you lose the color.

01:57:24.540 --> 01:57:33.540
You've got Jeremy in window 2, Reid in window 1, having a great discussion, Christina's

01:57:33.540 --> 01:57:39.540
under window, I'm sorry, Reid is in window 3, Christina's under window 1 documenting the

01:57:39.540 --> 01:57:40.540
discussion.

01:57:40.540 --> 01:57:44.540
And we've got the lights completely off in the cabin.

01:57:44.540 --> 01:57:50.540
There are some LEDs that we cannot put out that do provide some light scanner.

01:57:50.540 --> 01:57:59.940
But we have all of the internal whites off and are letting our eyes adjust as best we can.

01:58:00.940 --> 01:58:06.780
The window 4 view, you only get about a third of the moon.

01:58:06.780 --> 01:58:15.840
Tyco is going to go over the horizon soon and you can see Aristarchus and then you start

01:58:15.840 --> 01:58:20.120
to lose the view as you go to the west in the Oceanus

01:58:20.120 --> 01:58:20.920
and Procevarum.

01:58:23.600 --> 01:58:29.440
So far, the team is on the plan, and the long land

01:58:29.440 --> 01:58:34.280
is being put to good use, and recordings are being made,

01:58:34.280 --> 01:58:39.440
and internal documentation of the configuration,

01:58:39.440 --> 01:58:45.000
and the observations is ongoing.

01:58:45.000 --> 01:58:50.000
So, you have any questions for us at this time?

01:58:50.000 --> 01:58:55.000
Integrity science, Victor, very glad that you provided the first formal science sit-rep

01:58:55.000 --> 01:58:57.800
as these were indeed your idea.

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One follow-up question, any relationship between those browns and greens you described?

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Do you see them blending into one another and do you see any topography associated

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with either color?

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I don't want to bother the window team, I just heard that, I overheard that and so I'm sorry I don't have that detail yet, I will ease her up and see if I can pick that up.

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I will try to answer that at some point.

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I also heard a comparison of the Albedo in Aristarchus that created a very high Albedo spot you can see on the near side.

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There is a feature called, I believe, Burgess Alpha that is equally or maybe higher albedo.

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I apologize for the gaps.

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I'm trying to listen and talk at the same time.

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But I will try to get some more information to correlate those colors from Aristarchus for you.

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Understood, Victor.

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And good call to not bug the window team.

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Really like the brightness comparisons to Burgess A. Really helpful for the science team.

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Keep them coming.

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Thanks.

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I also heard a discussion about the albedo of Grimaldi being the 10 and how many of us

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when we were a little further away saw that as the darkest albedo and that bigger marie

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off to the west, sorry to the east was still dark but maybe a 7 and 8.

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We still think that, but you are saying color variation, albedo variation, inside of chromaldi

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as well, and that even on the west side there's still a very dark part of it, but it is still

02:00:57.900 --> 02:00:58.900
the darkest.

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It is just not as uniform as it looked when we were farther away.

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We're starting to differentiate the striations of albedo inside of chromaldi.

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Copy all, Victor, and you read our minds.

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Superlatives like darkest, bigest are really, really helpful for us, so keep those coming.

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As we were just mentioning, the crew is slated

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to perform these science SIT reps.

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They are prompted to do so by an icon

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in their lunar targeting plan.

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That one coming down from NASA astronaut and pilot

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of Artemis II, Victor Glover.

02:02:06.660 --> 02:02:22.500
As we discussed, the CAPCOM is usually the only person in the room speaking

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with the crew, the capsule communicator.

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However, today, the science officer, Dr. Kelsey Young,

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she is the Artemis Science Flight Operations Lead, is speaking with the crew during the flyby

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to ask any questions that the team may have.

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To her right is Trevor Graff.

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He is one of three science officers.

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Those would be Kelsey Young, Trevor Graff, and Angela Garcia,

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who will also join us later for an interview.

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And Houston Integrity was able to, excuse me, science, Integrity was able to get a view

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out of window one, which is a beautiful view.

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I can see the entire moon that they're looking at.

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We left the t-shirt up there, so I was kind of peeking through the opening

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and the makeshift trial there.

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And once I was able to get two eyes on it, what jumped out at me was fabelab.

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It's just peeking out of the terminator.

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It's clear of the terminator now, but it just really jumps out because it's still got

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the low light, the low sun angle.

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And so where the, you know, a Vavilov has that impact over the top of another crater

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where the two craters intersect on the eastern edge.

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So on the side closest to Oriental where the two crater rings intersect, the shadow

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there is the highest peak in the interior of Vavilov.

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So you can see that terrain is a,

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there's some real variation in the terrain there

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that there's a nice peak where those peaks intersect,

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I'm sorry, where those rings intersect.

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And we'll get a picture of that.

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Love the description, Victor,

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especially the comparison and relationships

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you just described about topography.

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And if it's easier for your observations,

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do feel free to remove the T-shirt shroud from window one.

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Absolutely. We will do. Thank you.

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Those calls coming from NASA astronaut Victor Glover, as we discussed, the crew is working in pairs

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at the windows.

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Right now, taking photos are Commander Reed Wiseman

02:05:36.320 --> 02:05:39.120
and mission specialist Jeremy Hansen serving

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as their support team or pilot Victor Glover

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and mission specialist Christina Cook.

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You're hearing those calls from Victor Glover

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as he is on that support team and he is tasked

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with providing the science SIT reps.

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While the two crew, photographing

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and making annotations of the moon are in windows two

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and three. Windows one and four are available for the support crew to fly up to. Obviously,

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look at the moon themselves and provide these science situational reports.

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The view on your screen is part of the lunar targeting package and it's something that the

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The crew can reference as they are flying by, but this is an animation.

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You also heard Glover mention Oriental.

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Oriental is a major feature that the team is interested in today,

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and it's known as the Grand Canyon of the Moon.

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Until this mission, Grant, the Oriental Basin had never been seen in sunlight by human eyes.

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Oriental Basin and its surrounding ejecta could fit within a straight line distance

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from NASA's Johnson Space Center where we are at today to a Kennedy Space Center.

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This alive view in Artemis Mission Control in Houston, Texas where the teams are monitoring

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all systems, not just for today's flyby, but on the spacecraft themselves.

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Again, this is a test flight, our very first flight of humans on the Orion spacecraft.

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This team has been live, this team has been monitoring the entire time of the mission,

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as well as we have been live the entirety of the mission, and we will be continuing

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to do so all the way through splashdown and crew recovery from the Pacific.

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This is a visualization from Aero, the Artemis real-time orbit website that you can also access

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at any time by visiting nasa.gov slash track Artemis showing us that we are now under 10,000

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miles from the moon, 9,948 to be specific and continuing to count down.

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Again, our closest approach to the moon today should come about 6 o'clock 2 p.m. Central,

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7 o'clock 2 p.m. Eastern. However, we will be out of contact with the crew at this time

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as they begin transiting behind the moon. At that time of closest approach, the distance

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from Orion to the lunar surface will be about 4,070 miles. Of course, these are

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estimates at this time and we'll be sure to provide you with the official numbers

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once that closest approach has been reached.

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This shot live inside the Orion spacecraft where our four crew members

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are continuing with their lunar flyby activities. They have just begun those

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activities really about 20 minutes ago, so we've got several hours of moon view

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opportunities. This is still a live view inside that capsule. However, you can see

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just how dark they have turned down the lights. Actually, they've turned them all

02:09:13.180 --> 02:09:17.300
the way off. There are a few LEDs that they cannot power off, but turning down

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these lights gives them better views outside of the spacecraft's windows

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while they photograph the moon. This also prevents any reflections from

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inside the spacecraft bouncing up on the windows and interfering with

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their photography.

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As we were previously discussing, the crew members are serving on teams,

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the first team being Commander Reed Wiseman and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen

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at the windows, photographing what they see.

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We heard reports earlier that they can see both the moon and the earth in the same view,

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and we are looking forward to seeing the moon and the earth in the same view as well.

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That earth set coming up in just a few hours.

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While Wiseman and Hanson are at the windows photographing,

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Glover and Cook are serving as support crew.

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They are able to assist with cameras.

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They are also providing those situation reports,

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letting us know how the team is working inside the spacecraft,

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what they're seeing and how they're feeling about it.

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Those first blocks of teams will last about an hour

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And the crew members are approaching the halfway point

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into their first observation block.

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And reminder, we have five of those blocks today.

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So they're approaching this halfway point during which the crew

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at the window will switch roles.

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One will begin taking pictures

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and the other will be making annotations on their PCD.

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That's portable computing device.

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Both of those crew members at the windows are recording audio

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of what they see.

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They are putting on headsets and recording audio

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into their portable computing devices.

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Obviously, we are not hearing this right now.

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This is going to be sent down to the science team,

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and they will be able to analyze that at a later time.

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What we are hearing though, and we'll continue to hear,

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are those science SIP reps a few times every block.

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Once this block is complete, about 40 minutes from now,

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we will have the teams switch.

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That means pilot Victor Glover and...

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I think I may have misreported earlier, saying that it was Tycho going over the horizon.

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That was Copernicus.

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I was referring to, apologies, it was Copernicus is what is farthest bounding to the east.

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And that is now like on the horizon or just past it.

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And the coral is now a few degrees from going over the horizon.

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And then, you know, next it'll be Aristarchus, Aristarchus flato.

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And so, on the west, we are getting a much better view of the terminator.

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It looks like we have about 80% of the illumination of the moon.

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And Vavilov, and one Vavilov diameter to the west is where the terminator is right now.

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And so, other features are starting to peak out there.

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The center of the illuminated part of the moon is, to the lower part is, is oriental.

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And just around oriental, a lot of light structure is starting to show up.

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A lot of high albedo, similar to the feature I cannot remember, just alpha.

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And there's darkest type of high albedo in the ring.

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So when you look at the interior ring and the external ring, it's almost as if the edges

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are starting to dry up and turn white.

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If it was something that was wet and got dry, the edges would be the part to dry first.

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You just kind of outline all the topography in the interior of that wall.

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It's like it was dusted with chalk or it started to dry or maybe dusted with snow.

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If this was the Earth, I would say there was snow

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dumped on some of the ridges on the interior of the rings

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of Oriental.

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Also, an interesting part of the discussion I heard

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between Reid and Jeremy is that from Galicianco

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to Grimaldi, there are two dark features there

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that look like commas, but in the wrong direction.

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but there's also a lot of interestingness, just a lot of geometry and squiggles and dots

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and lines that are starting to stand out as more small features come into view.

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And there also is a lot of variation in Albedo.

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And some of those, the two dark features, for example, have on the southern edge

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of the larger one, the one that's further to the south is a very dark,

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that the one albedo, like the southern and western part of Grimaldi, and the one to the

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north closer to Glushko is also that same dark albedo.

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And then around them, there are some very high albedo spots, just to the north of the

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lower, the southern one, and just to the west, the smaller one to the north, very

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very high albedo almost approaching the 10, a 9 or a 10, like Aristarchus, and lots of

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little bright spots are just starting to pop up in this view.

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To the north, as you look up at the north pole, there is a very distinct crater with

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a lot of very central, a very defined central peak that is also free in albedo.

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and all of that area past it going to the horizon gets lighter and lighter and is very, very high albedo.

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And I will go look and find the name of that feature if I can look that up.

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And then to the south, really getting some interesting geography and topography in the south pole, Aikin Basin.

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And the view of the south pole is quite amazing.

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We've got some Terminator there, as well as the Limb view,

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and there is a very distinct crater right at the south pole.

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And I'm going to go look up, I don't believe that is Aiken,

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but I'm going to go look up the name of that one,

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because it's also giving a lot of good topography

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due to the shadows that I'm seeing.

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But that's trying to bound the view that I'm seeing for you,

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and got distracted by all of these interesting albedo variations that are popping up in the

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interior. But that's the view that we see. Just a vautelab diameter to the west beyond

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is where the terminator is. Just beyond. I think Copernicus is the eastern most feature

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that we can see. A very nice ring to ferry, nice structure crater to the north with

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a great high-albedo central uplift to the north and the south is dotted by a very characteristic

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crater with a lot of terrain shadow features and I will go try to find some landmarks to

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put names with those.

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Any questions for the observation team?

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I love the descriptions.

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You're definitely looking odd up there.

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Appreciate seeing the training being implemented.

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Especially interested in your descriptions

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of the dark patches.

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You compared the comma-looking features

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to the LBWC and Grimaldi,

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and notice that you're starting

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to see those color differences popping out.

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Any observations you wanna make,

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especially when you get on the PCD in a little bit,

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would really help us tease out the differences

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in those dark Mare deposits.

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Great description, Victor.

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Keep them coming.

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Absolutely will do.

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And I know you've got descriptions

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on both of the window observers right now as well.

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Keep them coming.

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well-trained this crew is by the science team.

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NASA astronaut and pilot of the Artemis II mission,

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Victor Glover, calling down a situation report,

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noting several different features on the moon

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and such descriptions, even saying that it looks like snow

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on some of the peaks.

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Obviously, we do not expect that to be snow,

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but referencing that as some of the lighting

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on how it looks to the Artemis II crew

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from their current position.

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The team is slated to be switching their positions at the windows now, both Reed Wiseman

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and Jeremy Hansen have been at Windows 2 and 3, one taking photos,

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One, making observations and annotations

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on their portable computing device.

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At this time, we also anticipate

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that they are looking at a crater duo.

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One of those is Glushko, and the team is,

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and the other is Ohm.

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The team is looking to know the extent

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of Glushko's ray system and how its rays differ

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in the mare versus the highlands.

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They also want the team to compare the ray systems of Glushko to Ohm.

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Ohm is considered a young crater.

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If you've ever seen a photo of the rich hat structure, it's also known as the eye

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of the Sahara. It's 40 kilometers in diameter and that could fit within Ohm's interior.

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The team is specifically interested in descriptions of that ray visibility,

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including the color albedo. Remember albedo is the brightness or the surface reflection and the reach.

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Again, I am using the same lunar targeting package

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that the crew is referencing on board right now.

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This helps keep them on time as well as prompt them for when they need

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to make a call down to the science team and report what they're saying.

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It also gives them reminders of when they need to swap positions at the windows.

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Additionally, I'm using the Artemis II Lunar Science Passport developed

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by Amber Turner and the Artemis II Lunar Science Team.

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Now this passport did not fly with the crew, but they used it extensively as a study guide here on Earth.

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So a lot of the descriptions and comparisons you hear today are developed directly by the science team.

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We are now four days, 20 hours and 43 minutes.

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Science, integrity, that crater to the north, that is, it's like, we've got one in the

02:22:15.820 --> 02:22:21.220
north that looks like just a textbook crater, one on the south pole as well, but one on

02:22:21.220 --> 02:22:24.820
the north I think is Pythagoras.

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And what I wanted to highlight about that is it is either a very distinct central uplift

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or just a very defined area of high albedo.

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A majority of the crater, especially the floor of the crater is say an albedo of 5, this

02:22:45.900 --> 02:22:57.900
center, and gosh, only a tenth of the diameter of the vagus is an albedo of 2, maybe 3, but

02:22:57.900 --> 02:23:00.660
it is very bright and it stands out.

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And then between that crater and the actual, what is the horizon from here, there seems

02:23:08.180 --> 02:23:14.580
to be another crater right on the horizon and right on the edge of that is another patch

02:23:14.580 --> 02:23:15.580
of that albedo.

02:23:15.580 --> 02:23:20.300
It seems to be between the two craters, it's hard to tell from this grazing angle, but

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there is another spot just further north beyond the baggers.

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Between the two, I can draw a picture of this one and show you where that very

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high albedo, can another two albedo surrounded by five in most of the area.

02:23:35.740 --> 02:23:38.740
Bounding it.

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Integrity science, thanks for that. We agree with the Pythagoras assessment.

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And as a follow-up to your previous report, the SIR had questions about

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about topography comparisons between the north pole and the south pole of the moon, if you're

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willing to provide words on that.

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Topography comparisons, absolutely.

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And if you had any idea of what it do draw a line between the bactress and the western

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edge of the outer defined range of oriental intersects a beautiful text book creator

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on the south. I would love to know the name of that. The topography differences now the

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south pole has a little bit of a benefit that it has more of a determinator and I can

02:24:37.500 --> 02:24:47.500
see a little more shadowing there but there's a nice crater right at the south pole so

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The main thing defining the topography there seems to be quite a bit of elevation change.

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I can see some very jagged shadows at 90 degrees just to the west of that crater at the south pole.

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I can see a very distinct change in the shadow direction indicating, I don't know,

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a very high wall or a very deep canyon just to the west of that.

02:25:13.740 --> 02:25:24.580
And in the north, it seems to be that from sort of the edge of the Mare that's dark,

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which is maybe one potagoras' diameter south, if you draw a ring about that, you know,

02:25:32.940 --> 02:25:40.260
maybe the top seven degrees of the moon and just draw a ring around that, the near side

02:25:40.260 --> 02:25:45.260
in an albedo of five, and it looks quite smooth from here.

02:25:45.500 --> 02:25:48.460
And then along the same edge of the Mare,

02:25:48.460 --> 02:25:51.420
the edge of the Mare, that kind of grimaldi's just outside

02:25:51.420 --> 02:25:53.900
of, Lushko is just outside of,

02:25:53.900 --> 02:25:56.260
Carroll Crater is just outside of,

02:25:56.260 --> 02:25:57.940
and you start to see this dark differences

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between the darker seven, eights, and the fives,

02:26:01.020 --> 02:26:03.580
and sixes, the fours and fives.

02:26:03.580 --> 02:26:05.700
If you follow that line up to the north,

02:26:05.700 --> 02:26:07.820
that line is also where the change

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in topography happens at the north pole,

02:26:10.380 --> 02:26:12.620
the line defining the light and dark

02:26:13.940 --> 02:26:16.940
on the edge of the Mare that you can see from Earth.

02:26:16.940 --> 02:26:19.060
Draw that line roughly the midpoint of all

02:26:19.060 --> 02:26:20.780
that straight to the north pole.

02:26:20.780 --> 02:26:23.100
And on the side facing the Earth,

02:26:23.100 --> 02:26:25.500
you see smoother topography

02:26:25.500 --> 02:26:29.220
and dotted by the back of its next door neighbor crater.

02:26:29.220 --> 02:26:30.860
And then on the far side,

02:26:30.860 --> 02:26:34.780
you see a lot more cratering and a lot more topography.

02:26:34.780 --> 02:26:39.780
And again, the far side has the benefit of a little terminator there,

02:26:39.780 --> 02:26:43.500
but I am seeing a variation in the topography.

02:26:43.500 --> 02:26:52.220
It seems to be more jagged and a more challenging place to find a place to land

02:26:52.220 --> 02:26:57.220
and to even traverse in the south all around the south pole.

02:26:57.220 --> 02:27:02.580
And at the north pole, it seems to be it would be more challenging to translate

02:27:02.580 --> 02:27:06.380
on the far side of the North Pole compared to the near side

02:27:06.380 --> 02:27:09.020
of the North Pole around the Magus.

02:27:12.260 --> 02:27:13.480
Copy all, Victor.

02:27:13.480 --> 02:27:16.360
You really helped paint a contextual picture

02:27:16.360 --> 02:27:17.340
of what you're looking at.

02:27:17.340 --> 02:27:20.020
We really appreciate the way that you're guiding us

02:27:20.020 --> 02:27:23.380
into the areas you're seeing by drawing comparisons

02:27:23.380 --> 02:27:25.260
between recognizable features.

02:27:25.260 --> 02:27:26.060
Thanks for that.

02:27:26.060 --> 02:27:43.500
And, Kelsey, another little science moment, something I just heard from the window team

02:27:43.500 --> 02:27:47.180
is, the more I look at the moon, the browner and browner it looks.

02:27:47.180 --> 02:27:49.700
I thought that was an interesting observation.

02:27:49.700 --> 02:27:54.140
The two observers have been on timeline, no hardware issues.

02:27:54.140 --> 02:27:59.140
They did start to talk a little bit about another feature that you'll hear more

02:27:59.140 --> 02:28:03.580
about on the recordings that they called a handprint that was at the end of their glushco

02:28:03.580 --> 02:28:05.580
and before they moved into their current target,

02:28:05.580 --> 02:28:08.100
they thought that was worth chatting a little bit more about.

02:28:08.100 --> 02:28:10.700
And they're preparing to switch after this.

02:28:10.700 --> 02:28:15.700
Houston copies and converse.

02:28:15.700 --> 02:28:31.700
Houston, science, actually Houston, science integrity, another just observation from the human.

02:28:31.700 --> 02:28:34.700
My eyes have shifted a little bit since I've been up here.

02:28:34.700 --> 02:28:37.700
I've been wearing my reading glasses to look at the PCD.

02:28:37.700 --> 02:28:42.780
Well, this is a very taxing event on the eyes, looking out the window and seeing the very

02:28:42.780 --> 02:28:48.580
bright moon and coming back inside to the dark cabin and trying to work cameras and microphones

02:28:48.580 --> 02:28:52.500
and logistics and lunch and those kinds of things.

02:28:52.500 --> 02:28:57.220
And then looking at the PCD, which is dimly lit, it's just been an exercise.

02:28:57.220 --> 02:28:59.220
It is a difficult thing to manage.

02:28:59.220 --> 02:29:03.740
I'm up and down on the glasses and then having to wait is my eyes adjust when I

02:29:03.740 --> 02:29:04.740
come back in.

02:29:04.740 --> 02:29:07.540
As I look back into the cabin from looking out the window,

02:29:07.540 --> 02:29:12.100
I can feel my eyes adjusting, and I just have to work through it as they adjust.

02:29:15.860 --> 02:29:20.300
Appreciate that report, Victor, and know that we are prepared to read you up targets

02:29:20.300 --> 02:29:25.180
from the ground if that would give you the ability to keep your eyes focused on the moon

02:29:25.180 --> 02:29:27.420
and not having to swap between that and the PCD.

02:29:27.540 --> 02:29:28.100
Just let us know.

02:29:34.740 --> 02:29:44.940
Yeah, we appreciate that science and we will also do that for the window teams and we'll

02:29:44.940 --> 02:29:47.420
back each other up that way as well, but we appreciate that.

02:29:47.420 --> 02:29:52.420
We may take you up on that.

02:29:52.420 --> 02:29:57.340
Thanks.

02:29:57.340 --> 02:30:02.060
Continued detailed descriptions from the Artemis-2 crew aboard Orion.

02:30:02.060 --> 02:30:07.660
Again, this is a test flight the first time we've flown humans aboard this spacecraft.

02:30:07.660 --> 02:30:12.300
So every detail, even that it's difficult to look outside the window and then back at

02:30:12.300 --> 02:30:17.660
the PCD, that portable computing device, every single detail is appreciated as we prepare

02:30:17.660 --> 02:30:20.900
for future missions.

02:30:20.900 --> 02:30:24.540
Glover also mentioned that he is now wearing his glasses, now that he's in space and

02:30:24.540 --> 02:30:26.460
that his eyes have shifted a bit.

02:30:26.460 --> 02:30:30.060
This is something that happens when our astronauts go to space.

02:30:30.060 --> 02:30:34.260
There is a fluid shift from the lower half of your body up into your head

02:30:34.260 --> 02:30:36.740
and that can cause changes in your eyes.

02:30:36.740 --> 02:30:42.180
It's something that we have seen over time for some crew members, especially now that we have been living

02:30:42.180 --> 02:30:45.720
and working on the International Space Station for over 25 years.

02:30:46.140 --> 02:30:56.820
Again, it's clear that these Artemis-View astronauts have undergone extensive lunar science training,

02:30:56.820 --> 02:30:59.380
including classroom instruction, fieldwork,

02:30:59.380 --> 02:31:01.460
and high fidelity simulations.

02:31:02.060 --> 02:31:04.980
Training expeditions even took place in analog environments

02:31:04.980 --> 02:31:06.300
like the Icelandic Highlands

02:31:06.300 --> 02:31:09.200
and the Chem-Assassin Impact Crater in Labrador,

02:31:09.500 --> 02:31:11.760
where crews practiced identifying

02:31:11.760 --> 02:31:15.140
and describing geologic features under varying conditions.

02:31:21.540 --> 02:31:23.420
Additionally, here at Johnson Space Center,

02:31:23.420 --> 02:31:29.180
Orion mock-ups were used to rehearse crew choreography including three-dimensional space

02:31:29.180 --> 02:31:34.940
management with an inflatable moon globe to simulate the flyby. And while on Earth the crew

02:31:34.940 --> 02:31:39.260
also used that small lunar passport that I mentioned with descriptions photos and prompts

02:31:39.260 --> 02:31:43.980
to help them study the features we hope they'll see. Now this is a view from their lunar

02:31:43.980 --> 02:31:48.460
targeting package at this time helping them determine what they're seeing on the moon

02:31:48.460 --> 02:31:52.300
as well as on the left, keep up with what their next target will be.

02:31:52.300 --> 02:31:56.460
As you can see, we have got a long list and an exciting day ahead of us.

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It's now been four days, 20 hours and 53 minutes since Orion launched the top

02:32:13.860 --> 02:32:16.940
of the Space Launch System rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida

02:32:16.940 --> 02:32:20.940
with our four crew members aboard, NASA astronauts Reed Wiseman,

02:32:21.060 --> 02:32:24.680
Victor Glover, and Christina Cook and Canadian Space Agency

02:32:24.680 --> 02:32:26.240
astronaut Jeremy Hansen.

02:32:35.240 --> 02:32:38.480
The Artemis II crew passed a major milestone today

02:32:38.560 --> 02:32:41.300
when they passed the Apollo 13 distance record

02:32:41.300 --> 02:32:44.940
at 1257 p.m. central, 157 p.m. eastern.

02:32:44.940 --> 02:32:52.300
That Apollo 13 distance record was 248,655 statute miles from Earth.

02:32:52.300 --> 02:32:55.280
And you've been another observation, the whole moon.

02:32:55.280 --> 02:33:01.420
When you look at the moon, something I've never seen in photographs before, but is very apparent,

02:33:01.720 --> 02:33:06.760
all the really bright new craters, some of them are super tiny.

02:33:06.760 --> 02:33:08.900
Most of them are pretty small.

02:33:08.900 --> 02:33:12.080
There's a couple that really stand out, obviously.

02:33:12.080 --> 02:33:20.520
And what it really looks like is like a lampshade with tiny pinprick holes and the light shining through.

02:33:20.520 --> 02:33:23.280
They are so bright compared to the rest of the men.

02:33:27.060 --> 02:33:28.220
We copy Christina.

02:33:28.220 --> 02:33:29.220
Thank you.

02:33:29.220 --> 02:33:34.160
Looks like you guys might be doing it, but it reminds you to swap positions at the window

02:33:34.160 --> 02:33:36.180
and take your SD cards with you.

02:33:36.180 --> 02:33:39.260
We're loving everything that you're calling down, so keep it up.

02:33:42.080 --> 02:34:11.800
Again, Orion previously surpassed the Apollo 13 greatest distance from Earth by humans

02:34:11.800 --> 02:34:17.200
That was 248,655 statute miles from Earth and Orion.

02:34:17.200 --> 02:34:22.540
Now, 250,294 miles away from our home planet.

02:34:23.260 --> 02:34:26.980
The spacecraft is 9,033 miles away from the Moon

02:34:26.980 --> 02:34:28.300
and growing ever closer.

02:34:28.700 --> 02:34:32.840
At its closest approach, it will be about 4,070 miles away

02:34:32.840 --> 02:34:35.600
and we will make sure we confirm what

02:34:35.600 --> 02:34:37.060
that distance ends up being.

02:34:37.060 --> 02:34:39.800
This is an approximation and an estimate ahead

02:34:39.800 --> 02:34:40.820
of that moment.

02:34:40.820 --> 02:34:48.620
We're anticipating them to make that closest approach at 6.02 p.m. Central 702 Eastern when they are in a loss of signal

02:34:48.800 --> 02:34:56.100
Transiting behind the moon. They will be the first humans in over 50 years to fly behind the moon and lose contact with earth

02:34:56.700 --> 02:35:02.280
We will regain that contact about 40 minutes later as they reconnect to the deep space network

02:35:02.580 --> 02:35:06.460
Emerging from behind the moon and we will look forward to seeing an earth rise

02:35:10.820 --> 02:35:28.020
Again, the crew is currently in their position swap portion on their timeline.

02:35:28.020 --> 02:35:35.140
This allows crew members the opportunity and the experience of all roles necessary during

02:35:35.140 --> 02:35:37.180
today's fly by.

02:35:37.180 --> 02:35:44.180
Right now those two quivers at the window have swap positions.

02:36:07.180 --> 02:36:15.020
Again, the crew at the window's swapping positions.

02:36:15.020 --> 02:36:17.500
Right now, that crew is Commander Reed Wiseman

02:36:17.500 --> 02:36:19.780
and mission specialist Jeremy Hansen,

02:36:19.780 --> 02:36:21.860
while Victor Glover and Christina Cook serve

02:36:21.860 --> 02:36:24.300
as their support flyby crew members.

02:36:24.300 --> 02:36:26.540
That's why you are hearing Victor and Christina

02:36:26.540 --> 02:36:29.300
during those science situation reports.

02:36:29.300 --> 02:36:31.620
Those voices will change in about 30 minutes

02:36:31.620 --> 02:36:33.980
when they take a turn taking photos

02:36:33.980 --> 02:36:37.100
and making annotations while at the window.

02:37:37.100 --> 02:38:06.100
Houston Integrity, I wanted to provide an observation for a little bit of,

02:38:06.100 --> 02:38:15.100
of descriptive nature on something that we saw on the first day we had good moon views.

02:38:15.100 --> 02:38:21.100
This was when we saw more of the nearside and the ground helped me out with identifying

02:38:21.100 --> 02:38:23.100
Murray embryum.

02:38:23.100 --> 02:38:29.100
Murray embryum, when you have the western limb also in view, looks completely different

02:38:29.100 --> 02:38:32.100
than the normal view we have of the nearside.

02:38:32.100 --> 02:38:35.140
It is the most striking feature

02:38:35.140 --> 02:38:38.060
of the Western limb view that we had.

02:38:38.060 --> 02:38:43.060
And the mountain chains that form its eastern side

02:38:43.100 --> 02:38:44.940
are very prominent,

02:38:44.940 --> 02:38:47.820
but they actually stand out more

02:38:47.820 --> 02:38:50.700
than I'm used to seeing even on the western side.

02:38:50.700 --> 02:38:54.060
And the whole thing just feels like a big bump.

02:38:54.060 --> 02:38:58.140
It actually looks like a large healing wound

02:38:58.140 --> 02:39:02.180
with a high albedo forming the mountain chain

02:39:02.180 --> 02:39:05.260
around the impact basin.

02:39:05.260 --> 02:39:08.500
And it's a, I just don't think I had had enough chance

02:39:08.500 --> 02:39:12.460
to describe how striking it was on that western land view

02:39:12.460 --> 02:39:14.700
as we were coming in a couple of days ago.

02:39:18.700 --> 02:39:20.980
Christina, science absolutely loved that,

02:39:20.980 --> 02:39:22.980
especially since that's a feature

02:39:22.980 --> 02:39:25.540
that all of us here on earth can observe from home.

02:39:25.540 --> 02:39:28.020
So I'm sure tonight everyone's gonna be going out

02:39:28.020 --> 02:39:30.300
and looking for evidence of that beautiful topography

02:39:30.300 --> 02:39:31.140
you just said.

02:39:31.140 --> 02:39:32.140
Thanks for those words.

02:40:58.020 --> 02:41:10.540
The view on your screen coming from Orion, a camera mounted on the spacecraft's solar

02:41:10.540 --> 02:41:13.740
array wing.

02:41:13.740 --> 02:41:20.100
Toward the right of your screen, the near side is the hemisphere we see from Earth.

02:41:20.100 --> 02:41:24.580
That is identifiable by those dark splotches which are ancient lava flows.

02:41:24.580 --> 02:41:29.580
sorry, science integrity question and a comment.

02:41:30.740 --> 02:41:33.200
Question is, is it possible that we're seeing

02:41:33.200 --> 02:41:36.840
a Schrodinger basin from this vantage point

02:41:36.840 --> 02:41:39.860
in the Terminator at the South Pole?

02:41:39.860 --> 02:41:44.380
And the comment is, ohm, the rays coming out of ohm

02:41:44.380 --> 02:41:45.220
are less distinct.

02:41:45.220 --> 02:41:49.660
We are not seeing the bright rays coming out of it,

02:41:49.660 --> 02:41:51.880
but the sort of nine o'clock wedge

02:41:51.880 --> 02:41:54.220
that is formed by the change in albedo

02:41:54.220 --> 02:41:58.820
from the interior portion, that is to the northeast,

02:41:58.820 --> 02:42:02.740
to the surrounding Lidermare, that's, you know,

02:42:02.740 --> 02:42:06.580
270 degrees to the west.

02:42:06.580 --> 02:42:09.340
That 90 is very distinct and interior.

02:42:09.340 --> 02:42:11.020
You've got some great descriptions from the two

02:42:11.020 --> 02:42:13.020
at the window about the colors in there,

02:42:13.020 --> 02:42:14.820
but in that darker part, in that wedge,

02:42:14.820 --> 02:42:16.500
you've got some really interesting color,

02:42:16.500 --> 02:42:19.940
even though the rays, the distinct difference

02:42:19.940 --> 02:42:23.140
in the albedo almost look like rays,

02:42:23.140 --> 02:42:25.000
but it's not the rays coming out.

02:42:25.000 --> 02:42:27.100
It's the, just changing that albedo.

02:42:30.020 --> 02:42:32.820
Integrity science, that is very intriguing.

02:42:32.820 --> 02:42:35.600
Those color rays coming out of OAM

02:42:35.600 --> 02:42:38.060
rather than sort of albedo.

02:42:38.060 --> 02:42:40.500
And the answer to your question,

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we do not think you can see Schrodinger.

02:42:42.900 --> 02:42:46.060
It's in darkness as of now,

02:42:46.060 --> 02:42:47.380
but thanks for that OAM description.

02:42:47.380 --> 02:42:48.940
And it sounds like the pair at the windows

02:42:48.940 --> 02:42:50.460
got great descriptions that we're definitely

02:42:50.460 --> 02:42:51.620
gonna dive into tonight.

02:42:53.140 --> 02:43:02.660
Okay. If you could help me, I was still looking to know what it is. There's a very nice crater.

02:43:02.660 --> 02:43:08.920
I'd like to have a lot of pictures of it. What would be right in the terminal at the

02:43:08.920 --> 02:43:14.700
south pole or close to the south pole where it's intersecting the terminal right now?

02:43:14.700 --> 02:43:20.360
Yeah, Victor, we're assuming you're talking about, you know, kind of if you're looking

02:43:20.360 --> 02:43:27.480
at the terminator it's basically like 70% down from the North Pole. Is that where you're looking?

02:43:35.240 --> 02:43:36.920
Contact, yes. That is where I'm looking.

02:43:43.000 --> 02:43:49.480
In Tigardee Houston, that is an enabled caution for wastewater dump required. We have hit our

02:43:49.480 --> 02:43:51.480
limit as expected, no correction.

02:43:58.480 --> 02:43:59.480
Copy no correction.

02:44:09.480 --> 02:44:11.480
You are an integrity science.

02:44:11.480 --> 02:44:13.480
We're trying to figure out what you're looking at there.

02:44:13.480 --> 02:44:18.480
Is it like right on the terminator or is it in the eliminated portion next to

02:44:18.480 --> 02:44:20.480
to the Terminator.

02:44:48.480 --> 02:44:50.280
While we wait for a response from the crew,

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the Terminator is that difference between day and night

02:44:54.140 --> 02:44:56.640
or brightness and darkness that you see on the moon.

02:44:59.980 --> 02:45:01.920
We see this from the International Space Station

02:45:01.920 --> 02:45:03.180
as well looking down at Earth.

02:45:04.060 --> 02:45:09.820
And science from integrity excuse my space orientation

02:45:09.820 --> 02:45:13.060
adaptation if you draw a line between Blue Scho

02:45:13.320 --> 02:45:17.460
through the center of Oriental and then another line

02:45:17.460 --> 02:45:22.180
from Blushko through the southern tangent of Bore and Tall,

02:45:22.460 --> 02:45:28.760
that line would almost perfectly intersect tangentially the crater

02:45:28.760 --> 02:45:30.440
that I'm talking about and it is on the terminator.

02:45:30.440 --> 02:45:33.060
So yeah, I think I'm not looking at the south pole.

02:45:33.060 --> 02:45:34.680
I was a little twisted.

02:45:37.840 --> 02:45:40.000
That line description was really helpful.

02:45:40.000 --> 02:45:41.660
I have eyes on the sir right now

02:45:41.660 --> 02:45:44.520
and they are actively discussing lunar geography.

02:45:44.520 --> 02:45:45.740
We will be back with you shortly.

02:45:47.460 --> 02:45:59.700
You're hearing a couple of voices today in Mission Control Houston.

02:45:59.700 --> 02:46:02.060
One of those is Dr. Kelsey Young.

02:46:02.260 --> 02:46:04.700
Integrity Science, we believe that's Zeman Crater.

02:46:12.060 --> 02:46:14.580
I'll walk over the way from the speaker, say it again, please.

02:46:14.580 --> 02:46:19.740
We believe that that is Zeeman Crater.

02:46:19.740 --> 02:46:29.980
Zeeman, okay, and can you say the first letter?

02:46:29.980 --> 02:46:31.060
I may be pronouncing that wrong.

02:46:31.060 --> 02:46:32.420
What's the first letter of that word?

02:46:32.420 --> 02:46:38.060
Zulu. It's Z-E-E-M-A-N.

02:46:38.060 --> 02:46:52.060
Copy. Thank you for that. Yes, we've got a great view of that. And when I went back to the window just now, the view has completely changed.

02:46:52.060 --> 02:47:01.060
Our trajectory is taking us to a new view, and I'm looking more into battle law, but I've got a nice great view into battle law.

02:47:01.060 --> 02:47:06.060
I'm actually away from the window right now, so I'm going to go try to give you some bounding origin of the view that we're seeing.

02:47:06.060 --> 02:47:11.980
But I've got to get back to a window in a minute.

02:47:11.980 --> 02:47:28.620
Understood, Victoria, you're defining new views of the moon in more ways than one.

02:47:28.620 --> 02:47:33.260
Again, when you hear calls down to science or from science, that's Dr. Kelsey Young,

02:47:33.260 --> 02:47:37.340
the Artemis science flight operations lead here at a console in mission control.

02:47:37.880 --> 02:47:42.980
You also hear communications with the crew from Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jenny Gibbons.

02:47:43.300 --> 02:47:44.720
She is the CAPCOM for today.

02:47:44.720 --> 02:47:46.820
She is a backup Artemis II crew member.

02:47:51.640 --> 02:47:56.420
Those calls from pilot Victor Glover asking about a feature he was seeing,

02:47:56.420 --> 02:47:58.360
specifically a crater on the moon.

02:47:58.360 --> 02:48:05.080
Meanwhile, the team here in the Science Evaluation Room was actively working together

02:48:05.080 --> 02:48:07.800
to determine what feature he was describing.

02:48:13.800 --> 02:48:17.160
The teams at the window have continued to move through their targets,

02:48:17.160 --> 02:48:22.440
including Ohm, Aristarchus Plateau, Reiner Gamma, and we are preparing for the cabin

02:48:22.440 --> 02:48:27.400
and window teams to swap. That's when we'll hear more from Reed Wiseman

02:48:27.400 --> 02:48:30.880
and Jeremy Hansen when they take on these support roles while Christina Cook

02:48:30.880 --> 02:48:34.440
and Victor Glover are at the windows photographing and annotating.

02:48:44.280 --> 02:48:48.840
As we briefly mentioned, if you look towards the right side of the moon essentially,

02:48:57.400 --> 02:49:18.200
This live view coming from a camera outside the Orion spacecraft and if you look on the

02:49:18.200 --> 02:49:21.840
right side of the moon where you see those dark patches.

02:49:21.840 --> 02:49:29.080
I wish I had some more time to just sit here and describe what I'm seeing,

02:49:29.080 --> 02:49:31.880
but the terminator right now is just fantastic.

02:49:32.280 --> 02:49:36.320
It is the most rugged that I've seen it from a lighting perspective.

02:49:36.320 --> 02:49:39.240
There are little islands, there are islands of terrain out there

02:49:39.240 --> 02:49:46.020
that are completely surrounded by darkness, which indicates some real variation in terrain.

02:49:46.520 --> 02:49:50.560
Up to the north, there is a very nice double crater.

02:49:50.560 --> 02:49:55.040
It looks like a snowman sitting there, you know,

02:49:55.040 --> 02:49:59.560
in the five, 10 degrees below the pole, in the terminator.

02:49:59.560 --> 02:50:02.360
And then on the southern edge, there's almost like a hole.

02:50:02.360 --> 02:50:03.560
It looks like a hole.

02:50:03.560 --> 02:50:11.240
And it's a diameter of Babylon, size, just blackness.

02:50:11.240 --> 02:50:14.560
And then a wall of bright.

02:50:14.560 --> 02:50:16.840
And then it goes back to the black beyond the terminator.

02:50:16.840 --> 02:50:20.040
So there's just, it looks like there's just a gigantic hole

02:50:20.040 --> 02:50:26.040
right there, one Babylon diameter east of the terminator.

02:50:26.040 --> 02:50:30.040
And as you go south, the terminator is not a nice smooth arc.

02:50:30.040 --> 02:50:31.040
It's just jagged.

02:50:31.040 --> 02:50:38.040
There's almost a 110 degree turn in the shadow as opposed to the nice smooth arc,

02:50:38.040 --> 02:50:41.040
again, indicating some really interesting variations.

02:50:41.040 --> 02:50:44.040
And I'm sure we'll get some photos of that.

02:50:44.040 --> 02:50:51.040
And then one of the craters further to the south of Vandalov,

02:50:51.040 --> 02:50:58.040
maybe halfway down to the south pole, is not only a very,

02:50:58.040 --> 02:51:00.040
it looks again like just a deep hole.

02:51:00.040 --> 02:51:06.040
And then there's like two island rays pointing off to the west and north

02:51:06.040 --> 02:51:12.040
that indicate very high ridges and very deep canyons coming up out of that crater.

02:51:12.040 --> 02:51:17.760
So, again, just some really interesting visual illusions going on with the shadows there.

02:51:17.760 --> 02:51:23.960
Like I said, they look like they're looked to be islands out beyond the terminator because

02:51:23.960 --> 02:51:31.160
some of the things, maybe even a vautelot diameter into the terminator are catching sunlight

02:51:31.160 --> 02:51:33.920
on the peaks of the north and to the south.

02:51:33.920 --> 02:51:39.120
It's very, very interesting to see.

02:51:39.120 --> 02:51:43.600
Integrity science, oh my gosh, that was an amazing picture you just painted.

02:51:43.600 --> 02:51:47.900
I glanced over at the serve video and I literally saw fist pumps in the air.

02:51:48.300 --> 02:51:53.180
Those types of observations are things that humans are uniquely able to contribute

02:51:53.460 --> 02:51:56.020
and you just really brought us along with you.

02:51:56.020 --> 02:51:56.820
So thanks for that.

02:52:09.120 --> 02:52:20.880
Did you get a set rep update to you on a slight change in logistics for PCD use?

02:52:20.880 --> 02:52:24.480
Christina, this is Houston.

02:52:24.480 --> 02:52:31.520
We did not, but we will take it now.

02:52:31.520 --> 02:52:35.160
We slightly changed the PCD plan for the window observers.

02:52:35.160 --> 02:52:37.840
The two window observers captured their PCD.

02:52:37.840 --> 02:52:42.680
So in other words, the one that window 2 went to window 3, and the one that window 3 went

02:52:42.680 --> 02:52:46.360
to window 2 when they swapped rather than staying at the window.

02:52:46.360 --> 02:52:52.200
We'll plan on all observers keeping the same PCD for all observations.

02:52:56.040 --> 02:52:56.840
Copy, Christina.

02:52:56.840 --> 02:52:59.200
That makes sense to us, and good plan.

02:52:59.560 --> 02:53:04.120
We are coming up here on a cabin and window team swap.

02:53:04.640 --> 02:53:06.680
Let me know when you're ready for a quick vehicle status.

02:53:37.840 --> 02:53:53.600
As you heard, science.

02:53:53.600 --> 02:53:56.040
Go for the vehicle system update.

02:53:56.040 --> 02:53:59.160
How do you read?

02:53:59.160 --> 02:54:00.520
We don't have much for you.

02:54:00.520 --> 02:54:04.040
We just wanted to let you know that toilet right now is no go

02:54:04.040 --> 02:54:07.320
for use as we stick with the predetermined limits.

02:54:07.320 --> 02:54:13.160
For now, all crew members, please use CCUs.

02:54:13.960 --> 02:54:16.300
Otherwise, Orion is looking very good.

02:54:17.000 --> 02:54:20.340
And you have 15 minutes in this handover time

02:54:20.340 --> 02:54:24.460
where we expect Victor and Christina to switch to the windows

02:54:24.460 --> 02:54:27.940
and you and Jeremy to be in the cabin assisting.

02:54:28.820 --> 02:54:30.680
Let us know if you have any questions.

02:54:30.680 --> 02:54:40.680
I know questions at all and they're in the swap right now.

02:54:40.680 --> 02:54:43.680
The first thing I'll play is floating up to the docking hatch window.

02:54:43.680 --> 02:54:54.680
And just, what I'm going to call the boring around,

02:54:54.680 --> 02:54:57.680
orientologists look so different out the docking hatch right now.

02:54:57.680 --> 02:55:03.280
right now it's quite a bit darker. It's the same darkness, not a little darker than Grimaldi,

02:55:04.000 --> 02:55:09.920
but it's cool after just being in the 400 mil for the last half hour looking up the clothes. I

02:55:09.920 --> 02:55:14.320
got pictures of everything I was just describing on the terminator. It really is a fascinating

02:55:14.320 --> 02:55:20.480
terminator and then oriental, this looks so, it looks so dynamic right now. It's very

02:55:20.480 --> 02:55:23.920
three-dimensional on the docky hatch compared to what I was just looking at through the 400 mil.

02:55:23.920 --> 02:55:32.280
We are getting a sneak preview from one of our SAW cameras of what you're looking at,

02:55:32.280 --> 02:55:34.000
and we see some of what you're describing.

02:55:34.000 --> 02:55:35.760
We cannot wait to see your photos.

02:55:36.000 --> 02:55:36.260
Thanks.

02:55:42.560 --> 02:55:49.520
Yeah, Jenny, I wish you had some longer lenses on the solar array so you could see the whole

02:55:49.520 --> 02:55:55.520
Move, buddy, man, it is, or the up close, not the whole way, but it is just fascinating here, it's so cool.

02:55:55.520 --> 02:56:02.520
All right, MPO and INCO take notes, we want to zoom lens on those saws next time. Thanks, Reed.

02:56:06.520 --> 02:56:08.520
Hey, Permanent.

02:56:08.520 --> 02:56:21.820
As the crew gets ready to switch positions from the window crew going back to the support

02:56:21.820 --> 02:56:27.760
crew and the support crew flying up to the windows, this view inside the room, Capcom,

02:56:27.760 --> 02:56:31.860
Jenny Gibbons speaking with the crew, Canadian Space Agency astronaut.

02:56:31.860 --> 02:56:37.480
The crew has continued to provide excellent descriptions of what they are seeing on the

02:56:37.480 --> 02:56:43.640
lunar surface. In this picture or in this live view actually from Orion and a camera mounted

02:56:43.640 --> 02:56:49.400
on its solar array wing, if you look at the dark portion on the right side of the screen,

02:56:49.400 --> 02:56:52.360
those are visible from Earth. That's considered the near side.

02:56:54.280 --> 02:56:58.600
Those are ancient lava flows from a time early in the Moon's history when it was

02:56:58.600 --> 02:57:04.760
volcanically active. If you look towards the left, there's that dark large crater that appears

02:57:04.760 --> 02:57:09.320
above to the left of those lava flows, that's Orient Hall Basin.

02:57:09.320 --> 02:57:12.600
It's about 600 miles wide and it straddles the moon's near

02:57:12.600 --> 02:57:15.120
and far side and this mission is the first time

02:57:15.120 --> 02:57:17.440
that humans have ever been able to see this

02:57:17.440 --> 02:57:18.920
with their eyes in the daylight.

02:57:18.920 --> 02:57:25.800
Again, you hear conversation about that terminator.

02:57:25.800 --> 02:57:27.280
You have a great view of that as well.

02:57:27.280 --> 02:57:29.000
That's the difference between light

02:57:29.000 --> 02:57:30.960
and darkness on the moon.

02:57:30.960 --> 02:57:37.840
Victor Glover explaining that as a very jagged looking terminator due to the peaks that they're seeing

02:57:37.840 --> 02:57:42.160
and the craters that they're seeing as they prepare to cross over the far side.

02:57:51.920 --> 02:57:58.160
You also heard science officer, the Dr. Kelsey Young Artemis Science Flight Operations

02:57:58.160 --> 02:58:03.440
lead, sharing with Victor Glover that his responses are truly something that only human

02:58:03.440 --> 02:58:05.800
eyes can discern or provide.

02:58:05.800 --> 02:58:09.480
So we've previously discussed how having humans observing the moon on this mission is being

02:58:09.480 --> 02:58:14.840
combined with lunar robotic data to help us maximize what we know about the moon.

02:58:14.840 --> 02:58:19.520
So part of that data comes from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO.

02:58:19.520 --> 02:58:24.360
This orbiter provides the robotic foundation that makes Artemis II lunar science possible.

02:58:24.360 --> 02:58:27.640
LRO has been orbiting the Moon for 17 years,

02:58:27.640 --> 02:58:30.960
which makes it the longest operated lunar orbiter in history.

02:58:30.960 --> 02:58:34.440
And it's also the only American spacecraft dedicated specifically

02:58:34.440 --> 02:58:36.440
to lunar science and exploration.

02:58:39.600 --> 02:58:42.960
Artemis-2 lunar observations are designed to complement data

02:58:42.960 --> 02:58:45.880
like the detailed surface images from LRO.

02:58:45.880 --> 02:58:49.200
So while LRO provides those detailed high-resolution maps

02:58:49.200 --> 02:58:52.260
of the Moon's surface, the Artemis-2 crew adds human

02:58:52.260 --> 02:58:57.100
observations that focus on regional contexts and relationships between features, giving

02:58:57.100 --> 02:59:01.920
scientists a larger geologic picture.

02:59:01.920 --> 02:59:06.620
This combination of robotic and human observations strengthens lunar science.

02:59:06.620 --> 02:59:12.340
LRO delivers precise and repeatable measurements over long periods of time, while the Artemis-2

02:59:12.340 --> 02:59:17.780
crew contributes real-time visual descriptions and contexts that robotic instruments alone

02:59:17.780 --> 02:59:20.100
cannot provide.

02:59:20.100 --> 02:59:24.700
The best description I've heard while preparing for this mission is to compare the difference

02:59:24.700 --> 02:59:28.620
in looking at the moon with your own eyes on Earth and trying to take a picture with

02:59:28.620 --> 02:59:29.700
a camera.

02:59:29.700 --> 02:59:33.740
The camera truly never does it justice and it's much easier to describe and perceive

02:59:33.740 --> 02:59:38.020
what you're seeing with your own eyes than to take a photo.

02:59:38.020 --> 02:59:42.180
These Artemis-2 astronauts can rapidly scan wide areas and adjust their focus in real

02:59:42.180 --> 02:59:46.620
time as well as describe relationships between features.

02:59:46.620 --> 02:59:49.620
The crew will also observe the same regions multiple times

02:59:49.620 --> 02:59:52.340
under changing lighting conditions during the flyby

02:59:52.340 --> 02:59:55.060
and provide perspectives that would take robotic missions

02:59:55.060 --> 02:59:56.940
years to accumulate.

02:59:56.940 --> 02:59:58.540
During the Artemis II mission,

02:59:58.540 --> 03:00:01.460
LRO is also attempting to observe some

03:00:01.460 --> 03:00:03.740
of these same lunar features that the astronauts

03:00:03.740 --> 03:00:04.900
are studying.

03:00:04.900 --> 03:00:06.700
Collecting this data simultaneously

03:00:06.700 --> 03:00:09.620
highlights how different instruments and human eyes

03:00:09.620 --> 03:00:12.940
provide complementary information about the moon.

03:00:12.940 --> 03:00:14.940
This LRO data plays a direct role

03:00:14.940 --> 03:00:17.320
in preparing for future Artemis missions.

03:00:17.320 --> 03:00:19.720
Its measurements of topography, surface temperature,

03:00:19.720 --> 03:00:22.920
composition, radiation, and lighting conditions are used

03:00:22.920 --> 03:00:26.160
to assess hazards, identify safe landing sites,

03:00:26.160 --> 03:00:28.960
and locate potential resources such as water ice

03:00:28.960 --> 03:00:31.600
near the lunar south pole.

03:00:31.600 --> 03:00:34.240
This mission, Artemis II, represents the point

03:00:34.240 --> 03:00:37.100
where years of robotic preparation are paired

03:00:37.100 --> 03:00:39.400
with human exploration for the first time

03:00:39.400 --> 03:00:41.200
in the Artemis era.

03:00:41.200 --> 03:00:44.180
So together, LRO, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter,

03:00:44.180 --> 03:00:46.540
and Artemis-2 are demonstrating how NASA moves

03:00:46.540 --> 03:00:48.620
from mapping the moon robotically

03:00:48.620 --> 03:00:50.580
to exploring it with humans.

03:00:50.580 --> 03:00:51.860
We are laying the groundwork

03:00:51.860 --> 03:00:53.260
for future Artemis missions

03:00:53.260 --> 03:00:56.100
and sustained lunar operations.

03:00:59.140 --> 03:01:00.900
A check-in with Orion,

03:01:00.900 --> 03:01:04.260
we are now four days 21 minutes,

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four days 21 hours and 22 minutes

03:01:07.020 --> 03:01:09.220
into the flight of Artemis-2,

03:01:09.220 --> 03:01:11.820
our crew aboard the Orion spacecraft.

03:01:11.820 --> 03:01:20.040
We are now 8,153 miles away from the moon, 250,742 miles away from Earth.

03:01:20.520 --> 03:01:24.020
The spacecraft is traveling at 1,030 miles per hour.

03:02:11.820 --> 03:02:33.360
Hi Houston, the professional science update giver is now in seat two.

03:02:33.360 --> 03:02:40.820
That is where Victor is and Christina is nestling in the seat one with the long length.

03:02:40.820 --> 03:02:43.220
and we're just getting ourselves oriented here.

03:02:43.220 --> 03:02:45.060
It's a cool view in the cabin.

03:02:45.060 --> 03:02:47.460
It's actually a cool view to be off the camera now

03:02:47.460 --> 03:02:49.860
and looking at my crewmates getting up

03:02:49.860 --> 03:02:52.140
to their observation post and looking at it.

03:02:52.140 --> 03:02:53.420
It's super fun.

03:03:01.540 --> 03:03:02.820
Copy all, we like it.

03:04:10.820 --> 03:04:24.180
As we heard confirmation from NASA astronaut and commander

03:04:24.180 --> 03:04:28.780
of Artemis II, Reed Wiseman, they are now switching positions

03:04:28.780 --> 03:04:31.820
of the support teams and the observation teams.

03:04:31.820 --> 03:04:35.380
So, initially, Reed Wiseman and Jeremy Hansen were

03:04:35.380 --> 03:04:39.180
at Windows 2 and 3 in the Orion spacecraft taking photos

03:04:39.180 --> 03:04:45.220
and making annotations in their PCDs, portable computing devices.

03:04:45.220 --> 03:04:51.100
They were also giving audible descriptions into their PCDs,

03:04:51.100 --> 03:04:53.860
wearing headsets with microphones and providing recordings

03:04:53.860 --> 03:04:58.460
that the science team will be able to listen to later.

03:04:58.460 --> 03:05:01.020
We were hearing from NASA astronauts Christina Cook

03:05:01.020 --> 03:05:03.860
and Victor Glover as they made observations as part

03:05:03.860 --> 03:05:05.900
of the support team.

03:05:05.900 --> 03:05:11.580
Now, as these teams are swapping, we anticipate hearing more

03:05:11.580 --> 03:05:15.300
from Reed and Jeremy as they'll be on the support team,

03:05:15.620 --> 03:05:19.180
while Victor and Christina will be at the windows taking photos

03:05:19.180 --> 03:05:20.820
and making annotations.

03:08:35.900 --> 03:08:47.900
And Jenny from the science team, if they can mark this time, I just covered up a window

03:08:47.900 --> 03:08:51.900
for to block out the ambient light from a very bright planet Earth.

03:08:51.900 --> 03:08:57.900
And I'd be interesting to see if in the data, if you're interested to see any differences

03:08:57.900 --> 03:09:01.900
from me and Jeremy with that window blocked, it's a lot darker in the cabin now.

03:09:05.900 --> 03:09:09.900
Copy read word, taking note, and we'll be curious to.

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We are live in the Artemis Mission Control Room during the lunar flyby of the Artemis-2 crew,

03:10:14.100 --> 03:10:17.500
the first humans to fly by the moon in over 50 years.

03:10:18.000 --> 03:10:22.920
Orion launched four days, 21 hours and 30 minutes ago atop the SLS rocket,

03:10:22.920 --> 03:10:26.240
space launch system rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

03:10:26.240 --> 03:10:37.360
Our four crew members inside the spacecraft are transitioning their positions.

03:10:38.080 --> 03:10:40.200
The cabinet and window teams have swapped.

03:10:42.320 --> 03:10:45.040
Currently at the window, we have Victor Glover

03:10:45.040 --> 03:10:51.200
and Christina Cook, NASA astronauts, and serving as a support, Reed Wiseman and Jeremy Hansen.

03:10:56.240 --> 03:11:12.720
For our crews at the window, they are using handheld Nikons with an 80 to 400 millimeter

03:11:12.720 --> 03:11:15.200
zoom lens.

03:11:15.200 --> 03:11:19.600
There are also GoPros on each of the solar arrays on Orion and that's where this view

03:11:19.600 --> 03:11:21.760
is coming from right now.

03:11:21.760 --> 03:11:25.600
We have an interior camera of the crew as well, but they have dimmed the cabin lights.

03:11:25.600 --> 03:11:31.040
They've actually turned off the cabin lights to allow them to better see outside of the spacecraft.

03:11:31.040 --> 03:11:38.240
This also helps prevent any reflections from lights inside the spacecraft reflecting onto the windows while they are photographing the moon.

03:13:25.600 --> 03:13:39.000
We talked a little bit about the views and the cameras being used

03:13:39.000 --> 03:13:40.840
on the Orion spacecraft.

03:13:40.840 --> 03:13:45.600
And again, we do have GoPro's on the tip of each solar array wing.

03:13:45.600 --> 03:13:48.000
Now, the bandwidth is a little bit limited

03:13:48.000 --> 03:13:53.320
because having a crew on board, we do have to downlink a lot more data

03:13:53.320 --> 03:13:56.420
That includes their environmental control and life support system.

03:13:57.140 --> 03:14:01.920
We are not the only data, this view that you see coming down from the spacecraft.

03:14:01.920 --> 03:14:05.060
And so we do rely on sharing some of that

03:14:05.060 --> 03:14:08.280
with the other flight controllers in mission control.

03:14:09.400 --> 03:14:12.080
This helps the team monitor all systems aboard the spacecraft

03:14:12.080 --> 03:14:14.760
and ensure the safety of our astronauts.

03:15:14.760 --> 03:15:35.040
We are standing by for a situation report from the crew aboard the spacecraft.

03:15:35.040 --> 03:15:36.640
They've been imaging the whole moon.

03:15:37.120 --> 03:15:39.500
There is now a new crew at the window.

03:15:39.500 --> 03:15:42.600
That would be Victor Glover and Christina Cook.

03:15:42.600 --> 03:15:45.700
And so being it's their first time since they have moved

03:15:45.700 --> 03:15:47.760
up to the window positions, they have a chance

03:15:47.760 --> 03:15:51.340
to orient themselves and describe and take pictures

03:15:51.340 --> 03:15:55.160
of any color or albedo variations across the surface.

03:15:55.160 --> 03:15:58.400
Reminder, albedo is the brightness or reflectiveness.

03:15:58.400 --> 03:16:01.440
Integrity science for a science sit rep when you're ready.

03:16:42.600 --> 03:16:54.600
We have no external view of the moon right now for the floating crew members, so my only sign is that we have a picture in window 3 doing observations at Christina and window 2 with the long ones.

03:17:01.600 --> 03:17:11.600
Integrity, we copy. Are the shrouds still on windows 1 and 4? And if so, would you consider trying to get a view through one of those windows?

03:17:12.600 --> 03:17:19.600
We cannot take the trout off before because the earth is too bright and it's impacting

03:17:19.600 --> 03:17:30.600
the ice peripheral vision and then I can get a grazing glimpse out the docking hatch window.

03:17:30.600 --> 03:17:36.600
I can see Oriental south down to the south pole and the primary thing that I see from

03:17:36.600 --> 03:17:43.600
Oriental right now is the just the long trenches that come out and you know when

03:17:43.600 --> 03:17:47.760
you come out the north side of Oriental, the ejecta kind of boulders across the

03:17:47.760 --> 03:17:52.560
northern half of the far side. But coming out the southern half of Oriental I just

03:17:52.560 --> 03:17:58.640
see those large here they look like gorges or almost like rain when it comes

03:17:58.640 --> 03:18:03.720
down the Grand Canyon that figures off into into the desert kind of what it

03:18:03.720 --> 03:18:11.480
looks like. Also, Burgos Alpha is extremely bright. It's the brightest thing that I could

03:18:11.480 --> 03:18:17.720
see, even brighter now than Aristarchus, which is heading off to the terminator. It's almost

03:18:17.720 --> 03:18:21.720
impossible now to see Aristarchus. I think the terminator, I look so much at. I can

03:18:21.720 --> 03:18:31.480
just barely see the crater rays from home. I would say for Albino right now, I would

03:18:31.480 --> 03:18:39.680
go back to Grimaudi is still extremely dark, especially in that southwest corner and there

03:18:39.680 --> 03:18:44.880
are parts of Oriental and the outer ring of Oriental that reach that same level of darkness,

03:18:44.880 --> 03:18:48.880
especially the rings of Oriental reach the same level of darkness as Grimaudi.

03:18:48.880 --> 03:18:55.980
And then south of Grimaudi, Jeremy and I were noting a few other just really dark areas

03:18:55.980 --> 03:18:58.780
of cratering, or I'm sorry, moray there,

03:18:58.780 --> 03:19:00.980
and this has that same darker albedo,

03:19:00.980 --> 03:19:05.980
but Virgisoph is the brightest, and Kalani is the darkest.

03:19:11.140 --> 03:19:13.340
Integrity science, that was a great description.

03:19:13.340 --> 03:19:16.140
Thank you, and thanks for the docking window geometry

03:19:16.140 --> 03:19:17.340
to give us that description.

03:19:17.340 --> 03:19:20.300
Any comments before you go on the annular ring

03:19:20.300 --> 03:19:21.140
in Oriental?

03:19:25.980 --> 03:19:31.980
The angular ring which I think everybody kind of describes is like a pair of lips or a kiss

03:19:31.980 --> 03:19:35.980
on the far side of the moon from here is very circular in nature.

03:19:35.980 --> 03:19:41.980
The northern part of it is wider, darker. The southern part is much lighter.

03:19:41.980 --> 03:19:50.980
It is very neat looking and it is very far more circular than I remember it looking in our training.

03:19:50.980 --> 03:20:10.980
The darkness of the northern side of the annular ring is the same darkness from here out this docky hatch window as the center moray in oriental, not quite as dark as Dravaldi, but it is probably only because dust and lunar wrangles has kind of impacted over time.

03:20:10.980 --> 03:20:11.980
over time.

03:20:11.980 --> 03:20:16.260
Read that's exactly what we were looking for.

03:20:16.260 --> 03:20:17.260
Thanks so much.

03:20:17.260 --> 03:20:22.300
You have heart hands coming out of the serf.

03:20:22.300 --> 03:20:33.580
Say that again Kelsey.

03:20:33.580 --> 03:20:36.820
Just saying that the serf was really excited about that, that annular ring was something

03:20:36.820 --> 03:20:39.060
and we were really eager to hear about, so thanks.

03:20:44.740 --> 03:20:47.260
Yep, you bet, and now Victor and Christina

03:20:47.260 --> 03:20:48.700
are moving on to Oriental.

03:20:48.700 --> 03:20:51.700
I got them situated over there a little bit late.

03:21:06.820 --> 03:21:19.700
That was NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman now providing a science set rep as he is away

03:21:19.700 --> 03:21:22.940
from the windows most of the time.

03:21:22.940 --> 03:21:29.060
He is working as the support person along with Jeremy Hansen in the spacecraft

03:21:29.060 --> 03:21:34.740
as Victor Glover and Christina Cook are now at windows 2 and 3 able to photograph the moon.

03:21:36.820 --> 03:21:44.340
Christina and Victor are also providing recorded information

03:21:44.340 --> 03:21:47.260
to their portable computing devices, that's their PCDs,

03:21:47.260 --> 03:21:51.380
and the science team will have access to that at a later time.

03:21:51.380 --> 03:21:54.340
They will then review it and compile all of this data

03:21:54.340 --> 03:21:56.820
to help further our understanding of the moon.

03:21:56.820 --> 03:22:00.220
One of the items you heard mention was Oriental Basin.

03:22:00.220 --> 03:22:05.620
This has been a very exciting opportunity for the crew.

03:22:05.620 --> 03:22:08.040
They have all been very excited about seeing Oriental

03:22:08.040 --> 03:22:10.480
as well as the science team has been looking forward to it.

03:22:11.040 --> 03:22:12.940
It is known as the Grand Canyon of the Moon

03:22:12.940 --> 03:22:14.300
as we discussed earlier.

03:22:21.800 --> 03:22:24.560
From the pictures, the science team is hoping

03:22:24.560 --> 03:22:28.340
that the crew will take centered images of the entire basin

03:22:28.340 --> 03:22:30.380
and surrounding craters in a single frame,

03:22:30.680 --> 03:22:33.820
but also use those 80 to 400 millimeter zoom lenses

03:22:33.820 --> 03:22:36.820
to create a mosaic entire basin.

03:22:42.620 --> 03:22:48.540
With their unaided eyes, the science team is hoping the crew will describe southern dark annual ring,

03:22:48.540 --> 03:22:53.820
which you heard Reid just describing, as well as any color, albedo, texture,

03:22:53.820 --> 03:22:57.220
or topography across the Mare patches and ring mountains.

03:22:58.720 --> 03:23:01.460
Science team reports that the observations will be used

03:23:01.460 --> 03:23:05.240
to study the geologic evolution of the youngest lunar basin

03:23:05.240 --> 03:23:08.720
and to inform formation hypotheses for the annular ring.

03:23:08.720 --> 03:23:20.460
And again, another fun fact about Oriental is the diameter is the same distance

03:23:20.460 --> 03:23:22.740
between Johnson Space Center, where we are today,

03:23:23.080 --> 03:23:25.960
and Kennedy Space Center, where the crew launched on April 1st.

03:24:31.460 --> 03:24:56.820
This live view from the Orion spacecraft on the Artemis-2 mission now 7,373 miles away

03:24:56.820 --> 03:25:01.820
from the Moon, 251,130 miles from Earth.

03:25:26.820 --> 03:25:56.460
Again, the Army's two crew passed the Apollo 13 record of the humans farthest from the

03:25:56.460 --> 03:26:11.820
Earth today at 1257 p.m. Central Time, 157 p.m. Eastern Time.

03:26:11.820 --> 03:26:18.300
That distance, set by Apollo 13, was 248,655 statute miles.

03:26:18.300 --> 03:26:27.820
We've clearly passed that, and we expect to pass that by about 4,105 miles.

03:26:27.820 --> 03:26:31.900
That will be when the spacecraft reaches its farthest distance from the Earth.

03:26:31.900 --> 03:26:40.220
It could be around 252,760 miles, but again, these are approximations and our targets.

03:26:40.220 --> 03:27:08.560
We will make sure to report back the final numbers once we have them.

03:27:08.560 --> 03:27:13.220
We have some refined times of when we expect to have Earth set

03:27:13.220 --> 03:27:16.860
of Earth behind the moon while Orion flies behind the moon.

03:27:16.860 --> 03:27:21.220
That would be about 541 PM central, 641 Eastern.

03:27:22.220 --> 03:27:25.360
The spacecraft would make its closest approach to the moon

03:27:25.360 --> 03:27:27.700
at 6 o'clock central, 7 Eastern.

03:27:28.200 --> 03:27:31.960
And that would be about 4,066 miles.

03:27:32.680 --> 03:27:35.380
And then at 602 PM central.

03:27:35.380 --> 03:27:39.060
and the spacecraft will reach its farthest distance from the Earth.

03:27:39.520 --> 03:27:48.780
We anticipate that will be about 252,755 miles, which would be 4,111 miles farther than Apollo 13.

03:27:48.780 --> 03:27:54.440
We would see Earth rise again at 621 p.m. central time, and a few moments later,

03:27:54.940 --> 03:27:57.880
a few minutes later, regain communications with the crew.

03:27:57.880 --> 03:28:04.880
Thank you very much for your time, and I'll see you in the next video.

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Currently aboard Orion, Victor Glover and Christina Cooke are the two team members conducting lunar

03:28:47.860 --> 03:28:52.880
flyby observations, meaning they are using the Nikon cameras to photograph the moon

03:28:52.880 --> 03:28:56.040
and their PCD or the portable computing device

03:28:56.040 --> 03:28:58.540
to conduct annotations.

03:28:58.540 --> 03:29:00.680
They are both recording information that will be

03:29:00.680 --> 03:29:02.640
downlinked to the science crew.

03:29:02.640 --> 03:29:07.520
And tomorrow morning the science team will have a conference

03:29:07.520 --> 03:29:10.840
with the team while the information is so fresh.

03:29:10.840 --> 03:29:13.880
They'll be speaking with the crew about their observations

03:29:13.880 --> 03:29:15.880
and their data collection.

03:29:15.880 --> 03:29:26.040
Otherwise, most of tomorrow, Flight Day 7 is considered an off day.

03:30:15.880 --> 03:30:42.280
We are on Flight Day 6 of the Artemis-2 mission, the first time in more than 50 years that humans

03:30:42.280 --> 03:30:45.720
will observe the moon directly, providing a critical opportunity

03:30:45.720 --> 03:30:48.120
to practice how lunar science will be conducted

03:30:48.120 --> 03:30:50.160
during future Artemis missions.

03:30:50.160 --> 03:30:54.840
If you're just joining us, the crew is well

03:30:54.840 --> 03:30:57.880
into their lunar flyby observations and we anticipate

03:30:57.880 --> 03:31:00.160
that we will hear from them soon.

03:31:00.160 --> 03:31:04.600
A few times every hour they are slated to call down

03:31:04.600 --> 03:31:07.200
with science reps or situation reports.

03:31:07.200 --> 03:31:10.880
We most recently had one from Commander Reed Wiseman.

03:31:10.880 --> 03:31:17.480
He and Jeremy Hansen, Mission Specialists, were first at the windows today to photograph

03:31:17.480 --> 03:31:19.840
and make annotations of what they were seeing.

03:31:21.520 --> 03:31:26.360
Therefore, we heard more from Victor Glover and Christina Cook earlier in the day during those

03:31:26.360 --> 03:31:27.120
first blocks.

03:31:27.620 --> 03:31:31.340
But now that Reid Wiseman and Jeremy Hansen are on the support side,

03:31:31.460 --> 03:31:36.140
they are the ones calling down what they are seeing from Windows 1 and 4.

03:31:36.140 --> 03:31:44.140
Earlier, we heard that the Earth is so bright in window 4, they have had to temporarily cover it with a t-shirt.

03:31:44.140 --> 03:32:07.060
The Moon preserves a near-continuous record of solar system history that has been erased

03:32:07.060 --> 03:32:10.220
on Earth because the Moon doesn't have an atmosphere.

03:32:10.220 --> 03:32:14.980
So things that we experience on Earth like weather or plate tectonics don't really apply.

03:32:14.980 --> 03:32:20.500
So the lunar surface retains evidence of ancient impacts, volcanism and solar activity that

03:32:20.500 --> 03:32:22.220
scientists can study today.

03:32:22.220 --> 03:32:26.540
And studying the Moon helps scientists understand how planets formed and evolved, how the

03:32:26.540 --> 03:32:30.820
Moon influenced our own planet Earth's history, and how the sun-shaped conditions across

03:32:30.820 --> 03:32:32.540
the inner solar system.

03:32:32.540 --> 03:32:38.580
The Moon also serves as a unique platform for studying the broader universe.

03:32:38.580 --> 03:32:43.220
of science is designed around questions best answered by humans working alongside robotic

03:32:43.220 --> 03:32:49.700
systems, combining decades of robotic lunar data with real-time judgment context and adaptability

03:32:49.700 --> 03:32:54.940
that only humans can provide. This mission, Artemis 2, is serving as a proving ground

03:32:54.940 --> 03:33:00.020
for lunar science operations, which allows NASA to test how science is planned, executed

03:33:00.020 --> 03:33:05.020
and supported during a crewed deep-space mission ahead of our future Artemis flights.

03:33:23.020 --> 03:33:27.020
Integrity time for a window team position swap.

03:33:27.020 --> 03:33:31.260
So, Victor and Christina, please switch places if you've not done so already,

03:33:31.260 --> 03:33:34.020
and remember your SD card for the camera.

03:33:34.020 --> 03:33:54.020
We're in the swamp right now, they're wrapping up their last comments and we'll switch over

03:33:54.020 --> 03:33:56.140
for an exchange card from the long list.

03:33:59.140 --> 03:33:59.980
Copy.

03:34:24.020 --> 03:34:27.300
As you heard in that call, it is now time for the team members

03:34:27.300 --> 03:34:29.020
at the window to swap positions.

03:34:29.020 --> 03:34:37.480
That means Victor Glover and Christina Cook will be switching roles.

03:34:37.480 --> 03:34:40.720
One of them has been photographing the moon with a Nikon,

03:34:40.720 --> 03:34:42.840
with an 80 to 400 millimeter zoom lens,

03:34:42.840 --> 03:34:45.080
while the other was making annotations

03:34:45.080 --> 03:34:46.840
on their portable computing device.

03:34:46.840 --> 03:34:53.520
And both are recording audio that the science team will be able

03:34:53.520 --> 03:35:10.200
to listen to. We are now two hours and ten minutes until we expect to lose signal with

03:35:10.200 --> 03:35:19.240
the spacecraft as they fly behind the moon. And the next target for the crew is considered

03:35:19.240 --> 03:35:25.960
crew choice event. They have the option to focus on any regions or patterns or features that interest

03:35:25.960 --> 03:35:34.200
them. The science team has asked the crew to capture pictures that illustrate their choice

03:35:34.200 --> 03:35:40.360
as well as at different zoom levels and to describe why those certain features or regions caught their eye.

03:35:40.360 --> 03:35:51.560
Those recordings are part of what are being saved

03:35:51.560 --> 03:35:53.920
on their PCDs, portable computing device,

03:35:53.920 --> 03:35:56.920
that will be sent to the science team for analysis.

03:35:56.920 --> 03:36:15.200
The crew has been allotted eight minutes for this crew choice event, and it's also a time

03:36:15.200 --> 03:36:20.360
for a scheduled sit rep or situation report, so we expect to hear them calling down what

03:36:20.360 --> 03:36:21.680
that they are seeing soon.

03:36:50.360 --> 03:37:03.560
Something that the crew or that the science team has used

03:37:03.560 --> 03:37:05.920
to help prepare the crew is a cue card.

03:37:06.540 --> 03:37:09.700
These ask for a feature ID if they happen to know the type

03:37:09.700 --> 03:37:11.180
or name and if it is a target.

03:37:11.420 --> 03:37:13.900
Of course, in this situation, when they have a crew choice,

03:37:14.360 --> 03:37:17.940
they do not need to, it may or may not be a target.

03:37:17.940 --> 03:37:21.540
They want to know the location and the observation style.

03:37:21.540 --> 03:37:27.840
They've also asked for the geometry of what's being captured, the size, shape, boundary,

03:37:27.840 --> 03:37:30.240
and preservation, as well as the color and shadow.

03:37:30.240 --> 03:37:36.640
So the color tone, the albedo, that reflection or brightness, and any shadows or illumination.

03:37:37.080 --> 03:37:39.500
Next, they're interested in structure and texture.

03:37:40.100 --> 03:37:44.680
That includes slopes, structures and textures, of course, and geologic relations,

03:37:44.680 --> 03:37:51.160
like association to other features, any contact to those features, and of course their thoughts,

03:37:51.160 --> 03:37:58.240
impressions or interpretations. They are interested even in emotions and excitement

03:37:58.240 --> 03:38:11.800
that the crew may be having. This fly by day has been practiced in many ways,

03:38:11.800 --> 03:38:15.800
even in SIMS here in Mission Control Houston.

03:38:15.800 --> 03:38:23.800
The team also conducted some field work learning how to look for specific geologic features.

03:38:23.800 --> 03:38:33.800
They also photographed a large globe and the science team helped them determine which features they would be targeting and how to look at those.

03:38:41.800 --> 03:38:55.460
We have a few more minutes that the crew would be photographing their crew choice.

03:38:55.460 --> 03:39:00.740
Again, this is NASA astronaut's Victor Glover and Christina Cook at the windows.

03:39:00.740 --> 03:39:04.440
They will then move on to another discussion portion.

03:39:04.440 --> 03:39:09.900
This is for the far side albedo, that reflectiveness, and color that they are seeing.

03:39:09.900 --> 03:39:20.900
We heard earlier about some browns seen on the moon, which is very interesting, especially here from Earth, where we are just seeing whites, grays, and maybe even black at some points.

03:39:20.900 --> 03:39:35.900
When they get into that discussion for far south, far side albedo in a few minutes, the theme is looking to know how that color and albedo is what those variations look like across the far side.

03:39:39.900 --> 03:40:09.200
On the right side of your screen, the Science Evaluation Room, or CER,

03:40:09.200 --> 03:40:14.080
where team members are looking real time at what the crew is seeing and even earlier we're.

03:40:14.080 --> 03:40:16.080
You ready for science zero?

03:40:18.720 --> 03:40:19.200
We'll take it.

03:40:25.760 --> 03:40:29.360
Okay that crew has swap positions they're in their crew choice

03:40:30.480 --> 03:40:35.840
element. I've been listening to both of them for a little bit and they're really enjoying

03:40:35.840 --> 03:40:41.840
They both decided to pick the terminator and it's been a lot of time looking at the terminator,

03:40:41.840 --> 03:40:48.840
just talking about the resolution that they can see in the depth of the craters

03:40:48.840 --> 03:40:57.840
and the various interesting and unique excavations that they can see.

03:40:57.840 --> 03:41:03.840
So Victor is on the long lens and Christina is just looking up the window.

03:41:03.840 --> 03:41:08.840
And I'm a sneak in my look, a peek in t-shirt window.

03:41:08.840 --> 03:41:17.840
It looks like, I don't have the best angle here, but it looks like Aerostarchis is on the limb of the moon now.

03:41:17.840 --> 03:41:23.840
It's amazing how quickly it changes as we speed around the far side of the moon,

03:41:23.840 --> 03:41:26.840
stuff that's leaving our field of view.

03:41:26.840 --> 03:41:31.280
And now we have a lot of the dark side of the moon

03:41:31.280 --> 03:41:34.240
that's missing for us right now.

03:41:34.240 --> 03:41:36.920
But it would be a view if it was lit at all.

03:41:39.840 --> 03:41:42.640
Jeremy, science, thanks for that, sitrep.

03:41:42.640 --> 03:41:44.680
Do have a question.

03:41:44.680 --> 03:41:48.080
A few times we've heard you and the other crew

03:41:48.080 --> 03:41:51.760
describe change during the course of your flyby.

03:41:51.760 --> 03:41:53.560
Would be interested in future descriptions

03:41:53.560 --> 03:42:00.360
more verbosity about how it's changing. Thanks for the great separate.

03:42:00.360 --> 03:42:26.960
Yeah, Kelsey, sounds good, we are definitely keeping an eye on that, my eyes are just

03:42:26.960 --> 03:42:31.000
not readjusted the moon is so bright when you come back to the window. I was just in

03:42:31.000 --> 03:42:36.160
the interior of the cabin. I've come back to T-shirt window and it's just overwhelming

03:42:36.160 --> 03:42:41.440
brightness. And my viewing angles have been challenging. So I won't be able to give you

03:42:41.440 --> 03:42:45.680
great observations from this window. But I will talk about something that I was talking

03:42:45.680 --> 03:42:52.400
a lot about in my recordings earlier, which was we've been talking about some

03:42:52.400 --> 03:42:57.680
And so we have obviously the dark and the light gray.

03:42:57.680 --> 03:43:02.260
And then we talked about naming some colors, that brown issue

03:43:02.260 --> 03:43:03.340
and the green issue.

03:43:03.340 --> 03:43:08.880
And I'll tell you like right now, Aristarchus,

03:43:08.880 --> 03:43:13.700
the plateau is hard for me to see from this window,

03:43:13.700 --> 03:43:16.080
but that had green issues to me.

03:43:16.080 --> 03:43:16.880
It was very unique.

03:43:16.880 --> 03:43:18.880
I didn't see anything like that anywhere else

03:43:18.880 --> 03:43:20.580
on this side of the moon.

03:43:20.580 --> 03:43:24.300
And then I see a lot of these, what I would call brownish hue areas.

03:43:24.300 --> 03:43:25.300
There's a number of them.

03:43:25.960 --> 03:43:35.820
And they, for example, in the northwest corner of the highlands, to me, it looks like the brownish hue is caused

03:43:35.820 --> 03:43:40.540
by ray or ejective material landing on the highlands.

03:43:40.540 --> 03:43:45.340
And then we obviously see the ray areas as a lighter opium, but in between the rays

03:43:45.340 --> 03:43:50.380
where the deposit would be thinnest, that is what it looks like is causing

03:43:50.380 --> 03:43:57.460
to Brown to me. So I saw that in the northwest side of Aerostarcus, or sorry, that dark area,

03:43:57.460 --> 03:44:04.020
the highlands. Northwest side of the highlands I saw it in the highlands to the east of Glushkoe.

03:44:04.020 --> 03:44:14.140
And then I see those same brownish hues west of Oriental. And I drew a contact there on

03:44:14.140 --> 03:44:20.940
on one note, and that's a huge region, kind of like a piece of pie with the point of the

03:44:20.940 --> 03:44:27.740
pie pointing at Oriental and then going up towards the northern side of Herksprung.

03:44:27.740 --> 03:44:39.060
And that is an area that just looks like a different brownish albedo.

03:44:39.060 --> 03:44:40.600
That was fantastic, Jeremy.

03:44:40.600 --> 03:44:46.300
We had heard rumors of the green and brown hues, and so you really read my mind on asking

03:44:46.300 --> 03:44:50.960
about those, understand they likely didn't have any contact with each other the way that

03:44:50.960 --> 03:44:55.680
you described them, but please correct me if I misunderstood that.

03:44:55.680 --> 03:45:00.560
And then last thing, I'll make the same offer we made to Victor earlier, if it would be

03:45:00.560 --> 03:45:05.160
helpful for us to verbalize any targets so you can stay at the windows and keep

03:45:05.160 --> 03:45:07.360
your eyes adjusted to the moon.

03:45:07.360 --> 03:45:09.360
Please let us know.

03:45:09.360 --> 03:45:37.360
If you've got something you want to select, I'll see you can send it on up.

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not looking to interrupt your flow read and Jeremy only offering assistance if

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you guys want to keep your eyes off of the PCDs.

03:46:01.360 --> 03:46:05.200
Not really science related and we definitely learned this in a follow but

03:46:05.200 --> 03:46:13.200
The thing that is just most fascinating, I think to me a picture right now, is even as rugged as the far side looks,

03:46:13.200 --> 03:46:21.200
when you look at Orientall and home, it's rugged, but man, when you look at the Terminator, it is just like impossibly rugged.

03:46:21.200 --> 03:46:24.200
And it reminds you that the whole far side is that way.

03:46:24.200 --> 03:46:29.200
The Terminator is really bringing out the shadows and the hills and the valleys.

03:46:29.200 --> 03:46:32.560
And it is just, it's unbelievable, it's like no surface

03:46:32.560 --> 03:46:36.240
of the terminator is not marked by meteor impact.

03:46:36.240 --> 03:46:38.960
And it's just, it is very impressive to look at that.

03:46:38.960 --> 03:46:42.000
As you realize that that is true across the whole far side,

03:46:42.000 --> 03:46:45.560
you just can't see it during the sun elimination right now.

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Reed, Houston copies and we were commenting

03:46:50.520 --> 03:46:52.840
on the same thing, even from our view,

03:46:52.840 --> 03:46:55.880
the terminator looks absolutely alien

03:46:55.880 --> 03:46:58.400
because there's just so much texture in there

03:46:58.400 --> 03:46:59.720
that we're just not used to seeing.

03:46:59.720 --> 03:47:01.220
So thanks for sharing that with us.

03:47:06.960 --> 03:47:09.560
There's also, I don't know the name of it,

03:47:09.560 --> 03:47:12.900
coming out the south, southwest of Oriental,

03:47:12.900 --> 03:47:15.560
right on the southern terminator

03:47:15.560 --> 03:47:18.640
is just a massive crater.

03:47:18.640 --> 03:47:19.560
I don't know the name of it,

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maybe you can look on the solar ray wing video

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and tell me it's right.

03:47:24.200 --> 03:47:26.480
It's the southernmost crater you see

03:47:26.480 --> 03:47:28.980
on the terminator right now.

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We're looking for you.

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We're loving that picture, thanks for showing us and read as an answer to your last question.

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We believe that that is Chebyshev crater and the sir agrees with that.

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Okay, that picture I was just showing you is an Anex iPhone out the docking hatch for the high-grazing angle.

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It's just amazing.

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We love it. Thank you.

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This is Artemis Mission Control in Houston, Texas.

03:50:44.040 --> 03:50:57.080
National Ops time for days 22 hours, 12 minutes into the flight of Orion.

03:50:57.080 --> 03:51:01.320
This is Lunar Flyby Day for the crew aboard the spacecraft.

03:51:01.320 --> 03:51:06.280
Reed Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Cook, and Jeremy Hansen are now the farthest people

03:51:06.280 --> 03:51:08.280
to have ever traveled from Earth.

03:51:08.280 --> 03:51:25.800
This alive view from inside the spacecraft, they have turned off the lights so they're

03:51:25.800 --> 03:51:30.360
able to see outside and photograph the moon better with no reflections from inside.

03:51:30.360 --> 03:51:32.600
And for a very brief moment there.

03:51:32.600 --> 03:51:35.880
Integrity Science, thanks for those iPhone views.

03:51:35.880 --> 03:51:38.200
It's helpful to see what you're seeing.

03:51:52.680 --> 03:51:56.280
We very briefly saw NASA astronauts, Reed Wiseman,

03:51:56.280 --> 03:52:01.320
showing a picture he took on his phone of the moon.

03:52:02.600 --> 03:52:08.560
We do expect to get all of the photos that the crew is taking today and we cannot wait

03:52:08.560 --> 03:52:10.000
to share some of those with you.

03:52:10.500 --> 03:52:15.500
But pretty cool in the meantime just to see one quick shot from what the crew is seeing.

03:52:19.500 --> 03:52:23.700
And this view from outside the spacecraft on Orion's solar array wing.

03:52:23.700 --> 03:52:32.000
Orion is now 6,643 miles away from the moon

03:52:32.000 --> 03:52:33.860
and continuing to grow closer.

03:52:34.220 --> 03:52:38.040
Again, their closest approach will be about 4,066 miles.

03:52:40.120 --> 03:52:43.680
The best comparison is if you held a basketball at arm's length,

03:52:43.680 --> 03:52:46.200
that's about what it would look like to the Artemis II crew

03:52:46.200 --> 03:52:47.360
at their closest approach.

03:53:53.700 --> 03:54:13.700
This view showing at the very top a camera coming from Orion, continuing their flyby

03:54:13.700 --> 03:54:15.800
of the moon.

03:54:15.800 --> 03:54:21.240
We have three more fly-by observation blocks after the completion of this one.

03:54:26.240 --> 03:54:30.240
Down in the bottom left of your screen, that's the CER, the Science Evaluation Room,

03:54:30.240 --> 03:54:33.760
where team members are continuing to work through all of the targets

03:54:33.760 --> 03:54:40.040
that the crew is photographing today, and they've helped identify some of the craters

03:54:40.040 --> 03:54:44.880
and some of the other items that the crew has seen on the moon surface.

03:54:45.800 --> 03:54:48.980
Down on the right is Artemis Mission Control here in Houston.

03:54:49.300 --> 03:54:52.700
Those two rooms down at the bottom are just down the hall from each other.

03:54:53.300 --> 03:55:13.140
And we are just a few minutes away from the next cabin and window team swap.

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That means Victor and Christina who have been at the windows will fly

03:55:17.240 --> 03:55:24.700
to the cabin, the background essentially and be their support crew for Reed and Jeremy.

03:55:24.780 --> 03:55:26.920
Reed and Jeremy will move back up to the windows.

03:56:13.140 --> 03:56:40.420
The

03:56:40.420 --> 03:56:45.380
crew is continuing their discussion portion of the flyby

03:56:45.380 --> 03:56:48.780
in the lunar targeting package where it says Farside Albedo

03:56:48.780 --> 03:56:49.860
slash color.

03:56:49.860 --> 03:56:51.940
They are looking at the science team,

03:56:51.940 --> 03:56:54.100
looking to get a good understanding of what the crew can

03:56:54.100 --> 03:56:56.780
see on the Farside at this point,

03:56:56.780 --> 03:56:59.340
and its brightness as well as any colors.

03:56:59.340 --> 03:57:02.900
We did hear earlier on Canadian Space Agency astronaut

03:57:02.900 --> 03:57:05.060
Jeremy Hansen reporting that they could even see

03:57:05.060 --> 03:57:07.540
browns and even greens on the moon.

03:57:07.540 --> 03:57:10.180
I'm really looking forward to seeing those photos.

03:57:10.180 --> 03:57:13.540
And in just a couple of minutes, the teams will swap

03:57:13.540 --> 03:57:15.740
from the cabin to the window.

03:57:23.740 --> 03:57:27.780
Another rundown of just how this fly by is choreographed

03:57:27.780 --> 03:57:29.300
inside the spacecraft today.

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So these activities have been timelineed,

03:57:31.460 --> 03:57:33.660
and there are these five blocks of time

03:57:33.660 --> 03:57:37.780
during which the crew is going to be observing the moon

03:57:37.780 --> 03:57:39.220
from Orion's windows.

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Now we are just coming up on the end of this second blog

03:57:42.120 --> 03:57:43.860
and we'll start the third soon.

03:57:46.360 --> 03:57:48.200
So at any time during those blocks,

03:57:48.200 --> 03:57:50.580
two members are at the windows working in a pair.

03:57:50.760 --> 03:57:52.640
One is taking photos from window two

03:57:52.640 --> 03:57:55.460
and has a blue shroud over the window

03:57:55.460 --> 03:57:58.300
to help prevent any reflections from inside the spacecraft.

03:57:59.000 --> 03:58:02.160
They are also using an 80 to 400 millimeter zoom lens.

03:58:02.160 --> 03:58:04.680
And the other astronaut on the window team will be

03:58:04.680 --> 03:58:07.260
in window three using their portable computing device

03:58:07.260 --> 03:58:08.520
to make annotations.

03:58:08.520 --> 03:58:13.280
Now, again, both of those crew members are making audio recordings of what they are seeing,

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and we are not hearing that right now.

03:58:15.240 --> 03:58:20.840
Those are going to be downlinked later to the science team who will evaluate them

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and use that data to inform our understanding of the moon.

03:58:24.640 --> 03:58:28.800
Those two crew members at the windows swap roles.

03:58:28.800 --> 03:58:36.420
integrity Houston it is time for another swap between the cabin and the window

03:58:36.420 --> 03:58:43.580
teams so we have 15 minutes of handover time and then we will expect Jeremy and

03:58:43.580 --> 03:58:51.060
read at the windows and Christina and Victor at the cabin I have no new vehicle

03:58:51.060 --> 03:58:58.100
updates for you but I do have a photo location for some photos on IPCD and I

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I want to let you know that Jeremy's family have arrived in the viewing gallery.

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Okay Jenny, we copied most of that.

03:59:18.100 --> 03:59:23.100
The only thing we're missing is what you meant about the photo location on Victor's PCD.

03:59:23.100 --> 03:59:26.520
and hello to my family.

03:59:26.520 --> 03:59:28.600
I think there must be Catherine and Devin that are there.

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And I'm glad they made it into the viewing room.

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And we copy it's time for crew swap.

03:59:36.700 --> 03:59:39.760
The A team's coming out of the windows and the B team's going in.

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Okay, copy.

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All I meant to pass for Victor's PCD is

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that there are some late load photos that were requested

03:59:50.500 --> 03:59:52.960
that are now in his favorite photos folder.

03:59:53.100 --> 03:59:56.060
And you're exactly right, we have Catherine and Devin here.

03:59:56.060 --> 03:59:59.300
They give you a big wave and they are super excited and happy

03:59:59.300 --> 04:00:01.100
to see part of what you're seeing.

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Okay. Copy, Jenny, we're not sure what we're looking for in the PCD, but we're going to

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poke around and we may be calling you back about that one.

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All right, that's no problem, and it's unrelated to flyby.

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This is Artemis Mission Control here at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

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And as you just heard, CAPCOM or capsule communicator Jenny Gibbons, Canadian Space Agency astronaut

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and Artemis Shukru backup relaying to the teams in Orion that it is time for a swap

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from the cabin to the window teams.

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We're now at the tail end of the second lunar flyby observation block.

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Again, we have five of these today.

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Most recently, Victor Glover and Christina Cook were at the windows photographing

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and making annotations.

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While Reed Wiseman and Jeremy Hansen were in the cabin providing support whether

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that is SD card help, but also science sit reps calling down any situation reports for what they

04:02:03.060 --> 04:02:06.820
are seeing on the moon or anything about the vehicle status.

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With that call to make the swap Reed and Jeremy will be back at the windows

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making observations for what they see at the moon and taking photos.

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Again, you're watching live coverage of NASA's Artemis 2.

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to come, but something that's truly awesome up here is we now have the moon and the earth

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in window three simultaneously, and the moon is a givus, and the earth is a crescent, and

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I'm guessing in about 45 minutes we'll have two identical crescents as we change our position

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in the universe.

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That is pretty darn cool.

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Thank you.

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That's the Artemis II crew, the first astronauts to fly by the Moon in more than 50 years reporting

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that when they look out of window three, one window, they're able to see both the Earth

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and the moon at the same time now.

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Now, obviously our view is from a camera

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on the solar array wing pointed at the moon,

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and we hope to see that view of both the earth

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and the moon soon.

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Some upcoming times for what you can expect.

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In about an hour and 40 minutes,

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we will have earth set, and during that time

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During that time, we will have a view of Earth going behind the moon.

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Shortly after, just a few minutes later, we will lose signal with the Orion spacecraft.

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This is tracked as it is going behind the moon and out of reach of the deep space network.

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At 6 o'clock p.m., the spacecraft will make its closest approach to the moon at a distance

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of about 4,066 miles.

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At 602 central, the spacecraft will reach its farthest distance

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from Earth at about 2,252,755 miles.

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Of course, these are approximate and we will make sure

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to provide you with the final distances once those are confirmed.

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At 621 p.m., we will have Earth rise from the Orion spacecraft.

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But we will not have communications with the spacecraft

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until 6.25 p.m. central when we expect to acquire signal with them after they've emerged

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from behind the moon.

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Again, you're watching live coverage of NASA's Lunar Flyby

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for the Artemis-2 mission, first crew to fly beyond the Moon

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in over 50 years.

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The astronauts inside the spacecraft are switching positions, two at the windows

04:07:16.020 --> 04:07:22.620
and two serving in support roles before they start their third timeline flyby observation for today.

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We've heard great calls from the crew so far describing what they're seeing,

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all well trained by the science team here on the ground.

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Another major milestone for the crew today will be to experience a solar eclipse from

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their capsule.

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No one on Earth will experience this solar eclipse.

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To the astronauts, this will look a lot like a total solar eclipse on Earth, except the

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The moon will be huge compared to the sun, whereas if you're standing on Earth and looking

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at a solar eclipse, the moon and the sun appear to be about the same size in the sky.

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As the moon begins to cover and then uncover the sun, the astronauts will see a partial

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solar eclipse, so that's before and after totality, and during that timeframe they will

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have to wear eclipse glasses so they can safely view this phase.

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They also intend to capture images of the sun's corona during the eclipse.

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This is a rare glimpse at the innermost corona that will only be captured by the astronauts'

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cameras.

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During the eclipse, we also look forward to the crew members describing what they will

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see, which includes unique light features like the shape and size of the corona and

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potentially even lunar dust.

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At the same time, Venus, Saturn, Mars, and Mercury will be near the sun, so they may be

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able to identify what part of the sky they're looking at.

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This can help train future Artemis astronauts on what part of the sky they're seeing, which

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is useful knowledge in challenging situations when they may need to rely on that information

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instead of instruments for navigation and orientation.

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That eclipse window will last about an hour, and it'll happen near the end of

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of the day today, closer to 7.35 p.m. central, 8.35 Eastern.

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As you can see in this live view from Orion, the Earth is, the spacecraft is maneuvering

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around the Moon and the views of the Moon have changed since we started our broadcast.

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The near side is now very far to the right side of your screen.

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This is the side that we can see from Earth.

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That darkened portion are ancient lava flows.

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The crater down towards the bottom of the moon is Orion Tall.

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And this is a crater that was previously never seen before by human eyes until this

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mission. Everything to the left of Oriental is considered the far side and this is what

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that we typically do not see from Earth.

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And just a reminder about this view, this is coming from a GoPro camera mounted on the

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tip of one of Orion's four solar arrays.

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Each solar array has a camera mounted on it, and the bandwidth is limited due to we have

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a crew on board, and this is our first flight of crew aboard the Orion spacecraft.

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So, having a crew means we have to have an environmental control and life support system.

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There's a lot of data around, a lot of data to bring down for the crew members

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to keep us up to date on everything happening aboard the spacecraft.

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So, we have to share our bandwidth when it comes to imagery and data.

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Inside the Orion spacecraft, the astronauts have completed their cabin and window team

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swap meaning we have moved into the next block of lunar flag observations. Jeremy

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Hansen and Reed Wiseman are now back at the windows taking photos and making

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annotations. About halfway through this block they will switch positions at the

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windows and will be prompted by the ground to do so.

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First of all, I'll just talk about the experience that I had during Victor and my observation

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time.

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It was an incredible experience.

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We definitely noted how much more you could see with the zoom lens, even though we have

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a great visible eye image, there's just a lot of texture that just pops right out

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at you when you can zoom in, so almost just using it like a telescope with a camera

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lens.

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We really enjoyed our discussion time, that was a great innovation on the litter targeting

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plan.

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We were both able to describe a lot more kind of with flow, I would say, when we were talking

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to each other and it was also, we sort of were able to bounce ideas off of each other

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and come to new conclusions.

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We had, I think, a very successful talking through of some contacts between different

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color areas, both in the Mare and in the Highlands, and we identified some really unique texture

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areas as well.

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At one point towards the end of the images of my time in Window 3, I just had an overwhelming

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sense of being moved by looking at the moon.

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It lasted just a second or two and I actually couldn't even make it happen again, but

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This thing just drew me in suddenly to the lunar landscape and it became real.

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And the truth is the Moon really is its own body in the universe.

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It's not just a poster in the sky that goes by.

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It is a real place.

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And when we have that perspective and we compare it to our home of the Earth,

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it just reminds us how much we have in common.

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Everything we need Earth provides.

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and that in and of itself is somewhat of a miracle

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and one that you can't truly know

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until you've had the perspective of the other.

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I'll switch into some logistic stuff.

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The TAL Tours, both their batteries

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stopped providing the active listening,

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but we've verified they are still recording

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and so we are able to have discussion time

04:17:07.180 --> 04:17:10.340
and hear outside our recordings

04:17:10.340 --> 04:17:13.160
by just moving the ear cup off of the ear.

04:17:13.160 --> 04:17:15.580
Other than that, everything's working well technically

04:17:15.580 --> 04:17:18.140
and we've been able to find all our targets

04:17:18.140 --> 04:17:20.140
and we're having a really great time.

04:17:23.100 --> 04:17:23.940
Thanks, Christina.

04:17:23.940 --> 04:17:27.460
We copy those logistics for the pulse tours

04:17:27.460 --> 04:17:30.360
and also thanks for bringing us into the cabin

04:17:30.360 --> 04:17:32.060
with you with that description.

04:17:40.340 --> 04:17:58.060
Right on time, NASA astronaut Christina Cook, a mission specialist for Artemis II, calling

04:17:58.060 --> 04:18:02.180
down a science rep, a situation report.

04:18:02.180 --> 04:18:06.440
Good news reporting that she and her teammates have been able to capture all targets that

04:18:06.440 --> 04:18:24.920
were listed. Christina also gave a vibrant description of just how it feels to be there

04:18:24.920 --> 04:18:29.480
and to see the moon up close and not just something passing in our night sky.

04:18:29.480 --> 04:18:38.120
Currently the team members at the window are Reed Wiseman and Jeremy Hansen.

04:18:38.120 --> 04:18:43.120
Meanwhile, integrity cabin team for windowshroud.

04:18:59.480 --> 04:19:19.480
Okay, go ahead, Jenny.

04:19:19.480 --> 04:19:23.480
Hey, Victor, we have a temperature constraint on the windows

04:19:23.480 --> 04:19:27.440
and the shroud might be getting us close.

04:19:27.440 --> 04:19:32.280
So we just want to check on the state of window for shroud,

04:19:32.640 --> 04:19:34.440
whether you believe it's still necessary

04:19:34.440 --> 04:19:37.140
because maybe things have changed with our viewing.

04:19:37.540 --> 04:19:39.900
And if so, we would like to request

04:19:39.900 --> 04:19:41.200
to have the shroud removed.

04:19:41.200 --> 04:19:50.600
Houston, we believe it is necessary.

04:19:50.600 --> 04:19:53.200
We pulled it off just as a corner and it is very bright.

04:19:53.200 --> 04:19:58.800
It definitely would affect our night vision and maybe comfort.

04:19:58.800 --> 04:20:02.600
But is there a time, can you tell us when we would have to take it off by?

04:20:11.200 --> 04:20:19.720
Unfortunately, since it's been on for a while, we are going to have to request that the shroud

04:20:19.720 --> 04:20:24.880
is removed and we can recommend something that could block the light but just create

04:20:24.880 --> 04:20:30.720
a bit of distance between the window and whatever is covering it, something like a t-shirt would

04:20:30.720 --> 04:20:32.720
do the trick and help.

04:20:32.720 --> 04:20:41.720
Okay, we're moving the trout and we will make it work.

04:20:41.720 --> 04:20:42.720
Thanks.

04:20:42.720 --> 04:20:54.720
Thank you, Victor.

04:20:54.720 --> 04:20:58.720
We know it's pretty right in there now with that window uncovered.

04:20:58.720 --> 04:21:02.560
We will also offer that airflow on the window would be helpful.

04:21:02.560 --> 04:21:06.480
So if you want, you can also retrieve the condensation hose,

04:21:06.960 --> 04:21:09.460
which should be friction-fit onto one of the diffusers.

04:21:10.120 --> 04:21:12.860
And that on the window would also help.

04:21:18.720 --> 04:21:21.760
We can easily point a diffuser at the window, so we're going to start

04:21:21.760 --> 04:21:24.360
with that and it's pointing at the window now.

04:21:28.720 --> 04:21:35.720
Okay, we'll take that, Victor, thank you, please keep us updated.

04:21:58.720 --> 04:22:26.040
That call from Capcom, Jenny Gibbons, a CSA astronaut and Artemis II crew, back up to

04:22:26.040 --> 04:22:29.560
the crew aboard Orion, letting them know that they will need

04:22:29.560 --> 04:22:32.840
to remove the window shroud they had placed on window 4.

04:22:32.840 --> 04:22:36.120
They initially placed that shroud there to block out some

04:22:36.120 --> 04:22:37.480
of the light from the Earth.

04:22:37.480 --> 04:22:40.720
It was extremely bright coming in the cabin and interfering

04:22:40.720 --> 04:22:44.440
with some of their viewing opportunities out at the moon.

04:22:49.640 --> 04:22:52.520
This was a request from ground teams to ensure

04:22:52.520 --> 04:22:54.200
that they are protecting other systems.

04:22:54.200 --> 04:22:56.440
and the crew has been offered the opportunity

04:22:56.440 --> 04:22:58.400
to use something else to cover the window.

04:23:03.720 --> 04:23:07.160
Meanwhile, Reed Wiseman and Jeremy Hansen continue

04:23:07.160 --> 04:23:09.280
with their lunar fly-by observations.

04:23:09.800 --> 04:23:13.240
They have just looked at Glushko Crater.

04:23:13.240 --> 04:23:16.080
That's about when we heard that call down from Christina Cook

04:23:16.080 --> 04:23:18.920
with that description of everything she had been seeing

04:23:18.920 --> 04:23:23.960
during her observation period and what she was seeing

04:23:23.960 --> 04:23:26.960
at that time.

04:23:26.960 --> 04:23:33.360
The science team asked this crew to take centered images of the entire crater and their ray system

04:23:33.360 --> 04:23:38.560
in one frame.

04:23:38.560 --> 04:23:43.520
They're also interested in knowing the brightness, texture, and extent of Glushko's rays and

04:23:43.520 --> 04:23:49.040
how they differ in the mare, or that sea area, versus the highlands.

04:23:49.040 --> 04:23:54.680
Gluchko is considered a young lunar crater,

04:23:54.680 --> 04:23:58.560
and these observations can help understand material properties

04:23:58.560 --> 04:24:00.360
of those craters.

04:24:00.360 --> 04:24:23.360
I had the unfortunate sequence to start off with connecting with what Christina said,

04:24:23.360 --> 04:24:26.360
that it was very moving to look out the window.

04:24:26.360 --> 04:24:30.880
I had the unfortunate sequence to start looking

04:24:30.880 --> 04:24:34.320
out the window and then moved to the long lens

04:24:34.320 --> 04:24:36.800
and it was hard to speak.

04:24:36.800 --> 04:24:40.520
Looking through the zoom, because I went straight

04:24:40.520 --> 04:24:43.320
where Christina went and I was walking around down there

04:24:43.320 --> 04:24:45.440
on the surface climbing and off-roading

04:24:45.440 --> 04:24:47.120
on an amazing terrain.

04:24:49.280 --> 04:24:52.120
I also want to underscore something that she said

04:24:52.120 --> 04:24:54.760
as we continue to explore when we actually do go down

04:24:54.760 --> 04:24:58.360
to the surface. I know for safety reasons that we would never send someone alone,

04:24:58.760 --> 04:25:02.320
but I just want to really emphasize how important the discussion time was.

04:25:02.320 --> 04:25:06.280
When we started to talk, we not only got better science discussion,

04:25:06.280 --> 04:25:07.800
we got better human connection.

04:25:07.800 --> 04:25:12.160
And so doing this as a pair, we just learn and grow together.

04:25:12.160 --> 04:25:13.680
That's just super important.

04:25:13.680 --> 04:25:16.080
So thank you for adding that to this plan.

04:25:17.200 --> 04:25:23.040
Reid just passed me a note that the Oriental basin annular ring has a similar albedo

04:25:23.040 --> 04:25:24.960
to the center, but it's a different color.

04:25:24.960 --> 04:25:27.080
It has more brownish tones in it.

04:25:27.080 --> 04:25:34.080
And he said it's very distinct now that he's been staring at it.

04:25:34.080 --> 04:25:34.840
Victor, thank you.

04:25:34.840 --> 04:25:37.600
You got a tear from Science Fair.

04:25:37.600 --> 04:25:41.080
And we all just went on that moonwalk with you.

04:25:41.080 --> 04:25:44.600
So highlighting how important it is to talk about these things.

04:25:44.600 --> 04:25:48.080
I also want to let you know that we have Deanna Glover

04:25:48.080 --> 04:25:49.920
with us in the viewing gallery.

04:25:49.920 --> 04:25:52.000
She's all smiles.

04:25:53.040 --> 04:26:00.040
Well, you just got a bunch of cheers up here, hey babe.

04:26:00.040 --> 04:26:05.040
I love you from the moon.

04:26:05.040 --> 04:26:09.040
We love that we got a hey babe too.

04:26:09.040 --> 04:26:13.040
And we also have one of your lovely daughters here watching you guys work.

04:26:13.040 --> 04:26:22.040
Thank you guys for doing that.

04:26:22.040 --> 04:26:25.900
for supporting them through this to all of you.

04:26:25.900 --> 04:26:28.920
Genesis, Maya, Joya, and Karen, I love you.

04:26:28.920 --> 04:26:31.520
And Deanna, I love you, I'm glad you get to be there.

04:26:52.040 --> 04:26:56.560
We've had some really sweet words from the crew members aboard Orion today

04:26:56.560 --> 04:27:01.160
as their families have been able to filter in and out of the viewing room here

04:27:01.440 --> 04:27:04.820
at Artemis Mission Control at Johnson Space Center in Houston.

04:27:05.440 --> 04:27:10.700
Victor Glover also giving a great science rep and just a description of how it must feel

04:27:11.000 --> 04:27:13.700
if you were down on the lunar surface while he was looking

04:27:13.700 --> 04:27:16.100
through that 80 to 400 millimeter zoom lens.

04:27:16.100 --> 04:27:24.100
He also expressed how important it was to be able to talk through that real time with Christina Cook

04:27:24.100 --> 04:27:30.100
and stress the importance of that on future missions, that it not only made their discussions better, but also more human.

04:27:30.100 --> 04:27:39.100
Glover and Cook are in the support roles right now, not taking photos or making annotations at the windows,

04:27:39.100 --> 04:27:44.100
but they are also encouraged to have their midday meal at this time.

04:27:44.100 --> 04:27:50.340
For lunch today, those two crew members have options of beef ravioli, salmon, butternut squash,

04:27:50.340 --> 04:27:57.780
sweet and savory kale, pickled beets, cherry blueberry cobbler, tuna noodle casserole,

04:27:57.780 --> 04:28:03.140
tomatoes and artichokes, broccoli, and chocolate peanut butter bar.

04:28:03.140 --> 04:28:17.740
Once Glover and Cook return to the window portion of their flyby today,

04:28:17.740 --> 04:28:22.820
Reed Wiseman and Jeremy Hansen will get into their midday meal.

04:28:27.860 --> 04:28:32.340
Again, this is the third of five scheduled blocks for our lunar viewing today.

04:28:32.340 --> 04:28:34.580
And if you are watching at the start of the broadcast,

04:28:34.580 --> 04:28:36.700
you can definitely tell the difference

04:28:36.700 --> 04:28:38.780
in the distance from the moon.

04:28:38.780 --> 04:28:43.620
We are now 5,518 miles away from the lunar surface.

04:28:43.620 --> 04:28:50.140
And again, expecting the crew to get about 4,066 miles away.

04:28:50.140 --> 04:28:54.940
They are currently 252,050 miles away from Earth.

04:28:54.940 --> 04:28:58.300
And every mile is a new record having surpassed the Apollo

04:28:58.300 --> 04:29:02.300
a 13-mile stone for furthest distance earlier today.

04:29:28.300 --> 04:29:45.300
If you look down to the bottom right of the moon in that darker looking area, that is Oriental Basin.

04:29:45.300 --> 04:29:51.300
We have continued to lose views of the near side.

04:29:51.300 --> 04:29:56.300
It is just barely visible over towards the bottom right side of your screen.

04:29:56.300 --> 04:29:59.940
And then you'll also hear later about that terminator.

04:29:59.940 --> 04:30:04.040
That's the line between light and darkness while on the moon.

04:30:04.040 --> 04:30:07.340
It is really exposing some of those craters at this time.

04:30:12.840 --> 04:30:18.380
A couple of the other features in view right now are Hertzsprung Basin and Valyov Crater.

04:30:18.380 --> 04:30:26.720
Kurtzsprung basin is nearer to the center of the moon,

04:30:26.720 --> 04:30:29.720
closer to that terminator line right now.

04:30:29.720 --> 04:30:33.680
And Vavilov crater is just on the outskirts of it,

04:30:34.420 --> 04:30:36.160
closer again to the terminator.

04:30:42.160 --> 04:30:44.620
Towards the bottom of the moon and to the left

04:30:44.620 --> 04:30:47.860
of the terminator line or currently shadowed in darkness,

04:30:47.860 --> 04:30:54.860
This is Apollo Basin.

04:30:54.860 --> 04:31:07.860
Science from integrity, let me find out how far we are from the Moon right now.

04:31:07.860 --> 04:31:13.860
But our view is about a third of the Moon is in eclipse.

04:31:13.860 --> 04:31:16.860
that beautiful terminator is out there calling to me.

04:31:16.860 --> 04:31:20.500
We're 4,691 miles from the moon.

04:31:21.500 --> 04:31:30.420
And what looked like in the terminator about a third

04:31:30.420 --> 04:31:34.620
of the way up from the southernmost part of the terminator looked

04:31:34.620 --> 04:31:35.820
like a dinosaur print.

04:31:36.340 --> 04:31:39.900
One was running to the northwest.

04:31:39.900 --> 04:31:45.500
Now there's clearly a crater with a bunch of craters around it.

04:31:46.060 --> 04:31:49.500
And that term, I can only see about half of it.

04:31:49.500 --> 04:31:51.700
I'm looking through the docking hatch window right now

04:31:51.700 --> 04:31:58.460
because we have the Z9 and A1-0-1, but that terminator has moved.

04:31:59.460 --> 04:32:02.140
I guess I've been using Vivallaw the whole time,

04:32:02.140 --> 04:32:07.460
so it's gone two more Vivallaw craters to the west.

04:32:07.460 --> 04:32:15.020
And so a few more features are starting to peek out into the sunlight there with that

04:32:15.020 --> 04:32:16.020
low sun angle.

04:32:16.020 --> 04:32:24.180
And so you just still have ridges and valleys showing up very clearly, a very jagged terminator

04:32:24.180 --> 04:32:33.660
and a few islands of light out there with some high elevation shining in the sunlight

04:32:33.660 --> 04:32:35.660
in that darkness.

04:32:35.660 --> 04:32:41.640
on the eastern side of the moon, the, let's see,

04:32:41.640 --> 04:32:45.840
Gromaldi appears to be one of the farthest east features.

04:32:46.340 --> 04:32:49.320
And that is maybe five degrees from being right

04:32:49.320 --> 04:32:51.660
on the limb and going off over the horizon.

04:32:51.660 --> 04:32:58.460
It is interesting just looking at Orientall

04:32:59.300 --> 04:33:02.040
that my first impression of it is all

04:33:02.040 --> 04:33:04.680
of the dark areas appear lighter,

04:33:04.680 --> 04:33:07.860
which I think makes sense because it is now facing,

04:33:08.360 --> 04:33:10.960
well it's still relatively the same to the sun,

04:33:10.960 --> 04:33:12.560
but my angle to it is different.

04:33:12.560 --> 04:33:16.360
So I'm looking at it from a little more, even further

04:33:16.360 --> 04:33:18.180
to the side as we pass it.

04:33:18.840 --> 04:33:20.900
But all the darker features appear

04:33:20.900 --> 04:33:25.040
to be just a little bit lighter from this vantage point.

04:33:25.040 --> 04:33:28.060
The darker ring structure in the outer and inner ring

04:33:28.060 --> 04:33:30.760
and the interior as well

04:33:30.760 --> 04:33:32.180
as the inner ring portion.

04:33:32.180 --> 04:33:34.500
Everything seems to be just the smidge lighter

04:33:34.500 --> 04:33:39.500
at this point.

04:33:39.500 --> 04:33:42.500
Thanks for that description, Ike.

04:33:42.500 --> 04:33:48.500
Any additional words you can provide on Oriental would be wonderful

04:33:48.500 --> 04:33:51.500
as that is such a high priority target for us.

04:33:51.500 --> 04:33:56.500
And while I have you, as we get closer to target 15,

04:33:56.500 --> 04:34:00.500
which is the terminator target, if you can find Zeeman Crater again

04:34:00.500 --> 04:34:05.780
that you were looking at earlier, everything to your left of Zeeman would be getting into

04:34:05.780 --> 04:34:09.300
the South Pole-Agan area to help you orient yourself.

04:34:09.300 --> 04:34:17.300
Zeeben is a great way to point out there.

04:34:17.300 --> 04:34:19.300
I definitely see it.

04:34:19.300 --> 04:34:31.300
Yeah, Zeeben is very easy to find and that is awesome.

04:34:31.300 --> 04:34:33.300
Thank you for pointing that out.

04:34:33.300 --> 04:34:36.300
Feel free to do that as often as you think of things.

04:34:36.300 --> 04:34:43.460
Let's see, looking back at Oriental, okay, another thing, after looking through the zoom

04:34:43.460 --> 04:34:44.460
camera.

04:34:44.460 --> 04:34:45.460
Man, you guys are smart.

04:34:45.460 --> 04:34:49.740
You probably did this on purpose, but after looking with my plain eyes and then going to

04:34:49.740 --> 04:34:56.100
the 400 millimeter zoom, now looking at it, I see the cliff faces.

04:34:56.100 --> 04:35:02.340
If you're standing in the center, that inner and outer ring has definitely some real

04:35:02.340 --> 04:35:03.740
terrain to them.

04:35:03.740 --> 04:35:08.700
And now I can see that as to right now that I look at even with my naked eye I can tell

04:35:08.700 --> 04:35:15.660
that there's a lot of elevation and like I said a cliff face on that eastern edge with

04:35:15.660 --> 04:35:18.820
all the darker deposits are.

04:35:18.820 --> 04:35:21.100
And it's just the scale now.

04:35:21.100 --> 04:35:28.580
Looking at it from far away before it seemed like a flat with color painted on it.

04:35:28.580 --> 04:35:33.220
But now that I look at it I can definitely see that there is different depositional

04:35:33.220 --> 04:35:37.660
characteristics and so the darker is some other material but there's also some

04:35:37.660 --> 04:35:43.380
shadowing going on because of the the cliff face that is a part of that

04:35:43.380 --> 04:35:50.780
crater wall. Great description Victor thanks and really interesting to hear now

04:35:50.780 --> 04:35:57.220
the distinction between shadow and color. Before I let you go back to other

04:35:57.220 --> 04:36:04.300
their observations. You mentioned that Reed saw a browner hue to the annular ring and

04:36:04.300 --> 04:36:09.580
the rest of Oriental. Are you seeing that from your vantage point?

04:36:09.580 --> 04:36:24.580
The way that I'm looking at Oriental, again, I'm still in the docking hatch window. There's

04:36:24.580 --> 04:36:30.700
like a thermal couple right here in the center of the window.

04:36:30.700 --> 04:36:34.700
And it is the orange cap-ton tape color.

04:36:34.700 --> 04:36:40.020
And so it is, unfortunately, it's like trying to look at stars,

04:36:40.020 --> 04:36:42.100
you know, next to a metropolis.

04:36:42.100 --> 04:36:43.980
I think it's drowning out any color

04:36:43.980 --> 04:36:45.300
that I could pick up from the moon.

04:36:45.300 --> 04:36:47.540
I am not able to see that color.

04:36:47.540 --> 04:36:50.380
But I have not looked at it through one of the four,

04:36:50.380 --> 04:36:53.580
from one of the windows one through four.

04:36:53.580 --> 04:37:00.080
I think when I get away from this Cap-Ton tape strip that I would be able to see the variation that Reid's talking about.

04:37:02.080 --> 04:37:05.580
That is great feedback operationally. Thanks, Victor. I'll lead you to it.

04:37:23.580 --> 04:37:28.580
Science integrity with a question from the window team.

04:37:28.580 --> 04:37:39.580
Integrity to science here with you.

04:37:39.580 --> 04:37:46.580
Yes, they have a question to help inform a theory that they're sort of tossed back and forth.

04:37:46.580 --> 04:37:52.580
What is older, the Mare seas of the near side or Oriental?

04:37:59.580 --> 04:38:03.580
Standby integrity, we're going to get you a little geologic history here.

04:39:16.580 --> 04:39:41.860
Integrity science back with you for some lunar volcanism when you're ready.

04:39:46.580 --> 04:39:55.620
You're making our day down here getting to talk about lunar volcanoes.

04:39:55.620 --> 04:40:04.740
Oriental as far as mare go is younger than almost all of the mare on the near side.

04:40:04.740 --> 04:40:10.260
The exception are features like Aristarchus, which really pop out to you guys and really

04:40:10.260 --> 04:40:12.260
pop out to us here on Earth.

04:40:12.260 --> 04:40:13.260
That is younger.

04:40:13.260 --> 04:40:17.040
and that oriental is pretty young as far as Mariko.

04:40:35.920 --> 04:40:37.300
And Kelsey, thanks for that.

04:40:37.300 --> 04:40:39.660
We love lunar volcanism too.

04:40:39.660 --> 04:40:42.740
How about when the actual crater was formed?

04:40:43.260 --> 04:40:56.420
Yeah, we're going to get you an age for Oriental.

04:40:56.420 --> 04:41:01.820
And while we're getting that, Christina, can you, maybe you've heard the window team talk

04:41:01.820 --> 04:41:08.820
about the sort of contacts around Oriental, but because it's that material is so much

04:41:08.820 --> 04:41:09.820
younger.

04:41:09.820 --> 04:41:13.260
if anything pops out to you about physical relationship

04:41:13.260 --> 04:41:15.620
between that and surrounding terrain.

04:41:15.620 --> 04:41:16.460
We'd love to hear it.

04:41:22.100 --> 04:41:23.140
Yeah, definitely.

04:41:23.140 --> 04:41:25.980
They are discussing a contact relationship

04:41:25.980 --> 04:41:29.420
that could explain some of the color

04:41:29.420 --> 04:41:30.980
that they're seeing in certain areas.

04:41:30.980 --> 04:41:35.980
And so it was really about the ejecta of the creation

04:41:35.980 --> 04:41:44.420
of the basin and understanding the superposition of its ejecta and tamari on the near side

04:41:44.420 --> 04:41:45.420
or other features.

04:41:45.420 --> 04:41:46.420
So, thank you.

04:41:46.420 --> 04:41:47.420
We'll take the insight.

04:41:47.420 --> 04:41:55.460
What do you have?

04:41:55.460 --> 04:41:56.460
Thank you, integrity.

04:41:56.460 --> 04:42:03.020
And I know Jenny wants to get to you with some topics, so I'll leave you with Oriental

04:42:03.020 --> 04:42:05.020
as 3.8 billion years old.

04:42:05.020 --> 04:42:10.020
Copy that.

04:42:10.020 --> 04:42:23.020
So that's on the older side.

04:42:23.020 --> 04:42:27.020
The actual basin was very old.

04:42:27.020 --> 04:42:28.020
Correct.

04:42:28.020 --> 04:42:31.020
As is the case with a lot of MRA, typically the big basin formed

04:42:31.020 --> 04:42:34.920
and then the volcanic eruption was able to punch

04:42:34.920 --> 04:42:36.420
through the crust where it was weakened

04:42:36.420 --> 04:42:37.720
by that base information.

04:42:37.720 --> 04:42:38.720
Perfect.

04:42:38.720 --> 04:42:39.720
Jacking.

04:42:39.720 --> 04:42:40.720
Thank you.

04:42:40.720 --> 04:42:54.260
NASA astronaut Christina Cook, calling down some questions

04:42:54.260 --> 04:42:57.140
to the science team on console.

04:42:57.140 --> 04:42:59.980
The voice you're hearing with those answers is Dr.

04:42:59.980 --> 04:43:05.820
Kelsey Young. She's joined by Trevor Graff on console today.

04:43:07.740 --> 04:43:13.820
Christina asking about the age of Oriental and specifically the Marais

04:43:13.820 --> 04:43:16.940
regions. Those are those dark regions that you see.

04:43:16.940 --> 04:43:21.820
They are paved or filled by volcanic deposits.

04:43:59.980 --> 04:44:23.660
Integrity, it's about time for a position swap at the window, so we will ask Reed and

04:44:23.660 --> 04:44:28.300
Jeremy to swap positions, and I'll remind you again about your SD cards.

04:44:29.740 --> 04:44:34.620
And Victor or Christina, I have one window task for the captain team when you're ready.

04:44:44.220 --> 04:44:45.940
They are swapping and I'm ready.

04:44:48.140 --> 04:44:52.620
All right, Tina, we found a way that we can reinstall the shroud on the window.

04:44:52.620 --> 04:44:56.500
We understand it's pretty darn bright compared to everything that you're looking at.

04:44:56.660 --> 04:45:02.460
So in order to reinstall it, we will ask that you retrieve the condensation hose

04:45:02.940 --> 04:45:08.040
and you install it on a friction fit on the cabin air outlet port.

04:45:08.280 --> 04:45:10.360
That's right by one of your diffusers.

04:45:11.040 --> 04:45:16.460
You're going to point that little condensation hose such that the air is flowing

04:45:16.460 --> 04:45:17.960
over the window pane.

04:45:18.740 --> 04:45:21.000
Let me know when you're ready for the stowage location.

04:45:22.620 --> 04:45:27.620
Ready.

04:45:43.620 --> 04:45:46.620
Christina, the host is in Locker A1.

04:45:46.620 --> 04:45:54.020
Crew has gotten a go to reinstall that window shroud.

04:45:54.020 --> 04:45:56.540
They were using to block some of the earth shine.

04:45:57.380 --> 04:45:57.940
Happy.

04:45:59.940 --> 04:46:02.820
This view coming from inside the Orion spacecraft

04:46:02.820 --> 04:46:05.860
as the crew members are swapping windows,

04:46:05.860 --> 04:46:09.220
specifically Reed Wiseman and Jeremy Hansen.

04:46:09.220 --> 04:46:11.820
They've been our crew members at the windows taking photos,

04:46:11.820 --> 04:46:15.260
making annotations, and making recordings that will be

04:46:15.260 --> 04:46:17.820
downlinked later to the science team for review.

04:46:17.820 --> 04:46:22.840
The science team will have a conference tomorrow morning

04:46:22.840 --> 04:46:25.780
with the crew to get any fresh perspectives or things

04:46:25.780 --> 04:46:28.060
that they learned during the flyby.

04:47:15.260 --> 04:47:31.260
Again, we are now in the third of five observation blocks for the crew scheduled for today.

04:47:31.260 --> 04:47:37.380
During this flyby, Orion is passing around between 4,000 and 6,000 miles from the Moon

04:47:37.380 --> 04:47:41.860
and providing the crew with a full view of the lunar surface.

04:47:41.860 --> 04:47:46.420
higher vantage point and much farther than Apollo's lunar orbits on average.

04:47:46.420 --> 04:47:52.640
So from this view astronauts can observe both the North and South Pole and large scale geologic

04:47:52.640 --> 04:48:06.060
features in one single view.

04:48:06.060 --> 04:48:12.020
We are now just under an hour until Orion passes behind the moon and we lose communication

04:48:12.020 --> 04:48:13.380
with the crew.

04:48:13.380 --> 04:48:21.660
They will be out of reach with any of our deep space network antennas.

04:48:21.660 --> 04:48:26.500
That loss of signal will last about 40 minutes and we expect to regain communications with

04:48:26.500 --> 04:48:30.820
them once they fly behind the other side of the moon.

04:48:30.820 --> 04:48:34.700
While they are behind the moon, they will also reach their max Earth altitude as well

04:48:34.700 --> 04:48:37.700
as their closest approach to the lunar surface.

04:48:37.700 --> 04:48:51.940
The view you have right now is a live stream from a camera

04:48:51.940 --> 04:48:54.460
on Orion's solar arrays.

04:48:54.460 --> 04:48:56.540
You are looking at a live view of the moon

04:48:56.540 --> 04:48:59.700
and four people are inside that spacecraft taking pictures

04:48:59.700 --> 04:49:01.980
of it telling us everything that they are seeing.

04:49:01.980 --> 04:49:04.820
The first humans to do so in over 50 years.

04:49:04.820 --> 04:49:10.400
They'll be sending those pictures down for all of us to enjoy and, of course,

04:49:10.400 --> 04:49:15.180
especially the science team who are very excited for what they are learning today.

04:49:24.180 --> 04:49:30.060
It appears the Artemis-2 spacecraft Orion is now under 5,000 miles away from the moon.

04:49:30.060 --> 04:49:36.560
Again, we expect their closest distance to the moon be about 4,066 miles.

04:49:41.900 --> 04:49:44.740
That is an estimate at this point, and we will make sure

04:49:44.740 --> 04:49:47.740
to share that closest approach to distance once we receive it.

04:49:47.740 --> 04:50:05.100
Did you just want us to cool the window with the condensation hose, or did you want us

04:50:05.100 --> 04:50:12.100
to put the shroud back on and cool the window at the same time?

04:50:12.100 --> 04:50:20.100
Victor, we definitely want you to cool down the window with the condensation hose.

04:50:20.100 --> 04:50:23.100
It's crew preference whether you put the shroud back on.

04:50:23.100 --> 04:50:32.100
The hose will allow you to do that if it helps with your lunar flyby.

04:50:32.100 --> 04:50:33.100
Okay, copy.

04:50:33.100 --> 04:50:35.100
We're going to do both at the same time.

04:50:35.100 --> 04:50:37.100
Thank you.

04:50:37.100 --> 04:50:41.100
Houston copies.

04:50:41.100 --> 04:50:53.020
Houston, thank you for that suggestion.

04:50:53.020 --> 04:50:56.060
The cabin is darkened again, and that makes a big difference with imagery.

04:50:56.540 --> 04:51:00.460
And for science, we are now seeing a half moon.

04:51:00.460 --> 04:51:13.460
Thank you, Victor. We're happy to hear it. And we see half moon full moon joy still

04:51:30.460 --> 04:51:52.660
Crew reporting from Orion that they are seeing half the Moon,

04:51:52.660 --> 04:51:54.940
which is about what it looks like here from this view

04:51:54.940 --> 04:51:56.260
from the spacecraft.

04:51:56.260 --> 04:52:01.320
However, what has become a little bit of a catch phrase

04:52:01.320 --> 04:52:04.820
for this mission, everyone is reporting full moon joy.

04:52:26.260 --> 04:52:52.940
We are keeping up with which targets the crew is tracking through their lunar targeting package.

04:52:52.940 --> 04:52:55.260
They are just wrapping up their second.

04:52:55.260 --> 04:52:58.100
Science integrity, another observation.

04:52:58.100 --> 04:53:01.100
The window team commented on it.

04:53:01.100 --> 04:53:07.460
Christina and I discussed a bit as it hurts from the solid

04:53:07.460 --> 04:53:09.660
and intact crater is very smooth.

04:53:09.660 --> 04:53:14.220
If you were a dirt road, it's very hard packed,

04:53:14.220 --> 04:53:17.500
and then you go outside of it, and that outer crater,

04:53:17.500 --> 04:53:22.860
that's the one that is older, it is a little rougher,

04:53:22.860 --> 04:53:27.060
and more jagged and starts to get into the more loose looking terrain.

04:53:27.840 --> 04:53:34.420
And the smooth interior also causes the craters that are inside

04:53:34.420 --> 04:53:35.920
of the larger craters, the smaller craters,

04:53:35.920 --> 04:53:38.400
that have really sharp edges, sharp distinct edges.

04:53:39.280 --> 04:53:42.160
And just a general comment on that area,

04:53:42.160 --> 04:53:45.960
here's from that whole area, the average albedo there is darker.

04:53:45.960 --> 04:53:49.520
That is, I would say, six, I'm sorry, three.

04:53:49.520 --> 04:53:55.080
And the average albino around Oriental and between Oriental

04:53:55.080 --> 04:54:00.640
and Ohm, excluding the wedge, the darker wedge, is more on the 6-7.

04:54:01.200 --> 04:54:05.200
And that they also seem to be different texturally.

04:54:05.200 --> 04:54:08.120
Christina described it earlier around her sprung.

04:54:08.120 --> 04:54:12.860
And then from her sprung toward Ohm, I'm sorry, toward Oriental,

04:54:12.860 --> 04:54:17.720
there appears to be a frozen, a rippling pond,

04:54:17.720 --> 04:54:24.320
frozen or like choppy waves when it's windy out choppy water and it freezes

04:54:24.320 --> 04:54:28.120
instantly that's the texture if you walk down there barefoot it looks like it

04:54:28.120 --> 04:54:34.360
would be hard on your feet like like lava after it's cool it would be

04:54:34.360 --> 04:54:38.280
pokey except for right there at the center of Hertzsprung it looks paid

04:54:38.280 --> 04:54:42.600
like a paved road nice and smooth

04:54:42.600 --> 04:54:52.840
Victor, that's a wonderful description going from Paved Road to Ahlaba.

04:54:52.840 --> 04:54:54.440
Reminds us of the Icelandic Islands.

04:54:54.440 --> 04:54:55.440
Thanks for that.

04:54:55.440 --> 04:55:11.000
And science, another, in the interior of the very intact, the interior of the intact crater

04:55:11.000 --> 04:55:15.400
at Hertzbrough is albedo variation.

04:55:15.400 --> 04:55:18.720
I think I heard one of the window crew maybe say color variation, but definitely albedo

04:55:18.720 --> 04:55:19.720
variation.

04:55:19.720 --> 04:55:22.440
There's lighter patches and slightly darker patches.

04:55:22.440 --> 04:55:23.440
It's not swirling.

04:55:23.440 --> 04:55:24.440
It's just patchy.

04:55:24.440 --> 04:55:31.640
patchy it just has spots that are lighter and I would say a predominantly darker average area.

04:55:34.760 --> 04:55:49.640
Great description Victor, thanks. Not for really just patchy, it's really helpful for us.

04:55:54.440 --> 04:55:57.440
Really great descriptions coming from...

04:55:57.440 --> 04:56:04.440
Science, the window team is hitting all the targets they are on the plan and starting the discussion of the Terminator.

04:56:04.440 --> 04:56:15.440
And boy, I'm loving the Terminator. I think I know it's not purely a moon feature, but what it does to the features of the moon, to the terrain,

04:56:15.440 --> 04:56:21.440
I've probably spent the most time describing into my recordings and thinking about and looking at the Terminator.

04:56:21.440 --> 04:56:28.040
There's just so much magic in the Terminator, the islands of light, the valleys that would

04:56:28.040 --> 04:56:29.040
look like black holes.

04:56:29.040 --> 04:56:31.040
You'd fall straight to the center of the moon.

04:56:31.040 --> 04:56:36.440
If you stepped in some of those, it's just so visually captivating that the Terminator

04:56:36.440 --> 04:56:43.760
is the most striking thing that I've seen so far.

04:56:43.760 --> 04:56:46.440
We've been loving your evocative descriptions, Victor.

04:56:46.440 --> 04:56:51.040
You really are bringing us along with you and we're following along with visualizations

04:56:51.040 --> 04:56:53.000
that pale in comparison to your descriptions.

04:56:53.000 --> 04:56:53.320
Thanks.

04:57:07.320 --> 04:57:10.600
Integrity Science, one more question on a status

04:57:10.600 --> 04:57:15.360
of what the window team chose to observe for crew choice.

04:57:51.040 --> 04:58:09.440
Window 2, talked about the battle off, looked for suspended dust and the terminator and

04:58:09.440 --> 04:58:18.440
window 3 about the experience and about the three-dimensionality of the moon this close.

04:58:18.440 --> 04:58:29.440
And another observation about oriental, I would say, is the features going off to the

04:58:29.440 --> 04:58:35.440
southwest, the two large, almost like scratches in the surface. I don't know if they were

04:58:35.440 --> 04:58:40.920
rays or canyons or collapsed lava tubes but two distinct features that are almost parallel

04:58:40.920 --> 04:58:48.120
going off Southwest from Oriental Basin, they are the first thing that made me notice parallax

04:58:48.120 --> 04:58:50.560
of our trajectory looking at it, Oriental.

04:58:50.560 --> 04:58:58.120
That and in the inner walls of the east side of the crater rings, you really get

04:58:58.120 --> 04:59:03.000
a sense that we're flying over something with elevation and terrain and they look

04:59:03.000 --> 04:59:04.480
different from this orientation.

04:59:04.480 --> 04:59:15.640
Love to hear it, Victor, and you had it that those chains are actually crater rays, secondary

04:59:15.640 --> 04:59:20.600
craters formed from the formation of Oriental.

04:59:20.600 --> 04:59:31.880
Yeah, speaking of crater rays, the crater rays that are going off to the north, to the

04:59:31.880 --> 04:59:39.640
in the northwest that run off toward Hertzsprung and I believe toward Babelov.

04:59:39.640 --> 04:59:43.400
I'm not looking at it right now, but those crater rays are very interesting.

04:59:43.400 --> 04:59:44.460
They're all very small.

04:59:44.460 --> 04:59:47.640
I know you've imaged this, but they're all small and they look like, you know,

04:59:47.640 --> 04:59:52.440
a big impact, launched rocks and things that make smaller impacts down the way.

04:59:52.440 --> 04:59:55.480
But something very interesting, and again, you can see there's an energy,

04:59:55.480 --> 05:00:00.800
but some of them are parallel and then some of them converge toward the center

05:00:00.800 --> 05:00:04.600
of Oriental. And then I think I even saw some that maybe diverged, which

05:00:04.600 --> 05:00:10.000
and diverged within a convergent, which indicate multiple large impacts that

05:00:10.000 --> 05:00:16.480
created a lot of secondary impact crater rays. Fantastic Victor, and I'll

05:00:16.480 --> 05:00:22.720
note that we can infer that you're looking down at your freshly named

05:00:22.720 --> 05:00:26.440
integrity crater, which is near the end of one of those beautiful crater

05:00:26.440 --> 05:00:29.000
raised from Oriental. Thanks for the description.

05:00:34.760 --> 05:00:39.640
Yeah, you're welcome. Integrity is easily identifiable with the naked eye from this point.

05:01:26.440 --> 05:01:31.680
We've been hearing some great situation reports

05:01:31.680 --> 05:01:34.800
from Victor Glover, the pilot of the Artemis II mission,

05:01:34.800 --> 05:01:36.120
calling down to the science team,

05:01:36.520 --> 05:01:38.440
letting them know what he is seeing.

05:01:38.440 --> 05:01:40.560
And one of those things is Hurtsprung Basin.

05:01:42.560 --> 05:01:45.020
If you look just to the right of the terminator,

05:01:45.020 --> 05:01:48.580
that is the difference between light and darkness on the moon,

05:01:49.040 --> 05:01:52.020
you can see what he's describing when he says Hurtsprung Basin

05:01:52.020 --> 05:01:54.480
and how it looks a little bit paved in the middle there.

05:01:54.480 --> 05:01:58.320
It's almost in the very center of the moon in this view,

05:01:58.320 --> 05:02:00.200
coming from the Orion spacecraft

05:02:00.200 --> 05:02:02.120
and a camera mounted on its solar array.

05:02:02.120 --> 05:02:17.760
We are now four days, 23 hours and 23 minutes into the flight

05:02:17.760 --> 05:02:22.280
of Artemis II and we are standing by for their lunar loss

05:02:22.280 --> 05:02:24.640
of signal in about 43 minutes.

05:02:24.640 --> 05:02:27.000
Again, the spacecraft will fly behind the moon

05:02:27.000 --> 05:02:30.120
and during that time we won't have communication with them.

05:02:30.120 --> 05:02:32.960
They will be out of reach of our deep space network.

05:02:32.960 --> 05:02:34.760
However, we will regain communication

05:02:34.760 --> 05:02:38.480
with them approximately 40, 4, 0 minutes later

05:02:38.480 --> 05:02:41.360
when they come around the other side of the moon.

05:02:41.360 --> 05:02:51.480
The crew aboard the spacecraft are currently discussing

05:02:51.480 --> 05:02:55.080
of the terminator that difference between day and night.

05:02:59.080 --> 05:03:02.240
The science team is interested in learning about the topography

05:03:02.240 --> 05:03:04.120
and the color of the lunar surface.

05:03:04.120 --> 05:03:05.960
And it's already been very interesting to hear

05:03:05.960 --> 05:03:08.920
that they have seen colors like greens and browns

05:03:08.920 --> 05:03:12.040
while looking at the moon.

05:03:12.040 --> 05:03:14.760
Some of the questions that they are hoping the crew will

05:03:14.760 --> 05:03:17.760
discuss are how do the quantities and sizes of craters

05:03:17.760 --> 05:03:20.160
and mountains vary along the terminator.

05:03:20.160 --> 05:03:25.580
And they are looking for the crew to describe the topography of features along or near the terminator.

05:03:26.320 --> 05:03:30.180
They're also looking for more information on any color or tone variations.

05:03:30.180 --> 05:03:34.280
And they're hoping that the crew will take images to illustrate their findings.

05:03:35.800 --> 05:03:41.000
Glova reported earlier that the crew has missed none of their targets when they are photographing at the window.

05:03:43.820 --> 05:03:46.840
We aren't hearing the conversations that the crew is having right now,

05:03:46.840 --> 05:03:50.200
that these are being recorded to their personal computer devices,

05:03:50.200 --> 05:03:53.560
PCDs, and those will be sent down to the science team.

05:03:54.040 --> 05:03:57.040
Science team will have a conference with the crew tomorrow morning

05:03:57.040 --> 05:03:59.520
to discuss their findings and experience

05:03:59.520 --> 05:04:00.640
when looking at the moon today.

05:04:16.840 --> 05:04:20.840
We have a few minutes left while the crew is discussing the Terminator.

05:04:20.840 --> 05:04:25.840
And if you're just joining us, you're looking at a live view of the Moon, our Moon,

05:04:25.840 --> 05:04:29.840
from the Orion spacecraft and a camera on its solar array.

05:04:30.840 --> 05:04:35.840
Inside that spacecraft, four astronauts, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Cook,

05:04:35.840 --> 05:04:40.840
and Jeremy Hansen, the first four people to fly around the Moon in over 50 years.

05:04:46.840 --> 05:04:55.440
This is our Lunar Flyby Day, and the crew has already surpassed one record today.

05:04:55.440 --> 05:05:06.360
The crew passed the Apollo 13 distance record at 1257 p.m. Central, 157 p.m. Eastern.

05:05:06.360 --> 05:05:11.900
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen calling down that he hopes it's a record soon broken

05:05:11.900 --> 05:05:13.900
by other explorers.

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We are live in Artemis Mission Control in Houston, Texas, monitoring the flight of Artemis 2.

05:06:09.500 --> 05:06:13.740
of the flight controllers here, each monitoring a different system aboard the Orion spacecraft.

05:06:14.860 --> 05:06:21.100
Integrity Houston, we are ready for our cabin and window teams to swap again.

05:06:21.900 --> 05:06:27.580
We have a 15-minute handover time here, and I have a couple of items I want to read up to you.

05:06:27.580 --> 05:06:32.940
They'll require you to write something down on your kneeboards. So let me know when you're ready.

05:06:39.500 --> 05:06:51.060
Okay Houston, we are ready.

05:06:51.060 --> 05:06:52.060
Copy integrity.

05:06:52.060 --> 05:06:58.220
First of all, once you start this next shift here, during this lunar observation shift

05:06:58.220 --> 05:07:05.020
we will begin our lunar LOF so you can expect a call from me a few minutes prior reminding

05:07:05.020 --> 05:07:06.020
you.

05:07:06.020 --> 05:07:14.020
And second of all, SIDO just sent us updated altitudes and METs for lunar closest approach

05:07:14.020 --> 05:07:16.020
and max Earth altitude.

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Let me know when you are ready to write those down.

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They differ slightly from Optimus.

05:07:21.020 --> 05:07:30.020
Thanks, Jenny. We are ready to copy.

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Lunar closest approach will be at MET, five days, zero hours, 25 minutes, 34 seconds.

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And the altitude will be 4,067 statute miles.

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Earth Altitude will be at MET, five days, zero hours, two seven minutes, three nine seconds

05:08:09.940 --> 05:08:23.620
with an altitude of 252,756 statute miles.

05:08:25.460 --> 05:08:47.460
The crew really wants to ask for that in kilometers and in par six, but thank you for those.

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That is great.

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Thanks for that update.

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I'll send Fido to work and I appreciate the metric.

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Other than that, I have no new vehicle statuses to pass to you.

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Enjoy your hand over time and we're looking forward to picking back up with you shortly.

05:09:03.460 --> 05:09:33.380
Those words called from Capcom, Jenny Gibbons, CSA Astronaut.

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and armist two backup crew member to the crew working aboard the Orion spacecraft.

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Got a little bit of a view inside the cabin.

05:09:41.380 --> 05:09:42.900
As you can see, it is very dark.

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The crew has turned off the lights and the light that you were able to see is coming

05:09:46.500 --> 05:09:50.660
through the window, a reflection of earth shine and from the moon.

05:09:50.660 --> 05:10:04.580
The crew is moving into their next observation block meaning they are taking time to switch

05:10:04.580 --> 05:10:10.300
cabin and window teams. We've had Reid Weisman and Jeremy Hansen at the windows taking pictures

05:10:10.300 --> 05:10:16.100
and making annotations and recording some audio files that will be downlinked later to the science

05:10:16.100 --> 05:10:21.860
team. Meanwhile, Victor Glover and Christina Cook were in the background serving as support.

05:10:21.860 --> 05:10:25.300
They were also timelineed to enjoy a little bit of their midday meal.

05:10:28.100 --> 05:10:34.820
Now that we are swapping positions, the support team becomes Reed Wiseman and Jeremy

05:10:34.820 --> 05:10:39.620
Hansen. They will be in the background helping with SD card swaps as well as providing those

05:10:39.620 --> 05:10:43.020
situational reports to the science team.

05:10:44.780 --> 05:10:46.100
Victor Glover and Christina Cook

05:10:46.100 --> 05:10:48.020
will be the astronauts at the window,

05:10:48.020 --> 05:10:51.860
photographing and speaking into those PCDs,

05:10:51.860 --> 05:10:53.980
portable computing devices,

05:10:53.980 --> 05:10:55.980
about what they're seeing on the moon.

05:10:59.420 --> 05:11:02.700
As you heard Capcom and Jenny Gibbons call to the crew,

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this block is also when we will lose communications

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with the crew.

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that LOS or loss of signal scheduled to be less than 35 minutes from now.

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We anticipate to be out of signal with them for about 40 minutes and we'll regain

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that communication once they've flown around the other side of the moon.

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Now even the crew, even though the crew will be flying behind the moon, their observation

05:11:53.380 --> 05:11:54.900
period does not stop.

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They will still be taking pictures and making annotations of what they are seeing.

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They'll be looking for the limb of the moon, Earth set, and then the Vavilov crater,

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which we have previously seen.

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They'll swap positions at the window before moving

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into a crew choice option.

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They will get to pick things that are interesting to them

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on the surface, take pictures,

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and explain why they find them that way.

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They'll also be looking for any impact flashes.

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These are short-lived flashes

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on the lunar surface caused by impact bombardment.

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Just before Earthrise, the crew will be looking for lofted lunar dust.

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This may be lofted just above the lunar surface, and we could only see it just before Earthrise along the dark western limb.

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Any earth shine would illuminate potential lofted dust.

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But once the crew is all the way around the Earth, the brightness of the Earth will wash out any of that dust they might be able to see.

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These were based on observations from Apollo missions in orbital spacecraft.

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And so we're very interested to see if the crew might be able

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to capture some of that lunar dust today.

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Following that lofted lunar dust target, the next will be Earthrise.

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We will regain communications with the crew shortly after Earthrise.

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There will be a short observation break period where the moon is not in view.

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That's because we are also anticipating the crew seeing an eclipse today.

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The moon won't be in view because the team here in Mission Control Houston will need to change the attitude of the spacecraft

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spacecraft and ensure that it's solar arrays are gathering light from the sun

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heading into that eclipse period. So we will have communication with the crew.

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We just won't be able to see the moon.

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However, we will have views during that eclipse time frame. During that time the

05:14:19.440 --> 05:14:24.960
science team is looking to know they it will only be illuminated by Earth

05:14:24.960 --> 05:14:31.360
shine at that point. So they want to know what the whole moon looks like overall, but they also

05:14:31.360 --> 05:14:36.640
want the crew to look into deep space and potentially see if they can spot any planets.

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Once the eclipse is over the lunar flyby period will have ended.

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We are live through the whole thing, and even once Flyby is over today, we remain live 24-7 on NASA's YouTube.

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Any other questions?

05:15:08.960 --> 05:15:10.960
Go ahead.

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I don't know if Catherine and Devin are still there, but if they are, I just wanted to let them know how much fun we're having out here.

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It's extraordinary to be on the far side of the moon right now, just to see you hanging out there and looking back at the Earth.

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And Ashley and Kailin, I know you're back in Canada,

05:15:30.600 --> 05:15:32.520
but if you haven't any watching too,

05:15:32.520 --> 05:15:34.880
just wanted to say hi to all you guys, love you guys,

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and we'll be heading back your way shortly.

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Thanks Jeremy, I hear they are watching

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and your family is still here.

05:15:46.480 --> 05:15:48.280
So thanks for passing that along.

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This view inside the Orion spacecraft and it's a little hard to make out but on the left

05:16:42.360 --> 05:16:47.440
there that is Jeremy Hansen just calling down some well wishes to his family joining

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us in the viewing room and watching online.

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Currently in the window are Victor Glover and Christina Cook.

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They are taking pictures outside of the window as they are now in their fly-by observation block.

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At this time, Reed Wiseman and Jeremy Hansen are serving as support crew members,

05:17:07.200 --> 05:17:11.920
and they are also going to have an opportunity to enjoy their midday meal at this time.

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On the lunch menu today for Reed Wiseman and Jeremy Hansen,

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We have vegetarian chili, salmon, croquettes, chicken with peanut sauce, sweet and savory

05:17:28.640 --> 05:17:35.760
kale, pickled beets, chocolate pudding, barbecue beef brisket, spaghetti and meat sauce, Italian

05:17:35.760 --> 05:17:41.040
vegetables, butternut squash, candy coated chocolates, and maybe even a little bit of coffee.

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And if you look closely you can see it looks like they are getting into some of their food

05:17:56.160 --> 05:17:57.800
for the midday meal.

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All of the food on the spacecraft is rehydratable.

05:18:01.500 --> 05:18:06.760
We don't have an option for fresh food as there's not a refrigerated section of the

05:18:06.760 --> 05:18:08.040
Orion spacecraft.

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So, all of this food can either be rehydrated or eaten straight from the package, just depends

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on what the food actually is.

05:18:15.180 --> 05:18:19.600
And for food that needs to be rehydrated, there is information on each package of how

05:18:19.600 --> 05:18:32.080
much water needs to fill that bag and what temperature it needs to be.

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We are now four days, 23 hours and 39 minutes,

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40 minutes actually, into the flight of Artemis 2,

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the spacecraft now under 4,500 miles from the moon.

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We are now also under 30 minutes away from loss of signal with the astronauts.

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We will regain that communication about 40 minutes later.

05:19:13.300 --> 05:19:18.680
They will still be photographing the moon and documenting what they're seeing while they're behind the moon.

05:19:21.800 --> 05:19:26.820
And we especially look forward to potential Earth set and Earth rise views.

05:19:32.080 --> 05:19:36.200
As you can see on the left side of your screen we are streaming this solar array

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camera view throughout the flyby and the science team also plans to capture an

05:19:40.640 --> 05:19:45.960
occasional still photo with the solar array intermittently perhaps one every

05:19:45.960 --> 05:19:50.280
eight to ten minutes. Still photos represent the highest resolution imagery

05:19:50.280 --> 05:19:55.200
from those GoPro cameras. So starting five minutes before Earthset and loss of

05:19:55.200 --> 05:19:59.280
signal the science team will capture a series of photos one every 30 seconds

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to include EarthSET all the way through five minutes after Earthrise and acquisition of signal.

05:20:07.440 --> 05:20:12.800
In order to capture these frequent photos, the solar array camera that we were streaming will need to switch to

05:20:13.080 --> 05:20:19.200
time-lapse photo mode. So during this time, the streaming video quality won't be as sharp as you have it right now,

05:20:19.280 --> 05:20:24.600
but we want to ensure that the science team captures the data they need during these time frames.

05:20:24.600 --> 05:20:29.120
And we really look forward to seeing those higher resolution images once they're available.

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But with the view you are seeing right now, we are sharing bandwidth

05:20:34.640 --> 05:20:37.180
on the Orion spacecraft with every system

05:20:37.480 --> 05:20:40.580
that is keeping the spacecraft powered and the crew alive,

05:20:40.960 --> 05:20:44.140
especially the environmental control and life support system.

05:20:44.140 --> 05:20:47.600
As this is the first flight with crew, this is also the first flight

05:20:47.600 --> 05:20:51.420
of a life support system, keeping the crew healthy and safe on the way

05:20:51.420 --> 05:20:52.720
to the moon and the way home.

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On the timeline, we're getting towards the end of the cabinet and window team swap period,

05:21:16.400 --> 05:21:20.840
but it looks like our astronauts, Victor Glover and Christina Cook,

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are already photographing the moon outside of those windows.

05:21:24.120 --> 05:21:28.760
The next target is Ohm Crater.

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And this is something that they have photographed previously

05:21:31.280 --> 05:21:32.360
during the flyby.

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This is a small, complex crater with a prominent ray system.

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And as referenced earlier, it's the size of the eye

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of the Sahara.

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That eye of the Sahara is a feature in Mauritania.

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Seeing this crater more than once throughout the flyby allows the crew

05:21:55.080 --> 05:21:58.040
to photograph it at different lighting conditions.

05:22:03.840 --> 05:22:07.960
Those different lighting conditions help expose different portions of the target

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and can help the science team learn a little bit more about how it formed

05:22:13.040 --> 05:22:15.900
and what it is today.

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Again, this view inside the spacecraft as the crew continues photographing the moon

05:23:34.920 --> 05:23:36.280
outside their windows.

05:23:36.280 --> 05:23:41.820
They have turned the lights off to allow them to better get photos

05:23:41.820 --> 05:23:46.440
of the moon preventing any reflections from coming in from the spacecraft.

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We expect the crew to be targeting Ulm Crater for another six minutes or so before they move

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into a discussion of the limb.

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Now the science team has asked for a science rep or situation report during that time,

05:25:35.720 --> 05:25:39.240
so we hope to hear calls from the crew on what they are observing.

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If you've been following along, at the start of the day, we did have much more of the moon visible.

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And even just an hour or so ago, we could see about half of the moon.

05:26:13.120 --> 05:26:21.120
We are now continuing to see more of the far side in that darkness where the moon is not reflecting light from the sun.

05:26:38.120 --> 05:26:51.760
Earlier, we were also able to see some of those darker portions, that old lava flow that we

05:26:51.760 --> 05:26:56.040
often see on the near side of the Moon and that we can all see from Earth.

05:26:56.040 --> 05:26:58.480
That has mostly gone away.

05:26:58.480 --> 05:27:03.720
We are now just seeing very little of Oriental that's down to the bottom right of the Moon.

05:27:03.720 --> 05:27:06.540
you can see just a small dark portion near the limb.

05:27:33.720 --> 05:27:40.080
We are now about 18 minutes away from loss of signal

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with the Orion crew.

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Again, we use the deep space network to communicate

05:27:48.080 --> 05:27:50.320
with the crew members when they are this far from Earth.

05:27:51.480 --> 05:27:53.640
This is the first mission since Apollo

05:27:53.640 --> 05:27:56.080
when we have had humans on the deep space network.

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As you recently heard, Capcom and Jenny Gibbons call to the crew.

05:28:24.880 --> 05:28:30.320
We expect their closest approach to the moon to be at MET or mission elapsed time of five

05:28:30.320 --> 05:28:38.960
days 25 minutes and 34 seconds. At that time, their altitude would be 4,067

05:28:38.960 --> 05:28:42.920
statute miles above the Earth's surface.

05:28:45.360 --> 05:28:50.160
Just over two minutes later, they will reach their maximum distance from Earth.

05:28:50.160 --> 05:28:57.320
At mission elapsed time, five minutes, five days, 27 minutes and 39 seconds. The

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The altitude at that time would be 252,756 statute miles.

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These are our latest numbers and we'll make sure to verify

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and confirm those once those milestones have been achieved.

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Obviously, we will be without communication

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to the spacecraft at that time.

05:29:14.540 --> 05:29:17.000
So once we regain communication, we will make sure

05:29:17.000 --> 05:29:19.980
to find out those numbers and report those to you.

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Checking in on the lunar targeting package, the crew is now in their discussion of the

05:32:23.880 --> 05:32:33.520
limb, seeing the limb of the moon, that illuminated part, currently at the windows taking photos

05:32:33.520 --> 05:32:37.480
and making annotations are Victor Glover and Christina Cook.

05:32:37.480 --> 05:32:40.920
We are expecting loss of signal in about 13 minutes.

05:32:40.920 --> 05:32:45.120
We will regain that signal with the crew about 40 minutes later.

05:32:45.120 --> 05:33:04.280
The milestone worth mentioning that this day marks the first time in more than 50 years

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that humans will observe the moon directly.

05:33:07.160 --> 05:33:13.160
A critical opportunity to practice how lunar science will be conducted during future Artemis missions.

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I've continued to reference the lunar targeting package throughout this broadcast,

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which is the primary tool guiding the crew observations, and that consists of two key components.

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The first of those is the Lunar Geography Review,

05:33:35.160 --> 05:33:38.280
which helped the astronauts study major lunar features

05:33:38.280 --> 05:33:39.080
in advance.

05:33:39.080 --> 05:33:42.780
That also helped them learn to orient themselves during the fly

05:33:42.780 --> 05:33:43.080
by.

05:33:43.080 --> 05:33:46.460
The Lunar Targeting Plan provides a detailed timeline

05:33:46.460 --> 05:33:49.560
of observation targets, background science context

05:33:49.560 --> 05:33:52.880
and specific instructions for the picture the crew should take

05:33:52.880 --> 05:33:54.800
and verbal descriptions of what will be helpful

05:33:54.800 --> 05:33:57.960
to the science team reviewing those pictures later.

05:33:57.960 --> 05:33:59.800
That's what we've been tracking real time

05:33:59.800 --> 05:34:01.760
and what the crew is using right now to keep

05:34:01.760 --> 05:34:03.760
up with their next milestones.

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Integrity Houston, 10 minutes until the LOS will take a snappy,

05:35:31.720 --> 05:35:47.720
sit-rep from the cabin if you have one.

05:35:47.720 --> 05:35:53.720
Okay, Jenny, that game, we missed most of that, but just a 10-minute warning, is that what you're saying?

05:35:53.720 --> 05:35:58.720
Good morning for the LOS, and I'll take a quick sit-up from the cabin, please.

05:35:58.720 --> 05:36:10.720
All right, cabin is still full of excitement.

05:36:10.720 --> 05:36:16.720
We've got Christina in window two, Mike in window three.

05:36:16.720 --> 05:36:21.720
Reed's actually been trying to get some images out of the docking tunnel.

05:36:21.720 --> 05:36:25.880
to see the Earth and the moon and part of the moon of the docking tunnel, which is pretty

05:36:25.880 --> 05:36:35.880
good. And I'm just grabbing some footage right now with our interior cameras.

05:36:35.880 --> 05:36:40.920
Copy, Jeremy. We'd like to know what camera read is using and also the status of window

05:36:40.920 --> 05:36:43.920
one looks like there might be a shot removed.

05:36:53.920 --> 05:37:03.920
Okay, Reid was using the Z9 and the t-shirt's route is still on window one but we took the camera out of it.

05:37:03.920 --> 05:37:08.920
So maybe that's sweet noticing but when I looked in there I saw a lot of sunlight reflecting around.

05:37:10.920 --> 05:37:18.120
Copy. That makes a lot of sense to us, Jeremy. I want to remind you, coming up on this LOS,

05:37:18.120 --> 05:37:25.800
it will take sit reps in the blind. And as more and more of the moon is in darkness,

05:37:25.800 --> 05:37:29.800
you will take any report you have on impact flashes.

05:37:43.800 --> 05:37:46.800
All right, Jenny, you'll have to say again your last.

05:37:46.800 --> 05:37:49.800
There's a lot of conversation here, and I was on the other side of the cabin,

05:37:49.800 --> 05:37:51.800
so I missed all of it.

05:37:51.800 --> 05:37:56.800
Look out for impact flashes and we'll take it, it rips in the blind.

05:38:02.800 --> 05:38:07.800
Okay, impact flashes, it rips in the blind. We got it.

05:38:09.800 --> 05:38:20.800
And yeah, just so you understand what's going on with window one, there is light coming through the outer hall from window two into the inside of window one, if that makes sense.

05:38:20.800 --> 05:38:26.800
I can see the inside of the vehicle when I look between the two planes of glass.

05:38:26.800 --> 05:38:27.800
Copy.

05:38:41.800 --> 05:38:48.800
You're getting your first live look at Orion, the Moon, and the Earth.

05:38:48.800 --> 05:38:50.800
Everyone in this picture.

05:39:03.800 --> 05:39:07.800
This is a live view from the Orion spacecraft.

05:39:07.800 --> 05:39:19.320
Currently aboard Orion, four crew members, Reed Wiseman,

05:39:19.320 --> 05:39:22.680
Victor Glover, Christina Cook, and Jeremy Hansen.

05:39:22.680 --> 05:39:29.160
And on the Earth, all of us, all of humanity.

05:39:30.600 --> 05:39:33.240
You can see the moon is starting to get a little bit dimmer

05:39:33.240 --> 05:39:36.240
as the astronauts are going to pass behind it.

05:39:36.240 --> 05:39:40.680
Now, six minutes and 26 seconds away from that loss of signal.

05:39:41.080 --> 05:39:43.220
Again, we will be out of communication with them

05:39:43.220 --> 05:39:46.580
for about 40 minutes until they come around the other side

05:39:46.580 --> 05:39:49.080
of the moon and we can reestablish contact.

05:39:49.080 --> 05:39:56.080
Thank you.

05:39:56.080 --> 05:40:11.160
Integrity Houston, you are six minutes from your 40 minutes lunar flyby LOS.

05:40:11.160 --> 05:40:16.340
From all of us, it's a privilege to witness you carrying the fire past our farthest reach.

05:40:16.340 --> 05:40:17.340
Thank you.

05:40:17.340 --> 05:40:18.340
Godspeed.

05:40:18.340 --> 05:40:36.540
Thank you for that, Jenny, and thank you to all of you for allowing us the immense privilege

05:40:36.540 --> 05:40:38.220
to be on this journey together.

05:40:38.220 --> 05:40:39.740
It's quite amazing.

05:40:39.740 --> 05:40:48.660
And as we go on this journey, thinking about the NASA mission to explore the unknown and

05:40:48.660 --> 05:40:53.700
air and space, to innovate for the benefit of humanity and to inspire the world through

05:40:53.700 --> 05:40:54.700
discovery.

05:40:54.700 --> 05:40:58.820
And as you've gone along this journey with us, hopefully we're doing just those things.

05:40:58.820 --> 05:41:04.020
And as we get close to the nearest point to the moon and farthest point from Earth,

05:41:04.020 --> 05:41:12.560
As we continue to unlock the mysteries of the cosmos, I would like to remind you of one

05:41:12.560 --> 05:41:16.600
of the most important mysteries there on earth, and that's love.

05:41:16.600 --> 05:41:21.920
Christ said in response to what was the greatest command, that it was to love God with all

05:41:21.920 --> 05:41:23.720
that you are.

05:41:23.720 --> 05:41:29.760
And he also, being a great teacher, said, the second is equal to it, and that is to

05:41:29.760 --> 05:41:32.920
love your neighbor as yourself.

05:41:32.920 --> 05:41:37.360
So, as we prepare to go out of radio communication,

05:41:37.960 --> 05:41:45.240
we're still able to feel your love from Earth and to all of you down there on Earth

05:41:46.740 --> 05:41:47.740
and around Earth.

05:41:48.400 --> 05:41:49.800
We love you from the moon.

05:41:56.400 --> 05:41:57.280
Houston copies.

05:41:57.540 --> 05:41:58.480
We'll see you on the other side.

05:42:02.920 --> 05:42:06.920
We will see you on the other side.

05:42:32.920 --> 05:42:51.920
to the moon.

05:42:51.920 --> 05:42:57.760
Plain words from NASA astronaut Victor Glover and a little bit of a love letter from the

05:42:57.760 --> 05:43:00.060
the other side of the moon all the way to Earth.

05:43:01.980 --> 05:43:05.060
Glover touching on the teachings of Jesus,

05:43:05.060 --> 05:43:08.360
including to love your neighbor as yourself.

05:43:08.360 --> 05:43:10.680
We are now less than three minutes away

05:43:10.680 --> 05:43:14.120
from loss of signal with the Orion astronauts.

05:43:16.860 --> 05:43:18.800
The Artemis II crew will be out of signal

05:43:18.800 --> 05:43:21.920
for about 40 minutes as they are on the other side

05:43:21.920 --> 05:43:24.120
of the moon, continuing their work,

05:43:24.120 --> 05:43:25.860
photographing the lunar surface,

05:43:25.860 --> 05:43:31.300
And they will reemerge and we will also get this view on the other side.

05:44:25.860 --> 05:44:35.340
Just about a minute and a half now until we lose communication with the astronauts aboard

05:44:35.340 --> 05:44:39.500
Orion on the Artemis-2 mission.

05:44:39.500 --> 05:44:43.860
Now five days and six minutes since their launch on April 1st.

05:44:43.860 --> 05:44:48.860
Again, we'll be out of communication for about 40 minutes.

05:44:48.860 --> 05:44:57.100
And this really beautiful view of a crescent moon and a crescent earth.

05:44:57.100 --> 05:44:58.100
How great thou art.

05:45:18.860 --> 05:45:38.860
30 seconds now until we expect loss of signal.

05:46:38.860 --> 05:46:57.360
And we have confirmation of loss of signal of the Orion spacecraft as it flies behind the moon.

05:46:57.420 --> 05:47:02.560
We expect to regain communications with them for in another approximately 40 minutes.

05:47:03.220 --> 05:47:07.820
This was expected as their spacecraft is now out of direct line of sight with Earth

05:47:07.820 --> 05:47:09.380
and behind the moon.

05:47:09.380 --> 05:47:11.940
And this is a poignant moment as it's the first time

05:47:11.940 --> 05:47:16.140
in over 50 years that we have humans completely unreachable

05:47:16.140 --> 05:47:17.740
by anyone else on Earth.

05:47:17.740 --> 05:47:20.100
No matter how distant or secluded,

05:47:20.100 --> 05:47:21.980
we could reach anyone living on Earth.

05:47:21.980 --> 05:47:24.180
But while the crew flies behind the moon,

05:47:24.180 --> 05:47:28.140
it's simply impossible to make contact with them.

05:47:28.140 --> 05:47:31.980
This is a live view inside the science evaluation room here

05:47:31.980 --> 05:47:32.980
at Johnson Space Center

05:47:32.980 --> 05:47:35.660
and just down the hall from Mission Control.

05:47:35.660 --> 05:47:44.660
This team has been monitoring the science or the flyby all day as the team has continued capturing targets on the lunar surface.

05:47:49.660 --> 05:47:59.660
We even got to see this team in action as they were helping the astronauts identify some of the features they were seeing on the moon but not expecting.

05:47:59.660 --> 05:48:07.660
There will be a couple of milestones during this loss of signal.

05:48:07.660 --> 05:48:13.620
The first will be when the astronauts make their closest approach of the moon at MET,

05:48:13.620 --> 05:48:16.900
five days, 25 minutes, and 34 seconds.

05:48:16.900 --> 05:48:22.660
When we expect they'll be 4,067 statute miles above the lunar surface.

05:48:22.660 --> 05:48:27.900
Their maximum Earth altitude will be reached just two minutes later at five days, 27

05:48:27.900 --> 05:48:35.580
minutes in 39 seconds. The altitude should be approximately 252,756

05:48:35.580 --> 05:48:39.980
statute miles. Once those milestones are reached and we have confirmation, we

05:48:39.980 --> 05:48:43.340
will report the official numbers.

05:48:57.900 --> 05:49:01.740
Throughout the Artemis-2 mission, astronaut voice, images, video,

05:49:01.740 --> 05:49:05.840
and vital mission data must traverse thousands of miles carried

05:49:05.840 --> 05:49:09.620
on signals from NASA's powerful communications systems,

05:49:09.620 --> 05:49:12.300
the Nearspace Network and the Deep Space Network.

05:49:12.300 --> 05:49:14.180
Let's learn a little bit more.

05:49:14.180 --> 05:49:22.480
NASA's Artemis-2 will send four astronauts

05:49:22.480 --> 05:49:24.740
around the Moon, preparing humanity

05:49:24.740 --> 05:49:29.040
for a long-term lunar presence and future journeys to Mars.

05:49:29.040 --> 05:49:32.080
Enabling communication and navigation for this test flight

05:49:32.080 --> 05:49:35.640
are NASA's near-space network and deep-space network.

05:49:35.640 --> 05:49:39.580
With antennas around the world and a fleet of relay satellites,

05:49:39.580 --> 05:49:43.180
the networks will deliver vital data to and from Earth

05:49:43.180 --> 05:49:45.500
through all phases of the mission.

05:49:45.500 --> 05:49:47.740
The networks are seamlessly integrated

05:49:47.740 --> 05:49:50.780
at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas,

05:49:50.780 --> 05:49:54.220
where mission control coordinates the network handovers.

05:49:54.220 --> 05:49:56.620
These transfers represent a delicate dance

05:49:56.620 --> 05:49:59.500
between the two networks, exchanging support

05:49:59.500 --> 05:50:02.100
as the mission shoots toward the moon.

05:50:02.100 --> 05:50:05.180
On the launch pad and during their early orbit phases,

05:50:05.180 --> 05:50:08.460
NASA's Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket

05:50:08.460 --> 05:50:10.940
will rely on communications and tracking services

05:50:10.940 --> 05:50:12.700
from the near space network.

05:50:12.700 --> 05:50:14.900
After its translator injection burn,

05:50:14.900 --> 05:50:17.540
the deep space network's global array of antennas

05:50:17.540 --> 05:50:20.300
will serve as Orion's primary communication support

05:50:20.300 --> 05:50:21.940
during lunar orbit.

05:50:21.940 --> 05:50:25.780
As the mission journeys farther into space and away from Earth,

05:50:25.780 --> 05:50:27.900
signal strength weakens and bandwidth

05:50:27.900 --> 05:50:30.540
is concerned for crew communications.

05:50:30.540 --> 05:50:33.940
The astronauts will have a near constant connection to Earth,

05:50:33.940 --> 05:50:37.180
ensuring their safety on a journey farther into space

05:50:37.180 --> 05:50:38.900
than ever before.

05:50:38.900 --> 05:50:43.140
We say near constant because as Orion goes behind the moon,

05:50:43.140 --> 05:50:45.740
a planned loss in communications will occur.

05:50:45.740 --> 05:50:48.780
The deep space network will be standing by to reacquire

05:50:48.780 --> 05:50:51.540
the signal as Orion reappears.

05:50:51.540 --> 05:50:55.540
The Artemis II mission also provides an opportunity to test new capabilities.

05:50:55.540 --> 05:51:05.540
Using laser links, NASA will periodically transmit Orion data to showcase the benefits laser communications could have for future human spaceflight missions.

05:51:05.540 --> 05:51:10.540
The data from Orion, sent by radio signals or laser links, is massive.

05:51:10.540 --> 05:51:18.540
The mission is gathering images, data, and video, while also generating details about mission health and crew voice files.

05:51:18.540 --> 05:51:23.260
that data gets processed here on Earth, where systems compress it for efficiency.

05:51:23.260 --> 05:51:27.900
In the future, we'll upgrade these systems on Earth so that image and video clarity

05:51:27.900 --> 05:51:29.900
improve with each moon mission.

05:51:29.900 --> 05:51:34.660
With the Artemis II test flight, we're evaluating the communications infrastructure

05:51:34.660 --> 05:51:39.180
that will help carry us into the future as we explore the moon and journey forward

05:51:39.180 --> 05:51:40.180
to Mars.

05:52:10.180 --> 05:52:39.860
We are now about 33 minutes until we expect to regain

05:52:39.860 --> 05:52:45.940
communications with the astronauts aboard Orion. And in the meantime, I've got Dr. Kelsey Young,

05:52:45.940 --> 05:52:50.180
Artemis Science Flight Operations Lead here with us. Thanks for joining me, Kelsey.

05:52:50.180 --> 05:52:54.340
Thanks for having me. This is such an exciting day. Oh, no kidding. It has been so cool to hear

05:52:54.340 --> 05:52:59.220
you communicating directly with the crew. And I know that you have been preparing for this for

05:52:59.220 --> 05:53:03.860
years. So I'm so excited for you and for your team. So just to get into that background

05:53:03.860 --> 05:53:07.380
a little bit, tell me about your background and what you've been doing on console.

05:53:07.380 --> 05:53:10.380
My background is as a field geologist.

05:53:10.380 --> 05:53:13.380
Actually, I studied impact trattering in the field for my PhD,

05:53:13.380 --> 05:53:17.380
so all these descriptions of impact traders have me just absolutely swooning.

05:53:17.380 --> 05:53:22.380
How I got into this, though, is, you know, during my PhD, I got an internship at NASA

05:53:22.380 --> 05:53:25.380
and ultimately never left to integrate science into flight operations.

05:53:25.380 --> 05:53:30.380
So we developed the Science Officer Console for which this is the first mission we're supporting.

05:53:30.380 --> 05:53:33.380
We developed the Science Evaluation Room that's right upstairs,

05:53:33.380 --> 05:53:38.900
And so it's so gratifying to see this operation structure come to fruition, especially on a daylight today.

05:53:38.900 --> 05:53:44.720
I would have to imagine so. And we've got a great view of the science evaluation room right now.

05:53:44.720 --> 05:53:47.740
Is there anything that has stood out to your team so far?

05:53:49.140 --> 05:53:54.380
Absolutely. So as you might have heard in some of the press briefings and content that, you know,

05:53:54.380 --> 05:53:58.680
we've been putting out color and Albedo were really exciting targets for us.

05:53:59.020 --> 05:54:02.420
We've heard several amazing color descriptions so far.

05:54:02.420 --> 05:54:05.260
just to highlight maybe one of them.

05:54:05.260 --> 05:54:07.660
We heard about greenish and brownish hues

05:54:07.660 --> 05:54:09.900
near Aristarchus, which is actually a feature

05:54:09.900 --> 05:54:11.780
that we can see here from the near side.

05:54:11.780 --> 05:54:14.700
And those greenish hues could actually tell us something

05:54:14.700 --> 05:54:17.020
about the volcanic evolution of that area.

05:54:17.020 --> 05:54:18.340
So you can bet that the science team

05:54:18.340 --> 05:54:20.980
is gonna be prioritizing downlinking those images

05:54:20.980 --> 05:54:23.260
and the crew audio that we didn't hear

05:54:23.260 --> 05:54:24.660
that went into those recordings

05:54:24.660 --> 05:54:25.980
to learn a little bit more.

05:54:25.980 --> 05:54:27.700
Wow, that is fascinating.

05:54:27.700 --> 05:54:28.780
I was hearing those colors

05:54:28.780 --> 05:54:30.980
and very interested just from a personal standpoint

05:54:30.980 --> 05:54:34.380
because looking at the moon from 250,000 miles away,

05:54:34.380 --> 05:54:35.540
we don't see green or brown.

05:54:35.540 --> 05:54:37.980
So just hearing that them being so close

05:54:37.980 --> 05:54:39.820
and getting to see that, fascinating.

05:54:39.820 --> 05:54:41.700
And I know it's very exciting for you.

05:54:41.700 --> 05:54:43.280
So what are you expecting to see

05:54:43.280 --> 05:54:46.540
in the upcoming portion of the flyby?

05:54:46.540 --> 05:54:49.340
The upcoming portion is actually gonna be really exciting.

05:54:49.340 --> 05:54:51.560
So right now, as we speak,

05:54:51.560 --> 05:54:53.900
while folks in the room are kind of taking their,

05:54:53.900 --> 05:54:55.140
their stretch breaks and everything,

05:54:55.140 --> 05:54:57.020
the crew are still hard at work.

05:54:57.020 --> 05:54:59.020
They still have targets to image and describe

05:54:59.020 --> 05:55:01.140
during this LOS.

05:55:01.140 --> 05:55:03.300
But when we come out, the first thing, of course,

05:55:03.300 --> 05:55:04.780
we're going to hear about is Earthrise.

05:55:04.780 --> 05:55:06.500
We're really looking forward to hearing

05:55:06.500 --> 05:55:08.220
about the cruise experience with something

05:55:08.220 --> 05:55:09.260
that we can connect with.

05:55:09.260 --> 05:55:12.660
And that Apollo 8 brought us such amazing images from.

05:55:12.660 --> 05:55:16.340
But then we start to get into describing the Terminator,

05:55:16.340 --> 05:55:19.100
as well as looking for things like lofted dust, which

05:55:19.100 --> 05:55:21.380
tell us about the modern lunar environment.

05:55:21.380 --> 05:55:23.900
Then the vehicle is going to orient away from the moon

05:55:23.900 --> 05:55:25.300
for an hour and then pivot back

05:55:25.300 --> 05:55:26.820
for the eclipse observations, which

05:55:26.820 --> 05:55:30.140
a whole different set of science observations that we're really looking forward to.

05:55:30.140 --> 05:55:33.420
It's kind of nice that the crew will get a little break in there because they have been

05:55:33.420 --> 05:55:38.220
hitting it hard today with photos and videos and annotations.

05:55:38.220 --> 05:55:40.780
What are you hoping that the crew sees coming up?

05:55:40.780 --> 05:55:41.780
Is it that lunar dust?

05:55:41.780 --> 05:55:44.740
Oh my goodness, that's a hard question to answer.

05:55:44.740 --> 05:55:46.620
I mean, we've already gotten such great descriptions.

05:55:46.620 --> 05:55:50.900
I mean, the Terminator seems to just be like one of their favorite things to look

05:55:50.900 --> 05:55:51.900
at and describe.

05:55:51.900 --> 05:55:54.780
So I feel like, you know, that was something we were looking forward to.

05:55:54.780 --> 05:55:56.500
I feel like we've really gotten some great descriptions.

05:55:56.500 --> 05:56:01.220
So, absolutely, I'm looking to the human moment of Earthrise.

05:56:01.220 --> 05:56:07.220
Lofted dust is an exciting one, and lofted dust will be a target for them right around

05:56:07.220 --> 05:56:10.820
the time of Earthrise, but again, in the eclipse period.

05:56:10.820 --> 05:56:13.940
So I'm really looking forward to seeing, I mean, they've already highlighted just in

05:56:13.940 --> 05:56:18.300
the course of their flyby so far how the moon has changed, and this is going to be

05:56:18.300 --> 05:56:23.140
an even more dramatic change to go from their end of this kind of lunar illuminated

05:56:23.140 --> 05:56:27.460
piece of the flyby into the eclipse timeframe and I can tell you they're

05:56:27.460 --> 05:56:31.540
going to be experiencing a very different moon during that time and I can't wait

05:56:31.540 --> 05:56:34.620
to hear what their observations are. Yeah that's absolutely fascinating and

05:56:34.620 --> 05:56:38.460
what a privilege that we get to do that on this mission because that's

05:56:38.460 --> 05:56:42.100
not always the case if we had launched on a different day other than April

05:56:42.100 --> 05:56:45.540
1st or 2nd we wouldn't have gotten to see that eclipse is that right? That's

05:56:45.540 --> 05:56:49.780
correct April 1st and 2nd I will say you know I was asked a lot in the

05:56:49.780 --> 05:56:53.020
weeks leading up to the launch, well what's your favorite day? And my answer

05:56:53.020 --> 05:56:56.820
truly was there is no bad day to launch to the moon. We were gonna get great

05:56:56.820 --> 05:57:00.780
science out of it no matter what, but it's a really neat opportunity to you know

05:57:00.780 --> 05:57:04.300
bring the Sun into the picture, bring different planetary bodies into the

05:57:04.300 --> 05:57:08.620
picture while still literally keeping the moon in center stage. Fascinating.

05:57:08.620 --> 05:57:13.380
So what differences are we looking for at each site? We're hearing a lot of

05:57:13.380 --> 05:57:16.340
different terms, we're looking at craters, we're looking at mauret. What

05:57:16.340 --> 05:57:19.080
the differences that you're hoping to see?

05:57:19.080 --> 05:57:22.980
We do have, as you highlight, kind of different prompts for each target.

05:57:22.980 --> 05:57:26.940
That's what they're looking at in their lunar targeting plan, which I know you've been showing.

05:57:26.940 --> 05:57:31.100
And we have even different prompts for the person with the, you know, the really long

05:57:31.100 --> 05:57:34.620
lens on the camera versus the people with the unaided eye.

05:57:34.620 --> 05:57:37.740
And you've heard the crew talk about, oh my goodness, when I go from one to the

05:57:37.740 --> 05:57:41.320
other, I can really detect different nuances.

05:57:41.320 --> 05:57:44.540
And that's something that we experienced in simulations, but hearing them actually,

05:57:44.540 --> 05:57:48.460
you know, see it for real has been really gratifying.

05:57:48.460 --> 05:57:50.380
But we're looking for different things based on the target.

05:57:50.380 --> 05:57:51.540
Sometimes we're looking for color.

05:57:51.540 --> 05:57:53.100
Sometimes we're looking for texture.

05:57:53.100 --> 05:57:56.300
For the terminator, we're looking at kind of

05:57:56.300 --> 05:57:58.740
what texture and morphologies pop out to you

05:57:58.740 --> 05:58:02.060
and what kind of diversity you see along the terminator.

05:58:02.060 --> 05:58:04.340
You've heard, you know, Victor especially

05:58:04.340 --> 05:58:08.260
makes some comments about future impacts for exploration.

05:58:08.260 --> 05:58:10.460
So already I think that there are descriptions

05:58:10.460 --> 05:58:11.820
in this first part of the flyby

05:58:11.820 --> 05:58:13.340
have told us something scientifically,

05:58:13.340 --> 05:58:15.700
but also about future surface missions.

05:58:15.700 --> 05:58:18.140
Well, oh, it was so interesting to hear Victor talking

05:58:18.140 --> 05:58:21.260
about he was imagining in his mind's eye

05:58:21.260 --> 05:58:23.380
being down on the surface and walking around.

05:58:23.380 --> 05:58:25.300
That was very cool to hear.

05:58:25.300 --> 05:58:26.900
And when we're thinking about targets,

05:58:26.900 --> 05:58:29.940
I know some of them are determined based on the launch day

05:58:29.940 --> 05:58:31.940
because that turn is the lunar illumination.

05:58:31.940 --> 05:58:34.100
So the ones that we're looking at today,

05:58:34.100 --> 05:58:36.340
how and why were these selected?

05:58:37.380 --> 05:58:38.820
Such a wonderful question.

05:58:38.820 --> 05:58:41.020
This really gets at some, like at the heart

05:58:41.020 --> 05:58:43.700
of some of our really highest priority science questions.

05:58:43.700 --> 05:58:45.900
Illumination conditions is a big one, right?

05:58:45.900 --> 05:58:47.780
So of course we need the targets

05:58:47.780 --> 05:58:48.980
that we're interested on the lunar feature

05:58:48.980 --> 05:58:51.580
to be illuminated by the sun in order to view them.

05:58:51.580 --> 05:58:54.380
But the timing in which they see them during the flyby

05:58:54.380 --> 05:58:56.380
enables us to ask different questions.

05:58:56.380 --> 05:58:59.340
So you heard in the pre-flyby crew conference

05:58:59.340 --> 05:59:01.740
talking about, well the same pair, Reed and Jeremy,

05:59:01.740 --> 05:59:04.740
we'll get to actually look at Glushko crater twice

05:59:04.740 --> 05:59:07.940
and that looking at it from different illumination angles

05:59:07.940 --> 05:59:10.420
allows us to understand that feature better

05:59:10.420 --> 05:59:14.860
and connect color and albedo with topography and morphology.

05:59:14.860 --> 05:59:17.100
Then you have other craters where you want to look at it

05:59:17.100 --> 05:59:20.700
with the sun shining on it obliquely versus straight on.

05:59:20.700 --> 05:59:22.060
And that tells you something different

05:59:22.060 --> 05:59:24.700
about the scientific objective that

05:59:24.700 --> 05:59:26.580
drove the target being on the targeting

05:59:26.580 --> 05:59:27.860
plan of the first place.

05:59:27.860 --> 05:59:30.620
We've talked a little bit with the viewers today

05:59:30.620 --> 05:59:33.020
about how what the crew is able to capture

05:59:33.020 --> 05:59:36.220
in this short time frame of those craters

05:59:36.220 --> 05:59:38.260
in different lighting conditions

05:59:38.260 --> 05:59:44.180
could take years for something robotic to be able to do based on attitude maneuvers and

05:59:44.180 --> 05:59:45.180
where the sun is at.

05:59:45.180 --> 05:59:49.620
So can you just talk a little bit about the importance of having both the robotic operation

05:59:49.620 --> 05:59:50.900
and having the crew?

05:59:50.900 --> 05:59:51.900
Absolutely.

05:59:51.900 --> 05:59:55.580
We definitely don't want to minimize the impact of orbiting spacecraft.

05:59:55.580 --> 05:59:58.060
Lunar reconnaissance orbiters, the one that's often referenced, you know, data

05:59:58.060 --> 06:00:01.620
from LRO and its payloads have really been instrumental in getting us frankly to

06:00:01.620 --> 06:00:04.540
this point for Artemis II and future missions.

06:00:04.540 --> 06:00:09.860
But the human experience, the crew observations that we've already been hearing about, it

06:00:09.860 --> 06:00:14.980
is such a perfect complement to the orbiting spacecraft data because they are able to have

06:00:14.980 --> 06:00:16.220
this unique perspective.

06:00:16.220 --> 06:00:19.580
They are far enough away where they can make these contextual observations.

06:00:19.580 --> 06:00:20.580
You've already heard it.

06:00:20.580 --> 06:00:23.540
How many times have we heard the crew and their science at Repsay?

06:00:23.540 --> 06:00:27.340
If I track this feature from all the way up here in the Northern Hemisphere down

06:00:27.340 --> 06:00:30.500
to the Southern Hemisphere, here are comparisons I can make.

06:00:30.500 --> 06:00:35.460
right there is not something we had the ability to do with the Apollo missions and it allows

06:00:35.460 --> 06:00:41.100
just literally in the blink of an eye to synthesize observations that it would take, you know, a

06:00:41.100 --> 06:00:45.700
really significant effort to coordinate with different orbiting platforms and they're making

06:00:45.700 --> 06:00:46.700
it like that.

06:00:46.700 --> 06:00:47.700
Wow.

06:00:47.700 --> 06:00:52.180
It has been a very, very exciting to hear all of their calls so far.

06:00:52.180 --> 06:00:55.900
And so, I've heard they were able to capture every single target so far too.

06:00:55.900 --> 06:00:56.900
Is that correct?

06:00:56.900 --> 06:00:57.900
I think that's correct.

06:00:57.900 --> 06:01:01.500
important also to remember that and I know the science team is anxiously

06:01:01.500 --> 06:01:05.460
awaiting this we've been hearing from the crew members who are not at the

06:01:05.460 --> 06:01:09.540
forward windows right the those crew who are you know really in the thick of the

06:01:09.540 --> 06:01:14.220
observations they are recording minutes long observations per target on their

06:01:14.220 --> 06:01:18.540
crew tablets we will be getting those down starting here in a couple hours and

06:01:18.540 --> 06:01:22.540
that's going to contain really meaty science information that we haven't

06:01:22.540 --> 06:01:26.460
heard live yet and that's going to form the basis of my conversation with

06:01:26.460 --> 06:01:30.140
them tomorrow morning where we're going to have a really deep dive into the science and

06:01:30.140 --> 06:01:33.180
absolutely nerd out about what they were able to do today.

06:01:33.180 --> 06:01:37.300
One of the most gratifying things for me today is hearing multiple crew members say,

06:01:37.300 --> 06:01:42.060
thank you for putting the discussion times in the targeting plan, because when we have

06:01:42.060 --> 06:01:47.180
had the ability to put multiple brains on a problem, we have elevated each other.

06:01:47.180 --> 06:01:51.100
And I'm looking forward to them, you know, sleeping on it overnight and then us actually

06:01:51.100 --> 06:01:54.140
being able to really truly have an elevated science discourse tomorrow.

06:01:54.140 --> 06:02:01.640
Well, we're looking forward to it too and I cannot wait to hear everything that you guys get to learn overnight from some of those audio recordings

06:02:01.640 --> 06:02:05.640
and just everything that they'll be able to share tomorrow. So Kelsey, I know you're very busy.

06:02:05.640 --> 06:02:08.640
You've done a great job today and thank you so much for joining us for this interview.

06:02:08.640 --> 06:02:10.640
Thanks for having me. It's such an exciting day.

06:02:12.140 --> 06:02:16.640
We are now expecting acquisition of signal in about 24 minutes.

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As a reminder, the Orion spacecraft has flown around the other side of the moon

06:02:21.120 --> 06:02:24.920
where they are out of contact with our deep space network.

06:04:16.640 --> 06:04:26.440
And we've just heard confirmation here in Mission Control Houston that we have reached the closest

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point of our destination to the moon.

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At MET, five days, 25 minutes and 34 seconds, and we anticipate the spacecraft's altitude

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is approximately 4,067 statute miles above the moon.

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We're continuing to track what the crew is doing while around the other side of the moon.

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They are continuing to take pictures of the Earth, sorry, of the moon, the Earth now out

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of sight.

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What they are in right now is a crew choice event.

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The science team has encouraged them

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to find interesting features on the surface,

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to take photos of those,

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and describe why they were interesting.

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Something else that they'll be looking toward next,

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just momentarily, will be impact flashes.

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They've got a few minutes allotted

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to look at the darkest portions of the moon.

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They're interested in short-lived flashes

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on the lunar surface,

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because these would be caused by impact bombardment.

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After their impact flash targeting, the team is interested

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in if the crew can see lofted lunar dust.

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This would only be visible just before Earthrise.

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Now, 20 minutes until we expect to regain communications

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with integrity in the astronauts for Artemis II.

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We're live in Mission Control Houston at NASA's Johnson Space Center, but there's a team

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over 750 miles away also monitoring today's operations.

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And of course, just like us, they are in LOS or loss of signal with the spacecraft.

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This is LUCA, the Lunar Utilization Control Area.

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It's joined by Lisa, the Lander Engineering Support Area,

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which are twin control rooms that will support missions

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and operations in lunar orbit or on the moon's surface

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in real time at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

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in Huntsville, Alabama.

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The Luca and Lisa are right next to each other

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in just a short walk away

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from the SLS Engineering Support Center,

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which is used during launch.

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And the POIC, where science

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on the International Space Station is monitored.

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Luca primarily supports Artemis Science Operations,

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while Lisa will provide engineering support

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for landing astronauts on the Moon.

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During this mission, Artemis II, teams in Aluka will use the facility

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to support first-of-its-kind science operations

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to better understand the deep space effects of microgravity

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and radiation on the crew's physiology, immune systems,

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and ability to complete various tasks.

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The data from these science operations will inform future

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crewed flights to the Moon.

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For future crewed missions to the Moon, members

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of the NASA Human Landing System Mission Insights Support Team.

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A group of engineers, safety leads, flight operations experts

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and technical authorities will work in the LISA.

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There they will monitor lander systems in real time and be involved

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in key decision making processes throughout the mission.

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Teams are using the LISA during Artemis II

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to observe mission operations and using the opportunity to inform

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and prepare for future crewed landings to the moon's surface.

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We now expect to regain communications with the astronauts aboard Orion in about 17 minutes.

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In the meantime, a little overview of how our crew members flying by the lunar far side

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at an altitude of between 4,000 and 9,000 miles are testing the capabilities of the Orion capsule.

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Artemis II visualization lead, Ernie Wright, has simulated views of the flyby using detailed

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topographic maps of the lunar terrain and photorealistic lighting scenarios.

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The Artemis II crew members have been using these visualizations to prepare for this

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historic mission, which is paving the way for future exploration of the moon's surface

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and beyond.

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So the most exciting thing to me about Artemis II is just the return to the moon.

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We haven't been there in 50 years.

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Human eyes are going to see parts of the moon that haven't been seen by anyone before.

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It also recommits us to exploring the solar system in a way that we haven't in a long

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time.

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And I think it provides an opportunity for younger generations to understand the excitement

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of doing that kind of exploration.

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Artemis is our return to the moon after 50 years.

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The emphasis of Artemis is going to be, first of all, science,

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but second of all, learning to sustain a presence on a world.

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First on the moon, but we're hoping that that's a stepping stone

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to Mars and other destinations in the solar system eventually.

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Artemis 2 will be a flyby mission. It's not going to land.

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We're testing all of the technology that we've created

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we've created for flying to the moon since Apollo.

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A lot of systems have been modernized

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and we need to make sure that all of those work.

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The astronauts will be looking out the window

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at parts of the moon that have never been seen

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by human eyes before.

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They will be flying by the moon in an altitude

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that's much higher than Apollo's orbits.

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And so they will see the entire disc of the moon,

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including areas that are closer

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to both the North and South Pole

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that astronauts from Apollo never saw.

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All of that depends on the lighting, which we really won't know until launch day.

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But we can practice with different lighting scenarios.

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It's hard for people to sort of picture that in their mind.

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If you can make a visualization of it, show them a movie,

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that helps everybody choose the targets and also practice aiming at those targets.

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The astronauts have actually been looking at these visualizations through the lens of the camera

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and practicing aiming at the various targets.

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This is a map of the surface of the moon obviously, but it shows what the Apollo astronauts

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could see in sunlight while they were in orbit.

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The brighter parts are the parts that they could see.

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The darker parts, like this entire area here and places that are farther north and south,

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are places that they couldn't see in sunlight, either because it was nighttime there or

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because it was beyond the horizon of the astronauts.

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All of the Apollo flights orbited the moon at a distance of about 110 kilometers.

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Because the astronauts were flying at such low altitude, their horizon was actually quite

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close and they couldn't see the north and south poles.

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And this whole area over here was not in sunlight at the time.

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And it includes this amazing impact feature here called Oriental.

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Oriental is a very large impact feature.

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It's about 650 kilometers wide.

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It's got multiple rings.

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These are rings that form like ripples in a pond from the impact, but of course it's

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on a huge scale.

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The middle of Oriental has that sort of dark basalt lava covering it like the dark spots

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that we see on the near side.

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It's one of the biggest ones that's more on the far side than near.

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So seeing it with human eyes and sort of picking out features that maybe you don't

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even see in robotic cameras, is an important goal for the mission.

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This live view in the Science Evaluation Room, or the SER, here at Johnson Space Center in

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Houston, Texas, just down the hall, from where we're at in the Artemis Mission Control

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room, teams continuing to monitor the flyby.

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The crew continues their observations of the moon even though they are out of touch with

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Earth.

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We expect to hear from them in 12 minutes and 26 seconds.

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Again, this is approximately 40 minutes loss of signal while they are out of reach

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of the deep space network.

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Right now they are imaging or attempting to image lofted lunar dust.

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Throughout our coverage we've talked a lot about the science and engineering behind today's

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lunar flyby, but we also spoke to the crew about what the moon means to them and how

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they see its place in human history.

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I remember being a little kid lying in bed at night and just looking out of the moon and whatever phase it was in, I was thinking,

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hey, my friends that lived like 20 miles away, they can probably look out and see the same exact moon.

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And then when I was in the Navy and I would look out of the moon and I'd be halfway around the planet, I would think,

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man, my brother can see that moon where he is and he's halfway around the planet from where I am.

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And it's a connection of life on Earth. We can all look up and see that moon.

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moon. It represents history. It is a witness plate. Everything that's ever happened to the moon

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is still written on the moon. There's no processes of wind or change in the earth, geologic processes

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like we have here that change it. And something that's been telling and can read out the story of

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its own evolution, there's something beautiful about that. I've also learned from my indigenous

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mentors that they refer to the moon as Grandmother Moon.

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So you've probably heard of Mother Earth.

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They use Grandmother Moon because the Grandmother Moon

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is responsible for the water in their community.

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The Grandmothers sort of protect the water source,

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just like the moon moves the water around the planet,

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affects the tides.

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It's something that represents something different

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for each individual culture around the planet.

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And that's really neat because we all share

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that same moon in the night sky.

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We all have seen the same side of the moon

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in different lighting conditions our whole lives.

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And so it seemed very familiar to us,

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but it's also kind of unknown.

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When we get up close, some of the imagery

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that we'll get to describe and to share with people

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will be very unique.

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And that nature, both of those things being true

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about this one entity that we all know

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just is really special.

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It's just the epitome of a symbol of both something

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that's in each of our hearts,

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but this also represents exploration and reaching.

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We're looking at a live view inside Artemis Mission Control here at Johnson Space Center

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in Houston, Texas.

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We are currently out of contact with the Artemis II crew.

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This was a planned or not really a planned but a tracked loss of signal that occurs when

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the crew flies behind the moon.

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We use the deep space network to communicate with the crew and when they are behind the

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moon they are out of reach of that deep space network.

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And when you consider our non-stop communications during the time in which we live, this is

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even more striking.

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For the Artemis II crew, they're only currently communicating with each other.

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Now, we expect to regain those communications

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in under nine minutes from now,

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and we also are hopeful for a view of Earthrise.

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Despite being out of communication,

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the crew is continuously capturing imagery

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of their predetermined lunar targets.

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Now about seven minutes, 25 seconds until we anticipate regaining communications with

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the Artemis II crew aboard Orion.

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In the meantime, Artemis II Lunar Science Deputy Lead Marie Henderson has trained these

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astronauts to capture and document their views of the lunar surface for all of us

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to enjoy back here on Earth.

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I cannot wait to hear their voices when they get to the far side of the moon and I can hear

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them talk about seeing the moon out their window.

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I try to imagine it now and just I tear up thinking about it.

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Oh, now I gotta hold on a second.

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We have human eyeballs connected to wonderfully smart brains our astronaut friends have.

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They are going to be able to observe the moon in multiple different ways.

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They can use their eyes, they'll look through their camera and snap pictures and just looking

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out the window getting that human experience.

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But during Apollo, the astronauts were so much closer to the lunar surface.

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Our astronauts are going to be doing a flyby at a higher altitude, so they're going to

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be able to see the whole moon as a lunar disk on the lunar far side.

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That's a brand new unique perspective that humans haven't been able to look at before.

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We are doing a lot of lunar geography training with them.

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They have study sessions and quizzes they can do that are assigned to them.

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You know, even if you're an astronaut, you still get homework, you actually get in the

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mock-up.

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In that enclosed physical space, we have to think through the hardware that they have,

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the cameras, the computers, their microphones to make these observations.

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There's four windows up front.

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Through one of those windows, one of our astronauts will be using a Nikon D5 camera

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with an 80 to 400 millimeter lens.

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something that allows them to zoom in really far and actually take more detailed observations of

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the surface. It's almost like looking through a pair of binoculars as well. It's just like being a

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geologist out in the field. They're going, they're telling us what they're seeing, looking for colors,

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textures, different morphologies, and comparing the region that we're having them look at to

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the regions that are around them. We have a science team that is planning the targets

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that are going to be observed putting them all on the timeline of how they're going to be observed

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and then taking the first look at the data when it comes down. The Apollo astronauts were only on

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the moon for 300 hours total and they only went to the equator. That's like going to places that

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were safer landing sites and they only saw so little 300 hours total and so we have so much

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more to explore and so much more to learn and we are the beginning of the next generation

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and that gets to start being a part of these discoveries.

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We are now four minutes and 28 seconds

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until we expect to regain communications

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with the astronauts flying aboard Orion

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on the Artemis-2 mission.

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They are now flying behind the moon.

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While behind the moon at an MET, or mission elapsed time

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of five days, 25 minutes and 34 seconds,

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we expect this was the point in which they made their closest

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approach, 4,067 statute miles above the lunar surface.

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We're live in the Artemis Mission Control Room in Houston, but we are not the only room

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monitoring today's flyby.

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As you can see, this is the SIR, the Science Evaluation Room.

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It's in the same building than just down the hall.

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It's a multi-disciplinary science team supporting the Artemis II crew in real time,

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including experts in lunar geology, impact cratering, volcanism, polar science, imaging,

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and visualization.

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You can see the SIR here, that's the Science Evaluation Room.

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It's embedded within Mission Control to provide science input during live operations

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like what we see today.

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But additionally, the Science Mission Operations Room is a back room

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that processes data, evaluates imagery, and supports rapid analysis.

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We also have our science officer, Kelsey Young, here on console today.

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She's serving as the primary interface between the science team

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and the flight controllers, ensuring science priorities are represented

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during mission execution.

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Coming up on one minute and 36 seconds until we contact Orion.

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Meanwhile aboard the spacecraft, the crew has continued executing their lunar flyby tasks.

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As we discussed earlier today, these activities have been precisely time-lined

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and this is the fourth of five blocks of time during which the crew will be observing the

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the moon from Orion's windows.

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At this time, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialist

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Christina Cook are observing the moon at windows 2 and 3.

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One crew member is in window 2 with a blue shroud over the

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window, taking photos and using an 80 to 400 millimeter

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zoom lens.

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While the other astronauts in window 3 using their

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portable computing device, also known as a PCD to make

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annotations. And both of those crew members are making audio recordings of what they are seeing.

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They are wearing headsets connected to their PCDs and those audio recordings are being sent

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to the science team tonight. We are not hearing those live. However, we have been hearing quite

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a lot of great descriptions from the crew who have been serving as the support. Right now,

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the support team members are Reed Wiseman and Jeremy Hansen. Those team members are providing

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science SIP reps, situation reports, calling down a few times each hour to discuss what they're

06:26:18.600 --> 06:26:23.160
observing. And even though we're out of contact with them right now, they are still conducting

06:26:23.160 --> 06:26:27.640
those science SIP reps as they'll be available once they come back around the moon.

06:26:30.600 --> 06:26:35.080
The situation reports include how the crews positioned any missed targets or anything

06:26:35.080 --> 06:26:40.040
unexpected they saw. They're also including lunar target descriptions, any hardware issues,

06:26:40.040 --> 06:26:42.040
and their emotions and reactions.

06:26:42.040 --> 06:26:58.040
Again, we are standing by to acquire signal from the Orion spacecraft.

06:26:58.040 --> 06:27:00.040
Thank you.

06:27:28.040 --> 06:27:58.000
Thank you.

06:27:58.000 --> 06:28:03.120
and the Artemis Mission Control Room at Johnson Space Center getting our preliminary contact

06:28:03.120 --> 06:28:09.040
with Orion, that acquisition of signal coming after a 40-minute loss of signal during which

06:28:09.040 --> 06:28:13.920
the crew was flying behind the moon out of contact with anyone on Earth.

06:28:58.000 --> 06:29:05.400
We are getting our first views from Orion after the loss of signal.

06:29:06.340 --> 06:29:08.940
Orion has come back around the other side of the moon

06:29:09.500 --> 06:29:15.060
and that little crescent that you see is Earth, over 252,000 miles away.

06:29:16.000 --> 06:29:24.180
With this transit complete, Lunar Flyby continues

06:29:24.620 --> 06:29:27.580
but Orion has also technically begun its journey home.

06:29:28.000 --> 06:29:45.280
Right now the crew are getting a few moments to enjoy and take photos of

06:29:45.280 --> 06:29:49.920
Earthrise for themselves and we expect to contact them shortly but we do have

06:29:49.920 --> 06:29:53.760
good signal coming from Orion.

06:30:28.000 --> 06:30:36.280
This view from inside the Orion spacecraft all four astronauts now back

06:30:36.280 --> 06:30:39.440
on the other side of the moon and in contact with us on Earth.

06:30:40.640 --> 06:30:44.640
Their tasks for lunar flyby did not stop as they went behind the moon

06:30:44.640 --> 06:30:46.280
and out of contact with us.

06:30:46.820 --> 06:30:49.340
We anticipate during that time they were attempting

06:30:49.340 --> 06:30:53.640
to image some impact flashes, short-lived flashes on the lunar surface

06:30:54.100 --> 06:30:56.440
which would be caused by impact bombardment

06:30:56.440 --> 06:30:59.480
and potentially even a lofted lunar dust.

06:31:00.520 --> 06:31:03.880
Right now, of course, they are getting pictures of Earthrise.

06:31:06.040 --> 06:31:09.320
After this target, they will get a short observation break.

06:31:10.060 --> 06:31:11.620
It's about an hour long, actually.

06:31:11.620 --> 06:31:14.840
You've been integrity, cop check.

06:31:17.080 --> 06:31:19.700
Integrity, we have you loud and clear, humming.

06:31:26.440 --> 06:31:31.280
So Houston, we have you the same and it is so great to hear from Earth again.

06:31:31.680 --> 06:31:35.920
To Asia, Africa and Oceana, we are looking back at you.

06:31:35.920 --> 06:31:38.380
We hear you can look up and see the moon right now.

06:31:38.980 --> 06:31:40.540
We see you too.

06:31:41.320 --> 06:31:47.840
When we burned this burn towards the moon, I said that we do not leave Earth, but we choose it.

06:31:48.340 --> 06:31:50.180
And that is true.

06:31:50.680 --> 06:31:51.620
We will explore.

06:31:51.620 --> 06:31:53.760
We will build ships.

06:31:53.760 --> 06:31:55.220
We will visit again.

06:31:55.220 --> 06:32:01.500
We will construct science outposts, we will drive rovers, we will do radio astronomy,

06:32:02.100 --> 06:32:06.680
we will found companies, we will boaster industry, we will inspire,

06:32:07.240 --> 06:32:13.140
but ultimately we will always choose Earth, we will always choose each other.

06:32:16.800 --> 06:32:21.460
Integrity from Earth, our single system, fragile and interconnected, we copy.

06:32:22.080 --> 06:32:23.760
Those of us that can are looking back.

06:32:25.220 --> 06:32:36.220
We are happy to say we copy.

06:32:55.220 --> 06:33:18.740
Those first communications back with the astronauts aboard Orion.

06:33:18.740 --> 06:33:23.420
Christina Cooke calling back to what she said just before a translator injection burn.

06:33:23.420 --> 06:33:27.180
With this burn, we do not leave Earth, we choose it.

06:33:27.180 --> 06:33:31.660
The Translunar Injection Burn served as not only what put them on this trajectory to fly

06:33:31.660 --> 06:33:36.260
around the Moon, but what also committed them to splashing down in the Pacific Ocean

06:33:36.260 --> 06:33:52.980
on Flight Day 10.

06:33:52.980 --> 06:33:57.380
At this time the crew is entering an observation break.

06:33:57.380 --> 06:34:02.380
We expect this to last about an hour and it's probably a welcomed break following their

06:34:02.380 --> 06:34:10.420
very, very busy day, taking pictures, making annotations, making audio recordings and communicating

06:34:10.420 --> 06:34:17.100
all of the wonderful things that they are seeing on the moon.

06:34:17.100 --> 06:34:21.060
This observation break is also partially due to the fact that we will be entering

06:34:21.060 --> 06:34:22.620
an eclipse later.

06:34:22.620 --> 06:34:27.380
This will be the first solar eclipse that humans have seen from the moon.

06:34:27.380 --> 06:34:31.340
The astronauts will need to wear eclipse glasses for the first two minutes until the sun is

06:34:31.340 --> 06:34:35.660
completely covered by the moon, and then they have additional targets that the science

06:34:35.660 --> 06:34:37.940
team is hoping that they will photograph.

06:34:37.940 --> 06:34:46.740
We will have communications with them during that eclipse timeframe.

06:34:46.740 --> 06:34:50.580
Because of that eclipse, Orion's attitude must be changed right now so that its

06:34:50.580 --> 06:34:52.940
Solar arrays are in the sun.

06:34:52.940 --> 06:34:55.900
This will help it charge the batteries needed to power it

06:34:55.900 --> 06:34:57.420
through that eclipse time frame.

06:35:01.860 --> 06:35:04.660
This view on your screen is a visualization.

06:35:04.660 --> 06:35:09.540
The spacecraft now 4,224 miles away from the moon,

06:35:09.540 --> 06:35:12.820
and that number will now continue to grow.

06:35:12.820 --> 06:35:18.380
While the number of distance from Earth, 252,699 miles

06:35:18.380 --> 06:35:20.300
will continue to shrink.

06:35:20.300 --> 06:35:23.060
all the way until our crew is back home.

06:36:20.300 --> 06:36:40.060
Again, we are MET, mission alofts time, five days and 58 minutes since the launch of Artemis

06:36:40.060 --> 06:36:44.060
2.

06:36:44.060 --> 06:36:48.580
We have re-established communications with the crew and the Orion spacecraft, now entering

06:36:48.580 --> 06:36:52.620
a little bit of a break while they are out of visibility

06:36:52.620 --> 06:36:55.420
or the moon is out of their visibility.

06:36:55.420 --> 06:36:59.220
The spacecraft will be reoriented to view the moon ahead

06:36:59.220 --> 06:37:02.620
of an upcoming eclipse.

06:37:02.620 --> 06:37:05.820
This current attitude maneuver helps charge the solar arrays

06:37:05.820 --> 06:37:08.120
and batteries aboard Orion that will power them

06:37:08.120 --> 06:37:09.620
through the eclipse.

06:37:48.580 --> 06:38:11.360
Integrity Houston, in mission control, all of your flight controllers and your flight

06:38:11.360 --> 06:38:16.000
director have flipped their Artemis II patches around.

06:38:16.000 --> 06:38:23.000
We are earthbound and ready to bring you home.

06:40:46.000 --> 06:40:55.800
A very special moment just now in mission control ahead of the cruise flight to Kennedy Space

06:40:55.800 --> 06:41:00.480
Center and during one of their last sims or simulations here, they visited the mission

06:41:00.480 --> 06:41:05.880
control team in Artemis Mission Control in Houston and brought us each a patch.

06:41:05.880 --> 06:41:11.400
Everyone in the flight control room has had these on their signifiers at their console.

06:41:11.400 --> 06:41:17.600
On one side of the patch that you've probably seen is the moon with the Earth behind it.

06:41:17.600 --> 06:41:23.400
Now that we are behind, we've passed behind the moon and we are returning home, the flight

06:41:23.400 --> 06:41:28.120
control team has instructed everyone in the room to switch their patch around so that

06:41:28.120 --> 06:41:31.400
the Earth is closer and the moon is behind us.

06:41:31.400 --> 06:41:35.320
We are really looking forward to seeing the Artemis II crew and the Capcom, Genie

06:41:35.320 --> 06:41:40.440
Gibbons did call that update up to the crew that the flight control team here has

06:41:40.440 --> 06:41:44.240
Turn their patches around, as was instructed by the crew during that last sim,

06:41:44.240 --> 06:41:47.520
and we are counting down the days until they get home.

06:41:48.360 --> 06:41:52.480
They are now five days, one hour and three minutes mission last time

06:41:52.480 --> 06:41:54.200
into the Artemis II mission.

06:43:10.440 --> 06:43:40.120
Thank you.

06:43:40.120 --> 06:43:42.580
me here in the room, Artemis Mission Control.

06:43:42.580 --> 06:43:45.840
I have Angela Garcia, Artemis II, Science Officer.

06:43:45.840 --> 06:43:47.000
Thanks for being here, Angela.

06:43:47.000 --> 06:43:50.120
It is an honor to be here.

06:43:50.280 --> 06:43:51.240
What a day.

06:43:51.240 --> 06:43:53.040
Everyone's been buzzing.

06:43:53.320 --> 06:43:57.020
I can't contain myself, so it's been a really awesome day.

06:43:57.020 --> 06:43:59.600
So you're sitting on console at the Science Console now.

06:43:59.600 --> 06:44:01.320
Have you been in the sir earlier today?

06:44:01.320 --> 06:44:03.160
There's a lot going on.

06:44:03.160 --> 06:44:05.940
So I went here first, then I'm going to go there after.

06:44:05.940 --> 06:44:14.540
All right integrity we hear you that was a little clipped

06:44:14.740 --> 06:44:19.620
but I think we have a better link now we experienced some blockage

06:44:19.620 --> 06:44:24.500
from a solar array we moved it and we are in bias tail-to-sun.

06:44:24.500 --> 06:44:34.820
Okay, Heeson, you're coming in loud and clear and copy.

06:44:34.820 --> 06:44:43.020
We're in bystander's side now.

06:44:43.020 --> 06:44:48.220
A-Firm and integrity, just so you know, we did not hear your response once we flipped

06:44:48.220 --> 06:44:49.220
our patches.

06:44:49.220 --> 06:44:52.500
Jeremy, we heard you call down, but you were eclipsed and then we briefly lost calm.

06:44:52.500 --> 06:44:53.500
I'm going to call you back.

06:44:53.500 --> 06:44:54.500
Okay, copy that.

06:44:54.500 --> 06:44:59.500
We were just excited that we got to sharing that, that you do the MAR and Mission Control

06:44:59.500 --> 06:45:12.500
with your patches around, and that that side of the patch is getting to see the light

06:45:12.500 --> 06:45:13.500
of day.

06:45:13.500 --> 06:45:14.500
Thanks for sharing that with us.

06:45:14.500 --> 06:45:15.500
My pleasure.

06:45:15.500 --> 06:45:17.500
Our pleasure.

06:45:22.500 --> 06:45:28.500
Okay, Angela, so can you tell me a little bit about your role supporting Artemis 2 and the science preparation for the mission?

06:45:29.500 --> 06:45:36.500
Yes, so I'm one of the three science officers. So Kelsey's been on console all day. I'll take over kind of closer to the end of the day.

06:45:37.500 --> 06:45:43.500
And then Trevor Graff is on the planning shift. And so it's the three of us in this 24-hour cycle supporting the mission.

06:45:43.500 --> 06:45:49.100
And so the science officer console is a brand new console to mission control and it's not

06:45:49.100 --> 06:45:54.020
every day that you get a new discipline incorporated into mission control.

06:45:54.020 --> 06:45:57.500
So it's been such a significant milestone for us.

06:45:57.500 --> 06:46:01.780
And it's just a testament to the commitment that the Flight Operations Directorate and

06:46:01.780 --> 06:46:07.140
NASA have that they're going to be integrating science and maximizing science about Artemis.

06:46:07.140 --> 06:46:09.860
So it's really exciting.

06:46:09.860 --> 06:46:11.300
And then the science preparation.

06:46:11.300 --> 06:46:14.780
Yeah, so I'm on the operations team, but I'm also on the training team.

06:46:14.780 --> 06:46:20.460
So all the incredible training and shout outs that you've gotten today, it warms my heart.

06:46:20.460 --> 06:46:23.300
It warms everybody's heart in the science evaluation room.

06:46:23.300 --> 06:46:24.820
I promise you that.

06:46:24.820 --> 06:46:31.220
But all the classroom training, the field training, the mission simulations, we were

06:46:31.220 --> 06:46:32.580
part of all of it.

06:46:32.580 --> 06:46:36.580
And that is what we did to get the crew to be there, a part of the science team.

06:46:36.580 --> 06:46:39.620
They're the forefront, that nice edge,

06:46:39.620 --> 06:46:41.900
and they're just been doing such a great job today.

06:46:41.900 --> 06:46:44.420
I know, I imagine that you have to be pretty proud of them.

06:46:44.420 --> 06:46:47.260
Their reports have been fantastic.

06:46:47.260 --> 06:46:49.140
So I would like to know a little bit about

06:46:49.140 --> 06:46:52.420
how you have developed procedures for this crew.

06:46:52.420 --> 06:46:53.740
What kind of science activities

06:46:53.740 --> 06:46:56.220
are they carrying out inside the spacecraft?

06:46:56.220 --> 06:46:58.060
Yeah, so the procedure development

06:46:58.060 --> 06:47:00.540
has been a unique challenge.

06:47:00.540 --> 06:47:03.200
I would say the exploration science that we're doing

06:47:03.200 --> 06:47:05.740
is inherently pretty flexible

06:47:05.740 --> 06:47:09.160
And operations is, I'd say, inherently

06:47:09.160 --> 06:47:10.680
has more structure and rigidity.

06:47:10.680 --> 06:47:14.040
And so to marry the two and to operationalize the science

06:47:14.040 --> 06:47:17.160
that we want to get done has been a challenge.

06:47:17.160 --> 06:47:20.560
But I think we've been able to go through these processes

06:47:20.560 --> 06:47:23.840
and create good products at the end and have a good plan.

06:47:23.840 --> 06:47:27.240
And yeah, it's been really great.

06:47:27.240 --> 06:47:29.000
What was the second part of your question?

06:47:29.000 --> 06:47:31.040
Just what kind of these science activities

06:47:31.040 --> 06:47:33.400
that they're performing, which of those

06:47:33.400 --> 06:47:35.240
have you really had a hand in?

06:47:35.240 --> 06:47:38.720
Yeah, so a lot of the procedures help organize

06:47:38.720 --> 06:47:40.400
what the crew is doing in the cabin.

06:47:40.400 --> 06:47:43.200
And I know we've talked a lot about what they've been doing

06:47:43.200 --> 06:47:45.240
and they've been doing a lot and it's been a little dark,

06:47:45.240 --> 06:47:48.120
so I can re-explain what some of those things

06:47:48.120 --> 06:47:49.660
that they're doing.

06:47:49.660 --> 06:47:52.760
So the observation blocks are about an hour long

06:47:52.760 --> 06:47:55.040
and the crew is organized, the four crew members

06:47:55.040 --> 06:47:57.600
are organized into two pairs of two,

06:47:57.600 --> 06:47:59.880
the window team and the cabin team

06:47:59.880 --> 06:48:03.160
and the lunar targeting package that you've been

06:48:03.160 --> 06:48:07.240
showing up and what the crew have on their handheld tablets

06:48:07.240 --> 06:48:09.320
is really the instructions for the window team.

06:48:09.320 --> 06:48:11.360
So the window team, the two crew members

06:48:11.360 --> 06:48:12.560
are looking at the window.

06:48:12.560 --> 06:48:14.360
One has the camera with the long lens.

06:48:14.360 --> 06:48:16.640
One has, they're just looking at the window

06:48:16.640 --> 06:48:18.200
with their unaided eye, and they're

06:48:18.200 --> 06:48:20.320
taking these detailed observations.

06:48:20.320 --> 06:48:22.160
And then halfway in that observation block,

06:48:22.160 --> 06:48:25.640
they do the window team position swap.

06:48:25.640 --> 06:48:28.160
So that's what CAPCOM has been calling out

06:48:28.160 --> 06:48:29.080
in those switch positions.

06:48:29.080 --> 06:48:31.080
So each crew member has a chance

06:48:31.080 --> 06:48:35.040
to have that long lens and then that's just what the window team is doing.

06:48:35.280 --> 06:48:38.360
There's also the cabin team where they also have duties that they're doing.

06:48:38.360 --> 06:48:40.740
We're asking a lot of the crew in this time.

06:48:41.080 --> 06:48:44.800
And then the cabin team, they're taking, they have the interior camera

06:48:44.800 --> 06:48:46.840
and they're taking images inside the cabin.

06:48:47.200 --> 06:48:51.600
They're also supporting the window team where, you know, you've heard some callouts

06:48:51.600 --> 06:48:55.260
where looking out at the bright moon and then looking inside the dark cabin

06:48:55.260 --> 06:48:57.780
and looking at their LED screen is a lot.

06:48:57.780 --> 06:49:02.300
So the cabin team is also helping support a target

06:49:02.300 --> 06:49:06.620
and guide the window team into specific targets

06:49:06.620 --> 06:49:07.860
on their plan.

06:49:07.860 --> 06:49:12.100
They're also helping call out these science situational reps.

06:49:12.100 --> 06:49:14.220
So they're looking out a different window

06:49:14.220 --> 06:49:17.380
and listening in to what the crew who are really down

06:49:17.380 --> 06:49:19.780
and in on the science on the window team are doing.

06:49:19.780 --> 06:49:21.260
And they're giving us insight.

06:49:21.260 --> 06:49:23.420
And those recordings that the window team is doing

06:49:23.420 --> 06:49:25.820
are going to be uplinked or downlinked overnight.

06:49:25.820 --> 06:49:28.060
and we're going to be able to chew on that data.

06:49:28.060 --> 06:49:29.380
But yeah, they're helping.

06:49:29.380 --> 06:49:31.220
They're doing a lot.

06:49:31.220 --> 06:49:34.620
And so making sure we have a plan that's flexible

06:49:34.620 --> 06:49:37.860
but also make sure that we check off all those boxes

06:49:37.860 --> 06:49:39.260
was really important.

06:49:39.260 --> 06:49:40.220
So tell me a little bit more.

06:49:40.220 --> 06:49:41.940
You talked earlier about the analogs

06:49:41.940 --> 06:49:42.940
that the crew has done.

06:49:42.940 --> 06:49:44.660
What kind of analogs are environments

06:49:44.660 --> 06:49:46.580
we're really useful for this?

06:49:46.580 --> 06:49:48.900
Yeah, so for procedure development,

06:49:48.900 --> 06:49:52.140
you have so many different environments that you can do.

06:49:52.140 --> 06:49:53.820
You have classroom, like we said,

06:49:53.820 --> 06:49:57.740
We have, you have the Orion mock-up, you have simulations,

06:49:57.740 --> 06:50:00.380
and for at least for developing the plan,

06:50:00.380 --> 06:50:02.260
we kind of did it in a tiered approach

06:50:02.260 --> 06:50:05.220
because each of those different analog environments

06:50:05.220 --> 06:50:07.100
helps us answer a slightly different question

06:50:07.100 --> 06:50:09.660
and has a little bit of a higher fidelity.

06:50:09.660 --> 06:50:11.620
So we would start with the classroom.

06:50:11.620 --> 06:50:15.060
So we would get, we would just get into a classroom,

06:50:15.060 --> 06:50:16.580
we would put all the hardware on the table

06:50:16.580 --> 06:50:19.300
and then we'd almost role play of like Ubi Victor,

06:50:19.300 --> 06:50:21.940
Ubi Reed, Ubi Jerry and Ubi Christina

06:50:21.940 --> 06:50:24.820
And like let's just do the plan, how we think we should do it.

06:50:25.340 --> 06:50:29.060
Write that down and then just keep iterating on that.

06:50:29.060 --> 06:50:29.540
And then.

06:50:30.540 --> 06:50:36.660
And David Houston for a tag up pre forward link LOS in place

06:50:36.660 --> 06:50:38.140
of the flight director conference.

06:50:46.500 --> 06:50:47.660
Okay, Jenny, we're ready.

06:50:47.660 --> 06:50:52.560
All right, crew, I'm going to roll through a couple of topics here.

06:50:52.560 --> 06:50:54.640
The first two are for timeline.

06:50:55.640 --> 06:50:58.520
First of all, read for your toilet maintenance.

06:50:59.240 --> 06:51:01.840
It is a shortened toilet maintenance where you do not have

06:51:01.840 --> 06:51:03.600
to do the oxone changeout.

06:51:03.880 --> 06:51:05.440
That portion of the procedure is canceled.

06:51:07.120 --> 06:51:12.360
Victor, you have an HHP stop activity on your timeline.

06:51:12.700 --> 06:51:16.680
We need you to perform that as scheduled for bandwidth reason.

06:51:17.660 --> 06:51:23.660
For your next portion of the flyby, in particular the eclipse,

06:51:23.660 --> 06:51:27.660
we want to remind you that you can take off the eclipse glasses

06:51:27.660 --> 06:51:30.660
when the sun sets and you are simply looking at the corona.

06:51:30.660 --> 06:51:38.660
And then finally, for the D5 with the long or zoom lens,

06:51:38.660 --> 06:51:42.660
which is set for solar corona, we want to remind you that when you are

06:51:42.660 --> 06:51:49.140
capturing earth shine, you will likely have to adjust the exposure. That's all I

06:51:49.140 --> 06:51:53.460
have for you. Let me know if you have anything for us.

06:52:00.860 --> 06:52:06.260
Okay, you can copy all. Thanks for those words, Tiffany.

06:52:12.660 --> 06:52:23.660
All right, just a quick call up to the crew ahead of a forward link,

06:52:23.660 --> 06:52:26.520
LOS, meaning that we won't be communicating with them,

06:52:26.520 --> 06:52:29.060
but we will be receiving their communications

06:52:29.060 --> 06:52:30.940
and data during that timeframe.

06:52:30.940 --> 06:52:33.500
So, Angela, we were talking about analog environments.

06:52:33.500 --> 06:52:35.260
You were telling me about the classroom and getting

06:52:35.260 --> 06:52:37.940
in there and pretending, who's Victor, who's Reid?

06:52:37.940 --> 06:52:39.440
Tell me more about this.

06:52:39.440 --> 06:52:40.820
Yeah, it works pretty well.

06:52:40.820 --> 06:52:44.620
So you're going to do the plan, how you expect it to be.

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And then once we finalize that plan,

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we'll give it to a completely new group of people

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and have them practice it.

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And then they'll be like, these steps don't make sense.

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And we'll reiterate on it over and over.

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Then we'll take it to a higher fidelity environment

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like the Orion mockup.

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And we'll do the same thing, because that volume is smaller.

06:53:01.780 --> 06:53:04.180
The window placement, their seating,

06:53:04.180 --> 06:53:06.820
what things have we forgotten with this addition

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of this environment.

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And then once we reiterate on that, we'll take it then,

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we'll give it to the crew and have them execute off of it

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during mission simulations.

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That's the highest fidelity that we can do before we send it

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to space.

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So this is the first time we've had

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to do this because we're a brand new console.

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And it just sparks so many neurons

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of like how are we going to do this for service missions

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and integrate this in so many different ways.

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So excited to have kicked off this process,

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but there's so much more to come.

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Fascinating.

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And I think it was really well thought out, too,

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Each crew member gets an opportunity to do each task.

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And so you're getting different perspectives

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and different insights from each crew member,

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maybe even about the same target,

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but something that one person sees

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could be completely different

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than something another person notices.

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So we also know that Artemis II has traveled,

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they're now on their way home,

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but they traveled farther from the moon

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than the Apollo missions did.

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So what makes that vantage point

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scientifically interesting?

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Yeah.

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Observations are so fundamental in the scientific toolkit,

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particularly observations from different perspectives,

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different scales, and with different techniques.

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And so we really tried to make the plan

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to optimize those.

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There's pros and cons for all those things for this mission.

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So we really just focus the plan to have all those pros.

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So in terms of scale, this zoomed out scale,

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you can learn different things.

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This zoomed out are this different perspective.

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So their perspective, as Kelsey talked about,

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photometry around when they orbit the moon,

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and then also just their different,

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the different things they're able to observe.

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So yeah, let me talk a little bit about scale

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because I think observations at different scales,

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you can gain a lot of different information.

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So like, for example, if you were an astronaut

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on the surface looking at a rock,

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and you describe at this micro scale.

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So in training, we kind of talk about observations

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from micro to macro, or from outcrop to orbit.

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So looking at a rock at this scale,

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you can describe its components,

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you can describe what it's made of

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and its colors and its minerals.

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And you're like, okay, and this rock came from this boulder.

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And it's this part of this boulder.

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And these are the different things

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that I'm observing around.

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It gives me context to the sample.

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And then you zoom out a little bit more

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and you're like, okay, well, I can see

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that this boulder came from,

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it rolled from this mountain ridge

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or this high-rich feature.

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And then, because I can see the trail that it came from,

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okay, now let me describe this ridge

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and different parts of it, and maybe other boulders

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that I'm seeing, and then you zoom out further

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of the orbit scale.

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And like, this ridge is a part of this larger crater.

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So all of those different steps

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give you different information.

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And so that's why observations at these different scales

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and these different perspectives are so important.

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So this zoomed out kind of far view

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is this full lunar disc view.

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It's the full lunar, you know, on Earth

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we see the full lunar disc as well,

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but now we're able to see it on the far side

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and we're able to see it, you know, all at the same time,

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which enables the astronauts to compare very quickly

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to different parts of the surface.

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And the color particularly is very compelling

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because you can just be able to very quickly compare

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from, you know, three different regions.

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Is it in the same family?

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Is this actually a little bit different?

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Compare that to what they see in their orbital data

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that they have access to on their portable computers

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and really just be able to tease out

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that nuance and information.

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Yeah, we heard them make a lot of those connections today

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and especially the color.

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We talked with Kelsey about this a little bit,

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just how exciting it was to hear the browns and greens

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and things like that.

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I cannot wait to see those pictures.

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So one last question.

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We are coming up on the last lunar flyby observation block

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And this is when we are going into a solar eclipse.

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So can you tell me what you're interested in the crew learning

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during that timeframe?

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Yeah.

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So the data set, yes, there's so many things.

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How to pick one.

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So I'd say the thing that I'm most interested in seeing

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is some of their annotations that they're taking.

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So in this opportunity, it's a very dynamic type

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of experience in that we don't normally see this activity.

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And so being able to have crew observe the solar corona and then also annotate it on their

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portable computing device is just such a unique thing that humans can give to missions.

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And also, particularly being able to annotate what they're observing while they're talking

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about it is also unique to being able to have astronauts in orbit as well.

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because we won't be able to have annotations

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on the lunar surface because the astronauts will be in suits.

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They're going to be collecting samples.

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They're going to be deploying instruments.

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And so personally, I'm really excited

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to see some of these annotations

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and to see how that develops over time.

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Because you've heard a lot of descriptions.

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And I think when people are describing something

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that's unique and different, you can interpret it

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differently.

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But if you're drawing and you're

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marking, particularly just going back

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to like the color provinces, for example,

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and those boundaries, you know exactly what they meant.

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And really, I just, I'm just very excited

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about those annotations.

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There's been some famous annotations

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that the Apollo crew have made,

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particularly about solar coronas and the structures

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that have, and lofted dust,

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that have given a lot of debate

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within the scientific community

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of they're observing this phenomenon.

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And now it's our job to hypothesize

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of like, why are they observing this?

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like what is going on.

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So I think that's just a really cool part of exploration

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and science and this beautiful thing that we're about to do.

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Well, now you've got me excited about the annotations too.

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I mean, I've been excited about the pictures and the audio,

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but now don't sleep on the annotations.

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I am very excited to see these little sketches

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that they're able to draw out.

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And we have pictures that they can just draw right on.

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It's like, this particular thing is different

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than what we've seen, so I'm excited about that.

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I'm excited too.

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Angela Garcia, thank you so much for joining us today.

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And have a great time tonight on console.

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Thank you.

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And you've been doing a great job.

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And it's so excited to see where we go from here.

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Thank you so much.

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Integrity Houston, you have three minutes until we go into a forward link, LOS, we'll

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be back up with you in about an hour.

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Jerry may eclipse on Madrid.

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Thanks for the heads up, I look forward to seeing you on the other side.

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Likewise.

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We're live in Artemis Mission Control at Johnson Space Center

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in Houston, Texas.

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This is a live view from the Orion spacecraft

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with our Artemis II crew inside.

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That's Reed Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Cook,

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and Jeremy Hansen.

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We are still live for our lunar flyby coverage.

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The crew is in a short break while the spacecraft is pivoted away

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from the moon.

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We are going to be going into a solar eclipse.

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This is the first time anyone has ever

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seen, a solar eclipse from the moon. So it's going to be a unique vantage point for our crew.

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But ahead of heading into that solar eclipse, we need to charge the batteries on the Orion

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spacecraft. Therefore, we have positioned the solar arrays into the sunlight to allow time

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for those batteries to charge. We will get back pointed at the moon just in time for that solar

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eclipse. We are also in a forward link, LOS. What that means is essentially we cannot send calls

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or commands to the crew right now from the ground. However, we clearly get all of their data

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and communications. The spacecraft is now 4,632 miles away from the moon and that number will

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only continued to grow, as the distance from Earth shrinks, now 252,523 miles away.

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Our closest approach to the Moon today was approximately 4,067 statute miles in altitude.

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Our maximum distance from the Earth is suspected to be 252,756 statute miles.

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Both of those moments came while Orion was flying in their loss of signal timeframe

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behind the moon. The crew also set that new record today, beating the Apollo 13 record

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of distance from Earth. This is an animation or a visualization that you can track any

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time, day or night by visiting nasa.gov slash track Artemis. This shows you how the spacecraft

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is positioned as well as their distance and velocity. Now traveling 930 miles per

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hour.

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During this break in their time today, the crew is working on a couple of other tasks.

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Some of those include their National Geographic Timeline Test.

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National Geographic was selected through a competitive process by NASA to help tell

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the story of Artemis II.

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So you've seen the crew with some go-pros inside the cabin, taking videos and pictures

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and with other cameras as well.

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National Geographic plans to leverage its portfolio of media assets, including magazines,

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social and digital content, and television programming for engagement opportunities.

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the flight crew has been time-lined a little bit each day to film from a shot

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a shot list provided by a National Geographic and that includes their

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morning routine talking with their families exercising and just their

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overall thoughts about the mission and I cannot wait to see that footage.

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It seems on the ground reporting that the spacecraft is looking good

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and that the power aboard is good as well,

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all setting us up in a proper position before eclipse.

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the crew is in a little break during our

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fly-by coverage for today. They will resume their fly-by momentarily in about 30 minutes

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once they get into their observations during that solar eclipse. Now the moon is our nearest

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celestial neighbor orbiting Earth at less than a quarter of a million miles on average.

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When our astronauts venture there for future Artemis missions, they'll target landing sites

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near the lunar south pole. Their ancient rocks, minerals, and trapped water ice

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will not only provide resources for human explorers, but they may also contain clues to the formation

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and evolution of our planet and the solar system. Let's learn more about the lunar

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south pole with this video featuring Dr. Kelsey Young, Artemis Science Flight Operations Lead.

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We learned a lot from the Apollo samples, but we still have a lot left to learn about the moon.

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The Apollo missions visited only a pretty narrow swath of the moon. All the missions were

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were concentrated near the near side equator.

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Really interesting and really critical insights

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were unlocked with the Apollo samples,

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but we have so many questions still to answer

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about the moon and the evolution of the moon.

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And liftoff of Artemis I, we rise together

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back to the moon and beyond.

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NASA's Artemis missions are NASA's plan

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to send people to the surface of the moon.

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We'll be sending people and roving assets

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and scientific equipment to, among other things,

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answer a lot of really compelling science questions.

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Scientists have a lot to learn about the moon.

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It's our nearest social neighbor here to Earth,

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so what the moon has experienced, we've experienced.

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Except here on Earth, we have things like plate tectonics,

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oceans, forests, people that erase the rock record.

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Whereas on the moon, that whole record

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of our planet's history of the moon's history

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is just kind of waiting there

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at the surface for us to explore.

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The South Pole, which is where Artemis missions

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going to target is specifically interesting for a couple key reasons.

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We think there are volatiles at the south pole of the moon that are not present near the equator.

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Things like water and water ice that are trapped in the lunar regolith, which basically just

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means lunar soil, that can easily become untrapped from that lunar regolith and scientists

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can scoop up and study for a return to Earth.

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The lunar south pole is a really exciting scientific target, and it also comes with

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some challenges for operating.

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For example, the lighting environment will change drastically within the course of one

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mission and even over sometimes the course of one spacewalk.

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So preparing the crew members, preparing the hardware that we're sending to the moon

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and preparing the mission control teams is really, really important.

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The South Pole Aiken Basin is particularly exciting.

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We think it's one of the oldest and largest impact basins in the solar system.

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And if we can get the right rock from the South Pole Aiken Basin and bring it

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back to our labs here on Earth, we can use that sample to constrain the entire

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evolution of our solar system and really understand the timing of how the moon and our planet and the entire solar system evolved.

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You're looking at a live view aboard the Orion spacecraft of the Artemis II crew working in the middle of one of their breaks.

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or really their only break today during this lunar flyby period.

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Coming up next will be that solar eclipse.

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Throughout the Artemis II mission, and of course throughout today,

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you've likely heard the crew being called with the name Integrity.

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The Artemis II crew members named their Orion spacecraft Integrity during a news conference,

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September 24th, 2025.

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The name integrity embodies the foundation of trust, respect, candor, and humility across

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the crew and the many engineers, technicians, scientists, planners, and dreamers required

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for mission success.

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They said this name is also a nod to the extensive integrated effort from the more

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than 300,000 spacecraft components to the thousands of people across the world that

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must come together to venture to the moon and back, inspire the world, and set the

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course for a long-term presence at the moon.

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The crew also said the integrity is rooted in a shared core value

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of NASA, the agency's astronaut office, and the CSA,

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the Canadian Space Agency.

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We are five days, one hour,

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in 38 minutes, mission elapsed time into Artemis II.

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In this view on the screen, you can see the crew starting

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to even look through some photos

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that they may have captured today.

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We really look forward to sharing these photos with you

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as soon as we possibly can.

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And the best way to keep up with those is

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to follow NASA on social media.

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You can do so at NASA and for this mission specifically

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at NASA Artemis.

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Again, we are in a forward link.

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LOS or Forward Link loss of signal with the crew,

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meaning that we're not able to communicate

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or send any commands to them right now.

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As they were, this is a tracked event that occurs

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at times that they could still provide communications

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down here to us.

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And we are obviously still receiving their video

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and their data.

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You're going to take ready in the blind, high priority PAO activities on REEDS timeline

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are on PCD1 and a folder imagery for downlink and then high priority step by imagery for

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downlink and then lunar flyby for PAO and then high priority PAO, thank you.

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This is Artemis Mission Control.

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You heard Reed Wiseman, commander of the Artemis II mission aboard Orion, make a call

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in the blind.

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This means he knows we cannot call back and that he knows we may not receive his call.

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However, we have good communications with the spacecraft.

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They just cannot hear from us right now due to a forward link loss of signal.

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Again, we were tracking that this would occur and we will regain that momentarily.

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If that call that came down from Wiseman mentioned some imagery, so we are very much

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looking forward to getting pictures taken from the moon today.

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Again, to see those images, make sure you follow NASA on our social media at NASA and at NASA Artemis.

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The view on your screen right now is an animation.

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This is called Arrow or Artemis Real-Time Orbit website.

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You can visit this for yourself at nasa.gov slash track Artemis and you can watch

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as we continue to grow closer to Earth and farther away from the Moon.

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It's all seemed to happen so fast so far and we're coming on the splash

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down now in three days, 23 minutes and 30, 23 hours and 31 minutes.

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This is Artemis Mission Control.

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We are in a forward link LOS with the spacecraft.

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If we're not able to send commands or communications to them right now, however,

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they could send them to us, and we do get spacecraft data.

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This is tracked as we are on the deep space network.

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This is the network that we use to communicate with the spacecraft,

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now that we are so far from our over 252,000 miles.

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We are still in our lunar flyby coverage.

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The crew still have a very important and very exciting flyby milestone coming

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up when they will see a solar eclipse from the moon, the first humans to ever do so.

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Something that we also have to consider when it comes to our missions

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and launches are space weather.

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So since the Apollo 16 and 17 missions, there were some solar eruptions near that timeframe

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that could have been dangerous to our explorers.

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Over those 50 years since those storms, the data, technology, and resources available to NASA have improved,

07:30:57.380 --> 07:31:01.380
enabling advancements towards space weather forecasts and astronaut protection,

07:31:01.380 --> 07:31:07.380
which is key to NASA's Artemis program to return astronauts to the Moon.

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Across our planet, billions of people depend on the invisible networks that connect us

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to space.

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Every day, those networks are at the mercy of our temperamental sun, and the space weather

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that it unleashes across our solar system.

07:31:33.620 --> 07:31:39.780
That's why NASA's Space Weather Program tracks solar storms from the moment they erupt, modeling

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their paths, anticipating their impacts, and leading the research that the world's industries

07:31:45.500 --> 07:31:48.220
rely on.

07:31:48.220 --> 07:31:53.420
NASA's Space Weather Research and Modeling is driven by the needs of society and enables

07:31:53.420 --> 07:31:59.820
critical decision-making that equips pilots to reroute around high-radiation areas,

07:31:59.820 --> 07:32:03.820
to adjust GPS-based precision planting and harvesting plans,

07:32:03.820 --> 07:32:09.820
and power grid operators to mitigate the impacts of potential surges.

07:32:09.820 --> 07:32:15.820
For those exploring other worlds, NASA provides 24-7 space-weather monitoring

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for Artemis crews at the Moon and future Mars astronauts

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who may be exposed to dangerous levels of radiation during solar storms.

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Whether you're a pilot or a passenger,

07:32:27.820 --> 07:32:35.020
A farmer or a consumer, a power grid operator or energy customer, a satellite controller

07:32:35.020 --> 07:32:47.140
or GPS user, spaceflight impacts us all.

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This is a live view from the Orion spacecraft on the Artemis II mission.

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It's now been five days, one hour and 54 minutes since we launched.

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We are still in our flyby coverage and the crew is on a short break right now as we have

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changed the attitude of the spacecraft to help charge the batteries aboard.

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We use the solar arrays to gather energy from the sun and store it in the batteries.

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That way when we are not in the sunlight, we have those batteries to continue powering

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Orion.

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Now, we're doing so because the Artemis astronauts are about to experience a solar eclipse from

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their capsule.

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And this is a solar eclipse that no one else on Earth will experience.

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This eclipse is about 54 minutes, and to the astronauts it will look a lot like a total

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solar eclipse on Earth, except the Moon is going to be huge compared to the Sun.

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Unlike when you watch one on Earth and the Moon and the Sun appear about the same

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size in the sky.

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We're interested to learn if they see the outer corona when the sun is fully obscured

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by the moon.

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And because of how big the moon will be from their perspective, the total phase of the eclipse

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will last nearly an hour.

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The astronauts will see a partial solar eclipse as the moon covers and uncovers the sun,

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which is before and after totality.

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So much like us on Earth, they will have eclipse glasses so they can safely view that portion.

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The astronauts will also be using cameras to capture images of the corona during the eclipse.

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There also may be some other planets visible during the eclipse, including Venus, Saturn,

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Mars, and Mercury.

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If they can identify what part of the sky they're looking at, this can help train

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future Artemis astronauts on what part of the sky they're seeing.

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This provides useful knowledge in challenging situations when they may need to rely on that

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information instead of instruments for navigation and orientation.

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Confirmation from teams here in the ground that we have reached the eclipse attitude,

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meaning Orion is in the proper position to observe it.

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The astronauts break during this observation period is now over and we are resuming their

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lunar flyby observations. The first of these is sunset. This is the solar corona that we'll

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be looking for. It's the outer atmosphere of the sun. The science team is also interested

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and if the astronauts can see polar plumes.

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These are thin streamers that project

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from the sun's north and south poles.

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Additionally, they're interested in seeing

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if the crew can witness coronal loops.

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These are arcs close to the sun's surface.

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And something else that we've previously mentioned is lunar dust.

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This is dust from the moon that is lofted

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above the lunar surface and illuminated by the sun.

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It was reported visible by Apollo astronauts.

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You're getting a live look from Orion as the crew observes a solar eclipse from the moon.

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Again, this solar eclipse is only visible to the crew on the spacecraft.

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It's not visible to anybody on Earth.

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The science team is interested in several different targets for them during this timeframe.

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And we're personally looking forward to getting those images as well.

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Again, during the beginning portion of this eclipse, the astronauts will need to use eclipse

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glasses just like we do from Earth to safely view it.

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Once the moon has completely covered the sun, they'll be able to take off those glasses

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for almost an hour.

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Totality on Earth during a solar eclipse lasts only a couple of minutes.

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So this opportunity gives them a chance to look out into deep space and to look

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into see if there are other planets nearby.

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What you're seeing right now is the solar corona.

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That's the outer atmosphere of the sun.

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And the science team is very interested in any images

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that the crew can capture of this.

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They're hoping that they'll take pictures

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and describe the visibility, color,

07:40:39.680 --> 07:40:41.920
and shape of the solar corona as a whole

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and its substructures, those plumes and streamers.

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Science integrity in the blind.

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This is a failure to be revealed.

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The sun has gone behind the moon and the corona is still visible and it's bright

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and it creates an halo almost around the entire moon.

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But when you get to the Earth side, the Earth's shine is already showing.

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I mean almost seconds after the sun set behind the moon, you could see Earth's shine.

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The Earth is so bright out there and the moon is just hanging in front of us, this black orb out in front of us,

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in front of now, not the blackness but the gray that blends and drips into the blackness.

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we can see stars and the planets behind it.

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And Christina is in window one,

07:42:14.440 --> 07:42:16.200
she's in window two with the long lens.

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And Jeremy is describing it in window three.

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And it is quite an impressive sight.

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You can still see the horizon with a brighter,

07:42:29.920 --> 07:42:33.960
where the sun set on that side of the moon is bright.

07:42:33.960 --> 07:42:42.960
And the earth shine is very distinct and it creates quite an impressive visual illusion.

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Wow, it's amazing.

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Again, you're looking at a live view from the

07:44:03.800 --> 07:44:14.520
Orion spacecraft on the Artemis II mission. Orion is now 252,125 miles away from us all on Earth.

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We're here in the Artemis Mission Control Room in Houston, Texas, and what you had just before

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we lost that view quickly was the corona of the sun peeking around the moon as the astronauts

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are entering a solar eclipse for this portion of the lunar flyby.

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We're now over 5,500 statute miles from the moon.

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That closest approach today was just about 4,067 statute miles away.

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The team's in the room beginning to get a little busier and filter in and out as we are stepping

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through a handover.

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The Orbit 1 team is handing over to Orbit 2 who will continue monitoring lunar flyby

07:44:55.520 --> 07:44:57.980
and all of the systems aboard the Orion spacecraft.

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You're getting your last few views of the solar corona as the moon begins to take center stage

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and completely cover the sun.

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If you see that bright dot up near the top left of your screen, we think right now that

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that may be a part of the spacecraft that we'll be sure to correct that if we end

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up figuring out later that it is something else entirely.

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It has been an absolute honor to join you here today for the Lunar Flyby of Artemis II, the

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first time humans have flown by the moon in over 50 years.

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I'm Leah Cheshire-Mistachio and I'm excited now to hand over the...

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My name is shifting around in the windows and we are transferring the settings on the

07:48:15.760 --> 07:48:19.360
camera to pick up Earth's shine and it is amazing.

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The brightness with the corona, with the sunset is still bright, there's, I think

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there may still be corona visual visible,

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but that part of the horizon is still a bit brighter

07:48:31.000 --> 07:48:34.040
and you still have a distinct or shot.

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You know our rules that we don't talk when the crew is talking so I wanted to give Victor

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Glover a moment there to call down what he was seeing now that the moon is covering the

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sun.

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A really amazing time during today's lunar flyby.

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Again, thank you so much for letting us help tell this story today.

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I am Leah Cheshire-Mastasio handing it over to my friend Anna Schneider at the PAO

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console as the Orbit 2 team comes to join us.

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So thank you so much and I hope you all enjoy tonight.

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Anna, you can take it away.

07:49:54.560 --> 07:49:55.400
Thank you so much, Leigh Ann.

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It's been a joy listening to your coverage

07:49:57.240 --> 07:49:58.560
over the last several hours.

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So as you mentioned, the Orbit 2 team

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of flight controllers is currently making their way

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on console and completing a shift handover

07:50:05.680 --> 07:50:08.560
with the Orbit 1 team of flight controllers.

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The Orbit 2 team tonight will be led

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by flight director Diane Daly.

07:50:13.600 --> 07:50:15.200
And she is currently handing over

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with the Orbit 1 flight director there on your screen

07:50:17.760 --> 07:50:21.120
who was flight director Jeff Radigan.

07:50:21.120 --> 07:50:29.120
The Artemis II crew currently onboard the Orion spacecraft.

07:50:29.120 --> 07:50:32.800
It continues to observe the eclipse that they are witnessing.

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There's about 43 minutes remaining in that eclipse period.

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This is Artemis Mission Control.

07:51:47.840 --> 07:51:51.880
You are currently seeing a live view of the solar ray wing cameras

07:51:51.880 --> 07:51:53.560
on the Orion spacecraft.

07:51:53.560 --> 07:51:56.720
We spoke with our science team and they did determine

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that that dot in the distance is Venus.

07:53:17.840 --> 07:53:35.840
The science integrity, let's see, not a huge change in here, just to update the camera settings

07:53:35.840 --> 07:53:39.240
for Earth Shine are challenging.

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It is challenging to capture what we're seeing, we're just not picking up on the cameras.

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after all of the amazing sites that we saw earlier.

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This is, we just went side by side.

07:53:52.240 --> 07:53:55.560
This has, it just looks unreal.

07:53:56.120 --> 07:54:03.500
You can see the surface of the moon between, I guess,

07:54:03.500 --> 07:54:05.820
the Earth Shine, I guess Earth Shine,

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you can actually see a majority of the moon.

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It is the strangest looking thing.

07:54:12.800 --> 07:54:15.800
that you can see so much on the surface.

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This is Artemis Mission Control.

07:54:37.300 --> 07:54:39.800
You were just hearing some communications called down

07:54:39.800 --> 07:54:41.800
from NASA astronaut Victor Cleaver.

07:54:41.800 --> 07:54:43.840
currently onboard the Orion spacecraft.

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They are currently observing an eclipse.

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There's about 39 minutes remaining in that eclipse period.

07:54:50.840 --> 07:54:54.380
Currently we are in a forward link LOS or loss of signal

07:54:54.380 --> 07:54:56.560
so the crew can communicate down with the...

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He's seen two meteor sites.

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We are in a four link loss of signal.

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We do expect to regain signal in about three minutes.

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And at that point, then the ground

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can communicate back up to the crew

07:55:30.180 --> 07:55:32.060
on board the Orion spacecraft.

07:55:34.100 --> 07:55:35.740
In the meantime, the crew can continue

07:55:35.740 --> 07:55:37.020
to communicate down to the ground.

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The ground is just unable to respond.

07:55:38.900 --> 07:55:40.180
So they are continuing to provide

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some science observations during this eclipse period.

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They've made some comments about earth shine,

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which is the sunlight reflected from earth

07:55:48.180 --> 07:55:50.800
when they come around towards the moons near side,

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late in this flyby window.

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Science integrity and the blind glow around the moon is beginning to become a little bit

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more even.

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It's not so much distinct just where the sun's set on the moon's horizon as we're flying

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through the trajectory and then the sun's going to come up out of the other side.

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I think it's, we're starting to see the glow around the moon

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to get balanced out.

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I still see earth shine and the earth is very bright out there.

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So quite an unreal sight.

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Integrity Houston, we have that SIT rep loud and clear

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and we are back with you.

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How do you hear me?

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Okay, Jenny, we have you on.

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Thanks.

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Copy. Victor, we're handing over to Science for some critical questions.

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Thanks for your report.

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Integrity Science.

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We were loving your Science at Rept. in the Blind, and it

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should come as no surprise that we have a number of follow-up questions.

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First, you mentioned read-observing meteors.

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Can you speak to that?

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Were you referring to comets or impact flashes or something else?

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Yeah, there was a little bit of getting to this.

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We have seen three impact flashes so far.

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I saw two, and Jeremy has seen one.

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Undoubtedly, well, Jeremy's called two, so that's four total.

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Undoubtedly, click impact flashes.

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So it was not suddenly lit off a particular from the thrusters or the purge tanks.

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It was definitely a pack flash on the moon.

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And Jeremy just saw another one.

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Go ahead with your next question.

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Amazing news.

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I literally just looked over at the sur and they were jumping up and down literally.

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If you could describe where on the moon you saw them please.

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So they've all been either on or in itself at the equator and on the Earth side of the

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moon.

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Stand by.

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All right, so Jeremy has seen them kind of on and south of the equator kind of spread

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across the moon and mine were both south of the equator and just a little bit left of center of the moon.

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Incredible news, Reed. And reminder, we have citizen scientists here on Earth looking for impact flashes.

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So hearing you saw them on the near side means that people saw them too.

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This is Artemis Mission Control, we have regained that signal so the team here in Mission Control

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was able to call back up to the crew on board the Orion spacecraft as they continue their

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lunar flyby. Specifically, they are now in that eclipse period. So the science team here in

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Mission Control was able to ask some questions about some of the situational reports they

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were providing during that loss of signal. Specifically, they were interested in some

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of the meteors that they mentioned seen and those impact flashes and they did provide

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confirmation that they did see at least four impact flashes during that last

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event.

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In Tigray I hear you loud and clear. How do you hear me?

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Okay, we got you loud and clear. One of the other things I wanted to describe which was

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surprising to me but the entire moon is lit up. It's blowing behind the

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the entire moon. I thought it would look dark against the black sky or deep space, but

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the sun is lighting up the entire limb of the moon. You can see the entire perimeter

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of it and even now with the sun far behind the moon, you can see, you can see little

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bits of topography around the entire limb, just bumps as you go around it. And there

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about the glow around the moon, what your eyes adjust is easily 10 widths or diameters

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of the sun around the entire moon.

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Incredible to hear, Jeremy. Were you able to actually pick out any discrete features

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on the lunar surface and if so how do they look different than when you observe them in solar illumination?

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We really haven't been able to identify features on the lunar surface yet.

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We just see the topography on the limb for the Earth Glow.

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So, it's, we're about a quarter moon, wax and quarter moon if you will, from the Earth

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globe perspective and it's just at a very, just the sight angle, I'm just not even going

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to tell what I'm looking at yet in the Earth globe.

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Understood.

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Thanks, Jeremy.

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One other question for you on the solar corona, were you actually able to see any

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structure or color in the corona before most of it disappeared behind the moon?

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Yeah, I didn't pick out any color, but definitely structure. I mean, there were streamers and

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they were not uniform at all. For me, the 5 o'clock position, there was just this constant

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It would change in intensity and diameter, but it was always there, and it was always

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at the five o'clock position.

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I only saw one plume, and it came out of basically the three o'clock position of the sun.

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That was very short lived when I could see the plume.

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Exactly what we were looking for.

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Thanks, Jeremy, and a heads up that we, you know, calculated here on the ground

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about how long you could see the corona for, and we expect it to start to appear again

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in the next 11 minutes.

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Thanks for those amazing descriptions.

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Okay, we're excited to see it all again.

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The integrity Houston, we're following along as well.

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That was outstanding.

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if you haven't already, just reminding you

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to swap positions at the window.

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And that brief LOS we had previously was due

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to a data rate change expected.

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Okay, we copy that, Jenny.

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In Tegrity Science, one more request for you while it's still fresh in your mind, any

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annotations or sketches you want to make of what you're seeing either around the corona

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structures you just mentioned or even on Earth Shine would be so appreciated.

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And if the annotations come in the next block where you're cleaning up your documentation

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That sounds like a good plan to me.

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This is Artemis Mission Control.

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On the bottom right corner of your screen you can see a view of the science officer console here in Mission Control.

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And we've been hearing that communication between the science officer, the orbit one science officer is Kelsey Young,

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and she's been asking questions to the crew, specifically CSA Asherat Jeremy Hansen, based on the observations they've been making during this eclipse period.

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And then in the upper left-hand corner of your screen, you can see a view of the Artemis real-time orbit website,

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which provides updates on the velocity and the distance from Earth and the Moon of the Orion

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spacecraft as it continues to make its way back to Earth. The distance from the Moon will continue

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to increase at this point, so right now Orion and its crew are about 6,300 miles away from the Moon

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and about 251,000 miles away from the Earth.

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Okay, science, we're getting set up for sunrise, the window teams are, Christina is supporting

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and also a Z9, a Windows 1, Jeremy's got the long lens and a Windows 2 and the short lens

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and a Windows 2 and Reid is in the Windows 3 and he has started recordings and is set

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up to see Corona.

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Great set, Rep Victor, that sounds like a good config and we're showing Corona effects

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start to appear on your video camera.

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So in the next few minutes,

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we should start to hear your observations.

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This is Artemis Mission Control.

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We just heard the crew call down to the team here in Houston reporting

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that they have swapped out who is in the windows for their final portion

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of the lunar flyby.

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So Christina Cook is in window one with Jeremy Hansen in window two

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and Reid in window three.

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Reid is focusing on observing corona which is at the solar corona

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which the sun's outermost atmosphere.

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There is about 18 minutes remaining in the Eclipse period.

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Science and peace to integrity.

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I know this observation won't be of any scientific value,

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but I'm really glad we launched on 8th and 1st.

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Because humans probably have not evolved

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to see what we're seeing.

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It's truly hard to describe.

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It is amazing.

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Amazing. Thank you, Victor.

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And just one more logistics note, we have gone as dark as we can in the cabin.

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We have turned the DUs all the way as dim as they can go, so you can't see anything

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on the screen.

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Every bit of light in the cabin affects the view.

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We are definitely seeing the brightness go closer.

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It's definitely brighter on the Earth's shine side,

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and so we expect them to see some corona here soon.

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We copy all, excited for what you see next.

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I'm not sure if we talked much about the star field, but we've got lots of stars.

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You've got the nice glow around the moon, but, you know, right off the, well, we're upside down now,

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but from upside down, four o'clock, right off the edge of the moon, it looks like a planet,

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that line of planets. There's something on the moon down there to the left

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and something right off the limb of the moon to the right, and then something orange.

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It looks orange to the right of that, about half the multimeter.

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So, but anyway, there are definitely stars.

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I think some of those planets that she said we might see were seeing.

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And so, in unreal view, yeah, the moon and the foreground is one

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of the darkest things we see out the window.

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And now it's deep space behind it is kind of dark blue,

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like it looks up from Earth, but we can also still see stars.

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It's a wicked view.

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I'm just doing the best job and I'm not going to try to add on what he's doing.

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It's indescribable.

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No matter how long we look at this, our brains are not processing this image in front of us.

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It is absolutely spectacular, surreal.

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There's no adjectives.

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I'm going to need to invent some new ones to describe what we are looking at out this window.

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This is just absolutely beautiful and inspiring to hear and Victor, we suspect what you're

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seeing is Saturn and Mars, that reddish object is likely Mars.

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Good opportunity to look to the future of where we're going.

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Yeah, we can absolutely see the color of Mars, that's awesome.

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Okay, and from this vantage point, the four o'clock on the Earth Shine side is definitely

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getting brighter, still no coronal structure.

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She's ten copies.

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And we aren't able to distinguish which Mars, but we can clearly see Mars in the earth's

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shine.

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We copy.

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This is Artemis, Mission Control, in Houston, Texas.

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This is Artemis, Mission Control in Houston, Texas.

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We have not seen an impact flash in the last five minutes.

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Sounds unlucky, but you had a pretty strong start, so we'll take it.

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Actually, right after I said that right near the south pole on the terminator, we just saw one.

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Amazing.

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Integrity science, and as you look around our solar system neighborhood, you should

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see Saturn setting behind the moon right now.

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We do.

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We've been watching a track close to the horizon, and it's right tangential to the

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at this moment.

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This is Artemis Mission Control in Houston, Texas.

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We are currently five days, two hours and 44 minutes

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into the Artemis II mission and we have about 11 minutes remaining in the eclipse

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as the at the latter half of the lunar flyby that the Artemis II crew is experiencing

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on board the Orion spacecraft.

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We've received several different call downs from the crew and questions

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up from the science officer here in Mission Control.

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One of the things that they said that they were able to see is Mars off in the distance

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and then the science team also confirmed that they should be seeing Saturn setting behind the moon.

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They've also acknowledged seeing several different impact flashes,

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and these are flashes of lights from meteorites striking at the surface of the moon.

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They've also mentioned the solar corona, which is the sun's outermost atmosphere.

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Here in Michigan Control Houston, the orbit 1 and orbit 2 teams have officially completed their handover.

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So the Orbit 2 team is now leading here in Michigan Troll,

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and that is being led by Flight Director Diane Daly,

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and the CAPCOM here in Michigan Troll will be Tess Caswell.

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And you can see there on your screen

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on the right-hand side is the Flight Director Consul,

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and Diane Daly is in the far right of that screen,

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and Tess Caswell, the CAPCOM or Capsule Communicator,

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is in the far left hand of that screen.

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Okay, the light is continuing to grow in intensity, about the four o'clock position on the Earth

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That's showing slide.

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Standard has set.

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Mars is tracking towards the moon.

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Sir.

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Integrity science.

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We copy and we're starting to see it on the vehicle stream.

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Looking for attendee coronal observations

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you can share with us.

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This is Artemis, Mission Control.

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That view you're seeing on your screen is coming

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from the solar array wing cameras outside

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of the Orion spacecraft.

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And you can see the light starting to come into view

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as the solar eclipse period is starting to end.

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I think we still know the wrong structure at this time.

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Just continue to grow in intensity.

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Copy, Victor.

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And reminder, you should, you still should have several minutes

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before the eclipse classes need to go on.

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I mean, we can send you up a reminder when you're getting close

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to take your eyes away from the D5 viewfinder,

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but you should be good for several more minutes.

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Copy. Thank you. And yes, please sit at the reminder. Thank you.

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Okay. We all think we're starting to see something. I believe the most popular term

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is baby hair. The light, it grows in intensity in the horizon on this side that comes very

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distinct. You can still see earth shine even though the sun's brightness is definitely

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growing in intensity.

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Well, the description, Victor, I'm sure as the next couple minutes progress, more of

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those structures will continue to pop out.

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This is Artemis, Michigan, Troll in Houston, Texas.

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The Artemis II astronauts onboard the Orion spacecraft are currently serving an eclipse.

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And to the crew onboard the spacecraft, the eclipse looks much like a total solar eclipse

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here on Earth, except the moon is much larger compared to the sun, unlike a terrestrial

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solar eclipse where the moon and the sun appear the same size in the sky.

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We are definitely starting to see structure. That baby hair is rapidly growing out toward

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the 9 o'clock and the 8 o'clock. It's almost as if they were reaching out for Venus or

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If you've ever seen the spotlight off the top of the Luxor at night in Las Vegas, this

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It looks like what that wants to be when it grows up.

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Integrity science.

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Glad to hear you're following your training of.

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Tell it like you see it.

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So far it's pretty symmetrical.

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There are two or three streamers that are growing in intensity and in the magnitude and I slowly

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started to widen and started to spread out across the horizon.

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Pretty amazing view.

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And integrity Houston, great words.

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Reminder for you, we are approaching the brightness level

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at which you should no longer be using the viewfinder

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on the D5.

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Integrity copies, and thanks for the heads up.

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This is Artemis Mission Control.

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I think we're seeing some directionality.

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Some of it is going in different directions because it appears to be moving and recombining

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and recombining as it points in different directions.

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Some of it appears to be going down toward the south pole of the moon, and then coming

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back together and going out towards Venus and the Earth.

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And depending on how I stare at it, it looks like one large structure,

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but then it definitely has a width.

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And then you can see three or four structures inside of it.

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It's like watching a flame.

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It's like looking at a flame and stand by.

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And so it has some inherent movement.

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Now there's a very bright spot.

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There's a very bright spot in the center of it.

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There's a towering light and then there were like two streamers that were going 30 degrees

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out from it and now it is just extremely bright.

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Here's the copydoll.

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And we copied all.

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We wanted to remind you at this point, on the eclipse glasses, should be about time

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for those.

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Thank you for the report. We sure wish we were there with you.

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This is Artemis, Mission Control.

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The eclipse period is coming to an end and we did hear that call-up that the crew now

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has to put on those eclipse glasses to be able to protect their eyes for this final

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portion of the eclipse.

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And these views coming to you from the solar array wing cameras on the Orion spacecraft.

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And if you could give me about 20 new superlatives

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in the mission summary for tomorrow,

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I'll buy the vocabulary out of it.

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Thank you.

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We will solicit input from the team.

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This is Artemis Mission Control.

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There on your screen you can see a live look inside of the SIR

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or the science evaluation room here in Mission Control Houston,

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just down the hallway from the Artemis Flight Control room.

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Integrity Houston, back with you after a data rate change.

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Regarding the SA-3 camera T low caution, no action for you.

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It just got a little cool during the eclipse.

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Okay, we copied it, and if you didn't copy my request for the mission summary tab,

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about 20 new superlatives to help my vocabulary, I would appreciate it.

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We copied it fantastically.

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And integrity science, this is basically wrapping up your fly-by-day observations.

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I can't say enough how much science we've already learned and how much inspiration you've

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provided to our entire team, the lunar science community, and the entire world with what

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you were able to bring today.

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You really brought the moon closer for us today and we cannot say thank you enough.

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And science sign enough and can't wait to talk to you tomorrow morning.

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to the entire NASA science team, you all really turned to when we shifted to launch date to

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April 1st and you got the most incredible package together for us to go do some great science

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and some great truly human experience moments here and we were well prepared and we appreciate

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all of you and this is what we do best when we all come together and work as a team

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Y'all knocked it out of the park.

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Thank you for giving us this opportunity.

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Beautiful words Reed.

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Thanks so much.

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And this is Artemis Mission Control.

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The Lunar Flyby Observation Period is starting to come

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to a close following that eclipse.

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And there on your screen you can see a look

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into the science evaluation room or the SER,

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which is embedded within Mission Control to provide science input.

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And they provided that input throughout the flyby operations today.

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They also have a back room called the science mission operations room

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that processes data, evaluates imagery, and supports rapid analysis.

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And then of course, we have the science officer on console here

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in the Artemis flight control room, which you can see a view there

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on the bottom right-hand corner of your screen.

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The science officer throughout the flyby operations today has been Kelsey Young,

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who is the Artemis Science Flight Operations Lead.

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And then to her left is Angela Garcia, who will be the science officer taking over for orbit 2.

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And for the past seven hours or so, the crew has been going

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through their lunar flyby observation period.

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And now they will wrap up that period and complete some final tasks

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and begin downlinking some of the amazing imagery

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that they've captured throughout the day as well as some

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of the observations that they've recorded.

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And now on your screen,

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you're seeing a live look from the Orion spacecraft

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from those solar array wing cameras.

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The solar eclipse period ended just a few minutes ago

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and during this eclipse towards the end

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of the flyby window, it lasted about an hour

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and it was when the sun was hidden from view behind the

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opposite side of the moon from the perspective

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of the Orion spacecraft and its crew.

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And during that time, the crew saw a mostly dark moon

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and they used the opportunity to analyze the solar corona

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which is the sun's outermost atmosphere while it was visible.

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And then once the sun was completely out of view behind the moon,

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the crew looks for impact flashes,

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which they reported seeing multiple impact flashes.

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And those are flashes of light

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from meteoroids striking the surface of the moon.

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They also looked for dust lofting above the limb or the edge

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of the moon along with some deep space targets,

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including planets.

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And they noticed Mars off to the distance.

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And we also saw Venus on one

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of the solar ray wing cameras early on in the eclipse period.

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The crew also looked at parts of the moon,

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illuminated by earth shine, which is the sunlight reflected

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from the earth when they come

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around toward the moon's near side at the very end

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of that fly-by window.

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Integrity Houston, understand that you are still reflecting upon and consolidating your

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lunar observations.

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your convenience, I have two items related to the upcoming VIP event.

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Go ahead.

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All right.

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First, we wanted to let you know that the message

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for that upcoming event is on board for review at your convenience.

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That's message 3.06.04.

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The second item is that we've seen a couple of video clips in previous events.

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So during the HDPAO setup activity, we're wondering if Jeremy could please confirm

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for us that the TS rate is set to 1300 when you get to step 10.

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Okay, Jenny. Yeah, we're pretty sure we've been in 1300 for all the PAO events. We've

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been tracking that when we swap between the HHP and the D5.

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We copied, Jeremy. Thanks. And for the record, the phenomenal Jenny has gone on to her

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next appointment of the day and you've now got tests with you.

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Hi, I'm sorry, tests, great to have you on board, integrity.

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No worries, happy to be here.

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This is Artemis, Mr. Control, we heard some communication there

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between the CAPCOM or Capsule Communicator here

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in Mission Control, which for Urban II is Tess Caswell,

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and the CSA or Canadian Space Agency,

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Astra on board the Orion spacecraft, Jeremy Hansen.

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They were discussing an upcoming public affairs event.

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And integrity, three-minute warning

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for the maneuver back to Biastale to Sun.

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The crew on board the Orion spacecraft recently completed their lunar observation period.

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It was an approximately seven-hour period of time

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in which they were focused on several different targets identified

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by the science team here on the ground that they studied

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and prepared for ahead of time.

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And then they also were referencing a lunar targeting package

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that was uplinked about a day ago with those final targets.

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Now they are completing some post-lunar flyby activities.

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So they're working to clean up their observations that they've made

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and also working to downlink some of the photos

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that they've taken throughout the day.

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The science team here on the ground will then work to get

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as much data as they can overnight.

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And then there will be a post fly by conference tomorrow

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after the crew wakes up.

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And that's not a debrief, but a science data collection

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to capture their nuanced experience while they're still

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in the field and the experience is still fresh.

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And then of course there will also be a public affairs

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downlink event later in the day.

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Now that the post, once the post later fly

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by activities are complete and then after that the crew will go

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into some of their final activities for the day.

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They will have a private medical conference or PMC

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with the medical teams here on the ground.

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These are regular sciences or regular conferences that they have

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at the end of every day and then there's also a flight director

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conference that they will have before they go

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into their pre-sleep period during

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which they can complete hygiene activities

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and they will have the chance to eat their dinner

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and complete any other final personal activities for the day

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before they head into their sleep period.

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We're curious if you're ready for us to start the stream a bit early and to test the standpoints.

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Checking.

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And integrity a firm we are go to start the stream

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Okay, he's in the stream has started we checked the TS rates 1300 and audio is true

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So I will give you a voice check now on the mic

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We copy good settings and we've got a good view.

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I sent an audio check down on the handheld mic.

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Did you get it?

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Sorry for the delay, Jeremy.

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We were talking that a bit, but it was a bit broken.

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So please repeat for us.

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Thank you.

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integrity, Houston, we like the scene at your convenience. We'll take a 10 count with Jeremy in frame.

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Okay, copy that. Give us two minutes or one minute and we'll do that.

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Copy.

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Great voice check, and good words, we like the theme.

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And integrity Houston, we are seeing a black cable going right through the middle of the

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seen at your convenience. If you would please move that, P.A. would appreciate it.

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This is Artemis Mission Control.

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We're currently five days, three hours and 21 minutes

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into the Artemis II mission following a lift off

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from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida

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on Wednesday, April 1.

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The crew onboard the Orion spacecraft is currently wrapping

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up their lunar flyby cleanup activities.

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They're making final.

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Next slide, integrity, high priority PAO images

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from the Eclipse on PCT-1 in a so named folder.

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We copy, Christina.

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Thanks.

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And as I asked you about Christina Cook, they're calling

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down to the ground regarding some public affairs imagery

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that was captured during the lunar flyby activities.

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To reference to PCD, that is in reference

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to their portable computing devices,

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which are basically tablets that they're able

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to transfer files and also follow along on processes

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and procedures and their timelines for the day.

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This is Artemis, Mission Control in Houston, Texas.

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Currently on console here in Mission Control is the orbit two team

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of flight controllers being led by Flight Director Diane Daly

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and the CAPCOM or Capsule Communicator who serves

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as the single voice link up to the crew is Tess Caswell.

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The crew onboard the Orion spacecraft recently wrapped

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at their Lunar Flyby Observation Period.

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And now they are completing some cleanup activities

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and transferring some data and files down to the ground,

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following that Lunar Flyby.

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Many of these files will be analyzed

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by the science team overnight in advance

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of a post-Lunar Flyby Conference tomorrow

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once the crew wakes up.

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The crew is also preparing

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for an upcoming Public Affairs Downlink event.

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And then following that downlink,

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They will have a few final activities for the day including a private medical conference

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with their team here on the ground.

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These are standard conferences that happen at the end of every day and they'll also have a private

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conference with the flight director here in Mission Control to go over the vehicle status

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and any other questions or concerns they may have for the remainder of their flight.

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We are currently in Flight Day 6 and we have a splashdown expected on Friday, April 10th.

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That's flashdown expected in about three days, 21 hours, and 49 minutes from now.

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During the lunar flyby, and as part of Artemis II, it marked the first time in more than 50 years that humans were able to observe the moon directly

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and provided a critical opportunity to practice how lunar science will be conducted during future Artemis missions.

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The Moon preserves a near continuous record of solar system history that has been erased

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on Earth and with no atmosphere, weather or plate tectonics, the lunar surface retains

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evidence of ancient impacts, volcanism and solar activity that scientists can study today.

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Studying the Moon helps scientists understand how planets formed and evolved, how the

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Moon influenced Earth's history and how the early sun-shaped conditions across the

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inner solar system.

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The moon also serves as a unique platform for studying the broader universe.

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The science on Artemis is designed around questions best answered by humans working alongside robotic

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systems combining decades of robotic lunar data with real-time human judgment, context

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and adaptability.

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Currently on your screen, you're seeing a look at the Artemis real-time orbit website.

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You can access this website at any time throughout the mission at nasa.gov.

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slash track Artemis provides updates on the velocity as well

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as the distance from Earth and the distance from the moon

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of the Orion spacecraft and its crew.

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The crew currently onboard the Orion spacecraft includes NASA

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astronaut Reed Wiseman who is the commander for the mission,

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NASA astronaut Victor Glover who is the pilot alongside the

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two mission specialists who are Christina Cook and Victor

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and Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency.

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Currently, the Orion spacecraft is about 250,000 miles away from the Earth,

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and that distance now will continue to close down ahead of that splashdown on April 10th.

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And they are now about 8,100 miles away from the moon,

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and that distance will continue to increase as they are now in the return leg of their journey.

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Go ahead and take a deep breath.

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Go ahead and take a deep breath.

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We will put that in work great to be talking to you to

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This is Artemis Mission Control in Houston, Texas.

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We're currently five days, three hours and 37 minutes

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into the Artemis II mission.

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The crew onboard the Orion spacecraft has recently concluded

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their lunar observation period during the lunar flyby.

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As part of that lunar flyby, the Orion spacecraft and its crew made the closest approach to the moon at a distance of 4,067 miles away from the surface at approximately 6 p.m. central time, 7 p.m. eastern time.

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Now, although the Artemis II mission is a new opportunity to study the moon, teams are also conducting other scientific experiments including on the crew themselves.

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Here's a little bit more about the science of the mission.

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Artemis 2 is our return of humans to the moon, flying around the moon on board Orion, but

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along with that we're doing a lot of great science.

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One of the exciting things about the Artemis missions to the moon is that science is actually

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a fundamental pillar of why we explore, why we're going, what we're doing in Artemis.

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I think it's incredibly exciting that not only are we testing the vehicle, but we're

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testing science on board.

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Science where the astronauts are conducting experiments.

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It's riding along with the astronauts.

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We have astronauts looking outside the window and really observing the lunar surface.

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It will help us understand the deep space environment.

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It will help us understand how that environment affects our astronauts, our systems, and life

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in general.

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So deep space is a challenge for us because you have to leave Earth's protective magnetic

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field.

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Here in low Earth orbit, the crew members are protected from some of the harmful

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radiation.

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Going to the moon, they'll no longer be protected, so they'll have a higher radiation

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exposure.

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like Artemis 1, we have so many radiation sensors and detectors that are inside the

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capsule so that we can fully understand and appreciate the radiation environment for protecting

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our astronauts.

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In my hand here, I'm holding a tissue chip model.

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This is the exact design that it's going to be flying alongside the astronauts.

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We'll be collecting samples from each of the crew members and we can make these organ

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chips out of the astronauts themselves.

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So every crew member will have their own avatar on board and then upon return we can evaluate

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that deep space radiation environment and what that compares to the astronaut themselves.

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Not only are they going to help change the course of medicine for the astronauts but revolutionizing

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that on Earth as well.

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We're looking at sleep, we're looking at team dynamics, we're looking at how you

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interact with the environment.

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We're also looking at the immune system.

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So what are the biomarkers?

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We're using saliva as a method to study hormones and different things in your body that may

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change during a mission like this.

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And then finally, how do we function after microgravity, you know, being close to the

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moon then returning to Earth?

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Which will ultimately help us achieve our goal of getting humans to Mars.

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And then on top of that, we have an opportunity to look at the moon from deep space on

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the far side for the first time in over 50 years.

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Human eyeballs and brains back around the moon is going to unlock a new generation of lunar science

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discovery. The human eyeball is capable of taking in so much data in just a split second. They'll be

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able to tackle impact history, volcanic history. They'll be able to look at how the Albedo or

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kind of the shade and hue of the moon and the color of the moon can tell us something about

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how that terrain evolved over time. We're integrating science in ways that have never

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been integrated into human exploration before. We have a front room mission control flight controller

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position called the science officer. We have a brand new science back room where it's basically our

09:19:41.720 --> 09:19:47.160
brain trust of lunar scientists and geologists supporting the crews of the future and Artemis II

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will allow us to really test how this works so that future missions are really set up for success.

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We'll also be deploying some CubeSats, they're small shoebox size spacecraft of their own.

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They're each provided by another country, one of our partners, as they conduct their research

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they'll complement what we are doing at the Moon with Orion.

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It is so incredibly exciting to be a part of this mission. It has been, you know,

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really one of the privileges of a lifetime. I can see the work I'm doing,

09:20:16.360 --> 09:20:21.000
benefit crew members right now, and benefit the crew members and the teacher. So it's

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incredibly exciting and it's very rewarding. As this rocket launches humanity off of the

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the Earth, we'll be setting the stage through our science to prepare humanity to leave Earth

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and explore the solar system.

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And as part of that we are going to inhibit cabin leak detection, the edge key, manual

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response is still available.

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thumbs up.

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This

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Artemis Mission Control, again we're hearing some communication between the ground here

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and the Artemis Flight Control Room in Houston, Texas, specifically the Capcom or capsule communicator

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who for Orbit 2 is Tess Caswell and the crew onboard the Orion spacecraft,

09:21:34.400 --> 09:21:37.920
that spacecraft named integrity by its crew.

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They are preparing for an upcoming public affairs event so they are discussing the camera views

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which we will see here shortly.

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there on your screen on the left hand side you can see the Artemis real-time orbit website

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or ERO.

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The Artemis real-time orbit website there on the left hand side of your screen provides

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updates on the velocity of the Orion spacecraft during its journey around the moon.

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Following a lunar flyby earlier today, which concluded about an hour ago,

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the crew has been conducting some cleanup tasks.

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So they've been transferring some of their documentation, their photos and data

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that they captured during the flyby to the ground to be evaluated by the science team.

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And of course, some of that imagery will also be evaluated by the public affairs team here

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and NASA and then shared with the world once it's available.

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The crew will also have a post-linear fly-by conference

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with the science team tomorrow following their sleep period

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to go over some of their observations while it's still fresh

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and at the top of their mind.

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On the bottom right-hand corner of your screen,

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you can see a look into the Artemis Flight Control Room here

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and Mission Control Houston, specifically the Flight Director

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Console and the CAPCOM or Capsule Communicator Console.

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The flight director currently on console for orbit two is Diane Daly.

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And throughout the Artemis II mission, there are three shifts or orbits of flight controllers

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who provide 24-7 coverage and support to the Artemis II crew

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and the Orion spacecraft and its systems during its journey around the moon.

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We are expecting a splashdown on Friday, April 10th.

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That splashdown will take place in about three days, 21 hours

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in 33 minutes.

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During the lunar flyby that took place earlier today, Orion, again, that spacecraft named

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integrity by its crew past approximately 4,000 to 6,000 miles from the moon and provided the crew

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with a full disc view of the lunar surface. And from that higher vantage point, much farther

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than Apollo's lunar orbits, on average, the astronauts were able to observe both poles

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and large-scale geological features in a single view. And there on your screen,

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You're currently seeing a live look inside the cabin of the Orion spacecraft integrity Houston

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We are three minutes out from an on-time start and we have adjusted the fan speed. We'll take a thumbs up if you're happy with it

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Copy thumbs up

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Parallel thumbs up

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And there on your screen, you can see all of the Artemis II crew members,

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CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen just floated out of view behind the camera,

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but you can still see NASA astronaut Reed Wiseman, NASA astronaut Christina Cook,

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and NASA astronaut Victor Glover as they prepare for an upcoming public affairs downlink event,

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which is scheduled to take place in just a couple of minutes from now.

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And there floating back onto the screen is CSA

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or Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen.

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He is making himself comfy on some of the ox

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or Orion crew survival system suits that have been stowed

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for the outbound and now return journey.

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Shortly after the completion of these couple of public affairs downlink events, the crew

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will begin winding down for their day and they will have the opportunity to eat dinner.

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Some of the items on their menu today for dinner include chicken with corn and black

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beans, sweet and sour pork, rice peel off, spicy green beans, citrus fruit salad, and

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maple cream cookies.

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All of the.

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And now we will go ahead and stand by for the public affairs event beginning in just

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Just about a minute.

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Integrity Houston, no action for the DU-1 caution, we're taking a look.

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Integrity, this is Houston, are you ready for the event?

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Hello Houston integrity is ready for the event administrator Isaacman this is mission control

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Houston please call integrity for a voice check integrity Jared Isaacman com check

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Administrator Isaacman, we've got you loud and clear, sir.

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How us?

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I've got you loud and clear.

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Artemis II crew, we have a very special guest

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who wanted to be the first person to greet you

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after your return from the far side of the moon.

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Reed, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy,

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it's my honor to introduce the President

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of the United States of America, President Donald

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J. Trump.

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Over to you, sir.

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Well, thank you very much, Jared.

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And you are doing a fantastic job.

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and hello, very special hello to Artemis too.

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Today you've made history and made all America

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really proud, incredibly proud.

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We have a lot of things to be proud of lately,

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but this is, there's nothing like what you're doing

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circling around the moon for the first time

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in more than a half a century

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and breaking the all-time record

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for the farthest distance from planet Earth.

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Humans have really never seen anything

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quite like what you're doing in a manned spacecraft.

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It's really special.

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I want to personally salute and congratulate Commander Reed

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Weissman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina

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Koch, and Jeremy Hansen.

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And I also want to thank the entire amazing team at NASA,

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headed by Jared, who's a very special guy, by the way.

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And you all made this day possible.

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And you've really inspired the entire world, really.

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Everybody's watching.

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I find it incredible.

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I just watched you go to the back of the moon

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and people haven't been there in a long time, we can say,

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but it's gonna be more and more prevalent

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because we're gonna be doing a lot of traveling

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and then you're gonna ultimately do

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the whole big trip to Mars

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and that's gonna be very exciting.

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So you look at, we had no astronaut

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has been to the moon since the days of Apollo program.

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The Apollo program was also very special

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but that was 50 years ago

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and at long last America is back and America is back

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in many ways stronger than ever before

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with the hottest country anywhere in the world.

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The Artemis crew flew in the most powerful rocket

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NASA has ever made, ever launched,

09:31:22.760 --> 09:31:24.940
traveled over a quarter of a million miles,

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broke the distance record set by the legendary Apollo 13,

09:31:29.600 --> 09:31:31.960
and America is a frontier nation

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and the four brave astronauts of Artemis 2 are a modern day.

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You really are modern-day pioneers, all of you, and one of them happens to be a neighbor.

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You know who that is, right?

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You have a special person over there, a neighbor, and we like our neighbor.

09:31:49.100 --> 09:31:55.260
Your mission paves the way for America's return to the lunar surface very soon.

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We're going all out.

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We're doing everything we can, and it's set it up by Jared.

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We'll plant our flag once again, and this time we won't just leave footprints.

09:32:04.380 --> 09:32:10.540
establish a permanent presence on the moon and we'll push on to Mars. That'll be very exciting.

09:32:10.540 --> 09:32:16.380
I'm waiting for that so much. I'd love to be here but maybe we won't quite make it in terms of timing

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but we will be up in the moon and that's going to happen soon. So America will be second to none

09:32:23.820 --> 09:32:28.380
in space and everything else that we're doing and we will continue to lead the

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The whole thing into the stars is an incredible journey into the stars.

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So I just wanted an honor to speak to you and I wanted to congratulate each and every

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one of you and tell me what is the most unforgettable part of this really historic day.

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The whole world is watching and listening.

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Please tell me.

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President, this call is certainly special to all of us, and we really have a lot of faith

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in our Administrator Jared Eisenman, who is with you.

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We appreciate his leadership in NASA and in the international community.

09:33:06.380 --> 09:33:09.540
We are doing great things, and we are proud to be a part of it.

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I have to tell you, as we came around the near side of the moon, seeing all the sights

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that we've seen from Earth for all of our lives, but we're seeing them from a

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different perspective and then we started to get a glimpse of the and we saw

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sites oriental sites that no human has ever seen before not even in Apollo and

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that was amazing for us and then the surprise of the day we just came out of

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an eclipse where the Sun moon and the entire dark moon about that big right

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out the window that we were watching we could see the corona of the Sun and

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then we could see the planet train line up and when it Mars and all of us

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commented how excited we are to watch this nation and this planet become a two planet species.

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That is fantastic. You know I had a decision to make in my first term and the decision is what are

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we going to do with NASA? Are we going to have it be revived or are we going to close it down?

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And I had very little hesitation and it's really great to have somebody like Jared involved

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because he really makes it much easier for me.

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But it was not even a question in my own mind.

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We just, we've spent what we had to do

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and then of course we have Space Force

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and Space Force is very much related to what you're doing.

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And that was my baby.

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I was a very important one and it's turning out,

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it'll turn out to be truly one of the most important,

09:34:34.220 --> 09:34:36.580
I believe decisions I've ever made.

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So we're very proud of Space Force

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and we're very proud of all of you.

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Does anybody else have anything to say?

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A lot of people listening.

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Mr. President, to be here with you speaking about our incredible day today,

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I think one of the biggest highlights was coming back from the far side of the

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moon and having the first glimpses of planet earth again after being out of

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communication for about 45 minutes.

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It really just reminds you what a special place we have and how important

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it is for our nation to, word to lead and not follow in exploring deep space.

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I'd like to ask what was your feeling when you had no communication, zero communication, all of a sudden it was cut off by obviously your very special location.

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What was your feeling when you had no communication, a little bit different perhaps?

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Yes, Mr. President, it was cool.

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I said a little prayer, but then I had to keep rolling.

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I was actually recording scientific observations of the far side of the moon.

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That is actually the time when we were the farther and the closest to the moon.

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And so we were really able to make some of our most detailed observations of the far

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side of the moon up close.

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And so we were busy up here working really hard.

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And I must say it was actually quite nice.

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Did you see a difference, a big difference between the far side of the moon and the near

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side of the moon?

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Was there a difference in feel or difference in look?

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What did you see?

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Well, Mr. President, we certainly did and our side came really set us up well to understand

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what they thought we might see.

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The gravitational pull of the Earth has had a profound effect on the near side of the moon,

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changing all those dark marries, those dark patches of the moon you see from Earth.

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It's very different on the far side.

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While you see some small patches of those Maori in deep craters, it's very much absent

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on that side.

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So that's really neat.

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And while I have the microphone, sir, I just want to thank you on behalf of Canada.

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The space leadership you spoke of from America truly is extraordinary.

09:37:04.300 --> 09:37:09.700
I've said this many times before, a nation that leads like that and then creates and

09:37:09.700 --> 09:37:15.180
sets big goals for humanity that brings other countries along with it is truly incredible.

09:37:15.180 --> 09:37:20.100
And I know that's a very intentional, not a necessary decision, intentional decision

09:37:20.100 --> 09:37:25.980
to lead by example and to allow other countries like Canada to share our gifts and help

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you achieve these mutually beneficial goals like establishing a presence on the moon

09:37:30.780 --> 09:37:32.480
and eventually go into Mars.

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And Canadians are so proud to be a part of this program.

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Well, I have to say, I spoke to a very special person,

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Wayne Gretzky, who I think you know, the great one.

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And I spoke to your prime minister

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and many other friends I have in Canada.

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They are so proud of you.

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And you have a lot of courage.

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I'm not sure if they'd want to do that.

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I'm not even sure if the great one would want to do that,

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to be honest with you, but you have a lot of courage

09:37:58.780 --> 09:38:00.440
doing what you're doing, a lot of bravery

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a lot of genius, but they're very, very proud of you.

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I think we might have gotten cut off. It is a long distance. It's a long way. The reception's

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been great. There's a little bit of about a nine-second delay, but no, I just had a statement

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for, I don't know what you heard, but I was just saying they're very proud of your brilliant

09:39:42.280 --> 09:39:46.560
person from Canada on the ship, and Wayne Gretzky is a great friend of mine, and he's

09:39:46.560 --> 09:39:51.680
very proud of him, and the Prime Minister I spoke to, they're very, very honored

09:39:51.680 --> 09:39:56.880
that you have a courageous person from Canada. You have a lot of courageous people from

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Canada. So it was very nice. I'm not sure if you heard me say that, but it was very nice.

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Yes, Mr. President, we heard that and we do love our Jeremy Hads and we love all our Canadian

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astronauts. Jenny Gibbons, Josh Kutrick. They're just great people and they're such a welcome

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addition to our corps. Great. Well, I really look forward to when we can,

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And I want to look forward to seeing you in the Oval Office.

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I'll ask Jared to bring you over and I'll ask for your autograph, because I don't really

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ask for autographs much, but you deserve that.

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You really are something, everybody's talking about this.

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And I look forward to having you in the Oval Office at the White House, and we will

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celebrate your incredible achievements and triumphs.

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This is big, this is really big stuff.

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The whole world is talking about it.

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And if you have the time, I will certainly find the time.

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I'll be pretty busy also, as you know, but I will absolutely find the time and we'll get

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together and I'm going to be giving you a big salute on behalf of the American people

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and beyond that.

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Thank you for that, Mr. President.

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And when you want us, we will be there.

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And thank you for your leadership.

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you to Jared for his leadership. Really, thank you for taking the time out today to visit NASA.

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It's really special for us, but it's really special for the team on the ground. A whole

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team of people all around the world pulled this off. And we just want to say thank you to all of

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you for this. It is the thrill and honor of a lifetime to have been on this journey. Today

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was amazing, but this three-year journey has been amazing, and it was made possible by the

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American people and the Canadian people. And we're so grateful to you all. Thank you very much.

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Well, thank you very much. And Jared, congratulations. We'll see you soon. And I know that you have

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Mars very much in your mind. So we'll start thinking about that pretty soon, I think.

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And thank you. Congratulations to everybody. I'll see you at the Oval Office.

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Thank you for your time, Mr. President. It's been an honor.

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Thank you very much. Bye.

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Integrity. This is Houston ACR. That concludes the event. Thank you.

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Thank you to all participants.

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Integrity, we are now resuming operational audio communications.

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Integrity Houston, great job on the event, Sister Hebsa.

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We are on track to start the next event on time at 4.15.

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Okay, sounds great.

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We'll be ready.

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This is Artemis Mission Control in Houston, Texas.

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We just had that public affairs event with President Donald Trump

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and the crew on board the Orion spacecraft and coming

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up in about 10 minutes there will be another public affairs

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event, that event taking place at a mission elapsed time

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of five days, four hours and 15 minutes.

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Currently on your screen you're seeing a look

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at the Artemis real-time orbit website

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which provides updates on the velocity as well

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as the distance of the Orion spacecraft

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from both Earth and the moon.

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The Orion spacecraft and its crew, that crew including Reed Wiseman, Victor Glover,

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Christina Cook, and Jeremy Hansen are currently about 250,000 miles away from the Earth

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and that distance is starting to become smaller as they are now on the return leg

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of their journey and they are about 9,300 miles away from the Moon.

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They made their close approach to the Moon.

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Integrity Houston with a question about fan speed.

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We are wondering if this adjusted fan speed is something that you would like to keep going

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forward or if it was just a specific change request for the events this evening.

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Certainly for PAO events, this is an ideal fan speed.

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If you're willing to give us this fan speed for routine habitability, I think we would

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take it and try it for a while.

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And Reid, we are able to support keeping the fan speed in this config, happy to keep it

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here to collect data? Okay, you got four happy astronauts in here. We'll take it. Obviously,

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we'll need to go and exercise. We'll need to bump it up, but I think for clients living,

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this will be great. We copy, and we love seeing those smiles.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Please send integrity for docking cameras.

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Go ahead.

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Just want to make sure we have the configure expecting.

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I have the dual camera bracket is installed, the window shape is closed,

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and the docking camera is stowed in its Alpha-3 storage area.

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That's a good config.

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Thank you.

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And while I've got you, we are three minutes out from an on-time start of the next event.

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This is Artemis Mission Control in Houston, Texas.

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You can see a live look of the Artemis II crew inside the O'Brien spacecraft cabin

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as they prepare for another public affairs downlink event.

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There on your screen is CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen along

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with NASA astronaut Reed Wiseman

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and NASA astronaut Victor Glyver popping up.

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Earlier today the crew completed their lunar fly

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by observation period, during which the Orion spacecraft

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and its crew passed approximately 4,000

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to 6,000 miles from the moon and provided the astronauts

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with a full disc view of the lunar surface.

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And from that higher vantage point, the astronauts were able

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to observe both poles in large scale geological features

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and a single view.

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Towards the tail end of that observation period,

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they also were able to see an eclipse.

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And that eclipse period lasted about an hour

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was when the sun was hidden from view behind the opposite side

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of the moon from the perspective of Orion.

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Since then, the crew has been working to clean up some

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of their observations and transfer some

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of the data and imagery down to the ground to begin processing

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and the science team will take a look at that imagery

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as it comes down ahead of a post lunar Phi by conference tomorrow

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with the crew following their sleep period.

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Now we are standing by for a second public affairs event taking place

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in about a minute.

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Integrity, this is Houston, are you ready for the event?

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event. Houston integrity is ready for the event. Administrator Isaacman, this is mission

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control Houston. Please call integrity for a voice check. Integrity Jared Isaacman,

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come check.

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Administrator Azigman, we've got you loud and clear up here.

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I've got you loud and clear and let's see if we can top that last PAO event.

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That was pretty special.

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So we are going to spend the next 20 minutes doing Q&A from a number of questions that

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have been submitted and we are going to start with one from me.

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You all have spent years preparing for this moment and imagining what it must be like

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when you look down at the moon, at the lunar surface, what has surprised you all that you

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you did not anticipate.

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Administrator, great to chat with you.

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Just something that just shocked me because

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really using imagery and just the three-dimensionality of it.

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You know from your experience of seeing the Earth from space

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how it just seems different.

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And you look out in depth of things.

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And when we were on the far side of the moon looking back at Earth,

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it was just so obvious you had this sphere out in front of you

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of the moon in this three-dimensional.

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You really felt like you weren't in a capsule.

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You'd been transported to the far side of the moon.

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It really just bent your mind. It was an extraordinary human experience. I'm so grateful for it.

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Integrity, Jared, anyone else want to answer that one?

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You know, we had an amazing launch.

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The SLS is quite a powerful rocket and got us into a 1200 by, you know, eventually a 100-mile orbit

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and clearly powered speed and then we did our translator injection and we were going quite fast.

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And so with all of that speed though, it still took us days to get here

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and so the scope of all of the things to a 321-foot tall rocket was amazing.

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It just puts the power required to do this in perspective.

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But then even with all that power, to get to those velocities, it still took us days.

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And the breadth of the distance we had to cover.

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Watching the distance from Earth count up and the distance from the moon count down was one of the most surprising things I've enjoyed.

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Well, as I was trying to formulate an answer, at first, I couldn't do anything because there

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are so many things to choose from.

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I'll try to just narrow it down, but I'm going to go with something we did yesterday, a manual

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pilot test objective where we just basically got to sit at the vehicle.

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It was Jeremy and I this time and just drive around using the rotational hand controller,

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racially just drive it with the stick and how well it handled,

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how tight the control algorithms were, and watching it respond

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when we actually degraded it on purpose by going

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into three degrees of freedom control

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by actually inhibiting some of the jets, which even though we

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have jet redundancy of course for each other

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in these complicated algorithms.

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So it was just amazing to be in a deep space spacecraft

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and just be flying it around by hand.

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The one other thing I'll say is how fast it has gone by.

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I'm not ready to go home.

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I can't believe that something this cramped of quarters can fly by

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and still be fun every single minute.

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And I'll just close out with, I think just scale, Jared,

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is the thing that is just blowing my mind.

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You know, you flew Polaris Dawn to some amazing Apogee numbers

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And on the International Space Station, we're 250 nautical miles up, and that's the most

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beautiful view I think a human could ever experience.

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And we are dealing with numbers that are 250,000 miles.

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And every time mission control points to this vehicle, either at the moon or at Earth,

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it's a way.

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And it reminds me every day that humans have to go, we've got to explore.

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We've got to go further to expand our knowledge, expand our horizons.

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And every time we take another step forward, it makes the world seem a little bit smaller

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and a little bit more manageable and just putting these numbers in perspective it is

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impossible as a human to look at these displays and comprehend them and and but here we are

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and NASA is doing this and international team is doing this and they're doing it very well.

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Excellent words integrity so a certainly a very wild insertion orbit I can imagine

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the contrast between perigee and apogee the scale of the scale of it all the 3d

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seeing the moon come alive and then certainly manual control will every

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every dragon crew for the last five years is very jealous on that okay so we're

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going to we're going to questions here this one you all you the Artemis 2 crew

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inspire all of us but what inspires you

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I think as you get older, your answer to that question changes a lot.

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Certainly when I was a young boy and a young man just dancing an airplane flying overhead

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to me, that really lit a fire in me.

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And then I think when you reach your middle age, it is interesting to watch leadership

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throughout the world kind of change the course of human.

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You can watch that unfold.

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And now that I'm just a little bit over 50, you'll be there soon.

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Now that I'm just a little bit over 50, I mean, it all ties back to just family and you you understand just how much

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you the people that you surround yourself with and that is really every every night when you go to bed. That's really what you end up thinking. At least that's what I end up thinking.

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Thank you. All right. So

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So, here's a question, it's a good one, so for the Artemis III crew, what is the first,

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what is the advice you would pass along for the next astronauts that will go in Orion?

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That's a great question, Jared.

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We've actually been thinking about the Artemis II,

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sorry, the Artemis III crew,

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since we were assigned as the Artemis II crew,

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it was the beginning of how we came up with

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how we wanted to fly this mission,

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how we wanted to buy down risk for the program,

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and values as a crew.

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And so, you know, over the course of these three years,

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we've taken a lot of notes.

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So we've almost got a book to hand them.

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But I think a few practical things,

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you know, just sitting here,

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we've been living for the past six days.

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how you pack is a huge impact to how you will live on the journey.

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And so things like food and your hygiene products.

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And then you know what's going on with our waste management system.

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The technology that we have, practicing that and being familiar with that,

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and being prepared mentally.

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I used it on the space station.

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I used it at home and training.

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But I'll be honest, I wasn't really prepared to have to use it for

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over half the mission, but we adapt and overcome.

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And so I can't wait to talk to that crew.

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I'm glad you said it or else I was.

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We definitely have to fix some of the plumbing.

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OK, this question is from Merriam Webster.

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So wordy one here.

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So you are going to be, well, you've already surpassed

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more than 250,000 miles from Earth

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farther than any human has gone before.

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So what are some words that come to mind

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when you try to wrap your mind around

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in this very unique experience.

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I'll be honest with you, the main word

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because superlatives just don't do it justice is humility.

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We would never be here if it weren't for so many people

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that came before us, starting with Neil Armstrong,

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Catherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn,

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civil rights movement leaders,

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everyone who worked on this spacecraft

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before we got here in our three years of training,

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we went all over the country

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and even to our European and Canadian partners

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to see the people who have put their hands on this hardware,

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the millions of parts from every valve,

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from every valve to this entire thing,

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the people that put on harnesses every day

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to rig it up in the VAB, they all passed the record.

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We definitely didn't pass the record up here alone.

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So this is actually very similar to the question

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the President of the United States

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asked just a brief bit ago.

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But during the quiet moments on your journey

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when you were out of contact with everyone here on Earth,

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what were some of the thoughts that tended

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to occupy your mind most?

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Yeah, as Victor said earlier, when we were on the far side of the moon and out of contact

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with planet Earth, we all knew it and it was a milestone.

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We saw Earth disappear, your set.

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But we were so busy with the science and we have such faith in our vehicle integrity,

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faith in mission control that we were just at complete peace and just doing our job and

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just trying to do a good job to collect as much science data as we could while we were

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on the far side of the moon and we were just giddy in here like of our lives.

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He's being a bit humble but as soon as we went out of calm with planet earth we did

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have maple cookies as we just gathered together for about 30 seconds each one of us had a

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maple cream cookie and then right back into the science.

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But we had to take a moment to honor that time going behind

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Earth.

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And it was a very, I'm sorry, going behind the moon

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and out of touch with Earth.

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And that was a very surreal moment for this crew.

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Copy that.

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Copy good maple cookies on the far side.

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And how has this journey changed?

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How has this journey already changed the way

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you see our home planet and humanity's future among the stars.

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There are so many directions, I think we could go with that.

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And I just, you know, I, I think that there's, you know,

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glow, but I think real impact is local.

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And I, I, is, is to see the earth as an entire thing and look

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at it, this system and to see it all in once, but I'm,

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and I, my daughter's in just the, you know, the things

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that we can impact directly, the people that I can touch,

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that I can speak to, hug and show love and gratitude toward.

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is the thing that I think is going to change in last.

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And you also talked about the future

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that we're going to have in the stars.

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And this mission, I think, we swung for the fence

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and launched on our first try after learning a lot earlier

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this year.

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But I think it set the stage for us

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to go out and continue to swing for the fence.

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Our and our Ryan SLS and the ground systems programs

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to go and get the next one teed up

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so that that crew can knock it off out of the park.

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And so I have huge expectations for what's coming next.

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All right, good words.

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Are you feeling homesick for Earth?

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I will tell you, last to my eyes,

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I did start thinking about getting home.

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It's not a homesickness at all,

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but the first time, probably in three years,

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I let my mind get past the moon and back towards home,

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and I had to catch myself right there.

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You're an operator just like we are,

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and you know that is the place to be when you're up here.

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We gotta look one step ahead.

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What's our next burn?

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How are we setting up our trajectory to get home?

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And we are gonna do that.

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We are locked in, and we are definitely excited

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for the second half of this mission,

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and we are on guard.

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We are the first crew to fly this vehicle.

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We are ready for any contingency in any scenario.

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And we are gonna stay locked in every second

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until we are back on that Navy ship

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and then home reunited with our families.

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And copy that astronauts like being in space.

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That checks out.

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Okay, there's a lot of questions

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from the space photography community.

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How are the pictures going so far?

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Well, we all love getting our hands on cameras and our eyes behind the lens because we're

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just trying to share the incredible things that we're seeing and that's obviously the

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best way we can try to do that.

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I've been into night sky photography for a long time and so the dream come true for

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me.

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I have thought specifically to that community.

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The time lapses I've been trying to get, those are a little tougher because we have

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a very dynamic vehicle.

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It's not like being on ISS where you can get the city lights below and the auroras and

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the spinning stars around the North Star.

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There's a lot going on.

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But what we got to do next matter is out of this world.

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When we viewed that eclipse, that was the one time we all said we literally cannot

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capture this with a camera.

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Anything else?

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I think we've been able to, we've really put our hearts and minds into making sure we understand

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it so that we can bring that home to everyone.

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But having to set the low light features for Earth shine on the moon while it's in a

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clip, that was a new one.

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I had to dig deep in my book for that one.

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And thanks for the iPhone, it's been working great.

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glad to hear that and there are a couple billion people back here on Earth that are extremely

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excited to look at the imagery you've captured up there.

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Okay, well, I want to thank you all, integrity.

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So Reed, Victor, Christina, Jeremy, on behalf of NASA and space-loving people across the

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world. Thank you for taking us with you to the moon. Thank you for, thank you for

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your courage. All of your beautiful words that we've heard. You represent the

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absolute best of us. We're proud of you and we look forward to welcoming you,

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welcoming you back safely to the good earth very soon. Godspeed and go Artemis 2.

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Thank you so much, Administrator. We are just proud to be a part of this team doing our

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work every day and we are supported by a huge world of humans and we are just honored

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to be a part of that. Thank you. We'll see you soon.

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Integrity, this is Houston ACR. That concludes the event. Thank you.

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Thank you to all participants. Integrity, we are now resuming operational audio comm.

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This is Artemis Mission Control in Houston, Texas.

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That second public affairs event with NASA administrator Isaac Mann

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and the crew onboard the Orion spacecraft named integrity now complete

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and they're on your screen.

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You're seeing a live view from the Orion spacecraft specifically

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from the camera on its solar ray wings

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and you can see a crescent Earth there.

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The crew is now officially on the return leg of their journey

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and the earth is now their target with that splashdown targeted for April 10th.

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This is Michigan Control Houston inside the Artemis flight control room as the lunar flyby

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by coverage is coming to a close.

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You can see a final look there of the Orion spacecraft

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and that crescent moon in the distance.

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The Artemis II crew inside the Orion spacecraft named integrity

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lifted off atop the Space Launch System rocket

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on Wednesday, April 1st from NASA's Kennedy Space Center

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in Florida.

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This crew is the first to live and work inside the Orion

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spacecraft and about 25 hours after launch,

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Orion conducted its TLI, or Translator Injection Burn,

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which committed Orion to departing high Earth orbit

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and set us up for today's flyby.

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TLI also served as the spacecraft's deorbit,

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burn as it slingshot Orion around the moon

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and set the crew on its free return trajectory

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with that splashdown slated for Friday, April 10th.

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Last night, on flight day five,

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the crew entered the lunar sphere of influence,

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the point at which the pole of the moon's gravity

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became stronger than the pole of Earth's gravity,

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and the crew will remain in this lunar sphere

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of influence until about 12, 25 p.m. central,

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1.25 p.m. Eastern on April 7th.

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Today, the crew spent the majority of their day

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making science observations and capturing imagery

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as part of the lunar flyby,

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during which Orion and its crew

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passed approximately 4,000 to 6,000 miles from the moon

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and provided the crew with a full disc view

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of the lunar surface.

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From that higher vantage point,

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the crew was able to observe both poles

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and large-scale geologic features in a single view

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and the Artemis II crew also became the first humans

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to directly observe certain far-side regions of the moon

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with unaided eyes.

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During the lunar flyby, the crew also surpassed

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the Apollo 13 distance record and reached

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and made that far this distance from the Earth

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during their mission at a distance of 252,756 miles

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away from Earth.

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Integrity, Houston, with two updates.

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I'm used to going ahead for any, with you, Peter.

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Hey, Victor. Again, awesome job on both of those events. The team down here really enjoyed following along.

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I've got two sync items for you. The first is that, based on ground schedules, we'd like to pull your flight director conference up before your PMC.

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your PMC, so we'll start the Flight Director Conference at the time the PMC is currently

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scheduled.

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And the second item is just following up on the DU1 caution.

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We believe this is a recurrence of what we saw with DU2 earlier in the mission.

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It's back up and it's ready for you to reconfigure your displays as you wish.

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And I see you have that in work.

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Okay, great.

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We would love a main and secondary helpline fan.

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It's really the main one.

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Check in.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Main and secondary dump lines are really the main lines.

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Check in.

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And read back with you on the dump lines.

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The main dump is open and it's proceeding very slowly, but the secondary is