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All right, we're back, this is on Twitch, part six, mission coverage, and then on YouTube,
have uh should be part 24 I think that's what I just wrote 23 all right that's good
discovery all right well the guy 72 month reset what's going on everybody so this should be the
last VODs the nvods for uh for the Artemis 2 mission discovery mission the last time is eight
days 16 hours 43 minutes 47 seconds we're moving into flight day 10 right now crew
wake up should be here coming in soon and right now the crew is targeting a
807 p.m. Eastern time splashdown with entry reentry activities beginning
at around seven o'clock. Entry and entry activities.
All right. Thank you. Fifty-five month resub. Thank you very much.
So yeah, we got Reed Weisman, Victor Glover, Christina Cook, and Jeremy Hansen screaming
back towards earth at
fifty three hundred miles an hour
sixty two thousand five hundred and twenty eight miles from earth or eight
hundred and fifty
can fit eighty five hundred sixty one kilometers an hour hundred thousand
kilometers away they're only going to pick up speed until they hit entry
interface
we're looking at an entry interface speed about twenty four thousand miles an
hour give a take
uh... or about forty thousand kilometers an hour
whole shebang and bang should take about thirteen minutes and in that thirteen
minutes they're going to go from entry interface speeds
all the way down to about twenty mile a twenty mile an hour soft splashdown with
parachutes deployed or about a thirty two kilometer an hour soft splashdown
from there
crews from the navy ship the john p mrtha lpd two six will
be dispatched and go
get out there to save the capsule with rigid
uh... rigid inflatable ships
and will extract the crew and the crew will be uh... helicoptered out on s h
sixties back to the mirtha
cruel
actually when they egress they'll egress into a raft that's out of the
front of or i'm called the front porch
and then they will be extracted by helicopter from there
What does the CL mean on the entry CL?
Uh, hold up, schedule, schedule, schedule.
My brain's getting dried.
I'm not a hundred percent sure on that one.
The way they were describing it, Big Poo, is that the front porch was a raft that they're
going to be in.
Configure for landing?
Yeah, maybe.
Coast and land.
Entry coast and land.
Yeah, probably.
that's entry that yeah see look whatever it is the entry the actual entry
part is on one side of it so EDL right entry descent landing is right there so
this has something I mean it's something to do with re-entry but I'm not a hundred
percent sure what are the gray parts mean on the timeline
Halem, gray parts are off the clock. That is pre-sleep and post-sleep. NASA had a thing
a long time ago with overworking astronauts when they're on orbit, so they purposely build
leeway into the schedule and the astronauts have personal time. That's basically what
that means. That's the gray part. Time where they're off the clock. You don't
You don't need to do anything.
You don't need to do a test.
You don't need to do whatever.
You got to think about it, dude.
You're in a tin can.
That's about nine cubic meters of space.
That's not a lot.
I mean, it's a lot for a ship that's going out
to the moon, but that's not a lot.
Give them their space, right?
I mean, if it was me, I'd just be looking at the window.
It's like, okay, are we done?
Cool, window.
I'm sure that's what's going on.
read definitely
on flight day eight he was like hey guys can you move the solar panel to turn
the solar panel lights off i want to get them looking at the window i want to
get a picture
they're like yeah sure
entry checklist yeah maybe that's actually that's probably what it is
do they get us in the service module just before re-entry yes they do
that's not a trunk
pixel it's not dragon right orion has a service module
very different
actually like using eyes
service module has a lot more powerful thrusters on it than the truck truck
doesn't have any thrusters
uh... so
from about here
this whole ring right here is going to get jettison
and inside of that is the heat shield
the heat shield gets held in that way
the crew module this part is the only part that comes back
that's the part of the spaceship that comes back down
and they uh...
that's what the crew gets extracted out of
rip cold pros
go pros
So yeah, unfortunately, the camera and the solar panel
and the service module that you see here are,
they are going to be short lived.
They have about seven hours.
Actually a little bit more.
Where are the physical connections from the ESM
the crew cabin located. They're on the heat shield. There are four plugs on the heat shield that they
I gotta find the
thing here. Where are you? Yeah, see there are four mechanical connections. So that's where it
physically that's where the module physically connects right there. Those four plugs
That's where the service module is bolted in. That's an explosive bolt housing. It goes into the
heat shield. Don't worry, it's made it through reentry just fine. That's not actually the part
that I'm like, gives me the heebie-jeebies. But yeah, and then Orion has the electrical
and and any other type of connection right here. See this little gap piece? This is a bunch of wires
and pipes and stuff that go around the heat shield because you don't want holes in the heat shield.
That's ill-advised.
That's what this little nubbin is for. See the little nubbin?
Every capsule has stuff like that, dude. Actually, if you want to look,
the the every capsule that has a
heat shield.
Where are you? Yeah, here we go.
On Dragon, they call it the claw. See?
It's actually retractable on Dragon. It unplugged
and then they separate the trunk. See?
But yeah, they all have that.
Dagron.
I forget what Stragon that is.
Either way.
When do the solar panels separate?
The solar panels will separate as one attached piece with the service module.
that's going to happen right here 109 mission elapsed time right there in the
evl phase and evl is entry descent and landing and then from there the capsule
will do a small avoidance maneuver a alex give to 10 memberships six string
what's up is the plan for Artemis 4 to travel to and from the moon in Orion
and use HLS strictly for landing. I don't know. The con-ups are not...
Yeah, the concept of operations aren't really fleshed out yet for that.
An ideal world, would you like to keep the service module on solar panels?
um no no not really this isn't dragon dudes it's not falcon nine this is you
know it's a different type of thing like do we want more expendable or do we
want expendable stuff yeah not really but if all right like okay
say Jack say I have my way right and SLS flies four times a year right
like say is a I was in charge I was John NASA right and I was in charge of everything
you're gonna reuse something you're gonna fly four times a year
just make another one it's not a big deal uh honestly I'll take it for you know low
flight rate favors expendability guys like that's people might not like hearing
that but that's the truth it'd be nice to get it back but you you're not gonna
get parachutes that are strong enough to hold that thing that's the real kicker
that's why you can't that's this is mission control is to here in the
Artemis flight control room we are just a few minutes away from waking
crew up commander Reed Wiseman pilot Victor Glover and mission
Specialists Christina Cook and Jeremy Hansen, the countdown clocks here in mission control
taking backward toward the splashdown and the return home of these four crew members,
just eight hours and 38 minutes from now. We're preparing to wake the crew up in about
six minutes for their final hours on the Orion spacecraft. They have named integrity.
You will be hearing a lot more about integrity. We'll be identifying the key voices you
will be hearing and we're going to run down all of the specifics of timeline,
heat shield, comparisons between Artemis 1 and Artemis 2 as the morning moves
into the afternoon hours. So stay tuned, we are preparing to wake the crew up
in about six minutes with our final wake-up call of the mission. This is
Mission Control Houston.
there's no thank you for all the coverage Alex my pleasure uh yeah guys there's no um there's no
parachute rigging in the world that would be able to hold up 25 tons you'd have to go quite actually
reinventing parachutes and parachutes are already complicated enough that's why they don't do it
it's not really worth it if you're only flying once twice four times a year and if it's like dragon
And then you, you know, it's like Dragon and you know, SpaceX, I guess, envisioned that flying
a lot more, but if it's like that, then you'd, you'd want, you know, to bring your service
module back.
Dragon has an integrated service module and an integrated launch escape system.
It's not that it's impossible.
It's that just, yeah, for the low flight rate, it's just, it's not really worth
it I guess. Hey Dresd, what's going on? Drazing. Drazing. Fucking mission control. You go with
throttle up. Thanks buddy. Whenever he says integrity, I hear he's just tagging. The cap
has got a lot of integrity. The crew's got a lot of integrity man. I'll tell you that.
It's a shame that they aren't streaming now. I enjoyed the last two wakeups.
We're gonna hear the wake up in a second, Kira.
Morning, ah, how are you?
Like the apologies, this is Mission Control, I know, it's so good hearing that.
And it's so good hearing Rob say that again.
It's so good hearing Mission Control and that ISS control, you know, like that's just sweet.
sweet
jeremy hanson said he picked the the wake-up song on the last day he said that
and uh...
he his first song was queen
is under pressure
we featuring it david bowie
what's on he didn't say
so report i've been cutting it out of all the bonds
every one of them get strike immediately when i stop the bond
has to be azi
we'll see
I said the the wake up songs that I uh
nice flavia there you go
yeah crazy train would be appropriate
Canadian national anthem. Oh Canada, we don't cheat at curling. That's the lyrics, right?
Nah, you guys are all right. You guys, you guys take a joke. You're good.
It's actually a good national anthem to be honest. It's not the worst one I've heard.
You can screw off bud.
I only rib on Canadians because I like them.
Look, man, if you're from another country and I'm not giving you a country crap, then
we got a problem.
You know what I'm saying?
What's the worst, Anthony?
Don't know.
Oh sorry there bud. Oh yeah, oh yeah, sorry about that one man
The Italian national anthem is pretty good. Yeah
Don't look up who wrote it though
Like I said, not giving me crap, you got a problem.
I would expect it right back as an American.
If you're not insulting me, we're not friends.
What are you going to do with yourself after this?
I don't know, man.
Even though it's for me, you still give me US inscr- oh, you better believe it, dude.
Alright, so it should be just getting into wake up here momentarily.
Mission control.
Well, I'm not a mission control.
EJ control is eight days, 17 hours on the dot.
We've entered flight day 10.
the last day.
Little fun fact.
you
you
you
you
you
I'm going to start the day, Houston, encourage incorrect battle stick with me, and it's just
I think with all of you all day long.
Amen, Reed.
The McLaren guy has a band?
Oh, yeah, man.
We got it, loud and clear integrity.
Can't wait to see you run to the water.
See you soon.
Good morning.
All right, that's Capcom Tess Caswell there.
Rick Henflings on console for the UDL activities today.
And with that, Integrity's astronauts
are awake for their final hours in space.
The wake-up songs you just heard were played for the crew.
And the first was Run to the Water by Live.
This was the integrity crew's selection
for their final wake-up song of the mission,
followed by the song Free by the Zach Brown band
and a personal message to the crew from Zach Brown himself.
Regenlizement responded to that.
And here in Mission Control,
spacecraft communicator Tess Caswell
responded in kind
as she is preparing along with the uh... orbit three team of flight controllers
to begin a shift handover
to the entry team
i love this stuff
i love it
i can't get enough of this this is too cool man
am i the biggest country fan around no
not really
but also
This view from a solar array wing camera on integrity showing the earth growing
larger and larger in the field of view.
Now just eight hours and 27 minutes until splashdown.
Dude, you can see clouds. Check it out.
You can see the clouds on the Terminator.
Is that McLaren, Zach Brown? No, that is a different Zach Brown.
If you're a Formula One fan, it's not the, it that's not the same Zach Brown.
Okay, that's not the same person.
It might be though.
Have we ever seen Zach Brown and Zach Brown
in the same room?
Hey, six rigs simple didn't.
Welcome to Michigan Troll, you go with throttle up.
Zach did get a jack Daniel's sponsor.
I didn't know Max Verstappen was a country fit, what?
I might have misunderstood here, but didn't Jeremy say he had a song for After Splashdown?
I might have misunderstood, man.
It's been a long week and a half, dude.
Smith, you're killing me.
I don't know, we'll see how much Fuel EJ has in the tanks in about 12 hours.
Hi, I'm New.
Hi, I'm EJ.
how are you
still on the x
you know i talk to everybody in here
well harvey member of the two months
go or miss or miss once again the shift handover is about to begin as the entry
team of flight controllers led by flight director rick henfling
will take over the remainder of this flight heat up the capsule ricky with
the crew now having been awakened they'll have an opportunity to get a
morning meal
review their messages
Send down any questions they have about their procedures, which were extensively reviewed
yesterday, and complete the configuration of the crew cabin, stowing final items and preparing
their flight data files and their personal computing devices with all of their entry
procedures on those tablets.
The next major event is going to be the RTC-3 burn, that's the return trajectory correction
burn number three, that is the final major maneuver of this mission, that is scheduled
to be an eight second firing of the reaction control system thrusters to change the velocity
of integrity by 4.2 feet per second and further fine tune the angle of attack and
trajectory of integrity to hit the sweet spot on the entry corridor over the
Pacific Ocean for entry interface later today. The RTC3 burn is scheduled at
1.53 p.m. Central Time just three hours and ten minutes from now.
So give the five members ships. Thank you. You didn't need to do that. You
Your on more bill with systems are in good shape ready to support entry and splash down
I'm not gonna be able to eat cherry not today. I I'm not
This is this is a tough phase of the mission coming up here
This is this is tough phase tough phase of the mission I yeah, I'm just I'll be over here just sipping coffee
Is this Rob Navias talking? Yes, this is NASA PAO Rob Navias who has the...
He's probably my favorite PAO out of all the public affairs officers that NASA has.
You run out of jerky? Yep, jerky is exhausted. All I have is cough drops.
That's okay. We don't have much longer. That was timed on purpose.
Are you wearing a mag to ensure you didn't miss anything? No.
No, no, I don't use mags binary.
I use contingency wood urinals.
They're outside and they, it's very nice.
They're all natural.
They grow out of the ground.
I go and find a tree behind my shop.
Yeah.
Hey, ZX6, oh, ZX, did I see Commodore 64 there?
64 there. Commodore 64, it's REST. Nice name. Hell yeah. I got a Vic 20 in my basement,
dude. Do you and Titan prefer CW use? Yes. Don't make me do or dash your snacks. I don't
no no i don't need any snacks i'm not going to eat
during this like i'm
look reentry is tough
this is a critical phase in the mission
did this is no joke
i'm not going to be hungry until they're down onto the ground so maybe we'll
use every
breeze probably cooking something a smoke that's going on
mission fell like it's gone by so fast the nsf
broadcast is playing
curbles based on track as they're making your back to earth
those dots is idea smoke to be a hundred percent honest with you that was
him and it was that was a hilarious idea he's like
he asked me the other day when before we did the flame trench last week he's
like a
scurvy music public domain i'm a yes
uh...
it's like yeah man
yeah of course it's
so they're
rick and
plan is
It's too good man.
Brings back some memories, doesn't it, right?
I'm hungry man. Not hungry for food. I'm hungry for another lunar mission. We gotta go to that
moon and we gotta go stomp on it. We gotta go stomp on that sucker dude. I'm hooked. This
is, dude, you know, you often hear about people saying like Apollo inspired an entire
generation, blah blah. Dude, I get it. I totally get it. This is righteous. It's so good. Like,
dude, they didn't even land. They didn't even land this time and I'm still like,
what are you doing next? Oh, oh, hey, hey, Reed, what are you up to? Hey, what are you up to? Oh,
you push that button? What does that button do? You know, like, oh yeah, that's cool. That's
cool. Hey, what are you eating? What are you eating? Is that water? Is that water? What are
what are you doing man? I don't know what it is man this like dude I watched shuttle missions
I watched shuttle missions but this is they say no shuttle mission it's carrying the magic of a
shuttle mission but this is this is a whole nother thing I've never encountered this before
I love it I can't get enough of it we should do it more right
Like we should do it more. I don't know if you guys could tell that the coffee is kicking in. I
Want more I want more. I'm you can call me greedy people could say like
I don't care. Yeah, I don't care. Yeah, I'm sorry like if that sounds mean. I apologize. I'm
This is I'm riding a hire right now and it's unreal
Yeah, we said yeah exactly nickel we watched them just pack up poop yesterday. I don't care that's cool
You know
Everything is cooler in space
You could take a dump and it's cooler in space. I don't care what anybody says that's that's cool man
That's us. That's us going RCS firing
Oh
Dude, that was sick.
Did you see it tick on and off?
That's that pressure system that I was talking to you guys
about yesterday.
Did you see it go?
That was cool.
See?
Dude, look!
You're watching a spacecraft maneuver around in space
with Earth in the background.
That's pretty neat.
That's pretty neat.
How neat is that?
You can tell it's a thruster because of the way it is.
That's pretty neat.
They're changing the attitude of the capsule.
The capsule was being mean, so it needed an attitude adjustment.
Where are we at?
Did...
Yep.
Okay.
So there we go.
Eight hours, or eight days, 17 hours, 14 minutes, 52 seconds.
They entered an attitude reconfiguration that's behind my melon.
They're moving in into an op nav configuration.
See it right there?
That op nav config is designed to use the optical navigation system that's on
board Orion. Orion has a couple of different ways to figure out where it is in space. First
and foremost, you have your inertial measuring units, or IMUs, and you have accelerometers.
That is called an inertial guidance system. If you're a pilot, it's an INS, basically.
It's a spaceflight version of an INS. What that does is it measures, oh, ho, ho,
Oh, look at the thruster light up.
The thruster, yep, did you see it?
It started to get a little hot
because they fired it
and that's really gosh darn cool
and I'm kind of freaking out right now.
That's pretty neat.
You can see it, you can see it starts to light up.
That's pretty good.
Look, look at the rim, the throat of that thruster.
It's starting to get warm because they fired it.
This one is not warm.
one is a different color because it started to light up. That's how they cool. These thrusters
cool themselves from radiation emission. So they basically glow. When they glow, that's them
radiating heat out through light. They use black body radiation to keep themselves cool.
So if the thruster is glowing, it's cooling itself. But you can't make it glow too much.
If it glows too much, it'll melt.
You have an optical navigation system. Yes, they just reconfigured Orion for OpNav.
So, you have your IMUs, the IMUs are inertial guidance, meaning that if I'm here, an inertial
guidance system works like this.
If you stand up, you stand up, you close your eyes, and you take one step to the right.
You know where you are because you took one step to the right.
That's exactly what the inertial guidance system does.
Any time it measures an acceleration or a movement in solar panels moving, the
solar panels moving the saws are moving anytime the INU registers a
rotation or an acceleration it logs that in the computer and it can use that to
figure out where the capsule is right same way as if like I close my eyes
and I take five steps forward I'll have a I'll have a pretty good
understanding of where I am right the second way is star trackers star
Star trackers use infrared and they take pictures of the constellation.
Orion has two redundant star trackers on the top of it.
And those two redundant star trackers take pictures of the constellations and it uses
the constellations to navigate.
The third one is the optical navigation system, or OPNAV for short.
OPNAV is a just, it's just a camera that takes pictures of the stars, right?
It's near infrared.
It's NIR.
It's not full infrared.
It works partially in the visible light spectrum, right?
And what that's doing is just taking pictures of stars.
That camera working, the OpNav system working
with the computers on Orion is a similar control loop
to how like you would use your eyeballs,
the Mark 1 eyeball to drive down the road, right?
When you're driving down the road,
your eyes are looking for things
and out the windows or your car
and you drive based off of where you're looking, right?
Same idea, but with a computer.
It's called a relative navigation system.
OpNav is relative navigation
as opposed to an inertial navigation system.
So there's inertial navigation
and then there's relative navigation.
Relative navigation is StarTrackers and OpNav.
OpNav is really, it's cutting edge stuff
because it's just a camera that's looking for things.
The StarTrackers use infrared, right?
So not LiDAR, but you get the idea.
It kind of is, right?
The Star Tracker is near infrared,
so it's more into the visible light spectrum, right?
So it would be like if Reed was looking out the window
and navigating that way.
That's how OpNav works, relative navigation.
Relative navigation systems were used with the Mars 2020
rover, so with Perseverance.
the sky crane that came down right had a downward facing camera in the visible
light spectrum and they trained the navigation system to look for a flat
spot
around the israel crater
and that's all the camera did it looked at the pictures it looked at the it
looked at what it was getting and the computers picked a flat spot and drop
the rover down on flat ground
that's relative navigation that's real cutting-edge stuff
the other thing is the another thing that uses relative navigation is that's
you might be more familiar with is a tesla
tesla full self-driving
that's relative navigation because they're using cameras in the visible light
spectrum
away mo is more like the star tracker
with a waymo self-driving car uses lidar it uses infrared
to look for things right
teslas use
visible light
that's relative navigation
Now the funny part of that is, is that Tesla's use visible light relative navigation in Dragon,
the spacecraft that SpaceX sends up to the space station does not.
It uses Dragonite, it uses LiDAR to dock to the ISS.
I don't know.
Think of that for what you will.
I think that's kind of funny.
Dead reckoning too.
Yeah, absolutely.
Submarines, airplanes, they all use inertial navigation.
That's how the map on the like on your flight displays or I don't know what's in a submarine
and I don't want to know because if I knew that people would come to my house and be like
what are you doing?
I'd be like, I don't know.
I like things and they'd be like, all right, come here and I'd be like, no, like on a
plane, right?
You'd have your map, the map view.
That's how you, on some planes, that's how it knows where it is because of the
accelerations and movement in every direction. So right now they moved Orion into the op-nav
configuration so the optical sensor can take pictures of things. Could submarines survive
in space? Lord, are you talking about like if we just took like a Virginia-class submarine
and got it up there somehow, you'd have a little bit of a problem. The nuclear reactor,
I'm fairly confident that they use seawater on a two-loop system to keep it cool. Yeah,
you don't have that. So it probably melt from the inside out. Probably, probably a bad idea.
Dude, it would work. I mean, it's airtight. It'd work for a while, and then it wouldn't.
It would get too hot. The whole thing would melt itself from the inside out.
How does he know that? Navy arrest is called the Navy. So, yeah, that's like the difference
between like something that's underwater. It's a little bit of a different ball game.
So like a submarine that's underwater has to deal with external pressure pushing in,
right? And you're also in water. It's cold. The ocean's cold. Okay. It's not, but you get
what I'm trying to say. It is where I'm at. You're doping the ocean right now.
you're pretty sure your tennis balls down there would retract. It's really freaking cold right now.
Source, touched it the other day before I was here. So a submarine has to deal with external
pressure. It's pushing in. The water pressure is pushing in. The hydraulic pressure is pushing
in on the submarine. So you have low pressure in the submarine, one atmosphere, and then you
And you have extremely high pressure outside the submarine.
A spacecraft is the flip side of that.
So a spacecraft has to deal with internal pressure.
You have vacuum outside.
There's nothing out there that's zero PSI.
There's no pressure, no pressure.
And you have to keep the air in.
The submarine is keeping the water out.
The spacecraft keeps the air in.
So a submarine probably could work.
I'd say it would work.
I mean, you're not going anywhere.
The screw on the back isn't getting you anywhere
because there's no water to move it through, right?
You'd need thrusters.
But the real big thing is that you'd need radiators
to cool that nuke on board
or else the thing would just melt from the inside out
because when space, like people say,
space is really cold, right?
That's not exactly,
that's not really the right way to say that.
That's like saying my car gets,
my car's fuel economy is like three feet per kilogram.
It's like, what are you talking about?
Like that makes no sense.
Space is not cold.
It's the absence of heat.
That temperature is just a measurement of heat, right?
It's a measurement of heat energy in things.
There's nothing in space.
There's nothing up there but light and rocks and piss.
Piss.
So there's stuff in space doesn't get cold.
It's nothing.
It's the absence of heat.
nothing there, right? So if you have something that's generating heat on a
spacecraft, like a nuclear reactor or something, you're gonna have to deal with
finding a way to radiate that heat. And I say radiating because you can't
convect up there. There's no air, right? So you can't use like a radiator that
you'd find on a car with an internal combustion engine. You can't do that. So
that's out. You can radiate stuff, but radiation, radiating out basically
has a bunch of you have a bunch of radiator panels that you're circulating
coolant through and the panels glow they they use what's called black body
radiation so they use light to cool things just like the engines you see
the engines have these burn marks on them the a4d engines they have burn marks on
them because these things glow to cool themselves they use light to cool
themselves because that's what you have in space you don't have air you have
light right now the third way is conduction and this is where the submarine
thing really starts to get spicy thanks for the converge on this event no
problem man hey losing thank you for the 25 and then Lord courts with the two
two-month reset that's where so the submarine allergy this is where this
gets a little spicy. So the nuke, it doesn't have radiators, it uses water, so it's
convecting through water, right? So you can't do that in space. You'd need big
radiators, and if you didn't have your radiators, what's left? Conduction.
Conduction is the only way to move heat around, and that means, conduction means
you move it through touching something. So if you're trying to cook
something and you accidentally grab the pan that's hot, yeah, you just
conducted a lot of heat through your hand. And that manifests itself as a
a really bad burn. I've done that many times. I have scars all over my hands from when I
worked in a restaurant. So if the submarine can't radiate heat, our Virginia-class submarine
that we just somehow got up into space, it doesn't have radiators, so you can't radiate
the heat. The cooling system on it is useless because there's no seawater because you're
in space, right? So what's left? Conduction. Conduction is the only thing. So spacecraft
actually, like, space gets, you know, everybody's like, oh, space is cold. No, it's not cold.
You know, if you're on a spaceship, you're conducting heat most likely from the sun.
And if you can't radiate that heat out, and you can't convect it out, what's left?
Conduction. You'll melt from the inside out. The submarine would melt. The nuke
would get way too hot because it has no way to cool it. So guess what? The submarine becomes
your heat sink. That would be bad for everyone on board. Everyone involved would not be having
a good time here. Sounds like a great place for some data centers. All right, all right.
All right, Bellam, I didn't see that coming. That was pretty funny. All right, here's
the thing? Data centers in space aren't the stupidest idea, okay? And let me tell you why.
All right? What do you need to run a data center? Okay? What do you do? Honest, just honest question.
What do you need to run a data center? What does a data center use? What do computers use? You
have to plug them in, right? So what does that plug do? They use power, lots of power, right?
And a data center, anybody that's familiar with this knows that a data center is going to have really, really, really expensive HVAC systems on it.
You've got to keep the data center cool. So that costs more power, right?
So data centers have a really, really tall overhead on the utility side of things.
They're really expensive to run because they suck up a lot of electricity.
Fair. Right? They suck up a ton of electricity.
In space, electricity is free.
No utility bill.
So if you can solve what's called a heat rejection problem in space,
which SpaceX with 10,000 satellites up there, I'm pretty sure they know something about it, right?
Especially with Dragon as well.
Dragon has radiators on it. It's the white part of the trunk.
I'm pretty sure they know something about heat rejection, right?
If you can solve that problem, then you, uh,
you can basically get a data center for that has no utility bill.
That's the play. That's why they're trying to do that.
That's why Elon's trying to do it because you build the data center up
there for computing purposes. There's no power bill.
You have solar panels solar panels work better up there. Remember that Orion
Orion's about the size of an RV
Right its solar panels are can generate up to 13 kilowatts of power now if if you're an EE you're probably like, huh?
Right, but everybody else doesn't know what that means. That's enough to power up a big like a mansion
This thing with those four solar panels is enough to power a mansion probably not like a full 200 amp
like big house but a pretty big house easily like Orion solar panels could easily
power everything in my shop if they're generating up to 13 kilowatts but the
reason why they can is because they're up in space there's no atmosphere in the
way and solar panels work way better up there than they do down here like way
better the problem down here is that gas diffuses light it kind of takes the
staying out of it, so to speak. So solar panels are only getting light that's been filtered
through the atmosphere. That's also the reason why we don't all get a sun tan real quickly
when we go outside, that in the magnetic field. That's important to understand. But
yeah, solar panels work way better up there. So the idea with a data center in space
is that if you can do the heat rejection, which is basically a very scalable thing,
generating this amount of heat you need this amount of radiator right like it's
not if you're building something for it you can make a distributed data center in
space that has no power bill no power bill that's the whole that's the play
that's what SpaceX is trying to do now if people are like I'd say yeah yeah I
get it I'm not the biggest fan of AI I understand it's a place I understand
It's just a tool like, I kind of hated how it's invaded my life pretty much on every
level through no choice of my own, but I still appreciate the technology for sure.
No power bill, but onsite support is a boot.
Well if it's all cloud, if it's all hooked together in a cloud, then you don't have
to worry about that.
There's redundancy built into it.
It's actual cloud storage that's up there, but it's above the clouds.
So that's not the stupidest idea, to be honest with you.
Heat rejection in space is pretty linear
in terms of what's going on, right?
But actually now that I'm thinking about it, it's not.
You're going to need a big radiator.
These new data center satellites
are going to need a gigantic radiator bigger than what
we have.
So yeah, Josh, that's kind of where I'm at.
Merchant cooling is getting bigger in high power computing.
We put the big AI GPU machines in oil now.
That's a good idea.
Oil is a great heat sink, dude.
Yeah, no, that's not the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Solid-size the radiators and the renders.
The solar panels were gigantic spoiled, but the radiator wasn't that big.
But yeah, you're going to need big radiators.
It's not linear. I said that it's this amount of power, this amount of radiator.
But there is an exponential correlation there.
The more power you generate, I believe it's to the square.
So I think the more power you generate, it exponentially goes up.
I'd have to go look at how heat rejection works in space.
It's a nonlinear correlation.
It's square, so it's exponential.
if I'm remembering right like guys I'm not I'm not mad like I gotta get better at math
I'm curious if we can generate power in space and ship it to earth yeah go you could do that
with microwaves yeah sure a targeted a targeted microwave beam could generate could you could
generate power up there and beam it back down we tried doing that in the 70s you guys want
want a quick rabbit hole before the crew gets up and running?
I got a good rabbit hole for you.
There was this project that North America,
Roquewell International proposed in the 1970s.
It's called Starraker.
Little bit of a rabbit hole here.
Starraker was a, OK, this page is not intentionally
left blank, people.
Hello?
All right, fine, don't work, whatever.
So check this out.
These are pictures of Starraker.
Starraker was a gigantic single stage to orbit airplane.
There is comparatively to a 747-100, okay?
So what this thing was designed to do,
it's basically, if you're a plane nerd,
it's the shuttle, the space shuttle's
aft engine section, and the space shuttle's
external tank, right? So think like SLS core almost. It's an SLS core with wings and a cockpit
up front. What this thing is designed to do is fly up into space in one shot. It would
use turbo ramjets with variable geometry ramp intakes. That's what these things are. So
if you're a fan of Concorde guys or an XP 70, there you go. But there's 10 of them.
There's 10 engines.
And what this thing was designed to do, the idea is that you're going to need to launch
up into space a lot, right?
So you need a quick way to get up there and get down.
What Starraker was supposed to do is build solar panel arrays up in high orbit beyond
the Van Allen belts, right?
And then beam the power back down.
This was an idea that the U.S. had in the 70s and surprise, we ended up not doing
it because we suck.
Yeah, this Starraker was designed to build,
Starraker was trying to build solar arrays in space.
This is not a far-fetched idea.
It's been proposed before.
Yeah, Starraker would have been ridiculous.
Yeah, that thing, I tried making it in Kerbal one time.
It's too many parts, but I did get it to work.
It was tough.
But yeah, that would have been really, really cool because like I said, that's basically
an SLS core stage with a payload bay and a cockpit up front with like XB70 engines.
It's like two XB70 fuselages next to each other.
It's really cool.
You needed a lot of power to get this thing to fly.
What this thing would have done is take off like a regular airplane, right?
they had hybrid turbo turbofan turbo ramjets kind of like a kind of like an XB actually it's more
like an SR 71 but this thing would have shot up with the turbo fans up to high altitude right and
then nose dived at the ground. What they the idea there is to get enough airspeed to turn on
the ramjet because you need high intake airspeed to turn on for the ramjet to work like an
SR-71 that's why an SR-71 can go fast because it's it's not a turbojet it's not
a turbofan it's a turbo ramjet so at high speed with the SR-71 they actually
shut the jet engine off and they used a bypass. Fun fact they made that by mistake
they were just trying to keep the jet cool and ended up making a turbo ram
jet and that's why the SR-71 goes so fast. So this thing was gonna go up
with regular jet engines, shut the jet engines off, do a nose dive, turn on the
ramjets and then shoot off up into space. The back end of this, and like I said
when I say this is an SLS core stage, that's pretty much what it is. They have
three shuttle engines right there. That's what was proposed, three RS-25s, and
those things right there, see those two nozzles? Those are AJ-10s. They're
AJ-10190s. The exact same AJ-10 that you're looking at right there.
that's that motor so dude look at that so yeah little bit of a little bit of a
deep dive building solar panels in space to transmit electrical power down with
microwaves not a far-fetched idea it's been proposed many times no one has just
had the money to pull it off there's no there's nothing in physics that says
you can't do that you of course you could do that microwave you could
transmit electricity with microwaves,
like the same thing that you used to cook food.
Like, how do you think you cook the food?
How do you think the heat gets to the food?
Yeah, the reason why that was proposed guys
was as a response to the 1973 oil crisis.
To, you know, they proposed that,
Rockwell International proposed that to President Nixon,
And they said, well, if we're just beaming down solar power,
you don't have to worry about energy dependence at all.
But unfortunately, they said no.
They're like, yeah.
You know all this cool stuff that you guys want to do?
Yeah, let's just not do that.
Let's just not do any of that.
And it's basically been a recurring cycle
generational trauma of NASA getting forced to fight with one hand behind their
back up until now though that's changing now which is fantastic it's changing now
which is great that's great I don't want to be microwaved from space please yeah
you know it's fair here here here's something that could basically be cheat
the laws of thermodynamics. No, I don't want that. No, you're crazy. It's like, okay, I
guess I'll just go go back to making missiles or something. Yeah, you should do that. All
right. Okay, man. Great. How about that space shuttle? How many years to working nuclear
powered spaceships. Well actually Zoro's Jared Isaacman, the administrator of NASA,
the current administrator of NASA, who just buys pizza for everybody that works for NASA,
which is funny. He proposed a, well not proposed, they're working on a project right now,
and keep in mind it's very preliminary, it was proposed three weeks ago. They're working on a
project called SR-1 Freedom. SR-1 Freedom is a nuclear powered electric thruster spaceship.
It's not supposed to have people on board, but it is a technology demonstrator for what could
like what we could have in the future. SR-1 Freedom has a 20 kilowatt nuclear reactor,
like a compact nuclear reactor and that nuclear reactor generates heat and it's using a Brayton cycle to generate power.
That is coupled to the old gateway power and propulsion element. They're repurposing it.
And the idea, so when people say nuclear or electric, I don't want to say it's a TIE fighter but it's a TIE fighter if you're a Star Wars nut.
Yeah. They're using ion engines. So they have a nuclear reactor coupled to some ion engines.
Now, the engines that are on Gateway, the nuclear electric thrusters, they utilize the Hall Effect.
They basically energize, they use the Hall Effect to energize inert gas to create thrust.
They ionize inert gas and that creates thrust. It's a superbly efficient process,
but it doesn't make a lot of thrust. If you have a fan on your desk that's keeping you
cool that makes way more thrust than one of these things but but you don't
need a lot of thrust in space to go somewhere you'll need a lot of thrust
to get up there right and limitation you know like we get to the moon out we go
out to the moon in three days the reason why we have to brute force it
with a big rocket is because the life support systems on the capsule don't
last don't last that long right all the entire Apollo mission architecture was
hampered by the CSM. CSM could only stay up there for 21 days. That's it. Unless you plugged it
into a station or something, it wouldn't, yeah, it doesn't, like Skylab, it doesn't, it wouldn't work.
Right? So SR1 Freedom doesn't make a lot of thrust, but it makes very efficient amounts of thrust.
It makes like one Newton of thrust. Now, for instance, that thing right there makes
90,000 Newtons of thrust. So it's not a lot. These little guys right here have more thrust
than the main propulsion system on SR-1 Freedom. But SR-1 Freedom can keep its engines going
for years with that nuclear power, with the nuclear reactor attached to it, years.
You guys ever seen the expanse? That. That is scheduled to launch in 2028.
Just saying. You want the expanse? That's well minus the minus the dookie parts of the expanse. That's that's how you get it.
Yep, continuous acceleration. Yep, yep
Shouldn't the crew be awake by now albeit they're all awake dude. Yeah, they're they're in there
They're in their post-sleep period, which is basically get ready for the day get ready for work
The engineering has already been done for SR1 freedom. Yeah SR1 freedom is using a lot of leftover
design and engineering concepts from the GMO mission
The GMO mission is surprise a really cool mission that got cancelled because it was too complicated.
GMO was going to be a gigantic nuclear reactor and see what I said about radiators,
there's your radiator. A gigantic nuclear reactor with ion engines behind it, but it was,
this thing was like, the technology wasn't there, it was proposed in the 90s,
And this thing would have needed multiple launches to put this thing in.
You would have had to put this thing together in space, like a mirror, like a space station.
You would have had to put the thing together in space and then couple it up and then make sure that it worked.
So first and foremost, GMO would have been righteous. That would have been a sweet mission.
it got cancelled
now
it's a mixed bag though
you know what jimo got cancelled for
orion
mixed bag
little bittersweet right there
but uh... yeah
jimo
was too
it was not technically feasible for the time it was proposed about 20 years ago
no this isn't six of this is trade-offs okay
trade-offs
this is an engineering stream all right
but you didn't like i on thrusters
paul sister
okay it's important to understand this contextually
What does that mean? If I had to choose between nuclear-electric and nuclear-thermal, I would choose nuclear-thermal, at least for right now.
I would choose nuclear-thermal with a nuclear-electric reaction control system.
Right? But nuclear-thermal would be my main power element.
Because what nuclear-thermal reactors do, guys, like a nuclear-thermal engine, is they flow hydrogen over a nuclear reactor and they use hydrogen to cool it.
and that heated up hydrogen makes a jet and you could basically make a rocket engine using nuclear reactor exhaust in space.
That's what a nuclear thermal rocket is.
But you still at the end of the day, Ponsistor, have a nuclear reactor that's generating electricity.
You could use that with ion RCS. I think that's a much better idea, at least for the interim time.
However, I'm not John P. NASA, okay?
I don't choose. I could just say what I think is right.
right. But if past projects like GMO getting canceled or Star
Raker getting canceled or the X-33 getting canceled or the DCX
getting canceled or Space Station Freedom getting canceled or
Centaur G getting canceled is any indication of how this goes.
I'll take what we can get. I'll take what I'll take what we
can get.
Your big fan of the title John NASA, yeah I'm John P NASA, okay?
As a pilot I'll tell you landing is the hardest part.
With the shuttle, yeah, fingers, the shuttle subsonic flight envelope was not great,
but it's not designed to fly very well in the subsonic regime.
It's designed to fly really well going Mach 10.
The P was ejected into space. Oh, yeah. Okay. So we're John Q NASA. That's right. We ejected John P NASA.
How would you cool nuclear is in space? It's a vacuum. Yeah. Good. Oh, that's a good. That's a good question, dude.
You'd use radiation. So how, okay. So what do we have in space to use to get rid of heat?
of heat. Obviously no air, right? There's no air up there. Can't
convect. So if like there's three like principal types of
thermal transfer guys and if you want to learn more about this
it's just this is more just regular physics, right? So
there's three types of ways to get rid of heat. There's
convection, conduction, and radiation. I talked a little
about this a second ago. Convection is using air or
using a heat sink around you using an ambient heat sink.
So like a submarine or a nuclear powered ship would use
use the ocean as their heat sink.
They dump the heat, the waste heat from the nuclear reactor into the ocean.
Don't worry, it's a double cooling loop, so you're not like, like a nuclear powered ship
doesn't just irradiate everything around it.
They have a cooling loop that exchanges with an open loop system, so they're not
dumping radiation into the ocean, don't worry, it's just waste heat.
It's using convection, right?
So like a car's radiator.
The radiator in your car is a heat exchange.
It's an air to coolant heat exchanger.
That's using convection, right?
The other one is conduction.
Conduction means conduct something by touching it.
If you're watching this on a computer, if you're a super awesome gamer like me, you
built your own rigs, bro.
Now, a heat sink.
A heat sink on a processor with thermal paste.
The thermal paste is your thermal conductor there
and it conducts heat into the heat sink.
And the heat sink uses convection.
That's conduction, right?
So it's cooling stuff by touching them together.
Now, the last one is radiation.
So like I said at the beginning of this,
what do you have in space?
Well, you don't wanna conduct stuff through your spacecraft
because then the spacecraft's gonna melt from the inside out.
Don't want that.
That would be, that would be bad.
We don't want to melt things, especially things with people inside.
Fair? Fair? I think that, fair?
One guy in the back is like, no! I'm like, no, no, no. We don't want to do that.
All right, no. There's people on this. Don't do that.
So you can't, conduction is out. Convection is out the door too.
Because there's no air. You're in the vacuum.
So radiation is how we keep cool up there, right?
What do they do?
Well, like I said, what do we have at our disposal in space?
What do you see on this?
You're obviously not using the service module.
What else do you see in this picture?
P.
You know, you might be able to do that, fingers.
Light, that's right.
Light is shining on this.
You'd use light.
That's how we cool things in space.
We use infrared light, or black body radiation
is what it's called.
That's how we cool things in space.
We run cool through something that radiates light.
It glows.
And when it glows, you're shedding the heat.
It's not an ideal thing.
Convection and conduction are way better,
but you don't have anything else
unless you're willing to melt your spaceship
from the inside out, right?
So we radiate stuff.
Remember, three principal types of heat transfer, right?
Conduction, convection, radiation.
Conduction is touching.
Convection is using air or something around you.
And radiation is using light.
Pretty cool, huh?
So we use light to cool things in space.
Whoever thought of that is way smarter than me.
Yeah, like way smarter than me.
I just, I can tell you how it works.
Like somebody sat there and was like, yes,
we'll use light.
like that. I'm sorry. This is mission control Houston and mission elapsed time of eight days,
17 hours, 51 minutes into the flight of integrity on the Artemis II mission. Hold on Bob.
The astronauts were awakened aboard integrity about an hour ago. They're in their post-sleep
period reviewing morning messages, getting a bite to eat, completing the stowage of items in
in their crew cabin as everything is all set.
The stage is set for their return to Earth this evening
with a splash down to the Pacific off the coast
of San Diego, seven hours and 40 minutes from now.
Here in the flight control room,
known as the White Flight Control Room,
a shift handover has been completed
at the entry team of flight controllers now on duty
led by flight director Rick Henfling.
Ricky heat up the heat shield Ricky trained with this team for more than two years for this day
he will be joined on console by
spacecraft communicator Jackie Mahaffey
Astronaut Stan Love also will be by her side as a second set of eyes as
Integrity barrels home
completing a mission that will have spanned
694,481 miles from launch down
In the shift handover, no significant issues were reported.
The vehicle is in great shape and the weather
at the splashdown zone couldn't be better.
Winds are forecast to be 10 knots at splashdown.
Wave heights less than four feet and the wave periodics
against the capsule as it bobs in the Pacific Ocean,
about 17 seconds.
We are expecting a few broken and scattered clouds
but that is not an issue.
Integrity is coming home through the law of orbital mechanics.
Emma had a $15 Super Chat. EJ heads up the ISSer in the process of doing a spacewalk.
A major milestone for the integrity of the astronauts and the flight control team here in Houston.
It will be the RTC-3 burn, that is the return trajectory correction number-3 burn.
3 burn that is scheduled 2 hours and 25 minutes from now at 1.53 p.m. central
time it's an 8 second firing of the reaction control system jets to
essentially fine-tune the path of integrity down the corridor for its
entry into the Earth's atmosphere there will be a change in velocity of
4.2 feet per second that is the last major maneuver of the mission.
The crew will continue to configure the crew cabin.
They'll climb into their launch and entry suits later today and move
into their entry checklist.
So this is a good time for us to run down all of the key milestones and all of the key numbers
that you'll be hearing reported as we move into the final phase of this nine-day mission.
Following the RTC-3 burn and the crew climbing into their launch and entry suits, we will
have NASA Plus coverage joining in a simulcast of our 24-7 YouTube coverage at 5.30 p.m.
Central Times, 6.30 pm Eastern Time. At 6.15 pm, integrity will switch communications
loops and the strings for communication from the deep space network, which it has been
on since the trans-lunar injection burned the day after launch. We will transition
from the deep space network to the tracking and data relay satellite system.
At 6.33 p.m., the crew module and its four astronauts will separate from the European
service module.
And at 6.37 p.m. central time, these are all central time, we will conduct about a 19 second
raise burn.
Now if you think of yourself sitting in a recliner and tilting backward, this raise burn
gently raises the aft end of the vehicle.
It is our last opportunity to dial in a flight path angle before entry interface using the
roll thrusters on the crew module.
This will sweeten the angle of attack, if you will, the orientation of the vehicle as
it enters the Earth's atmosphere with the idea in mind of reducing any excessive heat
stress on the heat shield in this deliberate opportunity that we have selected to try
to mitigate any build-up of excessive heat on the aft end of the vehicle.
Once the raise burn is complete, we will enter the first traces of Earth's atmosphere at
6.53 and 31 seconds p.m. central time.
At that point, we'll be at an altitude of 400,000 feet, traveling 34,882 feet per
second with a range to splash down at 1,701 nautical miles.
That aft though.
Just 24 seconds after entry interface, traveling at that velocity, we will begin a six minute
blackout period due to the ionization, the buildup of plasma around the spacecraft
that will prevent communications and data from being received here in mission control.
that blackout scheduled to begin at 6.53 and 55 seconds p.m. central time about a
six-minute blackout. We'll be carefully monitoring a call from Capcom to the crew
as we exit the blackout. That will be our first communications with the crew
following that six-minute period. The blackout scheduled to end right around
7 p.m. straight up that central time. That'll be six minutes and 25 seconds
after the start of the entry interface.
At that point, we will be at an altitude of 157,406 feet
off the Earth.
Traveling at 13,342 feet per second,
range to splash down at that point,
will be just 147 nautical miles.
There will be a series of roll reversals rolling.
This is computer commanded to roll the vehicle to the left
back to the right to bleed off excess energy, all part of the planned entry profile for integrity
in its four astronauts.
We are expected to go subsonic, meaning we will break the sound barrier over the Pacific
in this trajectory that will carry us from southwest and northeast across the Pacific
ocean we will go subsonic at 702 and 25 seconds p.m. central time at an altitude of 59,000 feet
traveling just 971 feet per second so you can see how much the velocity of integrity will
decelerate based on its speed and the interaction with the earth's friction in the atmosphere.
At that point a series of parachutes will begin to deploy.
The first deployment will be the forward bay cover shoots.
These are a series of three parachutes.
Each parachute approximately 100 feet long.
The first forward bay cover parachute deployment will occur at an altitude of 24,000 feet.
As the spacecraft has descended to a velocity of just 479 feet per second,
and we will be within a mile, one nautical mile of splashdown at that point.
In rapid fire succession then, we'll deploy two drogue parachutes used to slow and stabilize
the crew module during descent to establish the proper conditions for main parachute
deployment that will follow.
A trio of pilot parachutes then deploy, they'll be used to lift and deploy the
main parachutes from the forward bay of the crew module, that's the top portion
of the crew module. And finally, three large main parachutes will deploy. The main shoots
are scheduled to deploy at 7.04 and 44 seconds p.m. central time at an altitude of just 5,400
feet from Splashdown. The velocity for the astronauts aboard integrity at the time of
of splashdown expected to be just 19 miles an hour.
So in just 13 and a half minutes
from the start of entry interface to splashdown,
we will have decelerated from what is expected
to be a peak velocity of some 23,783 miles an hour
to just 19 miles an hour for a gentle splashdown.
It's 40,000 KPH to 32 KPH in 13 minutes
for the metric folks.
Yeah, 3.5 G sustained. That hurts. That's why astronauts are in shape, because that'll hurt you a lot.
Important points that we've been explaining and that we'll be looking for later today is the comparison between the entry for Artemis-1, which was uncrewed, and today's entry for the Artemis-2 astronauts.
On Artemis I, we had an entry range of 3,178 nautical miles and we used what was called
a skip entry profile where we dipped into the atmosphere, then dipped out, and then
dipped it back in.
That lasted about 20 minutes for entry and it induced a higher total heat load on the
vehicle.
Now, on Artemis I, we flew that trajectory and as part of the routine post-flight
inspections and video analysis, there were areas of mechanical char liberation that were observed,
which was not expected. As we explained yesterday, it's worth explaining again today, and we'll do
later today as well. The chemical decomposition of a blade of heat shields is fully expected. The
mechanical liberation of the char was not expected. The chemical decomposition occurs as the
heat shield material heats up and decomposes the process called pyrolysis, which generates
gases during entry. That's bad. The generation rate of that gas is a function of the temperature
of the heat shield material which is known as Avcoat. As the gases are being generated
a layer of char is forming on the surface of the heat shield that char is porous. Now
ideally what you want to have happen is for the gases to escape through the pores in
the char layer faster than new gas is generated. To the char. But on Artemis 1 we found
that the temperature profile experienced by the heat shield
and on the heat shield was such that this was not happening
on areas of the heat shield with less porous afcode.
That resulted in a pressure buildup under the surface
of the char layer.
And when the pressure gets high enough,
the portions of the char layer would liberate
from the heat shield.
That's what we observe.
As a result of all of this, NASA gathered experts
from across the agency and private industry,
including establishing an independent review team to investigate this issue and
after extensive analysis everyone agreed with the conclusion that we should plan
to fly a shorter entry trajectory to avoid a temperature profile conducive to
high rates of gas generation as that Avco chemically decomposes. Now for
Artemis III and beyond we're redesigning the heat shield, different
heat shield and redesigning the manufacturing process such that we will have material that
starts out more porous and will allow a more efficient gas dissipation as that charlayer
forms which will be a critical feature for a longer duration skip entry trajectories
returning from the south pole of the moon.
The bottom line of all of this is today instead of a 3178 nautical mile entry range
We're targeting a 1,701 max entry range to our splashdown zone off the coast of San Diego,
1,701 nautical miles.
We're using a lofted entry profile that's being done through the raise burn.
The duration of the entry is about 14 minutes rather than 20 minutes and that induces a
a much lower heat load on the heat shield to allow it to do its job to maximum efficiency.
Yeah, the charring was not great, but after what I've been hearing from Amit Shatia, who
is the second in charge at NASA, this flight profile will be fine. This creates less paralysis
in the heat shield as Rob was just saying. So, don't get me wrong, it's still a little
bit of a Parker moment, but hey, so something that if you're younger and you want to get
into physics, you want to get into aerospace or anything like that, learning about physics,
and learning that the laws of physics are kind of inalienable, right? They're kind
of a guardrail for how your engineering works, right?
You can use that to your advantage.
Like think about a hockey player, right?
If you're a hockey player,
you could bounce the puck off the wall, right?
If you're playing like left wing, right?
And you cross the blue line, right?
You can bounce the puck off the wall
and bounce it around a defenseman
and then try to score a goal.
You could do that, right?
Provided you're on sides.
Important situational awareness
when you're playing hockey, that's important, right?
You can use the laws of physics like that to your advantage.
Don't think of them as something
that's going to constrict you.
Think of them just as a guardrail, like on a highway.
You can still go down the highway
and you can get to your destination,
but the guardrail's gonna make sure that you don't crash,
right?
You can use the laws of physics like that.
You can use them to your advantage
because they don't change.
It's a constant.
Like gravity is a constant.
You know that gravity is going to work.
It's not going to fail.
right? Important to understand if you're trying to figure out how you want to get something done
with your engineering project, you're trying to figure out parameters for your project.
You can use physics to your advantage, or you can use it to your detriment.
Whatever you want to do, it's easier to use them, it's easier to work with them than against.
You're erecting a large raft called a front porch alongside the...
Oh yeah, the one exception would be helicopters. Helicopters don't care about your physics.
They just...
Discovery, go at throttle up.
They're a repulsive thing that is just mechanically repulsive
and they just, the ground's like, get away from me.
Just get away from me, you freak.
Yeah, helicopters.
Oh, helicopters are black magic.
That's the one exception, yes.
In sequential fashion and alternating fashion
as well for the short ride back
to the deck of the recovery ship, the USS John Murtha.
Now, before we get into all that,
It will take about 15 minutes to power down the vehicle and for
Yeah, see, helicopters are more of that strong arming physics thing.
They're kind of like you beat physics into submission to try and get it to work.
But sometimes physics has other solutions.
Jesus, not, you know what I mean?
If you're a helicopter mechanic, yeah, like the helicopters are very much working.
OK, anybody a NASCAR fan?
remember when Ross Chastain kind of went around on the guardrail and to get into the playoffs
a couple of years ago, helicopters do that but with physics. Yeah, it's kind of like,
you know, the guardrail is there. You ideally don't want to hit it or you could just,
you could just like raw dog it into the guardrail and keep going. That's what a helicopter does
with physics. It's like, hell, melon. Yeah, yeah, that, that's what helicopters do with
physics. They kind of brute force it. Like I said, you can work with it or you can
You can brute force. You can work against them.
Helicopter's working against them.
He'll go into Helo number two.
Victor Glover will be hoisted third,
and will go into Helo one to join Cook.
And Reed Wiseman will be hoisted into Helo two
to join Jeremy Hansen for the ride back to the ship.
The recovery position would put the ship
about 2,000 yards away from the spacecraft,
assuming an on-target splashdown, the small boats will be much closer so that they can
be deployed in rapid fire succession to arrive at the side of integrity to ensure that they
begin the orderly process of erecting the front porch and beginning the process of
opening the hatch.
Gyrocopters are like somebody looked at a cuckoo clock and went, yeah, I'm going
to make that fly yeah that yeah the cuckoo clock cuckoo yeah yeah we can make
that fly we can I'm gonna make that fly through the air the two helicopters back
to the deck of the ship once on the ship but the crew will emerge from the
helos and they'll be brought into the medical bay on the ship for comprehensive
medical exams that will set the stage for them to be flown off the ship at
subsequent hour. We just don't know exactly what that hour will be at this
point. It will depend on the condition of the crew and other factors, but once they
depart the ship they'll be flown by helicopter to the San Diego Naval Air
Station to board a NASA plane to fly back to the Johnson Space Center in
Houston. So that's your snapshot rundown of the activities that lie
ahead. The next major activity just over two hours from now that will be
the RTC3 burn, the return trajectory correction burn number three, the final in the series
of fine-tuning maneuvers to pinpoint integrity's precise path down the middle of the corridor
for entry into the Earth's atmosphere.
You know, Rob wants to do a lot of talking, so guess what guys, we're going to go for
suit donning.
Chat, this is EJSA control.
We are go for step 154, suit donning.
I'll be right back.
And of course, right when I'm going, like Rob stop. Yeah, I'll be back in a sec.
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Okay, suit donning that I spelt wrong is complete.
I don't have a mirror out here. I'm just going to adjust this single. It's terrible. Whatever.
It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. That's check is good. We're good. We're good.
Let's do this.
That John P. NASA?
No, we ejected the P. I told you.
Thank you for the bits, guys, jeez.
All right.
Dennis Doc had 1500 bits.
Just wanted to thank you for the stream.
It's an amazing event.
I learned so much over the week.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
No problem, Dennis.
My pleasure.
I love space.
Space is awesome and it's cool and it makes people happy and I like that and I like
being a part of that. Thank you Cosmic. Gotta get this stupid tie. I look like
Better Call Saul up in here. Okay. Angromatic helicopters beat physics into
submission using jet fuel and torque until physics has had enough. Make sure
remember, had enough and make sure remember who it is. At that point, the
helicopters has the aerodynamic properties of a brick. Yeah, yeah. Like I
said, Angromatic, you're working against the laws of physics with a
helicopter and it if you give physics an in
it will punish you
is that a green screen suit
you don't have our remarks like the crew does i don't
possible sunday booster closure for booster nineteen and
uh... thirty three engine static fire no rest for the wicked baby
i mean there is auto rotation but if you lose the rotors or your swash plate or
any of that assembly you've got a big problem
you believe it's fake
No, you don't. You're just trying to screw with us.
Come on, I've been getting that all week.
Draco, come on now.
Come on, no, you don't.
OK.
This tie is not a clip on.
It's a single Oxford because I suck at tying ties
because I work in my shop all day
and I don't tie ties all the time.
I will rectify that for the Artemis III mission.
Don't worry.
No, bet.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, hell no.
We don't have the, we don't have the pajama pants on, I'm,
dude, why does everybody think I'm Ron Burgundy-ing it right now
and I have like no pants on?
The second I put the suit on,
I've been asked if I have pants on five times.
Really should wear this while working on a car.
No, no.
It's just, you guys don't have pants on,
You're just projecting? Yeah. Thank you, audiophile. Right on.
Draco is the one with no pants on. Yeah, that's right.
Someone's getting a job interview. No, I.
Just believe for terminal phases of this mission.
You know, NASA, NASA's full, full business.
I'm all business here for the for the descent phase.
I was all business for the ascent phase. I was whole my gosh. Look at that earth
That's a sweet earth you might say and all business for the lunar transit
So we got they're using the op-com here
That's why we have such a clear shot and that and they're a lot closer to earth
At least I'm pretty sure they're using op-com
Have to work out 20 push-ups so far for those gains
I kind of look like Ron Burgundy. I'm Ron Burgundy. Hey, chat, where did you get those
clothes at the toilet store? Oh, yes, also. Much better. How are you replicating 3.5G
when the crew re-enters? Do you think there's life out there? Sure. We should go find it.
I don't want to be the ones getting found. Cook or be cooked?
You're the cookin' or you're getting cooked. I don't want to get cooked by an alien race. Let's go find them instead. Hey Smithy, 58 month resub.
Thanks for watching this with me, dude.
Is the commercial air traffic redirected around the area of descent? Yes.
There is a temporary flight restriction or TFR in place and what's called a no-tam and notice to airmen
that basically informs pilots that don't don't fly here, don't fly here, and there's also what's
called a not-mar, and not-mar is a notice to marine traffic which says don't sail here.
Wow, shocking you're gonna hit with Flurford. Yeah Eric, I don't let them occupy my headspace dude.
This is Mission Control Houston, this computer generated visualization based on real time to
telemetry from integrity showing the distance from Earth decreasing with each passing second
now just 54,000 miles from Earth and the distance traveled by integrity's astronauts since they
arrived at the moon earlier this week. We are currently seven hours ten minutes away
from splashdown a high-speed entry back into the Earth's atmosphere awaiting Reed Wiseman,
Victor Glover, Christina Cook and Jeremy Hansen to wrap up a mission that will
have logged from launch to splashdown 694,481 miles.
That of course includes that high earth orbit that carried integrity to an altitude at apogee
of about 43,000 miles above the earth for the first 24 hours of the mission to enable
flight controllers to ring out all of the systems on integrity and collect data that
gave them the confidence to give approval for the translunar injection burn that
sent the crew on its way to the moon and an historic flyby of the lunar surface.
So a little bit on their relative position here.
They're 53,000 miles away from Earth. They were 150,000 miles yesterday.
As they get closer to Earth, as we get closer, they're going to speed up.
The reason why is Earth's gravity, as you get closer, it's going to get stronger
and it's going to try to pull you in. Right? The grab well gets really close
until you hit the ground, it gets more and more intense until you hit the ground.
Right? Or parachute down and splash down, which is what we want.
We don't want what's called a litho break. Litho breaking is a really cool rocket science way
saying hit the ground to stop. Yeah. So Orion, like I said, despite this, this graphic isn't
exactly right, but it's more showing timeline purposes, distant, like speed wise, they're,
they're gonna finish this last leg up really, really quickly. But the distance, space flight,
remember guys, space flight is not about distance, distance has nothing to do with it,
it's speed. That's the number you use to meter how far you can go. For instance,
A spacecraft to get to the moon, you need to be able to accelerate something to 40,000
kilometers an hour, or about 23,000, 23,500, 24,000 miles an hour, to get the speed that
you need to break, not break out of Earth's gravel well, but get your orbit high enough
to get near the moon, right?
That's what's cool about space ships.
distance is not measured in distance. Your range is not measured in distance. It's your speed,
particularly how much you can change your speed. You want to understand the range of where spacecraft
can and can't go, you need to figure out what their change in velocity is. That is the most
important thing. It's called delta v. So delta is a Greek letter in mathematics that's used
for change so delta v change in velocity how fast can you go because how fast can
you how fast you can go denotes where you can go like I said distance really
doesn't have anything to do with it it's how fast you can go the faster you can
go the further you can go and that's why when they hit entry interface they're
going to be going pretty much as fast as they're going to be going pretty
much the same exact speed that they were when the when SLS accelerated them out
to the moon well technically SLS accelerated them to high earth orbit and
then they accelerated out to the moon with Orion but it's grab its physics man
what go up what goes up must come down so that the similar speed that they
used to get out to the moon is the similar speed that's going to come
back but as they get closer to Earth Earth's gravity gonna is gonna pull
them in more simultaneously when they were flying out to the moon they
were slowing down. They were slowing down until they got to a speed where the moon's
gravity would pull them in so they could do a close pass and then the moon's gravity
spit them back out into Earth's grab well and they've been accelerating ever since. And
they're going to keep accelerating until object in motion stays in motion until acted
upon by an outside force, right? This is Newton. Newton's law. Very, very straightforward
stuff. The outside force that's going to act on the vessel is Earth's atmosphere
and they're going to use that to slow down because if the atmosphere wasn't there, they'd
just keep going.
We don't want that.
We want them back down here with us because the mission's over.
You don't want to keep going.
So as they get closer to Earth, they're going to keep accelerating.
Now once again, they said yesterday, like, oh, they're halfway between the Earth and
the Moon.
Well, that's good if you don't really get rocket science, but that's not what
we do here
uh... i'm looking to go a step further with teaching this stuff
distance has nothing to do with it
they could be physically halfway between the earth and the moon
because earth's grab well gets more and more powerful the more you the close
you get to it is going to pull you back in and you're gonna keep accelerating
right because the gravity is going to keep accelerating you right
being halfway
distance wise is like being two-thirds of the way home velocity wise
so it was funny to me as nasa was like oh yeah they're halfway home
and then i got a bunch of questions like wait a minute if they're halfway home
why they how they getting back tomorrow
well they're gonna keep accelerating
and the excel they're gonna keep accelerating as they get further into
the gravel
as they get closer to earth or it's gonna keep trying to pull them in
simultaneously like i said on the way out he was trying to pull them back
so they were decelerating
it's just like if you took a tennis ball and you threw it up in the air
it's gonna go up in the air it's gonna stop for a second it's gonna
come right back down
it's that
but your
the high point in your you know
arc right here is two hundred and fifty thousand miles that way or four
hundred thousand kilometers that way it's the same exact thing
but with a twenty-five times spaceship with four people on board that just
translated the moon
pretty cool right
saved gravity doesn't change like a lot of business don't change is because
you down here versus up there
what goes up must come down
and they are coming down
and as they get closer to earth they're gonna keep accelerating until they hit that atmosphere
outside forces remember
they've been falling back from the moon since flight day six
can i wait for the next mission to see the suit huge thanks for all the work
you've done you know problem that
Imagine being on a space mission like this, looking at Earth, and then seeing, yeah, Xander,
let's focus on the good stuff, huh?
Still waiting for Voyager 1 to come back down.
Well, Voyager 1 hit escape velocity out of the sun.
It's going to come back down, but it ain't coming back down near us.
When you hit escape velocity, all bets are off for what goes up must come down, but that's
getting a little bit more into orbital mechanics.
If you wanted to do that, I could tell you how that all works, but...
Oh, it'll come back down.
It ain't coming back down near us, but it'll come back down eventually.
It's not.
Called up. My pleasure, dude. What was the wake-up song?
It was a song by living and then there was a song by Zach Brown and then there was a message from Zach Brown himself to the crew. Super freak. 27 month reserve. Thank you.
So, fall of fire.
what goes up must come down applies to, you know, like orbiting around a celestial body,
but you can orbit around a star too, or you can orbit around the galactic center.
Earth is orbiting around the sun. The sun is orbiting around the galaxy, right?
Like I said, Voyager's gonna come down somewhere. It ain't coming down near us,
because we hit solar escape velocity with Voyager from Grab Assisting off of Jupiter, I think.
Instead of how the Artemis II astronauts use the moon to slow down and come back,
you can also use a planet's grab well to accelerate and slingshot somewhere else.
You can use it to slow down or you can use it to speed up. Well, slow down or speed up
really isn't the right way to say it. You can use it to change your velocity in a different
direction. You might get some acceleration from it too, but it really depends on what your
escape velocity ejection angle is if we're really going to be technical here.
So,
they grab assisted off of all the gas giants, I think. Something like that.
Hey, Sydney, six-month resub. So, this gets into a thing called orbital eccentricity,
which is one of the six elements that defines orbital characteristics.
Exentricity is basically what the shape of your orbit is.
So there's a suborbital trajectory which means, you know, you're not going fast enough to hit orbit.
Or there is what's called orbital velocity, right?
when you hit orbital velocity
That means you're falling fast enough around the celestial body that you're orbiting enough to not come back down
Orbital velocity and low Earth orbit with a non eccentric orbit with a zero with so an orbit with zero eccentricity
so an orbit like the ISS is
Going fast enough to keep falling around Earth
So you're not gonna come back down anytime soon until the at one less the atmosphere slows you down
But that's another story right. Hey painless day. Welcome to welcome to flight controllers
Appreciate that Memby over on YouTube. Thank you. So, if you're in a circular orbit, right,
you're at orbital velocity, your eccentricity is zero. Right? Because remember, eccentricity is
about defining an orbital shape. Okay? So you perfectly circular orbit. That's zero eccentricity.
So, there's technically below zero eccentricity, which means you're suborbital, which means
you're not in orbit eccentricity is defined from zero to one okay in orbital mechanics
okay zero means your orbit is perfectly circular one means you're at escape velocity in which case
you're gonna go to you're gonna you're gonna fly away you're going fast enough to fall away from
break the gravity well of the celestial body that you're around okay when you hit escape velocity
That doesn't mean you just keep going in that direction.
If you hit Earth's escape velocity and you leave Earth's gravitational sphere of influence,
look at that planet, dude. Guess what? You're in orbit around whatever the Earth's orbiting around now.
So, the Sun. If you break the Sun's gravitational pull, which you need to go really fast to do that.
If you break the Sun's gravitational pull, you are...
You're going to orbit around whatever the sun's orbiting around, so the Galactic Center, basically.
There's a hierarchy here, and you'll keep going until you get to, basically, the universe.
No.
How eccentric is the orbit that that manhole covered?
The manhole covered did not get into orbit.
It obliterated itself before it got out of the atmosphere.
Awesome coverage these past days, looking sharp with the suit.
to a safe splashdown. Yep, yep. So, like I said, what goes up must come down, but Voyager is on
escape velocity, so its eccentricity is one for the solar system, which means really, really fast,
but that doesn't mean it's not orbiting around something else. Now it's orbiting around,
like I said, the galactic center. Ricky Bobby could break Sun's gravitational pull. Yeah,
he wakes up in the morning and he pisses excellence, I agree. So, with orbital eccentricity,
you either have zero eccentricity, which means your orbit is perfectly circular,
or you have beyond zero eccentricity, which means you're elliptical, right?
Artemis 2 is in an elliptical orbit. It's a very highly eccentric orbit.
It's closer to 1 than it is to 0,
with the high point being at lunar altitude and the low point being basically the ground,
right? It's not suborbital, it's pretty close though, because they want to come back down.
contrast that to like the ISS the ISS has an orbit with zero eccentricity it's
almost a perfect circle right but your orbit will keep getting more and more
elliptical until you hit escape velocity until your eccentricity is greater than
one which means you're now you just have eccentricity around whatever bigger
celestial body has more gravitational pull so if you break the moon's orbit
you hit lunar escape velocity which is what they did when they when they did
that free return, now you're in orbit around Earth. You hit Earth escape velocity, now you're
in orbit around the Sun. You get Sun escape velocity, now you're in orbit around the whatever
the Sun's orbiting around. Sun is in orbit around, I believe it's around the Galactic
Center. I'm not that good with this, I can do spacecraft design, but you get the idea.
Yeah, that's orbital eccentricity.
They're in a very eccentric orbit
with the low point being basically the ground
and the high point being the moon.
So because of this, they're going to speed up
as they get closer and closer to Earth.
ChatGPT says you need to be going 550 kilometers a second
to escape the Milky Way, easy.
Yeah, like I said, Insomnia,
the name of the game is speed.
That's why I like spaceships
I like things that go fast. I like things that go fast. I'm basically a big winning machine.
I wake up in the morning and I piss excellence. Your daddy used to love it when I used to win.
No, spacecraft go fast. That's why it's cool because they go really fast. The speed that
Orion is traveling at entry interface makes a rifle bullet look slow. It makes a rifle
cartridge look like it makes a bullet look like a snail. That's cool. I like that. Neon,
what's up dude? Sorry I don't know much about space. I just had a simple question. I'm assuming the whole
rocket won't be coming back. So what happens to it? It burns up in the atmosphere, Neon. That's
what happens. If you ain't first, you're last. That's right. If you ain't first on the moon,
then you're last on the moon, right? It's because of the landing axe, yep.
The neon, most of the rocket is going to, well, everything is going to burn up except for the part with people in it.
It doesn't stay up in space. We put stuff into what's called disposal orbits on purpose,
and when they hit the atmosphere, if they don't have a heat shield, Earth's atmosphere is just going to heat it up until there's nothing left.
it'll vaporize it. Hello from County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. Good evening. How are
you, Cyber? But what are you talking about? I've based my whole life on that. Vaporize.
Blownats. A body can do that. Oh yeah. Wait, I heard it made it to orbit. Yes, it went
too fast for the cameras but
it had the velocity to make orbit
even how thick that manhole cover is it
honestly until someone got eyes on that man cover outdoors minutes all its
speculation
i think it burned up
it's pronounced for me now
rights rights thank you very much for helping the mic pronunciation
very good
bubble wrap is nominal that's right
you think coming back from earth is the scary thing for the team
this is definitely a an important part of the mission lives
like i said
they're gonna hit the atmosphere going almost twenty four thousand miles an
hour
and in thirteen minutes
though the cellar eight from twenty four thousand miles an hour to just
twenty
somebody doesn't let somebody looks at that says yeah that's no big deal
I'm detecting a very, very big fundamental misunderstanding of or respect for the laws of physics.
So for the metric folks, that's 40,000 kilometers an hour to 32 in 13 minutes.
It's no joke, man. It's no joke.
Can't change the laws of physics, Captain.
I can't give it any more Captain. I can't give it any more of the whole thing will blow.
This is mission control Houston. Eight days, eighteen hours, thirty-nine minutes into the
flight of integrity on the Artemis II mission. Here in the flight control room, flight director
Rick Henfling and his team of entry flight controllers on duty, George spacecraft communicator
Jackie Mahaffey. That's the voice you'll hear talking to the crew throughout the course of
the day's activities through entry and through splashdown.
Thanks for the reply. Much appreciated. The board integrity of the astronauts commander Reid Wiseman
pilot Victor Glover and mission specialists Christina Cook and Jeremy Hansen are wrapping up their
post-sleep period, having an opportunity to review their morning mail, getting a bite to
eat, and getting things set up for final cabin stowage of items no longer needed on this
flight prior to the time they move into their entry checklist a few hours from now.
The next major milestone will be one hour 38 minutes from now.
That will be the firing of the reaction control system thrusters on integrity in
what is called the RTC-3 burn, the return trajectory correction number 3 burn, the final
in the series of mid-course correction maneuvers to fine-tune integrity's path so that it
reaches the center of the entry corridor at the orientation we want the vehicle in
as it approaches and enters the Earth's atmosphere at an altitude of 400,000 feet
later today. This will be an 8th second burn to change the velocity of integrity
by 4.2 feet per second. And again will be the final major maneuver of this mission.
After we discard the European service module this evening at 6.33 p.m. central
time a few minutes later we'll conduct a raise burn as it is called. That is
a maneuver using integrity thrusters, about a 19 second burn that will lift the aft end
of the vehicle and provide the final angle of attack that the spacecraft will be traveling
in to reach the splashdown zone, some 1700 and one nautical miles from the point of
entry interface.
In the Pacific Ocean, the USS John P. Murtha is on station, ready to begin recovery operations.
Integrity has splashed down.
The splashdown is scheduled at 7.07 and 7 seconds PM central time, 5.07 PM Pacific time, two
and a half hours before sunset.
From launch to splashdown, Integrity and its four crew members will have traveled 694,481
miles.
Communication with the crew on the voice loop, so we'll pick up considerably in the next short
period of time here as we move out of the post-sleep period into the final hours of
the cabin configuration, the preparations for the return trajectory correction burn,
and then the crew moving into its entry checklist.
All of integrity systems are in excellent shape.
The latest weather forecast from the Space Flight Meteorology Group here at the Johnson
Space Center for the Splashdown Zone southwest of San Diego calls for winds at about 10 knots,
wave heights less than 4 feet, wave periods, that's the periodic raise and subsidence
of the waves against the spacecraft that should be about 17 seconds in duration,
some broken and scattered clouds expected in the splashdown area. The weather is go, the
vehicle is go, and we are set for splashdown six hours, 48 minutes and 50 seconds from
now. This is Mission Control Houston.
signal hand over right there.
The spacecraft make a sonic boom.
Of course, you have to be in the right position though.
there's no there's gonna be nobody out there they they cord not the area you
guys like you know what people near this thing when when it splashes down
Orion is Orion's thrusters use that Mon 25 an MMH fuel that I've been talking
to you guys about for the past couple of days when we've been trying to
figure out what they're talking about by doing the messing with the
oxidizer valves on the service module.
Mon25 is mixed oxides of nitrogen.
It's nitric oxide, nitric, not nitrous.
That'd be cool though.
It's nitric oxide with nitrogen tetroxide mixed together.
And then that's your oxidizer
and your liquid fuel is monomethyl hydrazine.
Hydrazine and Mon25, so M-M-H and N-T-O
are extremely bad for you.
You don't want to egress out and inhale that stuff
because remember the thrusters that Orion uses
to steer through reentry are using that.
And they're, you know, going through reentry is no joke.
It could be a leak.
It happens, it's happened before.
So they don't really want people near this
because if the capsule outgasses
and there's some people watching, you know,
when the capsule comes back down, right?
Like people watching their boats
and the winds going in the wrong direction,
You could breathe that and have a bad day.
That's why they don't want people near the capsule.
Because honestly, I'm sure if they cordoned off the area
and gave a place for people to go,
like to watch it with boats that people probably would.
But once again, the winds change,
you're gonna have a bad day.
The thruster fuel is very, very, very toxic for humans.
So that's why they cordoned off the area.
That's why they're recovering this out at sea,
like way out at sea, so nobody goes near it
because you don't wanna be near this thing
when it comes back down.
That's why the Navy divers who are trained, right,
are gonna get near it.
And one of the first things they're gonna do
is sniff out the capsule.
They're gonna sniff for not with their nose,
with a tool they're going to sniff for hydrazine or NTO.
If there's any residual,
you know, I'm sure there's a contingency
to evac it from the system before the crew gets out,
right?
But that's the first thing you got to make sure that's the first thing when the capsules hits the water and divers get near it.
You got to make sure that there's no, um,
got to make sure that there's no toxic gases around because in the past from an appellate from the,
I believe it was ASTP, the Apollo studies test project.
Capsule came back down how to hydrogen leak and almost killed everybody. Nobody died. Thank God.
But if they were to land on land,
parachute, slow them down enough not to be fatal. We'll bet their splashdown speed is 20 miles an hour.
So 32 kph, that yeah it can land on land. It's a little bit easier on the capsule to land in water,
but if the poop hit the fan or the or didn't in the case of this toilet on this capsule,
yeah it could come down on land. You'd feel it, it's like like think a minor fender bender,
you'd feel it but yeah it'll be alright but it's an important thing to remember
guys you can steer this capsule through re-entry it's not like they commit to
re-entry and reads like here we go right you can steer a capsule through re-entry
by modulating the angle of attack of the heat shield basically you can turn
the heat shield into a wing I have graphics for how this all works here
there we go. You can turn the heat shield into a wing. How they accomplish this is by offsetting
the center of gravity of the capsule to not be aligned with its x-axis. So see, there's the
long axis of the vehicle, the x-axis, and the center of gravity is offset. They put heavy
equipment on one side because there's humans in air on the other side that moves the center
or gravity out of the center line of the capsule.
That means they can use roll control thrusters, the thrusters that I'm telling you about that
they got a sniff for, they can use the roll control thrusters to roll the capsule 180 degrees
or 90 degrees or whatever.
So in this position if they roll the 180 degrees the heat shield would go from being
a wing to being a brake, to being a speed brake.
You can change the angle of attack of the heat shield by rolling the capsule.
So it's not like the capsule is committed to reentry and everybody's just like,
right, they come down where they come down.
They can steer the thing.
You can steer the capsule back to its landing site pretty precisely.
Now once again, Reed and Victor are not going to be doing that.
Orion's computers are going to be doing that.
But if something did go wrong, Reed Wiseman, the commander, could take, he could take
control of the capsule and try to steer the thing through re-entry. That would be a
pucker moment doing that. No one to my knowledge has ever steered a capsule
through re-entry. We did it with the space shuttle though. Fun fact on STS-2, the
second space shuttle mission, as a developmental flight test objective, Joe
Engel and Richard truly flew the shuttle through re-entry manually. It
can be done, but you really don't want to do it. Much easier to do with a
shuttled in a capsule, you know? Hey, Muzo, what's up? Surely had to train for that, of
course. Of course. Training for training to be an astronaut and training for the missions
take a ton of time. That's not, yeah, lots of training. Absolutely. How do the computers
know where they are without comms? Dead reckoning? So in spacecraft, triados, it's not called
dead reckoning. It's called inertial guidance. So they have accelerometers like the same one in your
phone, the same thing as your phone, like when you use to turn, like when you turn it, the screen
knows to turn with it. So it's oriented correctly. It has stuff like that in it to be able to figure
out where it is despite the plasma blackout. There are gyroscopes on board, but they're not
gyros. They're called IMUs, inertial measuring units. Ryan has three inertial measuring units
they're I believe they're over here with the heavy equipment they're on this side of the capsule
over here they have three inertial measuring units and three accelerometers for every direction
so for you know up down left right forward and back the IMUs measure acceleration or the accelerometers
measure acceleration in every direction and the IMUs are looking for rotation like I said
same it's very similar to the thing in your phone when you turn it the screen turns with it
that the phone knows how it's oriented relative to gravity. It's pretty cool.
Can Cooper do a manual re-entry on Mercury? I mean, yeah, but the Mercury capsule was not
nearly steerable like this. They hadn't figured out how to do that just yet.
In fact, if you go, if we go into this, the timeline tracker here that revs up raise a viewer
mind made, we can go into live telemetry and we can take a look at the IMUs.
It's part of the API, if I'm remembering correctly, where are you?
Well, we can see the saw angles.
those are the angles of all the different solar panels
integrity houston
good morning
post-acc
who have been flown
up in manual yeah but we're talking about coming back
it's good to know that
Hey, good morning, Jeremy. We want to let you know that OE2 is privatized, ready to start the conference early or on time at your preference.
And afterwards, we've got a couple of cabin entry config items to sync with you. Give us a call.
Okay, Jackie, how about we take those cabin config items right away and then we'll do the PMC.
So looking at the cabin entry config procedure, step five for the AGA's is no perform based
on your battery activities last night, AGA is in good shape through splashdown.
And in step ten, we would like you to get going early on step ten, in particular, the
For the post-landing LIO, we'd like you to perform the battery check that is in step one of your post-landing LIO mounting and routing procedure.
So that's, uh...
Okay, waiting to get started on the LIO.
Okay, that's flight time.
Alright, that was all we had for you for cabin entry config for now.
So that's Capcom, Jackie Mahaffey right there talking to Reid.
Capcom is the capsule communicator.
Houston speaking of Capcom config. One thing for you, the contingency
URNCF, or CWC, that is, we had a plan
so that we could actually complete that sewage as a get-ahead last night and that's been done.
We did not use a hefty bag, but it is empty and it is filled in two ziplocks inside the JSB.
We feel that it's not unaccessible now and we'd like to keep it in that configuration.
Hi Christina, thanks for the status.
We will confirm that it is a good configuration.
If you're wondering what...
Thank you, ma'am.
If you're wondering what they do with the trash, they put it in trash bags.
Obviously, what else do we need?
Okay, Jackie, we'll head over to private two for the PNC.
Stage out in the Pacific Ocean, west of San Diego.
We are staged about six and a half miles from where we expect.
Megan?
Splash down.
You guys shouldn't pipe the audio test through on the main feed just saying.
That's probably not a good idea.
Toss it out the door. Well, that costs masks because then you'd need an airlock.
So they're using hefty trash bags if you really want to know. They put all the trash in trash bags and they stow it.
And then they'll take the trash out.
So, Jackie Mahaffey is the capsule communicator here, assisted by astronaut Stan Love.
He flew on the space shuttle on the STS-122 mission.
Flight director for entry, descent and landing today is Rick Hempling, and he's being assisted by Judd Freedling.
Judd Freedling is another flight director who is the ascent flight director.
Rick is in charge of the show, so if we go back and look at that shot of...
Go back and look at that shot of Mission Control there.
That's Rick. Over there, Judd's taking a huge bite out of that pizza and now I'm really hungry.
That's Jacima Haffey right there. That's Stan Love. Stan's been into space. Nobody else here has, though.
Afterwards, we've got a couple of cabin entry config.
But Rick's a pilot, if I'm remembering correctly. I don't know about Judd.
He can fly. He can fly. He pilot.
I want pizza.
You ever stared at it? Marvel that it's beauty.
It's genius.
You ever stared at it? Marvel, that it's beauty. It's genius.
Is there anyone in NASA who isn't a massive overachiever?
Uh, no. No, Demuty. And that's not because NASA is some crazy gatekeeping organization.
You really need to be on your game to do this stuff space flight is space flight is tough man
It's tough
The hard game to play how I like to describe space flight to people is it's like playing Tetris
You don't really win. You just get better at it. Like
The more you play the better you get but you don't really win like
Every mission is at best a push like you got your astronauts back
But now you need to go further right now you need to go do another crazy mission after that, right?
So like Artemis, Artemis IV is going to be a landing. It's not going to be a flyby.
So the difficulty level gets higher the further you further you go, like Tetris.
And then, you know, you get as far as you go, right, in a Tetris game and hopefully you don't,
you don't fail, but you know, when you get like five lines in Tetris,
that's like completing a spaceflight mission. You don't, spaceflight is tough.
You don't ever really win, you just get better at it.
Why does this ship look like it's not aiming towards Earth?
Certified, they put the tail of Orion in the service module, they pointed at the sun.
One big reason is to charge the solar panels.
The solar panels are on the back of the ship.
You can see the panel up there.
And this camera is actually on one of the solar panels, too.
They're called solar array wings.
They orient the capsule backwards, so the negative axis, so backwards towards the
sun. That's to charge the panels because they're just coasting right now.
The other thing is that it puts the heat shield between the sun and the crew,
so you know probably a little bit better for radiation. In the past what they did
with Apollo is just they rolled the capsule just to make sure that it didn't
melt. But this, Orion's a 21st century craft so
they point the heat shield for better thermals at the sun because the
heat shield can take a lot of heat because it's a heat shield. So yeah, if it looks like
it's not pointing towards the Earth, yeah, it doesn't need to right now, you're just
coasting. So they point the back of the thing where the engines are. The engines are designed
to get hot. This is mission control Houston. Probably you better point that into the
sun. It is 18 hours, 58 minutes into the flight of integrity on the Artemis-2 mission.
On board the spacecraft as we slowly but surely make our way back to Earth for a splashdown
later this evening, the crew on board, Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover and mission
specialists Christina Cook and Jeremy Hansen are emerging from their post-sleep period.
They are about to begin a private medical conference that has been planned all along
with the flight surgeon here in Mission Control to make sure that there are no
issues associated with their high-speed entry back to Earth later today with
Splashdown scheduled at 7 07 and 7 seconds p.m. Central Time, 5 07 p.m. Pacific
Time, two and a half hours before sunset at the Splashdown site off the coast of
San Diego.
The crew has been in great shape ever since launch and the vehicle is an
excellent condition. It's very quiet here on the flight control room no
issues being worked as we count down toward the next milestone prior to entering the Earth's
atmosphere, that being the return trajectory correction burn, this short 8 second firing
of the reaction control system thrusters to change the velocity of integrity by 4.2
feet per second and slightly adjust its orientation, fine tuning its position to properly enter
the entry corridor across the Pacific Ocean later today. That burn...
Inward.
That burn is scheduled at 1.53 p.m. Central Time, 2.53 p.m. Eastern Time. That will be
We followed by the crew completing the configuration of the crew cabin for entry, stowing final
items and making sure all of their checklists and other down devices that they will need
are in the proper...
Making sure that all of their equipment is within arms length after they splash down
of the Pacific, waiting to be extracted from the vehicle by the recovery personnel that
will be deployed from the USS John Murtha, which is on station out on the Pacific in
the Splashdown area.
The weather forecast for Splashdown is ideal.
Winds just about 10 knots, wave heights less than 4 feet.
Those are very benign conditions that will await integrity's astronauts when they emerge
from the spacecraft, following splashdown, the five crew module upriding system airbags
will be inflated with helium to ensure that the spacecraft remains in an upright and rather
benign situation as it bobs in the Pacific Ocean.
This will expedite the ability of the recovery teams to erect a large raft called the front
porch along the side of integrity prior to the time that the hatch is open and the crew
is extracted from the vehicle that they had been aboard since April 1st for their launch
for their lunar flyby.
The heart of today's entry will begin.
Contagory Houston, some pre-burn SA4U, the Plus X flange heaters are on and prop avionics
are configured.
Okay, we copy, Jackie.
Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency, acknowledging the call from Capcom, Jackie
Mahaffey.
It is her voice that you'll be hearing throughout entry and splashdown, calling all the major
milestones and talking to the crew when required.
The heart of today's activities will begin about five and a half hours from now when
we hand over the communications link from the deep space network to the tracking and
data relay satellite system.
That will come at 6.15 pm central time followed about 18 minutes later when the crew module
separates from the service module.
At that point the crew module will conduct a raise burn as it is called.
That is about a 19 second burn.
That will be the final opportunity to more specifically dial in the flight path angle,
the angle of attack before entry interface that will use the roll thrusters on the command
module, on the crew module.
That angle of attack is particularly critical for this mission so that we are mitigating
any excessive buildup of heat on Orion's heat shield as it enters the Earth's atmosphere.
At the point of peak heating, we are expecting temperatures to rise to about 5,000 degrees
Fahrenheit that will induce an ionization around the spacecraft called a plasma wave.
This is typical for all spacecraft that enter the Earth's atmosphere.
A blackout period of 6 minutes will begin at about 6.53 and 55 seconds p.m. central time.
We'll lose all communications with the crew that will be expected and we'll report that
when we do have a loss of data and communications.
When we emerge from that blackout, right around 7 p.m. central time, straight up,
Jackie Mahaffey, the CAPCOM here in mission control will be calling the crew
they don't call us first to make sure that we hear them and that we have a good communications
link for the final seven minutes of the high speed entry that will culminate with the deployment
of a series of parachutes and finally three main parachutes that will gently allow integrity
to splash down on the Pacific at a velocity of just 19 miles an hour.
The crew is expected to pull about 3.9 Gs during a maximum G loads on them during the
point of entry.
And it's interesting to keep in mind that from the point of the start of entry interface
at an altitude of 400,000 feet, some 13.5 minutes before splashdown, the spacecraft
will decelerate from a velocity of some 23,783 miles an hour
to just 19 miles an hour at Splashdown.
So everything is in order.
Abort integrity.
We have a solid spacecraft and a solid go weather forecast
in the Splashdown zone as the weight of the return
Artemis's astronauts from this historic lunar flybide splashdown scheduled six
hours 25 minutes 30 seconds from now this is mission control Houston.
So Rob Navias the public affairs big public affairs officer for NASA there so
people asked like where what are we looking at on the earth that's the
Pacific Ocean. In this view, Australia is right here. China is right here, Japan is right
here, and Russia is right here. You can't really see it though. Yeah, New Zealand is
like right there, and like the blue screen is like right there. So, see Australia is
over there in the graphic. Yeah. They're coming in over here and they're gonna, they're gonna
land off the coast of San Diego. I guess they're not beating Apollo 10 speed record. They're
gonna miss it by about a thousand miles an hour. Still, fast, still the fastest people
alive. Unfortunately, the entire crew of Apollo 10 is no longer with us. They went home.
I'm going to miss the uplink. Oh, don't you worry. I thought of this.
One of my moderators all systems came came through and we have the
Oh, I got the noise don't worry
We also have the spacecraft noise
Sound of the life support system's humming.
We have them as soundbites, yes, but why though, is this sound rules?
We have bubble wrap.
Happy.
Happy.
Oh, what the hell's going on with that clip?
Happy.
Bubble wrap nominal.
I'm going to have to go figure that one out.
Oh, believe me, we're compiling all kinds of new radio communications that I'll be
able to play on demand for future streams.
This one though.
Copy, bubble wrap nominal.
I also have this.
One, five, four.
And then we also have this.
Interity Houston, four is powered, waste tank purged.
Because that's not something you hear from Mission Control every day.
to make them longer if needed. No, that's good for now.
That's your day going. It's going good, base.
We're, uh, crew is just getting into their private medical conferences, which is where
they talk with their doctors, uh, one last time.
Please send a technique of all four bio-battery units are fully charged.
Oh, okay.
Please send copies.
Good news.
Thanks.
Okay.
All the batteries are charged.
I'm not sure which batteries those are referring to.
They might be the camera batteries, but I'm not 100%.
You're gonna be sad when this mission is complete,
but happy to hear the ending of the nasty
background ringing and buzzing.
Also very excited for the next one.
Oh man, I like that dude, that's nice.
How to have the NASA pins.
You need to go watch NASA's channel when they go live.
Watch NASA's Twitch stream.
I gotta get back to work but I wanted to take a minute and say thank you so much for the
amazing coverage.
I learned a lot from you and you have made this incredible mission even more exciting
by generously sharing your knowledge and passion for this.
Oh, yeah, MV I got you.
Pleasure is all on this side of the screen guys.
This is, it warms my heart to see so many people interested in this.
I love this stuff.
It's space, space is life for me.
I love it and I can't get enough of it and I'm just happy I can share this
with you guys. So, yeah, I appreciate it, but I have a sense.
Oh, oh, oh, Mr. Space, I'm in space. You got gifted us up from Brick Crazy Brandon.
He was pretty crazy, but pleasure's all on this side of the screen. I celebrate Space
Flight's entire catalog. What's your favorite Space Flight? I don't know, I guess I kind
of like them all. Oh, oh, oh, Mr. Space, I'm in space.
Are we there yet? No. Do you have a background in this? I'm self-taught, is that you?
Yeah.
Self-taught.
I've been doing this for about 15 years.
I've been streaming for a long time.
And, you know, I just,
I still read white papers about NASA
different things every day.
I never stopped learning about it.
That's the thing about spaceflight.
Dude, you know, this is more for the Twitch audience.
You guys will understand this.
And not that YouTube won't, but just, look.
I played, I got popular on Twitch
by playing video games, by playing KSP mostly.
and using KSP to teach people about this stuff.
I would argue that using the real mission
is way more effective, right?
But we use KSP to do it, right?
So, you know, like, okay, Minecraft.
Let's take Minecraft, for instance.
Minecraft is a game that you get into,
you get horribly addicted to it for about three months,
three to four months, right?
Or a year or whatever,
but eventually you beat the Ender Dragon
And you're kind of good, right?
And then you go start doing other things.
Spaceflight is like that game that you're really addicted to
and you want to know everything about.
But the thing about it is that the game never ends.
There's no end game here.
You could spend a lifetime learning
about everything that has to do with space
from like astronomy to spacecraft engineering
to systems engineering to launch pad engineering.
You know, hangar, like how clean rooms work, satellite manufacturing, like there is an endless rabbit hole of information here.
And it's like being addicted to a good video game, right?
So, I warn you, the space bug, once you get bit by it, and you kind of lock in, you're not going to want to stop.
There's always new stuff to learn.
And that's how I've been able to pick it up over the over the years because I never stop learning ever
I never stop learning spaceflight is an endless rabbit hole of new and exciting information
That's why I love this stuff so much. I'm always learning something new. I've learned a ton about Orion
He's an integrity. We're ready to secure the cobalt brick in the lab
I just want to check with you that you don't need the
That's major.
network on board before we do that check with you that you don't
Thanks, Glids. But yeah, that's, it's like being addicted to a good video game, only the
video game never stops. And that's what I've been doing. That's, I have no engineering
background. But I understand that engineering requires a certain amount of, let's say temperament,
I guess. I treat it with respect because I'm an outsider here.
I'm not an engineer.
I treat it with respect and I try to give it the attention that it deserves.
So, for Jeremy, we copied your question. We were in a data rate handover, but
we can confirm no further ground use for the WAP or cobalt brick.
So go to tear those down.
A follow-up for Christina.
The empty CWC Stowage config that you called earlier is a good config for entry, so no need
to go find that. And finally, we can support a camera downlink if and when you are willing.
Yeah, Hornet. So, fellas, I'm self-taught. I've been doing this for well over a decade.
Okay, we've got all those. Jackie, which cameras were you planning on coming on board with?
Thanks, Ansel.
Yeah, good question. We just wanted to use cab three.
Yeah, Dresch.
Yeah, Dresch.
Spaceflight's a horrible addiction, but you...
Alright, we will join you.
There's no shortage of ways of making a living in space...
like with spaceflight, even being spaceflight-adjacent like I am.
That's right, scholar. Yeah, we got shouted out by Twitch.
That was pretty cool.
Yeah, that's right, Bronx.
I'm proud of you so for the immense knowledge you have in space, like in engineering.
Thanks, Cosmic.
Yeah, no, I'm...
It's not the knowledge...
Oh, oh, oh, Mr. Space.
I'm in space.
Sleepy 20 subs.
Thanks, guys.
You've been more than generous.
I appreciate it.
You carried that video?
Thank you.
Crafty $5 Super Chat.
Thank you.
I...
It's not the knowledge that I'm proud of.
The knowledge is just a means to an end.
The end that I'm proud of is what we've built here on Twitch and on YouTube now.
That's what I'm proud of.
I'm proud that I built and fostered a community that's a beacon in science, technology, engineering
and math outreach.
That's the thing I'm most proud of.
The knowledge is just a means to, it's just a leverage to achieve that goal.
I want people to learn.
And more importantly, I want to show people that like, there's a whole moon out there
that we could go out and be exploring, right?
You know, spaceflight teaches you to broaden your horizons, right?
And set your goals higher.
The moon's a long way up there.
That's what I'm actually talking about.
The moon's way up there.
set your sights up there like for the moon or mars or whatever
you know
the world is bigger than you think it is
or the well the solar system is bigger than you think it is but you know what i
mean i that's my that's what i'm most proud of
i've shown people that
you don't have to sit home and play video games all day
that's fun
i'm not gonna sit here
pretend like that's not fun
There's a fine line between doing this in Kerbal and doing it in real life.
Actually, it's not a fine line.
It's a well line.
It's a well demarcated line, but.
All you got to do is take a little bit of effort, put in a little bit of effort,
put in a little bit of persistence, right?
And you can be doing this in real life.
Hey, JP.
Thanks for the sub there.
Crafty over on the bits on Twitch.
Didn't you just do a $5 super chat on YouTube?
Like, what did you say?
What part of the spaceflight rabbit hole
are you most excited about?
So, yeah, two infinity and beyond.
Are you Buzz Lightyear?
I love your movies.
Thanks, Pickle One.
Like, I'm not the best at this,
but I know a good amount.
I know enough to be dangerous to be able to teach it.
So, but I will admit that I possess a super,
like it surface-level understanding of this
that's all you need so you need to kick the snowball down the hill you know
how much battery capacities on a ryan
it events you you're over there now
all that's confusing
uh...
i don't know how much battery they have on board the solar panels can generate
up to thirteen thousand watts of power
Yeah, bye, there you go.
I'd argue that you'd inspire multiple people
to the aerospace industry is more valuable
than if you went on your own
and didn't have this outreach.
Zeroes, yeah, you know, yeah, oh, that's why I think
the stream itself is the most-
Discovery, no other-
That's the thing I'm most proud of.
I'm the most proud of people here watching,
being interested in how we've given people a place
to learn and get into spaceflight,
you know, at a surface level,
And then, you know, if you want to go further with it, go further with it.
Hey, Warline, one year.
Thank you.
My farm with a hundred bits.
Thank you very much guys.
Cool dragon, bruh.
55.
Thank you very much.
Persistence and stubbornness and dedication is the only way to reach your goals.
Yep.
Mm hmm.
You enterprise that through discipline, nader.
That is probably the biggest thing I learned on my path to my career.
There's no astronaut but my career field is pretty damn selective as well.
I would say you set your sights high or your missiles.
I mean, pick one.
They can go to the moon.
Any integrity for CBA pressure?
This far.
Go ahead.
CBA pressure is 2,500 PSI.
He's been copy. Two live zero zero.
I'm in space.
Agent, 20, 20 subs there.
They're awesome sauce with one bit, thank you.
Every little bit counts.
I've been handing around my story too much.
Zeroes, thank you.
Thank you for all the support guys.
appreciate you a lot. Okay Jay, member star pattern. Howdy, I did a thing again.
This is Mission Control Houston. You just heard Mission Specialist Christina Cook,
a board integrity offering some parameters of cabin atmosphere readings.
Everything on board is in great shape. We're just 56 and a half minutes away
away from the return trajectory correction 3 burn.
This will be the final major maneuver of the mission
for integrity, an 8 second burn of the Earth's thrusters
to change its velocity by 4.2 feet per second
and further fine tuning its path for the entry interface
into the Earth's atmosphere later today.
Just so we can identify some of the key players
you'll hear and see here in mission control
throughout the course of the day.
On the front row, from left to right,
that's astronaut Stan Love.
He was the Ascent Capcom or Spacecraft Communicator
talking to the crew and has pulled several shifts
during the mission.
Second from the left is Jackie Mahaffey
who will be the entry Capcom talking to the crew
during their high speed return to Earth later today.
Yeah, Jeff's in the back.
Then to her left is entry flight director
Rick Henfling and his left is Judd Freeling, who presided as Flight Director over the
Ascent of Integrity eight, nine days ago from the Kennedy Space Center.
And the back row is the lead flight director for the mission, Jeff Radigan.
And to his left is the Chief of the Flight Director Office, Emily Nelson.
Jeff, this is Jeff's baby.
He's the lead flight director.
Once again, this view of the year, Emily, that lady that was sitting next to Jeff, Emily
Nelson, she, she assigns the flight directors to the missions.
So similar like in baseball, like you have a bullpen of flight directors and you assign,
you know, you know, closers, right?
You have closers and you have openers, et cetera, et cetera.
I mean, baseball's a little more complicated than that starters, closers.
Now they do a mid-closer now in baseball, which is weird,
but whatever, you know what I'm trying to say.
Rug, re-entry bitties, thank you.
Current mission elapsed time, guys, is eight days,
19 hours, 24 minutes, 36 seconds.
As Rob said, the crew's going through
private medical conferences right now,
and then we have the return trajectory correction burn
here, which is a 1.27 meter a second adjustment,
just a final tweak to the entry trajectory
to maximize the accuracy.
Setup pitchers, yeah, that's what they're called, Allied.
Yeah, they're halfway, halfway closers, right?
So, Jeff is running the whole show.
Rick is assigned for the downhill ride and Judd Friedling,
the guy next to him was the uphill ride.
We've got a live shot on cab cam 3 of the Orion capsule, Victor Glover on the right.
This is mission control Houston, our first view of the crew today.
On the left, Commander Reid Wiseman on the right, pilot Victor Glover.
They are reviewing some of the timeline parameters and some of the systems status boards on
their computers on the flight deck of Orion.
is in great shape system-wise and the weather forecast is a go forecast at the
splashdown zone as the crew approaches the six-hour mark until they return to
earth to complete this historic mission.
The crew will monitor the RTC 3 burn that's just 52 minutes from now and
then we'll move into the heart of completing the configuration of the
crew cabin, stowing some final items and reviewing their entry checklist as they march down the
timeline towards the point at which they will don their launch and entry suits, the Orion
crew survival suits or OCSS, the OX suits as they are called, and prepare for the
final key elements of this mission that will start with entry interface at 6.53
Central Time today, when they reach the first traces of the Earth's atmosphere at an altitude of 400,000 feet, with a range to splash down at 1,701 nautical miles.
I'm back. So you have a commander display unit there, pilot display unit on the right, and then the center display unit. They call them DUs.
They're somewhat analogous to if you're a pilot of primary flight display and a multi-flight
display, an MFD and a PFT.
Yeah, thank you for all the support, guys.
I just, yeah, I don't talk when Rob talks, because Rob, Rob is, you think I'm a knowledge
dump?
Rob's a knowledge dump.
I learned from him.
You can see down below in the lower deck of the crew cabin, if you will, Christina
to cook. Jeremy Hansen is right by her. The crew will begin the suit up procedures later
today. They'll conduct leak checks on their suits to ensure that they're in a good configuration
for the entry. And once again we're struck by some of the numbers involved at the
point of entry interface, which will be about 13 and a half minutes before splash
down. The vehicle will be traveling some 23,839 miles an hour. At the point of
splash down 13 and a half minutes later, they will have decelerated under
parachutes and through the interaction of Earth's atmosphere, the friction
created by Earth's atmosphere, they will have decelerated to a splash down
and velocity of just 19 miles an hour.
Stop friction, it's compression.
Rob.
Thanks, final ghost.
It's not friction, friction doesn't slow, friction.
All preparations on the USS John P. Murtha,
the recovery ship out of the Pacific are complete.
Everyone is at the ready, the Navy recovery teams,
the flight surgeons who will greet the astronauts for their initial medical exams.
There will be Navy helicopters and fast boats that will be deployed from the
MRSA to move alongside the spacecraft. It will take about 15 minutes, perhaps a bit less
for the flight control team here in Mission Control,
to power down the vehicle once it splashes down and the airbags, the
inflatable airbags, five of them at the forward bay cover at the top of the
spacecraft are inflated to ensure that the vehicle remains in an upright
orientation in the Pacific. The airbags will be deployed, the vehicle will be
powered down, that's not the end for mission control here in Houston, they
will not hand over to the exploration ground systems folks until the
crew has been extracted from the vehicle onto a large raft that
will be erected alongside the hatch to integrity, that is called the front porch.
Each of the crew members will leave the vehicle Christina Cook first, followed by Victor Glover,
then Jeremy Hansen, then Reed Wiseman.
Once in the raft, they'll spend a few minutes as they get their land legs back before
they're harnessed and hoisted one by one in alternating fashion to a pair of hovering
Navy helicopters overhead. Christina Cook will be hoisted first into helicopter number
one. Then Jeremy Hansen to helicopter number two. Victor Glover to helicopter number one.
Reed Wiseman to helicopter number two.
So I saw somebody ask what the heat shield is made out of. The heat shield is called
Avco. Avco is named after the company that made the original Apollo heat shield called Avco.
They're owned by Textron nowadays, I think, if I'm remembering right. I had to look up what
the specific composition of the heat shield. So Avco is, it's composed of silica fibers in an
an epoxy Novolac resin.
So think like fiberglass,
fiberglass that's been submerged in resin,
kind of like that, like epoxy resin.
Like if you took fiberglass, right?
And then you submerge the fiberglass into resin,
that's kind of what it is.
It's not, that's not exact, right?
It's an epoxy Novolac resin,
which means it's more like plastic,
less like acrylic, I guess, but yeah,
that's what the heat shield's made out of.
It's just, it's basically fiberglass
that's been submerged in resin.
It's not exactly that,
but that is kind of an illustration of the concept.
It's porous, mousseau on purpose.
Yeah, for gas permeability.
Yeah, there's pockets of air inside of it.
It's porous on purpose.
It's not ceramic, no.
Hey, Mark, what's up, man?
What do the left and right DUs have to virtual horizon?
near that's a good question this one is
it's about
these are called reference frames
have a narrow thank you
user reference frame that one is showing
what you're at relic like how how your orientation is relative to earth
this one is showing capsule relative orientation
uh...
i think this is a line to earth's ecliptic
Not Earth's ecliptic. That one's aligned to Earth's equator, relative, right?
Or it could be orbital plane as well. I'm not exactly sure the reference frame there.
That one is oriented towards the ground. That one's Earth. That's the ground.
So technically right now, they're... because they're coming in on the side of Earth, right?
The horizon is to the left. This one, I think, is relative to...
relative to, this could be relative to orbital plane. And that's in fact, in fact, that's probably
what I'm going to guess that that it's relative to orbital plane. So like, when you orbit,
right, if you took your orbit and made it into a flat, like, line, that flat line is
what that horizon is showing.
What do those buttons do?
Nothing, don't press them.
Question about landing.
Is it largely unchanged or is there
any difference between the approach on Artemis I?
They're flying a slightly different trajectory
on this one.
The reason why is because when Artemis I came back,
it did that.
See that right there?
That's not great. That's a hole in the heat shield. So they're slightly modifying the trajectory to be able to get less gas permeation in the heat shield.
Future missions will fly on a similar trajectory to Artemis 1. The reason why they're flying a different trajectory is because this heat shield wasn't redesigned in time.
So a different trajectory should is good enough to get them home. Not should be it's good enough to get them home
Future heat shields will be redesigned to utilize not that trajectory. That's what they're flying
This is much more similar to Apollo
future heat shields will be redesigned to
Do this?
What happened here is that they got the heat shield really hot and they skipped off the atmosphere like skipping a stone
over a lake right and what happened is gases got trapped in the integrity
currently maneuvering to what is called the starfield calibration orientation
gas got trapped in the heat shield while they were doing the skip and and it
ablated the backside of the heat shield and started started to char so when they
came in there were holes in the heat shield now don't get me wrong if people
had been on Artemis-1 they would have been fine. But this is just kind of a thing about
just spaceflight in general, right? You know, this isn't Kerbal, like, oh, they'll be fine,
they'll be fine. This is not warranted behavior. You did not want your heat shield to come
apart like that. Nobody wants holes in their heat shield, right? So it's important
that between Artemis-1 and Artemis-2 they addressed the issue here, right? The issue
is that you're getting too much gas paralysis going on during the skip. So they shortened
the reentry. They shortened it just for this mission because you don't need to fly skip trajectory
here, right? And they didn't want to redesign the heat shield because Artemis II was coming up too
quickly, right? So they fly on a different trajectory to prevent the charring from happening.
In the future for Artemis III, they have a more permeable avcoat structure
to allow that gas to escape instead of getting trapped down there and breaking the heat shield off.
So they redesigned it for the three mission and they flew that they're flying the two mission on a different trajectory.
This remains frame inertial. Attitude, yaw pitch roll is four six four three
Z, two, three, seven.
Delta V, X, two decimal one, Y, two decimal two.
Z, negative two decimal nine, I'll copy.
Oh, oh, oh, this is space, I'm in space.
That was how much velocity is changing
in access or something.
Okay, Jackie, we copy in material.
Can you give us the trim number that you started with
and oh, Macron, I believe we're the two
or maybe Tigslip and Omicron.
They'll probably announce the crew after this.
Tigslip is 10 minutes.
Omicron is 25.0.
Omicron represents the upper limit
in a nominal range for being able to do the burn.
There's only a certain, you have to time it correctly.
Omicron is the maximum amount of time
that you're allotted to do this burn.
Okay, Jackie, we copied all the deltas,
but we are not confident.
We started with the right file.
Can you confirm the date, the UTC of ground generation?
Yep, that is day 100, hour 12, minute 20, 2-0.
So, Jackie, that ground generation daytime is what we had as version 1, and you said
version 2.
So, that's what's throwing us off.
We were looking for a version 2, but we saved version 1 as version 2 to get ready for these
deltas.
Did you uplink a new burn pad over you just instructing us to save it as version
Yeah, sorry about that. These deltas we're reading you are called version 2 and the UTC
we are expecting you to be referencing is the one I read off.
You really want to make sure that you uploaded the right burn correction into Orion software?
should knock you off course. Probably better than the...
Okay, happy. We wrote those deltas on the Excel file that was labeled version 1 and we have saved it as version 2.
That's perfect. Couple of final notes for you. Under burn execution steps, step 8, op-nav pass.
We are performing op-nav pass and that did kick off auto, medically.
And then in burn notes, we just want to clarify for the PCL message today, that is message 3, decimal 10, decimal 0, 2.
It is in my personal opinion and people can argue this because I know it's widely used.
Okay, we copy step 8 auto and 3 decimal, 10 decimal, 0, 2, which we all read. Thank you.
Thanks, sir. Any other deltas to the steps or an execution steps?
Any other changes?
No deltas. One final note, the cell in the burn notes that talks about if BFS engages
It does have about two rows worth of text, so you may need to expand it to see all of it.
Jackie, that is a great call. Thank you for that information.
And that is everything we had for the burn conference.
Personal opinion is that Excel should be nowhere near spacecraft, but whatever.
If it's good enough for NASA, I guess it's okay.
Oh, oh, oh, this is space. I'm in space.
I'm about to give the sub-side quest here.
Okay, we got it. Thank you very much.
Excel is not precise.
This is Mission Control Houston, that exchange between Capcom and Jet.
Excel is not precise. It's good for like managing your business like an accounting and stuff, but it's not precise for spacecraft.
The reason why is that Excel's coded in float.
They only store it to the six decimal point, which they do that to save data.
But spacecraft need to be a little more granular in its implementation.
That's why I think it should be nowhere near it.
Some thrusters to amend the velocity of integrity by 4.2 feet per second.
It also contains a number of angular adjustments to integrity to fine tune its precise orientation
as it enters the Earth's atmosphere
at the point of four hundred thousand feet above the Pacific Ocean called entry interface.
This is critical because we want integrity to be in the right orientation
to minimize heating
on the heat shield of the vehicle. Yeah, Brown, I guess this needs to be extremely...
I guess if you're using it just to calculate...
Don't let Excel calculate anything but using it as a table of data, then yeah, I suppose that's okay.
And that is what they are doing, but also, like, not sure if XL is, yeah, I wouldn't let that near my spacecraft's avionics, just saying.
Minimize the peak heating effects on the heat shield. As it is, the temperatures around the heat shield are expected to be somewhere between 4 and 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
However, at the angle at which we are entering the Earth's atmosphere, it is a much more benign heating effect on the heat shield than what was experienced during the Artemis-1 mission.
So, people are saying that XL stores 15, so it's not float, it's double. Still, you don't want to round numbers in spaceflight, guys. That's not...
That ends poorly.
Or finance.
Yeah, yeah, they learn that one the hard way if I'm remembering right.
But our planet is sort of round.
Shut up.
Your round.
Your round.
Anyway, it looks like they're just using it
to store numbers.
So I don't know.
I guess it's, I guess.
I mean, if Victor thinks it's good enough, then I, you know, who am I to say?
I mean, he's the one that's piloting this sucker, so him and Reid.
Why are the two guys sitting at the flight director desk?
So it doesn't have to have a second set of eyes, Jen.
The second guy that's sitting at the flight director desk is Judd Friedling.
He's got integrity, a week over, secondary, with this water lined up.
Oh boy, time to dump the pee.
Integrity, you are go for secondary line dump.
We copy. Thank you.
Secondary Flight Director, it's more to assist Rick.
So Rick Hembling is the lead flight director for entry, descent, and landing, or EDL for
short.
Judd Friedling is the flight director that was the lead director for the uphill ride.
It's always better to have second set of eyes, but you don't want too many cooks in the
kitchen either.
That's why it's really limited to if Rick, but Rick's in charge of the show here.
If you want to judge there, he'll ask for him there.
But if you didn't want him there, go sit in the peanut gallery.
I mean, that's kind of the hierarchy of mission control.
Like you have guys that are controlling each phase of the mission.
Um, but Rick obviously wants a second set of eyes.
So think pilot and co-pilot, right?
The pilot, first officer, uh, captain and first officer, excuse me.
So, yeah, Judd's there helping look over, looking over just in case.
And Jeff Radigan is the lead flight director for Artemis II.
He's running the entire show.
He's in the back.
He's talking to-
And Tiger De Houston for the burn.
SM Prop Helium ISO valves are configured.
Okay, ISO valves are configured.
Jeff's back there talking to Emily Nelson.
Nelson is the is the chief of flight directors. Okay we see closed open open open and that's
what we're expecting thanks for your confirmation. Okay so the ISO valves are open and indicating
that the tanks are pressurized for this burn. Where's Jeb and Val? Val? Jeb and Val are on the ship
but their names aren't Jeb and Val, it's their names are reading Christina.
When did you back? RIW, we're about five hour, five and a half hours away from Splashdown.
Give or take.
This is Mission Control Houston.
Dylan Bobber in the other seats.
Bill and Bob are in the other seats.
Flight Director Rick Henfling here in mission control.
The entry flight director is going to be polling
his team of flight controllers to get a go
for the RTC-3 burn, which is coming up in just 31 minutes.
We're back inside the cabin of integrity.
Looking at Jeremy Hansen on the left,
Christina Cook in the middle,
Victor Glover on the right,
the crew, and there's Reed Wiseman,
the commander of the ship.
Everything is in great shape as we await splashdown five hours and 44 minutes from now.
The entry profile for integrity is a source of great interest because of some of the heat
shield damage that was unexpected during Artemis 1.
We have deliberately created a trajectory which is essentially a lofted entry profile
rather than a skip entry. If you recall, the skip entry on Artemis I was a trajectory in which
we performed an initial dip into the atmosphere to dissipate some energy, then skipped out of the
atmosphere, sort of like throwing a flat rock against a lake, and then dipped a second and
final time into the atmosphere before splashing down in the Pacific. However, that profile
induced a longer entry range of some 3,178 nautical miles in length that induced a 20-minute
duration of a higher total heat load on the vehicle.
So after great analysis and the review of an independent review team, we decided to
To amend the entry profile to a maximum entry range of 1,775 nautical miles, in this case
we're going to be flying downrange from the point of entry interface to a splash down
zone just 1,701 nautical miles downrange heading from southwest and northeast towards
the coast of California.
The 20 minute duration of the Artemis-1 entry has been reduced to just 13.5 minutes
in duration for Artemis II, thus inducing a lower total heat load on the vehicle and
mitigating any delineous effects on the heat shield itself.
The flight control team, the engineers have tremendous confidence in this entry profile
that will protect the heat shield from any excessive loads that may be imparted on
up during this high speed entry back into the Earth's atmosphere.
Having said that, we still will be exposing the heat shield
to temperatures some 4 to 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit as we enter peak heating at the point
of entry interface and a communications blackout within a few minutes after that.
Currently taking a poll in the room for a go for RTC3,
that'll be communicated to the crew momentarily.
In Cagarty Houston, good final targeting and we are go for the burn pending fall positioning.
Copy, Houston go for the burn, thank you.
And again, the burn that's coming up, RTC 3, just 27 and a half minutes from now,
will be an eight second firing of the reaction control system thrusters to change the delta
on the velocity to about 4.2 by 4.2 feet per second and refining integrity's path to reach
entry interface at the correct angle and at the correct time and orientation. If you think of a cone
across the Pacific Ocean, that's the entry corridor, we want to hit right into the middle
of that corridor. I said yesterday we're splitting the uprights and that's exactly what it is.
We want to make sure that we're right down the pike heading toward the splashdown zone
off the coast of San Diego. This burn and the subsequent crew module raise burn that
will be a final amendment to the angle of attack of integrity all designed to minimize
heating effects on integrity's heat shield. So the blackout guys is because of
the plasma that happens. Plasma forms because gas gets compressed too hard up
against the heat shield and it ionizes and when it ionizes it creates a wake of
plasma. A short time ago the Space Flight Meteorology Group briefed the entry
flight control team on the latest weather at the Splashdown zone where
the USS John P. Murtha is stationed, ready to begin recovery operations shortly after
splashdown. The weather is ideal, not an issue in the terms of the winds, just not winds,
and wave heights less than four feet. Expect to degrade the crew. There will be some broken
and scattered clouds that integrity will be descending through, but that's not a factor.
We are committed, of course, to splashing down today at 7.07 and 7 seconds PM central time,
5.07 PM Pacific time, two and a half hours before sunset.
Would it be possible to spot reentry from Hawaii? No, they purposely are bringing this
thing down in a place where no one's going to get near it. Did the shuttle have such a blackout?
Did the shuttle have plasma blackout? Yes and no. At the beginning of the program, yes, but once the tracking data and relay system was up, it didn't.
The reason why is that the way the shuttle, the way that plasma wake is designed around the shuttle is to leave a big open area behind it.
You have no, what's it called?
Recompression, well, you do to an extent.
The recompression kind of happens over the wings and stuff.
But see, any area that's dark, you can get a signal through.
So with the shuttle, right?
You can get a signal through here.
The shuttle's short band antennas for communications
are up here, they're up in the nose.
So if you were re-entering the shuttle
and a T-Dress satellite was behind you.
They could get, they could talk through the shuttles.
At this hour of flight dynamics reporting
that integrity is 45,534 nautical miles.
That's also the exact same reason
why we can see Starship re-entries pretty much live-streamed
because Starship has its antennas on the back,
Starlink antennas, and they're communicating
with Starlink backwards.
That's how the shuttle did it.
Where do you think they got the idea?
So at the early part of the shuttle program,
when there was no tracking data and relay network,
TDRS for short, yeah, the shuttle
would have communication blackout because there's
no relay to bounce it off of.
The 965 feet per second for 23,839 miles an hour
at capacity.
There will be a series of role reversals.
Those are computer induced maneuvers that will occur after we complete the blackout
period.
Actually there are two before while we are in the blackout period and three more afterwards.
Those role reversals designed to dissipate energy, reducing the speed through the laws
of physics to bleed off excess energy as the vehicle points itself toward the splashdown
zone prior to going subsonic and then inducing the beginning of the parachute deployment sequence.
The crew is expected to pull just under four Gs during the maximum G loads on themselves
and the vehicle.
We have three spaceflight veterans and one first time
flyer in Jeremy Hansen.
Unlike an international space station
flight of six months or more in duration,
these are well-skilled astronauts and test pilots.
Christina Cook, of course, having returned to Earth
as did Reed Wiseman from his first flight in Soyuz vehicles
for parachute assisted landings in Kazakhstan.
Victor Glover flew on a Crew Dragon vehicle.
Here I mean Christina are help packing up the the craft the other they're moving stuff around because the next thing one of the things that they got to do today is put those put the orange spacesuits back on.
You want to put the suit on the just in the very, very, very, very, very off chance that you get a cabin depress.
during reentry, right? You have your suit on and you can still have oxygen and breathe.
So they will don the Orion Crew Survival Suit or OCSS for shorter. Ox. Ox is the slang term
for it. You want to put those on. Cabin depress during reentry is a thing that can happen.
like it's unlikely, very unlikely.
But yeah, in case it does,
it's better to have your suit on, right?
Then have it in the locker, right next to it.
If you look over there,
Christina went into that hatch on the right,
that's the bathroom.
Any particular reason why the suits are orange?
Yes, the suits are orange to make the astronauts more visible if they come down in the ocean.
That's why they're the color of a parking cone.
It's called international orange, that's the name of that color.
So if they land out in the water and NASA doesn't know where they come down,
they egress out of the capsule, you can see that suit from the air.
That's why they're bright, fricking orange.
Speaking of suits, love the suits today. Thank you, Hansel.
They also act as G suits and they also act as padding.
If you note the seats on Orion are not padded,
it's because the padding is built into the suit.
The other way to do it would be to have a suit
with minimal padding, right?
But you have a form fitted chair.
So you use and dragon use form fitted chairs
and kind of a easier suit to make, so to speak.
But the padding for the suit, the G suit,
The mag is all built into the suit.
Mag is a maximum absorbency garment.
It's, if you have to use the restroom,
the toilet will not be available during reentry.
So, probably use the head now if you really want to.
For those keeping track, once again,
one of the key periods during the entry
into the Earth's atmosphere
will be this six minute communications blackout
that is predicted and is typical.
Integrity, tank pressures are good for the burn.
Very serious question, where's that jar in Nutella?
It's over here.
It's in one of these storage lockers.
How do I know?
That's where Orion's kitchen is.
Coming up, Jackie, thank you.
The kitchen's over here.
Capcom, Jackie Mahaffey saying that all of the systems,
including the pressures in the propellant tanks
in good shape ready for the RTC-3 burn coming up just 18 and a half minutes from now.
Once again the blackout period that will be of great interest to those listening and watching
this evening is typical for any spacecraft reentering the Earth's atmosphere because
of the buildup of heat against a returning spacecraft whether it's integrity today
or a Russian Soyuz vehicle or a SpaceX Dragon, these vehicles have heat shields that are
designed to repel the heat.
However, there is an ionization around the spacecraft, a buildup of plasma that is caused
by the interaction of the velocity of the spacecraft entering the Earth's atmosphere
and the friction of the Earth's atmosphere itself.
The cyanization period or the blackout period is expected to last six minutes tonight.
It is expected to begin at 6.53 and 55 seconds p.m. central time, just 24 minutes or 24 seconds
after the beginning of entry interface.
That blackout of six minutes is the period of time where we will not be in communications
with the crew, or receiving data from integrity itself as it barrels through the atmosphere,
we will be communicating with the crew toward the end of that six-minute period and re-establishing
communications just as quickly as atmospheric physics will allow us to.
The blackout period is expected to end at 6.59 and 56 seconds p.m. central time, which
which would be 6 minutes and 25 seconds from the start of entry interface.
Now after splashdown, several activities will be occurring.
First will be to ensure that the vehicle is upright in what is known as a stable 1 configuration.
Whether it's upright or in some other orientation, the CMOS bags, the Crew Module Uprighting
system bags, five of them that are surrounding the vehicle at the forward bay cover in a
circumferential orientation, those five large airbags will be inflated with the helium and
be inflated.
integrity, Houston. Floor arrays are in position for the burn.
We see the failure target.
The CMOS bags, again, five large inflatable airbags that are inflated with helium right after splashdown.
Those bags designed to maintain an upright orientation for the spacecraft.
controllers here in Mission Control will begin to work to power down the vehicle, also check
for any leakage of toxic gas. We are not expecting any issues, integrities in great shape as it
prepares for its homecoming five and a half hours from now. But to ensure that the approaching
Navy recovery team does not encounter any toxic gases, we will make the first check of that
here in mission control, powered down the vehicle, and we will be re-establishing communications
with the crew through what is known as VLDR.
You'll hear that call.
It is the very low data rate that takes over from the tracking and data relay satellite
system communications that we'll be using during the descent towards Splashdown.
It may be a period of seconds or even minutes before we establish that very low data
rate with the crew following Splashdown, so we'll keep a sharp ear out and
obviously carry that on the Orion to Earth loops that we provide for you and
have been since the beginning of our coverage with launch back on April 1st.
five and a half hours out from splashdown once again Jeremy and Christina are packing
up the remaining things and taking out the spacesuits so they can put them on when they
go when they get ready for for entry it looks like reading Victor reviewing the flight
profile here for re-entry if I had to guess. Vic's got a checklist up over here, at least I think
that's what that is. I can't really tell. I mean it's just a long list of things so I'm going to
go ahead and assume that that's probably a checklist you know to make they're going over
the flight profile and they're making sure that the capsule they're going down the checklist
to make sure the capsule is in the correct configuration.
I don't know, Datto.
The system to flip the capsule over messed up.
Have they said how they would go about correcting the capsule?
Here I'm measuring control.
The focus of attention is the outcome.
It's very unlikely that that would happen, Goli.
They have five redundant steam moves there.
So have they talked about it?
I'm sure there's some contingency, but that's very unlikely.
Those balls that are on top of the capsule
are to make sure that when the capsule comes down
it, you know, if it's in rough or seas
or it hits a wave the wrong way,
there's a potential for the capsule to flip over.
That's called the stable two configuration.
Stable one would mean the capsule came down
with the heat shield facing the water.
Stable two means the heat shield is up in the air.
That's why those sea moves inflate.
That's why those orange balls inflate on Orion. They do it just in case.
Even if they're in stable one, you do it because a wave could flip the capsule over, et cetera, et cetera.
If the capsule is in the stable two configuration, the CMOS will still inflate and it'll flip the capsule into stable one.
that's that's also like a big reason why you know how tall does how much the wind
is blowing and how much the surf is out at the recovery area is a big deal you
don't want to land in rough seas it'll flip the capsule and I don't know about
you guys dude I don't want to be upside down in a capsule floating around in the
strapped in and being like unable to move that would be like being on like the worst
thrill ride ever i'd blow chunks i don't know about you
yeah really looking for a stable one config and calm seas
there's a shot of this mission control houston while we wait for the burn
cool this view from the deck of the uss john p mirtha
showing uh some of the armada of helicopters uh there will be navy
helicopters hovering over integrity following splashdown, two of them to be employed in the
hoisting of the crew members off of the front porch raft that will be erected alongside the
vehicle following splashdown, two crew members, two astronauts for each of the two helicopters
for the short ride back to the deck of the Mertha where they will be brought into
of the Medical Bay for comprehensive post-flight medical exams.
We'll have a lot more from the ship once we begin our NASA Plus coverage
that will be simulcast with our continuing YouTube 24-7 coverage,
the NASA Plus coverage beginning at 5.30 p.m. central, 6.30 p.m. eastern time.
Do I know any capsule that went into Stable 2?
I don't remember one off the top of my head crafty, but I do know that it had the reason why those the bags are there is because it did happen
I just forget which capsule it happened with I
Don't know maybe it's maybe it's the
Maybe Liberty Bell 7 if I had to guess that would probably be my my guess for that
Was it H of L I'd have to go look copy. No flame trench. No, I'm not doing flame trench today dudes
I want I want coverage all the way through here with you guys
Liberty Liberty Bell seven. Yeah, okay. Why did they use two helicopters with two astronauts each
instead of all four and one helicopter? It's probably because they have their doctors
and everybody with them, Atari, like that and you're in your space suit and stuff. It's a little bit bulky.
So they split them over two SH-60s, so everybody, like flight surgeons and doctors and stuff can be there
when they first get the astronauts away for checkouts and stuff. I mean, it's like Rob was saying,
those SH-60s are going to come back to the deck of the Mertha. They're going to land
and they're immediately going to the medical bay on the ship.
Just for basically an immediate physical
just to make sure nothing during entry, descent
and landing screwed them up.
Why not four helicopters?
I'll bet you there's two backup helicopters
on station friendly that you just saw
four helicopters on the deck.
I'll bet you the other ones are gonna be out there
as a backup just in case.
Do the divers have to quarantine? No.
Yeah, Dean, I got you.
Do we know about the A3 mission yet? No.
They are. S.A.R. backup. That's my guess, Rain. Yeah, I mean, you would know.
Liberty Bell 7 was stable 3 on the ocean floor. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's right.
Apollo 16 went stable 2 according to the NASA website. Yep.
Yeah, John Murtha is from John, John, John, Johnstone, Johnstown, Johnstown, I don't know,
I'm not from Pennsylvania, dude.
Look, I'm from Massachusetts, I get it.
We have weird names for places too, okay?
Yep, they've reoriented the capsule to the burn for the burn.
That's why you see the sunlight shining through.
Worcester.
Yeah, exactly.
Do you have celebratory beverages for later?
Continuing with the view of the crew.
In the cabin of integrity as we are almost seven minutes away now from the return trajectory
correction number three burn. Integrity systems are functioning in excellent shape. The weather
at the splashdown zone out of the Pacific is go and is forecast to be go. We are committed
of course to a splashdown that return trajectory that will enable Integrity's astronauts to
splashdown at 707 p.m. central tonight. That was guaranteed with the trans-lunar
injection burn back on April 2nd that took the vehicle and its four crew members out
of low Earth orbit following a 24-hour period of a high Earth orbit elliptical trajectory
at the low point of that trajectory which was some 43,000 by zero miles at the low
point.
when Integrity's engine fired, the service module engine fired, to break out of our Earth
orbit and send humans en route to the Moon for the first time since December of 1972.
It also guaranteed what was known as a free return trajectory that the laws of orbital
mechanics dictated would carry integrity on a loop around the moon and its
historic lunar flyby the other day and then on the trip back to Earth which
will culminate with a splash down this evening five hours and 19 minutes from
now.
should be
let me take a look at the timelines here
should be coming up on the rtc3 burn here soon
as you can see uh... the
maneuver to the burn attitude has induced quite a bit of sunlight coming
into the crew cabin
We're now under five minutes until the burn.
There you go.
Chance.
Integrity, Orion is in burn attitude.
And it is an unbelievably spectacular view.
Thanks Jackie.
Reed Wiseman responding to Capcom, Jackie Mahaffey, that attitude into the burn orientation
for the return trajectory correction burn coming up in just under four minutes has offered
of the crew, yet another spectacular view of the Earth growing larger in their windows.
So this trajectory correction is just there to fine tune the entry interface position
to make sure that they can come down more accurately.
With space flight, at certain times it's better to do the burn sooner rather than later.
Usually the case is the further you are away from wherever you're trying to go, the
better to do the burn.
Integrity Houston in 22 decimal three critical cue card.
We're looking for the BFS burn ATP to no go.
To go, excuse me, to go.
You don't want to misspeak here.
Good catch Jackie, we are BSS burn at Pico and we do not need to command the no go on
that's because we're SF plus X.
Good, we're sorry about the confusion
and we see a good config.
It's a, they're fine tuning their reentry trajectory
here jumper.
It's just like, think about it like trim on an airplane.
They're just trimming out their path here
with a quick pulse of the thrusters
just to fine tune that reentry trajectory
to make sure they come down right at the Navy ship,
at the Navy recovery ships.
Kelly, what was your question?
I missed it.
Coming up on one minute till the burn.
60 seconds.
Mark, one minute.
Okay, grab shirt.
They got to put their suits on and stuff, Baboon, but yeah, I guarantee you these five hours are going to go by.
are going to go by real fast. This is an 8 second burn with a change in velocity of 4.2 feet per second.
1.27 meters a second. Very, very, very tiny, tiny adjustment.
Revec maybe, it's possible, but they usually have a temporary flight restriction so nobody flies
where the capsule is going to come down just in case.
No, if people are wondering about debris, no, they plan around satellites and potential debris.
That's what the Space Force does, actually, they're space weather forecasters.
Here we go, RTC-3, last burn.
Burn underway.
Here we go.
You can see.
Good engine, good control.
You can see it's good engine good control
She's not moving around when the thrusters and complete okay, we're good
We'll listen to
Mission control to you confirm that it was a nominal burn
The sun is doing weird things to the camera guys that's why it has that weird color can
you explain what they're doing?
Integrity looks like a good RTC 3 burn and we are assessing details.
So that was just a slight trajectory correction.
Hey Jackie, we see the same on board and we just wanted to give a huge shout out to that
ESA Airbus team, to our friends in the Netherlands, in Germany and at the Glenn Research Center.
This vehicle powered us and propelled us from the Earth to the Moon and back with
extreme precision and we are excited to be a part of your team.
Houston and centers around the world, copy, thank you.
All right, that was the last burn.
Commander Reid Wiseman with a shout out.
We are ready to reconfigure our F7 SIP switches for entry if you can give us a go.
I don't know what that switch does. It's something to do with configuring the capsule for reentry.
You are go for F7 switches.
Reed Wiseman providing a shout out to the European engineering community,
which built the European service module.
And you are now maneuvering back to biased tail-to-sun attitude.
They're going to put the capsule in a configuration that points the solar panels into the sun
and puts the heat shield between the crew.
The European service module will separate from the crew module this evening at 6.33pm.
Shortly after, we hand over communications from the deep space network
to the tracking and data relay satellite system.
And about four minutes before the crew module, we'll use its thrusters
in a 19 second raise burn to lift the aft end of the vehicle
into the final angle of attack for entrance into the Earth's atmosphere
the mitigation of excessive heat loads on the heat shield of integrity.
Hey, Mr. The 5-Thousand Superjet.
Thanks, man.
They are going to put their suits back on, Georgia, in a moment.
What they just did, guys, was the return trajectory correction three burn.
It's just a small, quick pulse of the engines. They only fired them for
about nine seconds. Actually it was less than that. Nine seconds was the RTC 2 burn. It's
just there to in the same way that if you were a plane coming in for a landing, you'd
use the trim to make small adjustments for your landing. That's what they just did.
That RTC burn is just trimming out the trajectory to make sure that they're as accurate
as possible when coming down. I don't know about you guys. I don't want to spend
a lot of time on my back in the water in a capsule floating away from the ship to the
vessel.
So with the final major burn having been successfully completed, the crew is now preparing to complete
the configuration of the crew cabin, a final stowage capability, and an opportunity to
put other items away that they will not need during the entry phase.
They'll move into their entry checklist about two hours from now at about 4pm
time events will start to accelerate in terms of time as we approach the point
at which entry interface will begin. You can see the shadow on the console up
there the sunlight on the console as they reorient the capsule.
Jigger everything's going good good morning how are you actually it's
good afternoon. My mind's telling me it's the morning. It's not. I have no idea what
time it is. The only reason why I know today is Friday is because I know that's when the
mission ends. I've been, so for the people that don't know, I've been, I've streamed
the entire mission. I've only slept when the crew sleeps. That's like 12 to 16 hour
days depending on what the sleep schedule was. The only reason why it doesn't show in our uptime
is because Twitch won't let you run over a 48-hour bot. It'll auto-disconnect you after 48 hours.
So, dudes, I have no idea what day it is. I know it's Friday. My internal clock is so screwed up.
It's so bad. I've done nothing but sleep and stream for like the past week and a half,
But I ain't missing any lunar mission. You know what I mean?
Colin, five bucks. Thanks for the coverage, knowledge, and everything you do. Well, thanks for watching. I appreciate it.
Yeah, the only reason why I know it's Friday noob is because I knew that I know that that's when the mission ends.
I'll take time off next week. No.
What are the gray suits that they are wearing and what does it use for?
That's just your clothes that they wear on orbit, dude.
Actually I think those are the orthostatic immobilizer garment.
They have compression suits on right now to help them able to move.
Reed's just taken a picture and so is Victor. They're both taking pictures out the window.
Somewhere Tim Apple is watching this footage and going.
Yes, you know.
That's his name, right?
on a scale from 9 to 10. How tired are you after this marathon of a stream? Roboli, I'm
not tired. I'm more exhausted. I'm going to do 10 suit push-ups today. I don't know.
We'll see. I'm more exhausted. Holy schnikes. Look at that picture. Hold on.
We're gonna need a copy of that photo and you guys get back. That's right Jackie. We are
Holy balls, dude
Thumbs up
Holy crap, did you see that picture? Oh my goodness
Guys
I'm sorry, I'm looking at the picture. I'm looking at the damn picture.
Integrity, Ido confirmed that that was a great R2C3.
Outstanding, thanks for the video and the second thanks to the team, that's awesome.
Thanks Dassenman.
How many hours are they landing?
Rebel, we're about five hours out, actually five hours on the dot, in exactly five hours.
If you look at your clock right now, add five hours.
That's when the splashdown is.
Are the burns automated?
Yes, burns and then the re-entry is automated as well.
How might they set up their SD cards, phones, et cetera,
et cetera to protect the data integrity?
KT Cali, I think that's why they sent them up there with iPhones.
They're reconfiguring the seats.
That's seat reconfiguration.
That's the footrest on the seat.
See, they'll attach it and then they'll fold it down.
I think they sent them up there with iPhones and surfaces
on purpose to see how they worked in deep space.
Once you get out past the van Allen belts,
you're dealing with a lot more radiation.
So an iPad.
Integrity prop post burn reconfig is complete and if you were hanging out in step
23 decimal four you can skip it we are in a good config. Good so I think they
sent them out there to see what they do in deep space and one of one iPhone and
We were talking about seats, can you, I'm in the instruction 337 of 3992 and then can you
repeat that call?
Yep, the prop post burn reconfig is complete and there is no need for the remainder of
23.4.
You can consider that closeout.
The remainder of 23.4 decimal, closed out copy.
Sherry, I don't know if the ESM's going to have,
they're going to have picture from the ESM post separation.
If they did, it probably wouldn't be live
and it probably, we'd probably get that from the state.
And Jackie, just confirm, I know you said the rest of 23.4.
I'm not looking at this in steps.
Just instructions confirm that's the BFS configured for the burn subsequent steps as well
The gopro's are in a shielded housing
All the way through instruction at 347 can be skipped
Well, I'm on the subject of the van Allen belts. How do they tackle this problem? Well a lot of people get confused the van Allen belts aren't
completely encompassing all of earth
The reason why you have the northern and the southern lights, so the Aurora Borealis and the Aurora Australis,
the reason why those exist is because the magnetic field is weak at the poles.
It's called the Van Allen Belt for a reason. It kind of goes around Earth like a belt does,
or it's kind of like a doughnut that surrounds Earth, right?
How did they tackle it in the 1970s? How do they do it during the Apollo program?
Same way they do it now. They go around. Now, it's not that they go around it, but they fly
through the, like if earth is right here, right? The van Allen belts look like a doughnut that
goes all the way around. You skirt the side of the doughnut and you get at the very, very, very
juicy frosting or creamy frosting. It's not juicy. It's not a jelly doughnut.
Now I'm hungry. So that's how they did it during Apollo. They actually just go through the weaker part of the belt. They go around it. That's the right way to say it. That's how they did it. That's how they did it then. That's how we do it now. Still a good idea. You don't want to fly directly through it. That would not be good for you.
We copy all.
What do you drink to stay hydrated? Water. Water and coffee, reply lots of water and lots of coffee.
I've gone through almost an entire box of K cups over there and I have a lot of water bottles on the ground.
historically was not described as well thanks for the answer
yeah no problem to me yeah I know a lot of people like how they get past the
belt well they don't they did why would you go through that
but going through that would really suck yeah
yeah that would really suck they go around in fact
some of the Apollo missions went further into the Van Allen belts just to
see what would happen
they they didn't go around it they skirted into them further they went
past the donut frosting, so to speak. So the earth is protected by a donut layer shield.
Yeah, that's why you're breathing right now username. It's a good donut.
Thanks, Ron. We tried nuking it too. Yeah. Yeah. Starfish,
Charles yeah that was
Yeah, you guys remember GoldenEye the James Bond flick yeah, we tried doing that in the 60s it didn't it didn't end well the GoldenEye stuff that great
Like a ferment why would the why would the magnetic field be fermenting it's not beer
This is mission control Houston eight days 20 hours 33 minutes into the flight of integrity on the Artemis-2 mission
Look man, the firmament's at the edge of the universe if it's anywhere, okay?
Integrity in the Pacific on the coast of San Diego to wrap up this lunar flyby mission
integrity systems are in excellent shape. The recovery team on the USS Mertha out
in the Pacific is at the ready. The ship is basically parked in the right
position to be able to expedite a recovery of the crew following splash
down and after the vehicle has been powered down. Navy helicopters, divers,
other recovery personnel will move alongside the capsule to set up a large inflatable raft
called a front porch that will be used to extract the crew members in one by one after the hatch is
opened. That process of extracting the crew is time-lined at least and has been practiced to
occur some 45 minutes to an hour after splashdown. The weather conditions out of the Pacific are
ideal for today's splashdown. We're talking winds just 10 knots and wave heights
less than four feet. You couldn't ask for better weather for this homecoming for
integrity the first time that a crew will have splashed down in the vehicle
in the Artemis program. We completed the final major maneuver of the mission
using the European service modules thrusters a short time ago that was the
return trajectory correction number three burn that basically fine-tuned ever
so slightly the trajectory and the path of integrity and sweetened the angle of
attack so that we hit the right corridor coming in over the Pacific Ocean with
onboard computers honed in on the splashdown zone some 1,701 nautical
miles down range from the start of entry interface.
Where are they right? Splashdown is scheduled at 707 and seven
seconds p.m. Central Time 507 p.m. Pacific Time two and a half
hours before sunset at the Splashdown site.
So integrity as its tail pointed towards the sun, so you put the
heat shield between the crew and the sun and then keeps the
solar panels pointed in that direction. And they're basically over Australia right now.
Yeah, that's Australia right there. And then there's Papua New Guinea right there.
And then the Philippines is up here. Borneo is right there. And then Vietnam is over here.
China is right there. Japan's up here. Russia is way up at the top there.
Their trajectory is going to take them over here right there. They're going to enter over the
Pacific Ocean. Entry interface is probably about a thousand miles south of Hawaii, or like 1600
kilometers south of Hawaii, and that's where they'll start to hit the atmosphere, and they're
going to land 100 miles or about 160 kilometers off the coast of San Diego. That whole thing
from Hawaii to San Diego is going to take 13 minutes. How fast are they going? Yes,
yes, they are going fast.
Yeah, that's true, Tessa. Yep. Which is a better movie? First man or Apollo 13? I grew,
I saw Apollo 13 when I was younger, Lowe. So I like Apollo 13, but first man is not a bad
fighter. Paul, well, welcome to Mission Controller. Go with throttle up. And then
and then devlor2k had a resub in there for two months appreciate you thank you very much
and they're gonna hit the atmosphere going mock thirty two
but see mock speed is not correlated exactly to
speed
like velocity it's in the mock is different
because the reason why is because it's not a linear representation of velocity
like it
not linear that it's just it's not velocity mock is in
speed of sound can change based off of humidity and temperature and altitude
So like saying they hit it at Mach 32 is not exactly the right way to say that, but people do it because it's enough to get the point across because people understand what the speed of sound is.
I think the better way to say it would be that they hit the atmosphere going 24,000 miles an hour or about 40,000 kilometers an hour.
fast. If we want to talk engineering terms, that's 11 kilometers a second entry interface.
That's quick. That's really fast. What do you think about the movie The Dish? It's great.
Yeah, how fast are they going? Yes would be a good way to describe it.
Yes, yes, there yeah how fast
Yeah, hey gals, yeah, exactly Mach speed is really dependent on temperature and pressure and humidity
Which you don't really have any of that in space, right? So
Saying Mach 32 is really just to get the point across
It's kind of just a high-level simplistic overview of what's going on
But we say it because people understand what Mach 1 is like they understand how fast like transonic is that's pretty quick
This is going 32 times that speed
How long will they be struggling struggling to breathe and they're not struggling to breathe at all
There's space suit the space suits that they put on is plugged right into the life support systems
There's going to be no, the cabin, the cabin temperature isn't even going to change during re-entry.
Maybe like one degree hotter or something, but yeah. It's got an air conditioner in it. We're good, dude.
How fast are they going in space right now?
6,800 miles an hour. They are 40,000 miles away from Earth. So that's 64,000 kilometers away.
And they're traveling at...
Oh, Rev, we broke it.
This is mission control.
You've stung an emission elapsed time of eight days, 20 hours,
39 minutes into the flight of integrity on the Artemis-2 mission.
10,000 kilometers.
There is our planet growing larger in the field of view
of each passing planet.
Oh, my goodness.
We are currently 34,900 nautical miles from Earth and beginning to accelerate toward a
splashdown in the Pacific for this four-person crew, four hours and 52 minutes from now.
Everything on board integrity is in great shape, all the systems are functioning perfectly.
Crew is in the process of wrapping up their cabin configurations, stowing final items
that they no longer need while they're on their journey.
You're in this picture.
They will also move into an entry checklist
in about an hour and 45 minutes reviewing entry procedures
and the latest uplink messages to them
before we begin the process of getting the crew suited up
prior to the crew module, service module separation.
They're coming out over the Pacific Coast.
All is well, the board integrity,
the weather is go for splash down the USS John P. Murtha is in place in the recovery zone ready
to begin deploying its assets for imagery as well as for the recovery operations themselves.
Isn't the magnetic field stronger at the poles?
Yeah, I said it's weaker at the polls. That's not really the right way to say that. The part that
traps the radiation, the radiation is stronger away from the polls. That would have been a better
way to say it. Yeah, Jar, that'll work. See, they're using the high def resolution on the GoPro now.
Yeah, it's because they're in op, they're, they're a lot closer. And I think they have opcom available.
Either that or they're just devoting, they're on, no, they're still on S-Band.
They're still on S-Band and they're just devoting more bandwidth to the cameras.
Next up here is the DPC, the daily planning conference.
Basically it's the morning meeting where you kind of discuss what you're going to do throughout the day
And the crew is already in the into cabin config where they reconfigure the vehicle or to put the basically so the seats fold down inside of the capsule so you have more room.
They're reconfiguring the cabin for entry here by setting the seats up the as far as the seat configuration you have two on top of two.
two. So there's the two guys up on the flight deck. So that's Reed and Victor. And then two people down in
what could be called a mid-deck, which is down there. That's where Jeremy and Christina are
going to be. The seats are basically right on top of each other. There's two here and then
is to right below them.
Something like that Zoros, yeah.
Oh, nice room. Thank you. We do this with our minivan. We go to farm shows.
We have to rearrange the seats for more cargo and crew accommodations. Tori,
that's a good way to say it.
Integrity Houston, for the TLT unconverged caution, we were running orb guide post burn
to look at post burn targeting and that particular sequence did not include running TLT.
That is what triggered the caution. We have no concerns.
Okay, I'll turn it. Thank you.
Is it does radiation significant when they they're not going right through the belt they're kind of skirting the side of them. I mean, it's more than what you'd get on the ground, Yana, but it's not.
I mean, look at the Apollo astronauts. All of the Apollo astronauts lived long and healthy
lives after going to the moon. So, I mean, it's increased radiation, but increased radiation
isn't a guarantee.
That call from Capcom Jackie Mahaffey to the crew indicating TLT, which is a targeted
landing trajectory that is simply a value that was placed on board on the on-board
computers but is not being used for today's entry by the crew.
The last maneuver that will be conducted by Integrity will occur at 6.37pm central time
tonight that is the crew module raise burn.
That occurs about four minutes after the crew module will have separated from the
service module.
This will be about a 19 second burn with a velocity change of about 9.9 feet per second
as the precursor to entry interface.
The raise burn designed as a final opportunity to sweeten the flight path angle, the angle
of attack if you will, of the vehicle as it enters the Earth's atmosphere, placing
the vehicle in the proper orientation perfectly with precision to mitigate any excessive
heat loads on the heat shield of the spacecraft.
Entry interface, so we'll begin at 6.53 and 31 seconds PM central time at an altitude
of 400,000 feet while integrity is traveling 34,882 feet per second with a range to splash
down of 1,701 nautical miles.
In 24 seconds after entry interface, which is essentially the top of the Earth's atmosphere
where the crew will begin to feel the tug of gravity, we'll start a six-minute blackout
period that is expected in which we'll lose communications with the crew and data here
in the flight control room.
The blackout is induced by the buildup of ionization from the interaction of the
velocity of the vehicle with the friction of Earth's atmosphere.
It creates a plasma shield around the vehicle, preventing communications from occurring.
That six-minute blackout is scheduled to end right around 7 p.m. straight up.
And at that point, the vehicle will have descended to an altitude of 157,000 feet above the
earth, traveling at 13,300 feet per second.
Sorry, I'm just answering some emails.
Oh, we've got some fun plans next week.
Probably more about that when the mission's done.
I'm fine, right? Everything's good. You watch golf at all? Only when I really get time, Jay,
which is not a lot, but yeah, I don't really get much time to play either, but I do like
golf. It's a good sport. People who say it's boring don't know they don't understand
sport. Golf is a tough game, dude. Hard game to play. It'll screw with your mind.
Trust me, you play an 18. You got three or four good holes in a row and you get to the easy
part three and you shank one into the bunker. And then it ruins the rest of your day.
It's too real, man.
Hey, winning what's going on? Will ship heat up like in the movies? Only on the heat
shield winning but the heat shield can dump the heat faster than it then it
takes to conduct into the cabin cabin should cabin temperature shouldn't go
up much
that's the idea Kelly yeah have a bad game and end up rolling yes oh that's
That's bad, dude.
That's bad, man.
No.
Oh, my goodness.
That's bad, dude.
Jeez, man.
Oh, that was pretty good.
That was my stop, man.
Oh, okay.
All right.
I'm good.
Oh, that was pretty good.
That was my stop, man.
OK, all right, I'm good.
Oh, damn, too soon.
I don't know if it's too soon, but it's funny.
Yeah, Jay, I don't I don't play much golf, dude.
But if I get a chance to, I'll go, I'll go play nine with my dad.
sure but uh yeah yeah I'm usually working so I don't get to play too much
your boy can drive dude I'm a big guy I got I got a lot of height over that thing
if I can hit that ball straight it'll go 300 yards but I have to hit it
straight I'm not good at doing that I have a nasty slice the reason why I
I have a nasty slices because I played baseball before I played golf and I you break your wrists, right?
When you swing through you don't you shouldn't do that with golf.
So I always dip my elbow like you keep your elbow up and dip your elbow right and you go to swing a baseball bat.
I do that in golf and I slice every time I hit the most disgusting slice.
It's got something that's really popular golf's cool.
I don't mind golf.
Golf's nice but look at this picture.
Holy crap.
Oh, that's mint.
The reason why I don't have a lot of time to play golf is because I'm busy looking
at stuff like this.
Whoa.
We should play golf on the moon.
We should flip. No, the right sentence is again. Yeah, there you go. You did it.
Yeah, RJ, I agree with you. Don't they have a bit of fuel left to decrease the re-entry
speed by doing a quick burn before re-entry? Would that be viable? Yeah, Starwalker, of
course you could. Guys, Orion probably has about enough fuel. They have enough fuel on
board the service module, probably slow down maybe 500 miles an hour. Maybe. There's
not enough to slow down from 24,000 miles an hour like there's some fuel on
there but the heat shield that's really the heat shield's job
that that was piss it was pee I'm sorry it was solidified urine from the way
stump that Victor said he was going to do
Sorry. Sorry to be real.
So Orion has an open loop waste water system.
The reason why is a water reclamation system was too heavy. Too much mass for this capsule.
Orion's heavy. It already weighs 25 tons. So they made the waste water system open loop.
Funny because they keep the solid waste on board.
probably because probably for the same reasons a solid waste jettison system was
probably too complicated to do and probably increased the mass of the
capsule too much so yeah if you see like snowflakes see something that looks
like a blizzard coming off the capsule they're dumping wastewater it's piss
sorry I don't mean to be real but it's it's piss
that ain't no meteor what you got there is a big old chunk of duty what oh
oh yeah we call them bow and bombers
would you give adam and rea shout out in the u k please
short empty
adjusted
is five thousand Fahrenheit temperature during reentries the temperature of the
boundary layer the heat shield itself
uh... that's max that's most likely the temperatures that you're gonna get on
the surface surface temperature of the heat shield which came first your space
bugger KSP my space bug by a year or so I started really getting into space I'm
in space take up five subs thank you very much I started getting into space
around 2009 2010 and then Kerbal made that way worse when I first
played it and I've been playing since 16.2 in the beta so that would have been 2012.
I remember when my buddy told me about Kerbal Space Program he goes dude you gotta buy this
game you'll love it it's the last game you'll ever play.
I remember those words distinctly.
Yeah, he wasn't wrong.
I have 20,000 hours in KSP.
20,000.
Can you do this in KSP?
Sure.
I'll probably show you guys this mission in at least
the Curbelized version of this mission on Monday
if you have time permitting.
OK, so if Orion is 25 tons, how much more mass
Could they take on the on if they extended the solid rocket boosters by say 10 meters and add propellant
The the solid rocket boosters matter already extended their five segment boosters this they were four segments on the shuttle
So they already did that. I mean SLS has a throw weight
SLS even in this configuration you could put a hundred tons of whatever you want
Uh
On top of the core actually it's more like 200 tons
You could put, you know, 200 tons of upper stage and payload easily on top of the core stage and it could get it up into space.
There's pictures of the recovery vessel up there. There's the Mertha. You see, there's the well deck.
See, they got pictures from the naval recovery ship over there. There's the onboard.
This is mission control in Houston here.
The hardware requirements should not be high for KSA. Look at that picture, dude.
The problem with SLS, dude, if we wanted to shoot more payload off into space in one shot
is the upper stage.
The upper stage is the interim cryogenic propulsion stage.
It's kind of anemic comparatively to the rest of the vehicle.
Think about like if you had a Falcon 9 and you put a Falcon 1 stage on top of it.
Falcon 9 could put way more into space with a Falcon 9 upper stage on top of it,
right?
What's going on with SLS with its third stage?
It needs a bigger third stage.
It needs a stage that has what's called
more characteristic energy.
The load analysis has already been done
to be able to put a bigger upper stage on SLS.
You could put one up there.
It can withstand it structurally.
We just gotta do it.
Chad has entered slow-moan.
I should know this, but have you made SLS?
I haven't made an exact copy of SLS in Kerbal now.
Chiefs and integrity, could you go off-board on the cameras for a couple of minutes?
So, how...
In what?
So, how open do you think NASA is to the idea of constructing on orbit?
I think they tried doing that with the Shuttle low-gardener and it didn't work very well.
That's because they couldn't get the Shuttle operating on a normal schedule.
So, probably not for a little while.
Ron, what distance from Earth's...
An integrity cab three is not straining
Moonsuits
Probably the the last phases of right before entry it's good. It's gonna come up real quick
So we're moving we're ex we're logarithmically gaining speed as we move closer to her
So that's like mathematically
Basically, they're just going to keep accelerating and as they get closer to Earth, the rate
of acceleration goes up even higher because the gravitational pull goes higher.
It gets bigger once you get towards Earth, right?
So if the gravitational pull, the gravitational acceleration is bigger, the capsule is just
going to keep accelerating and the rate of acceleration is going to go up until you
get near it.
So it's gonna look like we're a long ways away for a little while and then it's just gonna
come up real fast.
Time is splashdown.
Beppy splashdown is in four hours and 30 minutes.
What is the speed right now?
That's broken.
They're traveling at about 7,000 miles an hour, 38,000 miles off of the deck from
Earth.
The correct form is integral over distance, not logarithmic.
Yeah, I was thinking of Delta D. You're right.
I said that wrong.
Forgive me, Martin, it has been a long week.
What would the craft need to do to re-enter from Leo?
Grip Lord, you'd have to bleed off.
You have to bleed off about 6,000 miles an hour worth of speed to re-circularize, to reinsert
into low earth orbit.
There's not 6,000 miles an hour worth of deceleration in this thing.
thing probably has maybe it could probably slow you down by like maybe 500
maybe
why is the earth half covered because it's nighttime on half of the earth of
year it's Saturday morning in Australia right now and you could see
Australia just right there. Yeah, that's what nighttime looks like for orbit, dude.
I've played Elite Dangerous, Prince, but I don't play it all the time. Elite Dangerous is,
I like how real spacecraft flies. Dude, I used to like sci-fi stuff. I'm a Star Wars and a
Star Trek nerd just as much as the next guy, but once you start figuring out how real spacecraft
fly it's like uh yeah that's cool too i guess like so i don't play much lead dangerous or star citizen
for that matter they're good games like the elites cool and star citizen is cool but
i like sticking to like curbel games where spacecraft actually fly like spacecraft you know what i mean
will reentry happen over australia no how's it's gonna it's gonna zip remember i said we're
We're over Australia right now
and the earth is spinning, right?
And the earth is gonna spin with the capsule
for a little bit, but eventually Earth's gravity
will pull the capsule in where it exceeds the earth's spin rate
and it's gonna fly out over the Pacific.
Entry interface is somewhere near Hawaii
and splashdown is somewhere near San Diego
in Southern California.
So that's on the west coast of the United States.
It'll take 13 minutes to go from entry interface
to splashdown and they enter near Hawaii
anybody that's ever flown to hawaii knows that from california knows that
that is not a quick flight
thirteen minutes
crazy uh...
has an engine ever actually work as a heat shield in real life yes falcon nine
falcon nine first stage as an entry burn what do you think the first stage
is doing just slowing it down
that's supersonic retro propulsion whatever falcon nine whenever falcon nine
comes in for a landing in desert entry burn
engine is firing not just to slow the booster down but to out gas to keep the booster protected.
They use the engine exhaust in a similar way that the heat shield out gases and envelops the
capsule in a cooler column of gas. Yeah, Jar. Good question. No, Mellie, they'll be all right.
I have to play in case be at the turn my brain off when watching most sci-fi movies.
Yes, that's generally the case.
Once you figure out, once you can rationalize it in your head how real spacecraft fly, like
sci-fi movies just get, ooh, what's that guy got to eat?
The MPO.
What do you, what do you got there?
That's the guy that controls the solar panels.
Looked like some, looks like some chicken, yummy.
last for a re-entry in ISS Math. Interesting fact, according to its current position, in
my bad math, the ISS might be able to see parts of re-entry. Looking good. Why the suit, though?
every day we have people returning from the moon black eagle look I'm not gonna
say that I didn't have an idea that a lot of people would be interested in this
but I kind of saw it coming so if this is gonna be this the stream that
everybody's gonna see me in for the like see me potentially for the first
time I want to make sure I look good this cosmos welcome to
control you go a throttle up
when it is push ups being scheduled
sometime after recovery do how much time remaining they got about four and a
half hours left in space
over most of you know
suppress them on the channel but on tars and i'm
hopefully you learn something here that's my that's my goal
sappy's jack mister gd time
we've got subs coming up and right thank you very much
Thank you, Nassim and I know what space engine is Tom.
Yep.
This is a three suit mission.
Yep.
That's right.
I hope everything will be all right.
Yeah, me too.
Me too.
Suits good.
Yep.
We will see more crew on board.
Yep.
You have your tuxedo picked up for Artemis for now.
I'm not wearing a tuxedo.
I'm wearing the best discovery.
Go with throttle up.
John, I did review some of the numbers last night. Not that that is really important to
me. It's important to educate people, but I don't let my metrics drive the stream.
I do what I think is interesting and people show up, you know. But I did look at them
just because I was curious. Let's just say if there's a graph that represents viewers
before Artemis II was like this and then during Artemis II was up here and I'll
bet you it just goes back down when we're done but that's okay that's okay
that's what I was expecting you know actually I wasn't really expecting
anything I would be here if there was 500 watching I'd be there if there's
50,000 watching it doesn't matter I'm here for space that's the important
thing I don't let metrics drive my stream I let content drive my stream yeah
I know, I know.
Hey, Exelage, thank you for the 500 bits.
Thanks for being here with me throughout the week.
Houston integrity, step nine is complete.
The seats are configured.
Step nine's good.
And all seats are in configuration for action.
Can you think I can see?
Oh, oh, this is space.
I'm in space.
Sintel, thank you.
This is mission control Houston
at a mission elapsed time of eight days,
21 hours, five minutes into the flight of integrity
on the Artemis II mission.
Several countdown clocks are ticking backward here
in the flight control room as the Earth grows larger
and larger in the field of view.
The in order, the next major milestone
will be a raise burn of the crew module.
That raise burn will follow the separation of the crew
module from the service module this evening.
The separation of the crew module is scheduled at 6.33pm central time.
Four minutes later at 6.37pm central time will conduct about a 19 second raise burn.
This is a slight maneuver to tilt up the aft end of integrity and a final opportunity
to fine tune the angle of attack that integrity will incur as it enters the Earth's atmosphere
over the Pacific Ocean.
We should get most of reentry, Georgia, yeah, but in terms of on-boards through phases of
reentry, unlike the plasma, the plasma that happens that during reentry from IONOS.
The entry path for integrity today is portrayed here in this graphic.
The entry interface is 1,701 nautical miles uprange, if you will, from the expected splashdown
point near the USS John Murtha, the recovery ship, and off the coast of San Diego.
The entry interface point is critical because what we want to do is put integrity in an
orientation that will mitigate peak heating on the heat shield for a point of comparison
during Artemis-1 we had an entry range of 3,178 nautical miles from the point of entry
interface and a 20 minute entry profile that was the so-called skip entry in which the
Artemis-1 vehicle dipped into the atmosphere to dissipate some energy, then lofted or
skipped out of the atmosphere, then dipped a second and final time back into the atmosphere
before splashing down.
But that resulted in was a higher heat load on the heat shield which caused unexpected
char liberation.
So rather than design the heat shield or replace it for Artemis II, we elected to go into a
different trajectory profile.
This one with a max entry range of 1,775 nautical miles or in today's case all of
our maneuvers and orbital mechanics will take us 1,701 nautical miles down range
from the point of entry interface.
This will only be a 13 and a half minute entry profile for integrity in its astronauts and
results in a much lower heat load on the heat shield.
This is deliberate so that we have the lessening effect of charring on the heat shield should
there be any at all and we do expect some.
But this will more than protect the astronauts from the effects of peak heating which
which will be some 4 to 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit during the maximum peak heating around the
vehicle that will also cause a 6 minute blackout because of ionization as heat is repelled
or thwarted from the heat shield while the vehicle flies in the direction of travel towards
splashdown.
The raise burn that places us in our final orientation for angle of attack into entry
interface that raise burn is scheduled at 637 p.m. central time.
Entry interface itself is scheduled at 653 and 31 seconds p.m. central time when we
hit the top of the Earth's atmosphere at an altitude of 400,000 feet traveling
about 34,800 feet per second.
We expect our peak velocity, just a few moments later, and that peak velocity is forecast by
flight dynamics to be 34,965 feet per second, or 23,839 miles an hour.
Now this all occurs after we begin the blackout period of six minutes.
We will lose communications with the vehicle just 24 seconds after we enter the Earth's
atmosphere or entry interface as you see there.
This is an expected six minute blockout that will begin at 6.53 and 55 seconds p.m. central
time and will last almost until 7 p.m. straight up central time.
Once we regain communications with the crew following the blockout, we will continue
a series of roll reversals.
These are gentle rolls to the left and back to the right, essentially bleeding off excess
energy and excess heat on the vehicle as we approach the splashdown site.
The vehicle is expected to go subsonic at 7.02 and 25 seconds PM central time.
That's about 8.5 or almost 9 minutes after the beginning of entry interface.
And at that point, we will be at an altitude of 59,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean.
A series of parachute deployments will begin.
The first of that will be the forward bay cover parachutes that will basically pull
the top forward bay cover off the very top of the vehicle, allowing other parachute deployment
activities to occur.
The forward bay cover shoot deployment is scheduled at 7.03 and 22 seconds p.m. central time at
an altitude of 23,946 feet.
The forward bay cover parachutes are used in conjunction with pyrotechnic thrusters
to ensure the separation of that forward bay cover protecting Orion and its parachutes
during the heat of reentry.
that there'll be the deployment of drogue shoots these are two drogue parachutes 23 feet in diameter
these are drogue shoots will be deployed at an altitude of 23,483 feet at this point our velocity
will have slowed from almost 24,000 feet per second to just 470 feet per second in a matter of
minutes. Three pilot parachutes will be used to lift and deploy the main parachutes from
the crew module forward bay. Those main parachutes, three of them, are used to slow the crew module
down to a land to a splash down at a speed that ensures astronaut safety. Each main
parachute 265 feet in length from the crew module attachment to the top when inflated.
The main shoot deployment is scheduled at 7.04 and 44 seconds PM central time.
Now that's just 11 minutes and 13 seconds after the start of entry interface.
At this point we'll be at an altitude of 5,445 feet above the Pacific.
And splashdown to complete this mission is scheduled at 7.07 and 7 seconds PM central
time, 507 p.m. Pacific time, two and a half hours before sunset, the crew will splash down
in the Pacific southwest of San Diego at a gentle rate of just 19 miles an hour.
32 KPH.
One of the cylindrical things of the oxygen crisis.
Following splashdown, it's like control team here in Houston is not done.
work is just beginning at that point as we begin the process of powering down the vehicle.
This is after we have established communications with the crew through a very low data rate
system. The communications link will no longer be active through the tracking and data relay
satellite system so we're going to be going to a very low data rate system. We hope to
establish communications with the crew fairly rapidly that's not guaranteed. It depends
on the orientation of the vehicle, the likelihood is the vehicle will land, will splash down
upright in what's known as stable one.
Whether it's upright or in some other orientation will begin the process of inflating five
inflatable airbags that are positioned in a circumferential manner around the forward
bay cover at the top of integrity.
These airbags will be inflated through helium.
These five airbags will guarantee the proper orientation upright for the spacecraft through
the rest of the process of extracting the crew, which should take some 45 minutes to an hour
to complete.
Navy divers, fast boats, a pair of Navy helicopters, other recovery personnel will come alongside
the vehicle to begin erecting an inflatable raft called the front porch that the crew
will be extracted into.
You've seen that in movies, you've seen it in the Apollo program in archival footage,
and one by one the crew will be hoisted in alternating fashion to two hovering Navy helicopters
for the trip back to the deck of the USS John Murtha where they will leave the helicopters
and move into Medical Bay on the ship for comprehensive medical examinations.
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Why don't they fish Orion into the ship like SpaceX does with Dragon?
The short story is that NASA has a U.S. Navy at its disposal and the Navy has much cooler
toys that go out on the ocean than SpaceX does.
You don't want the astronauts to have their own helicopter?
Like, sorry, it's just the truth.
I mean, do you want to be...
Has the astronauts...
Do you want to be picked up by a converted oil rig tender or do you want to be picked
up by a fricking aircraft carrier like I'm just saying.
The Navy's going to be out there doing drills anyway.
I don't know what it's called.
What is it called when you go out to sea and train?
I don't know what that's called.
I forget the term.
They're going to be out there anyway.
Sea Trials is more for the ship.
It is Sea Trials.
Okay, Sea Childs for the crew as well, that's sweet.
They're gonna be out there anyway, so they might as well.
The burn, that raise burn is scheduled.
No, they don't need these.
At 6.37 PM central time,
if they don't need the MCF geese
in the mobile containment facility,
they don't need that because they didn't go to the moon.
Yeah, so why are they being recovered by helicopters
and not just being dragged into the well deck?
The Navy has cooler toys. I'm sure SpaceX had access to a bunch of Blackhawks in a in an amphibious platform
docking an LPD they would they would use it, but
Is that Australia we're looking at Australia's down here JDG yep, mm-hmm
Actually, there's Seahawks
Their SH 60s not UH 60s UH 60s is the army
So it's a Navy variant of the UH 60
Are we going to watch the reentry video?
I kind of ran out of time.
The sequence of events that's going to happen from here on out is pretty heavy.
If we want to learn more about it, maybe another day or after this mission, we will.
Just going under way and we have specific events with names like individual assessment.
Yep, yep, yep.
Houston integrity, Jackie, steps 10 and 11 are complete.
Yeah, Seahawk, that, yeah. I don't like that name, I guess, so I'm just going to call it
in the 60s.
Houston copies, steps 10 and 11. You guys are on track looking great.
I don't like that name, man. I'm a Patriots fan. I hate that name.
How many space bug victims are needed to reach the moon? 400,000 if we're going to
quantify it. That's what it took for Apollo.
Hello.
For those just joining, this view of the key players here in mission control, part of a
flight control team, Rick Henfling, second from the right is the entry flight director
for this mission, seated to his left is Judd Freeling, who was the flight director for
Ascent back on April 1st.
Jackie Mahaffey is second from the left.
She is the Capcom whose voice you'll be hearing
throughout the course of the afternoon and evening
talking directly to integrity's astronauts
through splashdown.
Stan Love, veteran astronaut,
is on the far left of your screen.
He was the Ascent Capcom.
He's joining Mahaffey today as a second set of eyes
on all the data that we'll be discussing
and hearing from the crew during the course
their high-speed entry back into the Earth's atmosphere.
Yeah everything everything's going fine here guys just on a nice even
timeline once again we are in cabin reconfigure cabin reconfiguration
they're basically getting ready oh oh oh this is based I'm in space
get to the sub. Thank you. They're getting ready. They're setting up the cabin for re-entry.
Be basically the airplane equivalent of taking your train seat back and stowing it in the upright
and locked position. After that, they'll don their suits and then entry is scheduled for
8.0, well no, it's about 7.30 p.m. Eastern time. The whole, this whole kind of thing,
CM separation, entry interface and splashdown.
The whole entry process is gonna take about 45 minutes,
but from entry interface to splashdown,
it's about 13 minutes.
And then from there, it's,
after splashdown,
mission control will power down the capsule
and then they leave the capsule and the crew
in the very capable hands of the United States Navy
for recovery operations.
Who is the lead CAPCOM?
The lead CAPCOM communicator that's on console right now is Jackie Mahaffey.
Lead flight director for the descent phase of the mission is Rick Henfling.
And he's being assisted by Judd Friedling, who was the ascent flight director for this mission.
Orbital speed at entry interface 95 is 24,000 miles, 24,000 miles an hour in change.
We're about 400,000 kilometers an hour and this is Mission Control Houston.
You can see one of the helicopters that will be involved in the recovery operation.
That's cool, man.
Having taken off from the deck of the USS John P. Murtha, recovery operations are underway.
Several helicopters will be employed not just for recovery, but for imagery activities.
Okay.
That was good.
Earth's getting awfully close, dudes.
That was an SH-60 once again.
It's called a Seahawk, but I don't like that name.
Now we can call it that, that's fine.
On the deck of the John P. Murtha, a view of multiple views, camera views that are
being provided to us courtesy of the USS John.
So this is the well deck. The John P. Murtha is a landing platform docking vessel or LPD
for short. It's like half aircraft carrier, half troop transport, or half helicopter carrier
I should say. It's designed for rotary wing crafts, so like MV-22s, SH-60s, MH-53s, basically
helicopters and tilt rotors. You don't land planes on this thing. The Murtha is
equipped with a well deck, you could see it down there. The well deck in kind of quote-unquote
normal operations can house two landing craft air cushions or LCACs for short. The reason why the
Mertha is kind of like half helicopter carrier, half troop transport is because this thing is
designed to carry an entire, I'm about to say compliment but that's not the right word,
Battalion of Marines, forgive me, I've never served, I don't know.
It's basically an expeditionary force, that's what it's called, that's what it's called.
It carries an entire marine expeditionary force usually for assaulting beaches, because
that's what Marines do.
Marines are amphibious, they're ground troops with amphibious, specialties in amphibious
warfare.
So like going from the sea to the air, going from sea to sea.
to say would be more historical though. So the LPD has the well deck for amphibious operations
to carry landing crafts. The landing craft nowadays aren't like the Higgins boats that
you see during like in saving private Ryan. They're called LCACs, Landing Craft Air Cushions.
They're hover crafts, which are pretty neat. But they're not doing any of that today.
The Murther today is loaded down with a couple of SH-60s, those Seahawk helicopters,
is four of them and the well deck is empty
and most likely it's not carrying an MEU on it.
It's probably a skeleton crew up on the ship there
and just NASA recovery personnel.
They're carrying a bunch of rigid inflatable boats
or ribs for short.
You saw that on the split view
and those will help assist with recovery operations.
It is carrying, they are carrying Navy divers,
some Navy Diver personnel and Navy SNR, search and rescue personnel as well.
What does EJ stand for?
Eric Johnson, Space Administration.
Houston integrity for toilet computer for return.
You're not going to see the reentry, 95. It's too far offshore.
Go ahead.
We have an empty canister. Can you confirm that I don't need to do steps 1.2 to 1.4?
Checking.
Bull Navy compliment. That would be the right way to say it. No Marines on the way.
And Christina, we concur you do not need to perform the steps you listed.
Yeah, that's a better way to say that.
Thanks, Becky.
We hear the boom on re-entry. No, sunflower. It's way too far offshore.
I mean, maybe if the conditions are right, you might be able to hear it in San Diego,
but even if you could, it would be a very small audible thump.
You wouldn't be able to hear it.
You'd barely hear it comparatively to like background noise.
Well, we won't get any recording from inside the capsule.
We might be able to get some views,
but for six minutes during reentry,
we're not gonna be able to get anything.
Do they record from inside?
Yeah, we will get footage after the capsule.
Oh, they took some bandwidth away from the cameras.
We'll get footage on board on in from the inside when they come back down they yeah, Orion, dude, even this camera right here. It's all recording in high depth. There we go. They allotted more bandwidth. Yeah, the picture got clear.
So
When a craft goes through reentry guys, they
So, what happens during reentry?
The capsule is going to come in and it's going to hit the atmosphere.
The atmosphere, this is air.
It's got nitrogen and oxygen in it, right?
Even all the way up there where the capsule is coming in the land.
What's going to happen is air is going to start hitting the heat shield.
When air hits the heat shield, it's going to start compressing.
When that air compresses, it gets so ridiculously hot because when you compress gases,
gets hotter per the ideal gas law, right? When that air gets hotter, it's going to ionize.
It'll rip apart. The capsule's going so fast that it rips apart the air that hits it. The
collision is so hardcore it rips air molecules apart. When that happens, when the air molecules
get ripped apart, you get dissociation and ionization. And what that does is make plasma.
And that plasma makes kind of a shell around the capsule and it's hard to get radio signals
through that.
Thank you.
At this point here I realized I didn't grab your bag of chips if you want them or…
Please.
Okay, I'll be right back.
Thank you.
Food.
So, the plasma prevents you can't broadcast a signal through a sheet of plasma, that's
not a thing.
Got the supply drop.
Is this PowerPoint something to be shared?
It's a NASA document, and yeah, I'll share it in both chats.
So yeah, you can't, you can't,
so the technical way to say it is that
you can't get a signal through the bow shock.
That's not a thing.
And the recompression makes it tough
to get a signal in backwards as well.
Yeah, mob farmer, I don't know, he might,
I don't think he's here.
When they reenter, are they just sitting in the seats,
are they fidgeting with controls and stuff?
The reentry is automatic, try Danielson.
It's controlled by the computers,
but Reed has the controls,
he has his hands on the controls just in case.
If he sees a scenario that where you might need
to take control of the capsule, or not might,
where you do need to take control of the capsule,
he will.
But that's most likely not going to happen.
It's there as a better to have it
and not need it than not have it scenario.
When will Orion separate?
about three hours from now and change probably a little bit more.
How did the heat shield do on Artemis One?
It did okay clockwork, but they needed to read, it needs a redesign.
This is the same heat shield as Artemis One, and they're going to fly it up.
They're flying this on a slightly different trajectory to make sure that the same things that happen to the Artemis One,
happen to the Artemis-1 heat shield don't happen to this one. Are those tornadoes? No.
Those are atmospheric systems. They do that. Stuff swirls around on Earth. Yeah. If it
swirls around too much, then it can become a cyclone, a hurricane, stuff like that.
The Apollo astronauts do manual re-entry, not to my knowledge, Mason. Maybe once as
test but I don't think so. I know they did that with the shuttle. Joe Angle and Richard Trilley on
STS-2 flew a manual re-entry the whole way down, which is pretty hardcore. That's pretty cool. They
got Columbia Home on manual, which is... All right. Hey, pal. What's up, dude?
I like it if you think any of these astronauts will be on Artemis-3.
Some, they probably won't be on us like a subsequent mission. We probably won't see
read Victor, Christina and Jeremy on Artemis 3 or even Artemis 4. Maybe, I mean, it's possible,
but what read Jeremy, what read Jeremy, Christina and Victor are going to do is really,
now they're going to train people for Orion. They're going to train other crews to do this.
That's what they did during Apollo. If you sent a crew up for a test flight,
for some of the Apollo test flights, like that would be Apollo 8, 9 and 10, right?
They ended up getting data on how the stuff flies, and then they handed off that data to the Apollo 11 and 12 crews.
And then we started seeing repeat crews by the time Apollo 13 came around. Thank you very much.
I love you. Have fun.
Thanks, baby. I love you.
My wife brought me food. Very nice.
Is the heat shield get used up and a blade of heat shield is a one-time use thing
It'll need to be replaced, but Orion itself the capsule is reusable
You just got to replace the heat shield and a couple of other components
Zardemus 2 near T-dress
No, they're above T-dress right now. They're not gonna get a signal with it for a little while, but
You guys remember when the speed when they were out at the moon the speed was like 900 miles an hour
and it wasn't really moving look at it now and as they get closer to earth that
speed is gonna pick up earth's gravity is gonna pull them in they're gonna keep
accelerating because gravitational pull gets get stronger once you get near the
planet so what I'm going to do here guys is I'm going to stop real quick I'm
gonna grab a meal and yeah I'll just I'm just gonna take a couple minutes
here, eat some food, and then I will be back.
Once again, we're about four hours.
Actually, we're four hours on the dot
to splash down from now.
This is Eric Johnson, Mission Control,
with a brief loss of signal.
I'll be back in a moment.
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This is mission control Houston, eight days 21 hours, 38 minutes into the flight of integrity on the Artemis II mission.
On board, all is quiet as it is here in mission control, with everything moving along in trip hammer fashion in good shape,
all of integrity systems in great shape, and the weather at the splashdown zone off the coast of San Diego.
couldn't be better. A forecast of go conditions with winds of just 10 knots,
wave heights less than four feet, ideal conditions for the recovery of Reed
Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Cook, and Jeremy Hansen, following their
splashdown, which is just three hours and 53 minutes from now.
The next major milestone coming up in three hours and 19 minutes that will be the separation
of the crew module from the European service module that has performed perfectly during
the course of the flight.
The service module separation from the crew module scheduled at 6.33 p.m. central time.
Just four minutes later there will be a slight maneuver, a raise burn as it is called.
So we'll tilt the aft end of the crew module upward ever so slightly in one final opportunity
to refine the flight path angle, the angle of attack if you will, as integrity enters
the Earth's atmosphere at the point called entry interface.
That is at 6.53 and 31 seconds p.m. central time or some 16 minutes after the raise
burn itself.
All of these events will be happening fairly rapidly as we move over the next few hours
toward a splashdown of the crew and a completion of a mission that will have totaled 694,481
miles from launch to splashdown.
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for time line. Christina, we're with you. Hey Jackie, you guys okay if we start entry
checklist 30 minutes early? Checking.
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At the Federal Reserve a coin press broke down but they can't find out why.
The mechanic says, it just doesn't make any sense.
And integrity Houston for entry checklist.
We are ready for you to begin 18 decimal, 0 decimal, 1 entry checklist, steps 1 through
6.
Copy.
Copy, we're go entry checklist one through six.
Thanks.
And step three for GPS can be skipped.
GPS has been powered and it still looks good.
Copy step three is a skip.
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This is Mission Control Houston at a mission elapsed time of eight days, 21 hours, 50 minutes
into the flight of integrity on the Artemis-2 mission.
The crew is completing the configuration of the crew cabin.
Soon they'll be breaking out their launch and entry suits in preparation for doming
those suits and conducting leak checks as we get a bit further along in the entry preparation
time frame.
Meanwhile, we're looking forward to the next major milestone that will be the separation
of the crew module from the European Service Module, three hours and seven minutes from
now. That schedule to occur at 6.33 p.m. Central Time, 7.33 p.m. Eastern Time. Four minutes
after that we'll conduct a raise burn. This will be about a 19 second firing of Integrity's
thrusters with a change in velocity of 9.9 feet per second that will adjust the
angle of attack of the vehicle by gently tipping the aft end of integrity
higher if you will like sitting in a reclining chair and basically leaning
back a bit. This angle of attack adjustment is specifically designed and
pre-planned to enter the Earth's atmosphere at entry interface later this
evening at the proper angle to minimize heating effects on integrity's heat shield.
It's worth mentioning once again that the difference between this entry and the
The uncrewed entry of Artemis-1 is that on Artemis-1 we flew a trajectory known as a
skip entry which involved an initial dip into the atmosphere to dissipate some energy and
then we lofted back out of the atmosphere briefly then dipped back in a second time
before splashing down into the Pacific.
After the flight, the post-flight inspection and video analysis showed that there was
an area of mechanical Char liberation that was not expected.
And so after extensive analysis and the review of an independent review team, it was determined
to adjust the entry profile for Artemis II, minimizing the range of entry from 3,178
nautical miles to a distance of just 1,775 nautical miles across the Pacific.
instead of 20 minutes of exposure to heating effects, today we're going to
only encounter 13 and a half minutes of heat loads on the vehicle. Our intended
splashdown target is about 1,701 nautical miles downrange from the point
of entry interface. It will be about 13 and a half minutes from the time
that we enter the Earth's atmosphere at an altitude of 400,000 feet at 653 and 31 seconds
p.m. central time to the point of splashdown at 707 and 7 seconds p.m. central time.
In that brief 13 and a half minute period, peak heating on the vehicle should be about
4 to 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit, the heat to be repelled by integrity's heat shield
as it is for any vehicle entering the Earth's atmosphere that has a crew on board.
The crew should be experiencing a G-load on their bodies of about 3.9 Gs at peak loads on the crew members,
feeling the tug of Earth's gravity for the first time in nine days.
We will decelerate from a speed of 23,839 miles an hour, just after we begin the blackout
period of six minutes in duration to a splashdown velocity of just 19 miles an hour, all that
happening in rapid fire succession.
now three hours and 36 minutes from now. 707 p.m. central time, 507 p.m. Pacific
time, the USS John P. Murtha is on station.
Some of the airborne assets, helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft are
taking off in sequential fashion from the deck of the ship. These are imagery
assets, the actual Navy recovery helicopters that will hoist the crew out of the front
porch inflatable raft that will be erected alongside the hatchway to integrity.
And there's a view, a live view from the deck of the USS John P. Murtha.
It is a bit overcast.
We do expect those clouds to lift a bit over the next few hours.
We should have some broken and scattered clouds.
It won't be crystal clear blue skies out there in the Pacific, but the weather is go and forecast
to be go by the spaceflight meteorology group.
The Navy helicopters will be hovering over the spacecraft once it is powered down and
once it is guaranteed to be uprided through the inflation of the five crew module upriding
system airbags that will take place shortly after splashdown.
Navy divers and Navy flight surgeon will pull alongside the spacecraft to begin the process
of erecting the front porch, then they will open up the hatch and begin to extract the
crew members one by one.
They'll have an opportunity to get their land legs back a bit before they're hoisted
one by one and harnesses up inside the two awaiting helicopters.
be hoisted up in alternating fashion so there'll be two crew members for each helicopter for
the short ride back to the Mertha once they arrive on the deck of the ship they'll be brought
into medical bay for comprehensive medical exams.
Oh that's cool, look look look!
The post-flight medical evaluation of these crew members as they complete their mission
around the moon and back to earth.
Oh come on no who did that crap
Who's directing this I
Have no running water out here Adam, that's why
Yeah, maybe if I go away they'll bring it back ready
Well, well, that didn't work.
So cool thing, guys, we'll just jump back to it real quick.
See how the guys have different color shirts on?
Those are different jobs on anything that receives aircraft.
at helicopters or fixed wing, right? So, the blue guys are plane handlers, red guys are
ordinance, green is maintenance, yellow is the, what are they, the aircraft director,
white is the, like QC, basically, they're called landing signal officers, and if there's
purple that's they're called grapes they're in charge of fuel red is ordinance
yeah all the different guys with different color shirts have different jobs on the deck the reason
why they wear different color shirts so it's easy to see who's doing what
why is red there i don't know
So what's blue?
Plane handlers.
They're the ones that move the planes around on the deck.
If the weather deteriorates, what is the typical contingency?
They can fly the capsule to different recovery areas on the track mix.
They can either slow down or they can slow down or they can speed up during reentry.
are the people there not afraid of life. I don't know what that means.
No, these are different than Star Trek red shirts. Red shirts are the ordnance guys.
Well, yeah. Is it paused? Yeah. I just wanted to show that. I think that's cool.
I think you get a different amount of points based on the color if you knock them over.
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, no.
Yeah, yeah, no, yeah, that's a good point.
Go ahead Jackie.
Hey Reed, couple of questions for you.
We realized we didn't give you an explicit thumbs up
to perform step one decimal two
for the flight path angle.
Hash mark update, so we wanted to confirm
that you did in fact perform the set EI FPA
limits procedure.
And secondly, we want your opinion on the in-and-out CMIS caution.
Is that something that will be distracting such that we should inhibit it?
That was the back of mission control, that's right.
Okay, we are going to go to execute 1.2, we have skipped that, and we would prefer to
inhibit the FEMA's caution on board.
Okay, we copy, and just to close the loop on that, that will mean on flight dot landing
you would not have a yellow or down arrow indication if that does stay below the threshold.
You know what? I want to see what that looked like at the beginning of the day.
And that is totally fine.
So that's what it was.
A raft called a front porch.
That's what it was at the beginning of the day.
And that's what it was. Oh my goodness.
Oh, we're coming in, we're coming in, coming in fast, dudes.
Mission elapsed time, eight days, 22 hours, two minutes, 40 seconds.
Currently the crew's reconfiguring the cabin.
They're moving everything around, getting the seats,
get in the seats, train seat back in the upright and locked position and then once the cabin
is configured for entry that's when they put the suits on, do a suit leak check and then
we're in.
Yeah, Fray, it's pretty crazy.
I saw your email, Mark, thank you very much, dude, yeah, you didn't need to do that.
I'll have to look.
P.D. Rothdeb, what's up, dude?
Thank you, Welcome to Michigan Troll.
You're going throttle up.
Talk about being a bunch of prints from the NSF shop.
I appreciate it, man.
Thank you.
Give me one second.
Discovery, go at throttle up.
Give me one second, Mark. I'm just getting on that real quick.
Hey, Oxos, 52 month resub.
Melvin with the 20 bits.
you
All right, sorry. I just need to send another email. Dude, it's been done. Yep. Guys, we're about two hour
Two hours and 20 minutes away from
Actually, it's more like two hour 30 minutes away from splashdown here. Hey, Nick's tier one six months in advance
73 total. Thank you very much. Oxsauce out of 52 in there. Is this live? It looks a little far away still. Yes, Eichlin
As you get closer to earth when you come back from the moon, you're constantly accelerating
The reason why you're constantly accelerating is because the closer you get to Earth, the
more the gravitational acceleration.
So they're going to be accelerating all the way to entry interface, but it's going to...
It's going to...
It's not exponential.
What did we say before, derivative?
I think...
I forget.
They're going to keep getting faster and faster and faster and faster, and the last
leg of the journey will take the least amount of time because gravity is pulling them
He's tired. Yeah, Jester, I've been doing this good while. It's not logarithmic. I said it was
logarithmic before. It's not logarithmic. Delta V is logarithmic. It's integral. I forget.
So the point is that they're going to be accelerating all the way to entry interface,
so this last leg of the journey is going to take the least amount of time.
Excuse me. It does look like Earth is still far away,
but in the next two hours, they'll be on the ground.
At first sub only to say keep it up. Thanks, P.D.
Thanks, NASA man.
Can you explain it? Explain how it's a cloud planet as a gravitational pull.
Yeah, G-Class, for you kids, so something that has higher mass, so something that is more of something, has more gravitational pull.
The moon is 1 sixth the size and mass of Earth, so it has 1 sixth the gravitational pull.
The sun has more gravitational pull than everything, so the sun is trying to pull everything towards it. That's why we go around the sun.
these are this is just Isaac Newton's and actually it's more Kepler than
anything but for the kids yeah now Jeff just the bigger something is the more
gravitational pull it's going to discovery actually yeah the bigger
you know for the kids did that's probably the better way to say it yeah
count I've been awake for a long time dude math math and me I should probably
just stop doing math in public for the rest of the screen I'm usually a
a little sharper than this. Now explain calculus. Yeah see that's what I'm not gonna do. Your
weight is lighter if the moon is pulling you up. Not really. Not really. The moon doesn't
have enough gravitational pull to pull you all the way out there. The only way it does
is when you get near it. I just wanted to shout you out man. Your streams are amazing
very educational. Thanks, Benno. Appreciate you, dude. Harvester G equals M1 times M2 times G,
divided by R-screw. There you go. Thanks, Harv. Antigrity. Jackie, I have to step off for a
second. Going up for toilet. Okay, no toilet. Screw that. So, Harv, you explained it better
than me, dude. Yeah, just my brain's toasted. Acceleration is pretty much constant at 1G.
Velocity is linear. Velocity is linear to acceleration.
Position is exponential. There you go.
Yeah. Harvey, you're way smarter than I am, dude.
The formula can be expressed as G equals M1 times M2 times G divided by R squared.
There you go. Go ahead for toilet.
No, please don't make that a sub alert. Please, please.
I'll just take the toilet is powered waste tank primed
Hey, Jackie, we see a Delta V tote on our display of 9.9, which is fairly close to the 8.5 on the entry pad, but our teego on the display is 44 seconds, and the entry pad estimated 19 seconds. Can you all take a look at that force?
I'm saying to the start of entry activities, Perry, splashdown is.
Hey, Reed, good catch.
The explanation there is that Delta V is about what we expect update-wise.
But the TDO calculation is not understanding that you will not have the SM when you burn.
I think I should reserve a spot for you
in hosting the next launches.
Your work throughout this journey was phenomenal.
I remember that plan.
Thank you again and again, buddy.
I remember that plan.
It was in November of 2023 and building five
on the third floor.
Thank you very much.
Thanks, Adam.
Appreciate you, man.
Why 13 minute re-entry instead of 20?
This is Mission Control, Houston.
Commander Reed Wiseman inquiring.
So they can modulate their reentry.
They're probably shortened,
they probably shortened up the reentry just a little bit
to find, to come down in the place
that have the calmest seas.
So once again, fellas, like if you,
or ladies and gentlemen that are watching,
fellas and fellettes in the words of vice grip.
So you can change, they can fly the capsule.
It's not like just you hit entry interface
and it's like, okay, hopefully hit the,
hopefully make it near the ground.
You can steer the capsule. They can modulate the angle of attack of the heat shield.
They can change the angle of the heat shield relative to incoming velocity, right?
Relative to the direction of flight in this diagram.
They do that by stowing all the weight in one side of the capsule.
That moves the capsule's center of gravity to one side.
Center of gravity in something that's flying through the air always wants to fly first.
So if you have a center of gravity bias towards one side of your capsule,
It's going to want to fly over there first, but it's not going to because of all the air that gets compressed up against the heat shield.
It's going to want to do this, right? But it's not because the air is pushing up against it down here.
Because of this, if you roll the capsule, right?
So the capsule is like this, like it's in the picture, right?
If you roll that capsule, what it's going to do is change the angle of attack of your heat shield relative to your direction of flight.
So they can steer the thing. That's what when if you've heard Rob Navias say that they can roll the capsule left and roll the capsule right and you know do turns with the capsule. Yeah, they can slow down.
What they're basically doing like like once again, if the heat shields like this, you're trying to skip off the atmosphere.
So you can either use the heat shield as a wing or flip the capsule 180 degrees and you can use it as an airbreak to fall out of the sky.
Because they can modulate their downrange landing site by changing the angle of attack of the heat shield, they can steer the capsule down.
And what they're going to do is steer it down into,
they're going to steer it down into a point
somewhere along this line, wherever the calmest waters are.
You have a kind of a nominal area over here
where you can land.
So they're taking weather forecasts here
and they're going to find the calmest area
and then they're going to commit to that.
There you go.
That's part of what, actually that's part of what
the return trajectory correction three burn was all about.
making sure that they dialed in their trajectory to make sure the capsule comes
down and calm waters
because they can steer that thing during reentry
now now don't get me wrong when i say they can steer it i mean or when a
ryan comes through reentry it's going to come through reentry automatically
david the computers will do the steering for you
uh... what that looks like is something like this
now this is not a live shot this is not anything like that this is from a
ryan's first mission the f t one back in twenty fourteen
So you see they roll, they roll the capsule,
and by rolling the capsule, you can steer,
you can steer it in by changing the angle of attack
on your heat shield.
That's what this looks like.
What you're seeing right there,
why the flames are going dit, dit, dit, dit, dit, dit,
why that's going on is them using the roll control
thrusters, and what you're seeing is the outgassing
from the rockets that are being used to roll the capsule.
They're interacting with your shear layer
and your bow shock.
That's why you see the flames changing shape
because they're firing the RCS.
There's RCS interaction between,
well, when the thrusters fire and the shock.
That's why the flames change.
But that, yeah.
You know, why does entry, why is entry time changed?
You know, why is this happening?
You know, what if there's not calm water?
Oh, they could just change where they come down.
You just anywhere along that track, dude,
is gonna basically have,
There's got to be calm water somewhere, right?
That was actually one of the big things for this mission, like the big things for a commit
criteria for launching this. Yes, launching it like a week and a half ago was to more or less
make sure that there was going to be no storms in the area of the recovery zone. Because while
they can, you know, you can move the capsule a little bit downrange or you can move it a
little bit uprange of your original planned landing site, right? What you can't do is if there's a
storm in that area is landed at all, but you have to commit to a landing. Once they did the TLI
burn, they were committed to landing this capsule near San Diego. The TLI burn was on day three,
or no, day two, two, two, three, you get the idea. It was early in the mission. Dude,
the whole whole thing's been a blur at this point. So one of the launch commit
criteria things is making sure one of the launch commit criteria is basically okay let's launch this
thing is making sure there's going to be no storms in the area where the capsule is going to come
down at least within a nominal area but yeah that's why they're at descent time is slightly changing
maybe from a diagram that you've previously seen or you know why they're doing the return
trajectory correction or why commit criteria recovery condition commit criteria was important
for this for the launch like you if you're going to send it up there once you send it up there it's
coming down you best be making sure that it comes down in the spot where the crews are where the
recovery ships are and also you best be making that there's no storms in the area either
yeah just a little bit just a little bit a little bit of food for thought because they're
coming down you don't have a net you don't have a choice at this point it's coming down
I better hope you better hope the weathermen the the aerospace meteorologists in the area are
better than my local weatherman. My local weatherman's like, it might rain. I don't know. I don't know, dude.
What am I, the weatherman? And I'm like, yeah, you are. Please get it right next time. Yeah,
yeah, I'm not doing that. Oh, hey, weather guy, what's up?
So reentry operations are going to begin around 7 7 30. So that is in about an hour and a half.
the whole shebang bang jettison you know suiting out jettisoning the cat jettisoning the service module right doing the raise burn and then going through re-entry will culminate in a splashdown at 8.07 p.m. eastern time that is three hours and 14 minutes from right now
how much more delta v would they need to circularize in orbit
it
ryan probably has somewhere in the ballpark of like eight hundred to seven hundred meters
a second
of delta v left orbital mechanic you'd you'd need way more than that probably
TLI a high-energy TLI burn um
I forget my recall my ability to be able to recall stuff is going away
I'm getting exhausted what I was saying I think it's 3 000 las I think you're
right um somebody asked me like how I'm
feeling a little bit earlier I I'm okay I'm awake and I'm sharp but
i'm really exhausted
i've streamed the whole thing guys and even when i'm sleeping the stream is
running
and dude what what i attributed that to like it if you were to say so what
stream is running it'll be fine
if you've live stream before leaving a live stream unattended is like
nerve-wracking
i i attribute it to like if you went outside outside your house went and
started your car and then went back to sleep
it's like
you know if your car was running all night like it might be fine but you never
know right
that's the only amount of sleep that i've gotten like i've gotten i've been
sleeping with one eye open this entire week so like i've noticed that i have
my reap my ability to recall and my ability to do math has not
gotten better as we get further into this mission dude
i'm usually way better than this i tell you
Splashdown is after sunset it'll be splashing down at 507 p.m. Uh specific timepill it'll be in the daytime there
336.6 meters a second left in the ESM
So yeah, they're nowhere near close being able to recircularize how much cross range you achieve with a capsule not as much as the shuttle dude
I'd say maybe 50 nautical miles in either direction at best
Yeah, the man that they came. I didn't tell them to be here. I just appreciate their company.
Integrity Houston for a post-RTC3 tracking update.
Go ahead Houston.
Hey, the post-RTC3 tracking looks great.
So good, in fact, that if we got to CMRAs and did not yet have GPS acquisition,
we would still be go for CMRAs from that perspective.
And so, overall, I can confirm the post-RTC3 trajectory is within EI limits.
All right, Jackie, we love that.
That says a lot about our final folks in this vehicle.
This is Mission Control Houston, at tip of the hat from Canadian Space Agency astronaut
Jeremy Hansen to the Flight Dynamics folks and the guidance navigation and control officer.
The RTC-3 burn that was conducted just over two hours ago, which was basically a final
fine tuning of the trajectory of integrity.
I know it's the Flight Dynamics Officer, that's the guy in charge with the capsule moving around in space.
We are dead on the center line down the corridor and the crew module raised burn that is scheduled at 6.37pm central time and which will be conducted is only required to lift the aft end of the vehicle ever so slightly by a degree or two to improve the angle of
attack of the spacecraft as it enters the atmosphere mitigating peak heating
effects on the heat shield for integrity but our trajectory is dead set right on
the money right down the pike heading for a splash down three hours and ten
minutes from now at 707 p.m. central time 507 p.m. Pacific time
isn't it okay my brain is fried at this point is it pipe or pike isn't pike a
fish
it's a pie turn pike I think it's pipe you know in Starcraft they say in the
pipe five five five but they could say in the pike I don't know pike is in
turnpike. Alright that makes sense. Reversing turnpike. Oh okay, pike like for highway. Yeah
I know. I'm from Massachusetts. Everybody calls it the mass pike. And you call it I-90. It's
an easy way to know you're not from here, right? Like I'm sorry just the way you said
it. It's like oh yeah we are following the fish. And I'm like, huh? Mass pike dude.
oh yeah he's freaking the traffic's terrible on it newton santa
stocks right by it right by the crown plaza the traffic there always sucks it
backs up onto the exit ramp guy freaking terrible
it's not from starcraft it's from alien no it's no it's from starcraft
but they're probably referencing alien no that no they say that in starcraft
Dude, they can wicked spots wicked smart guy.
Do the crew enter survival mode?
What does that mean?
What is survival mode?
You just litter.
Yeah.
In the five five five five.
Dude, I always said they say pipe.
My stupid.
I don't know. Is it always been Pike? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know at this point.
Yeah, Granada is for real. Can you explain why Challenger didn't come back?
Um, I, yes, I can, Frosty, and dude, if you want to discuss it after read Jeremy, Christina
and Victor are back down on the ground, I am more than happy to do it.
I will not talk about rapid unplanned disassemblies when there is a crew about to re-enter from
the moon.
I'm not doing that, dude.
Does that make sense?
I think, I think that's fair.
Hell no.
We're not, we're not doing that.
After, after they're all down and on terra firma, sure, sure.
time you want dude no way all right that's fair yeah if you want if you
stick around after re-entry we can talk about it but yeah not right now no the
space gods are a thing and they are very cruel if you're not careful like like
that no no I try to not speak like that nater on stream it's not because
I'm ashamed of where I'm from. I tell everybody where I'm from. But it's more to be... I try to speak in a clear and concise voice, a news voice, right?
I try to talk that way so in case people are watching where English is not their first language, they can understand me.
When I explain stuff, I talk slow on purpose.
Reorienting the solar array wings here.
yeah it's for the canadiens yeah
coach which the bostonian
no chip on to be honest with you i grew up in the suburbs did
my e-axi of like a hint of accent
i i don't it's not thick it's not what what i do the impression it's over
exaggerated but like i said i'm not i grew up just outside the city i'm not
actually from the city the city in like
kind of the north and south shores of boston that's where the accent is
a lot
like i live on the south shore nowadays
everybody down here talks like that
on the one that doesn't
is definitely in the pipe
all that's in the park is whatever it aint in some row yeah that's what i'm
saying red
is this real and is this real why is there no light on the dark side of
earth uh... well dot
there's a sun
that's on one side of the earth and the light tends to not shine during the
nighttime dude
that's nighttime if you're talking about like city lights and stuff
this this camera do is a gopro it's a gopro hero for that's what they have
mounted to the solar ray wings
it's not good enough to be able to get you a picture like that dude
it's like
you know you could use a dsl r to take a picture of something right or you
could use your phone camera which is still good but you know it's not gonna
get you the result of a nice camera. Long story short, this is a wide angle, like if I'm on a
photography nerd for a second, this is a really wide angle that can only support so much exposure,
so you're not going to see the lights. But there's plenty of footage out there of being able to see
the lights, like from the ISS and stuff. Yeah, you can see that easily. I have a question,
where do they go to the bathroom? There is a toilet on board, Frosty. It's been,
the drainage system has been acting up the entire mission so sometimes you hear
them say hey you good for the toilet we actually I actually got a sound clip of
this listen to this dude this is my favorite sound clip that I've heard
from NASA ever ready I'm making that a stream alert after this dude
Yeah, that is the funniest thing. That and so on this mission they read Jeremy
Christine and Victor they let them bring up iPhones they have iPhones and they
have surface tablets and some of the funniest mission control loops that I've
ever heard is Mission Control trying to troubleshoot Reed Wiseman the
commander of this missions tablet because outlook doesn't outlook isn't
sinking when you're 250,000 miles away. I'm dead serious we listened to
conversation on street every
like have you tried clearing the cash over have you tried deleting cookies yeah
if you just force cookies via step force to delete cookies via step one dot
what I'm like dude this is not happening mission control tech support dude it's
the weirdest thing ever and then there's the whole bubble wrap thing maybe
the bubble wrap saw thing will play ready maybe it'll go
bubble wrap nominal ah that's something is wrong with that sound bite but I'll
I'll check into it, but yeah.
They had bubble wrap on board
because they had batteries inside of the bubble wrap
to make sure that they don't hit anything like on the way up
and Reed was like, oh yeah, I've still the bubble wrap
correctly and then Mission Control's like copy,
bubble wrap nominal.
So yeah, we've gotten some fantastic sound clips
out of this.
What else do we have?
There's a bunch of good stuff here.
I'm Ray. Thanks for the raid.
I have a question. Is that the front or is it the side of the ship that we're seeing just wondering?
So, Georgia, this is the back part of Orion. It's the, you're looking at, this camera is mounted on the solar arrays.
Orion has four of them. If you look, there's four solar arrays here.
And then the back of the capsule and that's that's where the camera is so one of the cameras is kind of like right here
These solar arrays actually have little actuator motors on them
They have a motor and they can also twist so they can do this or they can move forward and back, right?
That's to be able to put be able to point them at the Sun no matter what orientation is the capsules in the solar panel
Works better when it's pointed at the Sun right? Yeah, I know weird, right?
So these things can move back and forth. So Orion can take selfies if it needs to.
The mission control can use that to inspect stuff if they need to. But what
we're looking at here is a shot that's, nope, not from there.
Come on NASA, don't do that again. Give me one moment. What you're looking at is
a shot from this solar array right there looking at Earth. See that? There you go. Why is it
wiggling? It's wiggling because the crew is putting their spacesuits on right now. Or
at least they're doing something in the capsule that's causing it to shake back and
forth. I'm going to guess spacesuits, but you know, you should have seen it when
And they had the exercise, well not the exercise bike, they had a, they have a rowing machine
on Orion, so you could, you could work out during the coast out to the moon, when they,
when they were working the rowing machine, the whole solar panel was moving back and
forth.
I wouldn't want to do that Patrick, it might get a little messy.
So the falling towards the bright side of the earth, do they do an orbit loop or
they go straight down?
straight in
They're gonna be landing over here somewhere see where that hole in the clouds is that's where they're going
It is a direct descent here. I can show you a side profile of what that looks like
So they're gonna hit the atmosphere at about 40,000 feet. That's for the metric folks
That's a good ways above 100 kilometers
Right once they get down to 20,000 feet or
give or take it's it's not an exact thing because yeah I know feet and miles are
not intuitive I get it this is like 60 kilometers give or take they're gonna
loft the vehicle and then level off the capsule and then steer it down into its
recovery area this whole thing is gonna happen in about 13 13 minutes
The re-entry is going to happen entry interface so when they're at over a hundred kilometers
gonna be right here and then they're loft they're gonna loft right around here and then
they're gonna try to come down will not try to they're gonna come down somewhere over here
this whole thing from Hawaii to San Diego takes 13 minutes anybody that's ever flown
out there made this flight that's not a short flight but the capsule is going way
faster than an airplane, because it fell all the way from the altitude of the moon.
They're not going to skip, they're just gonna lock the trajectory down tracks.
They're not gonna skip because they were worried about gases getting trapped in the
heat shield during the skip.
If you fly on the straight loft and don't skip off the atmosphere, you can control the
amount of gas introduced into the heat shield.
I hope we get good reentry video.
Yep, yep, yep.
Adam it's going to get a little difficult for me man, what's up?
They should connect the rowing machine to a dynamo and use it to recharge the batteries.
Yeah, maybe.
I'm going to suspect that someone has probably thought of that dude, but they haven't
done it because this is a prototype capsule like this is the first time people are on boards probably
probably not we'll say it's not feature complete and call it a day how long is the communications
blackout so scott during re-entry out of those 13 minutes six minutes we will have be out of
contact with the capsule yeah exactly runny they probably didn't put a generator on there from
from the exercise machine because it's heavy.
Mass is at a premium on a spacecraft, guys.
It's gotta be as, and it's not weight,
because remember, you're in microgravity.
Weight has nothing to do with it.
Weight has nothing to do with it, Marty.
It's all about mass.
Discovery, go at throttle.
The less rocket that you have on your rocket
and the more fuel you have on your rocket,
the further the rocket can go.
And let's say some of the fuel requirements
to do these burns to get out to the moon
requires less rocket to be on your rocket.
Does that make sense?
That formula can be expressed above.
That one up there, dv, specific impulse times gravity, natural log initial over final mass.
That's the delta v formula, that's how spacecraft range is measured.
It's not about how far you can go in distance, it's about how fast you can go.
And if you want to go faster, just like a race car, less rocket on your rocket,
more fuel on your rocket means you can go further.
So mass is always at a premium.
That's why I like spaceships, because I like going fast, all right?
I like going fast.
And you know, most things that we launch around the Earth are going fast and turning left,
and I like things that go fast and turn left.
You think I'm kidding?
Houston integrity, come check from seat one.
Entry interface, Hunter, is going.
Entry interface to splash.
Seat 1, have you loud and clear coming down on both OE 1 and 2?
Tell me on 1.
Service module will detach before...
Catching on clear on 1, Jackie, we're going to stay in this config on both 1 and 2 and
Reed and Victor are in our seats slowly proceeding along.
Okay, we copy and just to confirm that means that you've got the bulk of your suits done.
Is that correct?
I have not switched to teeters yet, Rarest.
Just for read and victory, we're not gloved, not helmeted yet.
Copy all.
Thanks.
Okay, so they're putting their suits on right now.
How long until they land?
Flashdown is targeting 8.07 PM Eastern time.
It's 5.12 Eastern time.
So two hours and 52 minutes from now,
they'll be back down on the ground.
Are they scared at entry?
No.
I mean, TJ, like here's the thing, dude.
Read Jeremy, Christine and Victor
know what's going on here.
You know, they understand what's going on, right?
You know the risks involved, if you know and you understand the risks in the spacecraft's
entry envelope is understood.
Integrity BFS is configured for entry with output inhibited.
And a reminder, when you get to step 9.3, use your separate instance of 18.3.101 to save off the time.
45 minutes before splashdown, Jack.
400% thanks. Now why are they putting on suits? They put on space suits to in case of cabin
depressurization during re-entry. That's an extremely rare thing, but just in case it's
better to have it and not need it than needed and not have it. Now these flight suits are,
they're the orange suits, they're painted like pumpkins on purpose. So if the crew does come
down and they need to be recovered at sea, not near the recovery site. The suits are bright
orange and you can see them. You'll see them when they have them on. Yeah, like I said,
cabin depress during re-entry is very unlikely. That's not a thing, but once again, it's better
to have it and not need it than need it and not have it. Now, those spacesuits basically
have a plug, a pneumatic tube that they can plug right into the ship's life support systems.
Houston, integrity, calm check from seat two.
Vic, what's the calm check from the second seat?
Vic, there. Have you loud and clear? I'm coming up on one. Help me.
Jackie, I have you loud and clear on one.
You are loud and clear on two Jackie not off the top of my head King I don't think so but
like I said better to have it not needed the needed not have it yeah bird but I don't want
to talk about that here there's a look a lot just like airplanes a lot of spacecraft
rules are written in blood just like planes right same thing
you learn from the mistakes
you don't learn from the states you're gonna repeat it's it's the same thing is
airplane safety
those suits are there
because
you never know
don't roll the dice with space flight don't don't
don't let murphy's law do its thing
so for the uninitiated murphy's law states what can go wrong will go wrong
so
the one time you could launch it a thousand times with suits on and the one
time you go to launch with no suits is when you're going to have a problem
don't tempt the space gods no bad vibes
they said
someone will open the capsule and pull them out one by one
so may that is
that's in an ideal scenario
you ideally don't want to put a lot of stress on your body when you come back
from space
getting down back into the grab well is going to
beat you up a little bit
in a off nominal scenario the crew can get out
they can get out like you gotta
you gotta take it easy right so in an ideal rescue scenario navy divers and
navy search and rescue will just help them get out of the capsule you'll see
you'll see
yeah look at that blue marble it's pretty sweet right
She's peace dude.
Almost there.
Yep, yep, yep.
Hey, Akamedi, what's up dude?
Does anyone know how long until service module separation?
Yes.
So.
Splashdown is targeting 807 PM Eastern time.
It's right behind my head so it's not doing any good.
All right, so service module separation
will happen up here, 725.
About 45 minutes give or take before that.
42 minutes before splashdown, there we go.
So that is in about two hours from now.
Discovery, go at throttle up.
Yeah, it really is some oblate spheroid stuff
going on there.
At least it appears though, but yeah, it's a,
I think that just might be to go for oh gosh, we're we disappeared. Oh, no
We disappeared guys. We're we're gone. Oh wait. We're back some of us are okay. We're all back. All right. We're good
All right, we're good. Sorry we blinked out of existence there for a second
Where'd it go? What do you mean it moved?
Hey, cyber link 11 month reset
Why did you Thanos us? I didn't do that. Yeah, that's a dead
Stop it. See mine doesn't work
I don't have the the the thing with the things in it. I don't know what it's called. My wife knows this
That's her area of expertise
I can tell her I can tell like that that's not my area of expertise I can tell you how
how deletion crystals work okay like that's my area of expertise
doesn't do nothing
the infinity gauntlet that's what it is yeah
no 95 she doesn't say that
it's pike are you sure what did you do for work before streaming ice if you tag at EJSA
I'm yeah I could see it a lot better you don't even type in caps dude um infinity games what's
up dude I'm self-taught when it comes to engineering guys I've built oh oh oh this is space I'm
I'm in space.
You're on the fat.
The five subs.
Thank you very much.
I'm self-taught.
I've been streaming for 15 years about space.
And I never stopped learning.
So I got a lot of people fooled.
You know, the suit, you know,
looked like I know what's going on.
But, I mean, I do to an extent, but also like.
Oh, oh, oh, this is space.
I'm in space.
You mother, no you didn't.
I know where I know where you work. Okay. I know where you work arson
Thanks, man, that was a hundred that was a hundred pack of subs right there. Oh my goodness
God there's 20 more. I don't know what's going on. I don't know what to do with my hands. I
Don't know what dude
Spacecrafts running real good
Felt like I was on a spaceship
I don't know what to do with my hands.
Yeah, yeah, car's running real good.
It's basically the best day of my life just rolling around day-to-day like a bald eagle.
Thanks guys, I appreciate all the support.
Yeah, Cardin, it's something dude.
it's it's something oh okay
make Maddie with H2 with subs oh my goodness it's going off over there on
Twitch that's bananas YouTube chat save oh oh oh this is space I'm in space
Charles with 100 bits, PJ with 100 bits, cruelly ungifted, 10 subs, thank you.
Live dingus!
The Prime sub, thanks man.
Thanks dingus.
First moon mission of your life is about to wrap.
How do you feel about it?
We discussed the motions when the crew's back on the ground.
I'm a lot of business until then.
Nice, Ronnie, that's cool.
Oh, oh, oh, this is space.
I'm in space.
Thanks for all the support, guys.
Um, yeah, I'm all business here.
I'm all about explaining it.
I'm all about telling you what's going on.
We'll discuss emotions when they're back down on the ground, dude.
That's what Rick Henfling said.
The flight director said in the frickin mini.
Oh, oh, oh, this is space.
I'm in space. That's what.
That's what Rick Henfling said in the presser yesterday.
Emotions are for when the flight's over.
I don't know what to do with my hands up and be thank oh oh oh this is space I'm in space
I'm 50 give that is a must be doing a good job trauma that's with five mom farmer had
200 bits in there too. Thank you very much guys. I appreciate it's going off in here pants. I'm telling you
I don't know what to do with my hands anymore. I'm just cars running real good. Space crap running
real good. I felt like I was on a spaceship.
I think it's Spanish for like a fighting chicken or something yet with claws, you know, in the
beach.
All right, Round Nabilica carry play gifted a membership over on YouTube.
Thank you.
No problem, Hunter.
I got you focused on the mission.
I'm trying man. What do you want me to do? I can't say thank you. Oh my god, Oscar. Holy crap.
Oh my goodness, it's going off, dude. Oh, oh, oh, this is space. I'm in space.
Brandon gifted five over on YouTube. Thank you. Oh, oh, oh, this is space. I guess we're in space.
It's going to be Jim dash the guy. Thank you for all the bits. I was kind of taking the
comfort seriously. Um, like pleasure's all on this side of the screen, dude. It is it's
been it's been it's been fun. Let's get through the mission, but I will say up until this point
it's been great. This has been fun. I'm so it warms my heart that this many people
are into this because, yeah, they're...
Oh, oh, oh, Mrs. Space, I'm in space.
Ask anybody that's been a Space Flight fan for a long time.
There are people out there that have been in to space
and liked it longer than I've been alive.
There are ups and downs.
No, that's not a pun.
There are times where it sucks to be a Space Flight fan.
There are times when it rules being a Space Flight fan.
And this is one of those times.
This is one of the latter.
This is excellent.
I'm so happy that people are into this, and I'm so happy that I could share it with you.
You know, it is cool.
It is cool.
It's a good time.
This is fun.
This is the ultimate exploration space.
I mean, this is what we're meant to do.
We should be doing this more, you know?
Hey, thank you for all the support, man.
I've lost track of the counter.
T Dave, I saw a message in there before the silence.
I want to thank you for the coverage and the mission definitely brought back memories
We may not have been the Apollo generation, but the shuttle the Artemis generation is here at astra. Absolutely, man
Yeah creation something like that
Oh, oh, oh, this is space. I mean space. Well, thanks for the entire broadcast and commentary learned a lot greetings from Poland
Jin Klee
W. Bye
Discovery, go at throttle up.
I really enjoyed these last 10 days. Thanks, Bay.
Where will the service module land? Will it be recovered?
It's gonna burn up, Trunks.
The real only thing that can survive hitting the atmosphere at 24,000 miles an hour is the capsule with the heat shield.
Service module's gonna go kaput.
Discovery, go at throttle up.
And you could warn it if only you spoke ovitos.
those. Mikey with the sub ruin with the bits. Thanks man. When notifications off the focus,
we're a good way out. There's not much going on right now. True's just putting on their
suits. We're at mission elapsed time. Eight days, 22 hours, 51
minutes, 12 seconds. Trunar gifted us over on YouTube, but
bits are still going off over there. Oh my goodness. Yeah,
surely. You know, good for you. The Havitos don't know, don't
know you like I know you bellaque bellaque bellaque
said they call him the Losh it's a good movie should watch it
so she can't get the badge here that's on NASA's official stream which should
be firing up soon if you guys once again guys if you want to get a badge go
over the NASA stream watch them for an hour or you know or just watch them
You know, I don't really, like,
if you want to go watch the NASA stream,
my voice is annoying, go do it.
But if, you know, if I was going to get that badge,
I'd head over there when they start up soon.
I'm going to watch the re-entry cartoon.
Too hot, it's...
probably?
Oh, oh, oh, this is space.
I'm in space.
We're kind of into the terminal phase here.
I don't want to...
I don't want to...
He said integrity.
Watch it like that.
12, 13, 14, and 15 are complete.
Thank you for all the education. Thank you.
Jeremy Houston copies. Thank you. Thanks, everyone.
Your boys are annoying and possible. Just in case. I'm sure somebody might.
Geez, Legomance. That was 5,000 bits. Education and insight. I've loved watching your streams these past days.
It's my pleasure, dude. Seriously. I can't say that enough. I know it sounds like a broken record at this point.
But if I could, I'd thank every single person watching both of the streams right now individually.
Like, the best I could do is just say thank you. You know what I mean?
you know what i mean
i eat
brings me great joy doing this this is fun i love it i can't get enough of it
you could be dang sure will be back for a mystery for five at the very least
yet them i think we're gonna play some case p on monday i think that would be
fair
john madden uh...
rise against gravity with five euros over in the youtube stream
living in you stream for a week least i can do thanks man thank you
the fact that they're still that far from space and splashing down tonight is
wild like i said
when you get closer to earth
the gravity is going to pull on your more you're gonna keep you're gonna
keep accelerating until you hit the atmosphere so even though they're like
a still a still a far distance away
that distance is not going to take nearly as much time select their
fifty thousand miles up right now
that last fifty thousand is not going to take nearly the same amount of time
as the 50,000 that they just reversed.
MGP, what's up man? 63 month resub.
I don't know how it's going to be the days without your stream during the day.
You've become a good companion in the past 10 days. Good job.
Helder
It honestly, I consider it very flattering when I be yeah
I don't know if this is necessarily the case with you, but I consider it very flattering if I'm someone's background noise
All right, so look I don't really plug like a promote myself too much
I'd prefer to let the content do its thing and I'm just kind of an addition to it that makes it better, right?
Or worse depending on your opinion
with that being said, dude, I try to stream about 50 hours a week Monday through Friday. I'm usually here. So if you do need background noise in the future about spaceflight, I got you, man. Now next week, I can't guarantee I'm going to be here the whole time because
Because this, but when I get back into the swing of things of being on a regular schedule
Yeah, I'll be here man. I'll be here and ready to talk about space whenever you want
What do you usually stream for so long?
I'm streaming 50 hours a week
10 hour streams 50 hours a week since 2015. I
Believe in hard work. I believe in doing a good job and I believe in being here being here is thing one of streaming
If you're not here, that's, that is opportunity missed to have people click on your stream.
The crew Halo project has not been finished just yet.
Hey, King, buy KSB-1. Don't buy KSB-2. Absolutely. Absolutely.
This is Mission Beachwell, Houston, eight days, 22 hours, 55 minutes into the flight of integrity
on the Artemis-2 mission.
This is Colonel Rob. I will tell you now. I'll set up for the second.
On board the vehicle, the four crew members, Commander Reed Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover,
and Mission Specialists Jeremy Hansen and Christina Cook are suiting up in their Orion Crew survival suits,
launch and entry suits that they also wore during their launch from the Kennedy Space Center back on
April 1st. Once the crew is all suited up they'll conduct a series of leak checks to make sure that
they have good suit integrity, abort integrity before they strap themselves into their seats
for the final phase of this mission that will culminate with a splashdown of the Pacific
two hours and 35 minutes from now at 7 0 7 p.m. central time 5 0 7 p.m. Pacific
time about two and a half hours before sunset southwest of San Diego and the
suits are in the process of being leak-checked at the present time we'll
relay all that to you in just a few moments right now integrity is just
about 20,000 nautical miles from the Earth, continuing to accelerate towards the next
major milestone, which will be the separation of the crew module from the European service
module two hours and one minute from now.
That separation maneuver, pyrotechnically, will occur at 6.33 p.m. central time.
That will be followed just four minutes later by a raised burn, a 19 second burn
of integrity's thrusters to induce a change in velocity of 9.9 feet per second slightly
raising up the aft end of the vehicle to improve its angle of attack as it enters the Earth's
atmosphere and in the process mitigates the peak heating effects on the heat shield
of the vehicle.
Out in the Splashdown zone, out in the Pacific Ocean, the weather is forecast to be go by
the spaceflight meteorology group here at the Johnson Space Center, winds of just about
ten knots and wave heights less than four feet, which should be ideal for the recovery
forces that are being deployed from the USS John Murtha to recover the crew, extract
them, hoist them into two Navy helicopters and fly them back to the deck of the Murtha
to be brought into Medical Bay for post-splashdown medical checks.
We now have a report from the Environmental Systems Officer here
that we have good suit leak checks.
All four suits have passed the leak check.
So we are in good shape here for entry and splashdown coming
up just over two and a half hours from now.
One data point, just an update on some numbers
that we've just received from Flight Dynamics.
And these are unofficial and will not become official until post-flight.
We now anticipate that the maximum speed that integrity will encounter as it enters the
Earth's atmosphere will be right around the same time as we enter a communications blackout
of six minutes in duration.
We are expecting Integrity's peak speed at 6.54 and 4 seconds PM central time and at that
point the vehicle should be traveling at 24,661.21 miles per hour which will be just 130 miles
short.
close. You're so close to speed record crap.
Once again, that peak speed expected to be reached just a few seconds after the start
of entry interface as the vehicle plummets back into the Earth's atmosphere.
The peak speed expected to be reached at 6.54 in 4 seconds PM central time and that peak
speed now estimated by flight dynamics to be 24,661.21 miles per hour which equates
to about Mach 33.
Houston integrity seat one and two leak check complete also we powered up the AGA and it's
giving us a CO2 alarm at four decimal four.
That four decimal four is in HG so.
We copy leak check we saw it as well and copy CO2 at four decimal four we are discussing.
that's the CO2. We also on the AGA have a bit A of 16. We've seen that in the past should go away.
And Reed, has the AGA been powered for five minutes yet or are we still on that wait period?
We are in the wait period. We expect that bit will go away.
We copy and that bit can also indicate that we cannot trust the other values. So we'll check
back with you after the five minutes on the CO2 level.
Okay. So the atmospheric gas analyzer was reading a high CO2. 4.4% in HG means that this
is a rounded number. It's napkin math and my math processor up here is not doing very
well. I'd say that's like 1.2, 1.3 percent of the cabin is CO2. That's okay. If you get up to 1.5,
you're gonna start having problems. What's the speed of this spacecraft? Currently, Orion is
traveling at 14,501 kilometers an hour or 9,000 miles an hour.
They're 22,000 miles off the surface or 36,000 kilometers off the surface here.
Pressure suits have oxygen.
Absolutely.
This is Mission Control Houston.
Mission elapsed time of eight days, 23 hours, two minutes into the flight of integrity
on the Artemis II mission.
While we have a moment here, just an opportunity
to run down some of the chronological highlights
that lie ahead over the next two and a half hours
before integrity splashes down in the Pacific Ocean.
Coming up at 5.30 PM central time, 6.30 PM eastern time,
we will begin the simulcast of NASA Plus coverage
that will accompany our 24-7 YouTube coverage
that we have been providing ever since we began the mission
with the tanking of the Space Launch System
at the Kennedy Space Center for launch back on April 1st.
He's been integrity.
We are complete through Steps 18,
Seats 3 and 4 yet to suit, obviously.
I don't know, Cardin.
I don't know if the AJ-10 is moved because of the software problem.
Jeremy, we copy you completed 16-18 and confirm for us whether you needed any adjustments of CIAS in step 17.
I don't know what CIAS is.
Negative. All the settings are still in our launch config.
Houston copies.
Yeah, silent. That's a good point. You can see Earth reflecting on the solar panel.
Once again, with the leak checks having been successfully completed on the four launch
and entry suits for the crew members on board integrity, once again we'll begin our NASA
Plus coverage as a simulcast to our 24-7 YouTube coverage in less than an hour at
5.30 p.m. Central Time, 6.30 p.m. Eastern Time. At 6.15 p.m., we're going to hand over communications
from the Deep Space Network to the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System as integrity
continues to approach the Earth. Currently, integrity is less than 20,000 nautical miles
from its destination and a splashdown in the Pacific.
We will separate the European service module
from the crew module at 6.33 p.m. central time.
And just four minutes later, we'll
conduct a raise burn, a 19-second burn,
of the integrity thrusters to slightly tilt the vehicle's
orientation upward, with the aft end being tilted upward.
That will also change the velocity by 9.9 feet per second
and complete the orientation of the vehicle
for its angle of attack as it enters the Earth's atmosphere.
Entry interface, where we reach the first traces
of Earth's atmosphere and where most of the dynamic
operations will then begin.
Entry interface is scheduled at 6.53 and 31 seconds
PM central time, where integrity will be at an altitude of 400,000 feet above the earth,
traveling at about 34,882 feet per second with a range to splash down of 1,701 nautical miles.
Just 10 seconds, just a few seconds later, about 24 seconds later, we'll enter a six
minute communications blackout at 6.53 and 55 seconds p.m. that communications blackout
will be due to the buildup of plasma around the vehicle, the ionization of the interaction
of the velocity of integrity with the friction of the Earth's atmosphere. So the communications
blackout to last about six minutes in duration will start 24 seconds after
entry interface. At 6.54 and 4 seconds p.m. we'll reach our peak velocity, this is
an estimation from flight dynamics, we should be reaching a peak velocity of
24,661.21 miles per hour or somewhere around Mach 33. This will fall
about 130 miles per hour short of the speed record set by the Apollo 10 command module,
the Charlie Brown, during the Apollo 10 mission of Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan and John Young
back in the spring of 1969.
They're so close to the speed record. They are 130 miles an hour off or like what is that?
220 kph off the fastest. Once the communications blackout ends, which is expected. No, he doesn't,
Alex. Apollo 10 launched in spring. Apollo 11. Just a few seconds before 7 p.m. central
time, 6.59 and 56 seconds p.m. central time, we will be at an altitude of 157,000 feet over
the Pacific Ocean, and at that point we should be traveling at about 13,300 feet per second
with a range to splash down of just 147 nautical miles.
There will be a series of role reversals, first to the left, allowing integrity to
bank to the left is our computer commanded, not crew commanded but computer
commanded role reversals to bank the vehicle first to the left then to the
right that bleeds off excess energy and helps to reduce the speed and the
heating effects on the vehicle during the final phase of flight. Starting
at 7.03 and 22 seconds p.m. central time will begin the series of shoot
deployments and all there are 11 parachutes associated with this mission. The first three
will pull off the forward bay cover from the top of the vehicle. The forward bay cover
shoots are three. That will be followed by the deployment of the drogue shoots at 703
in 23 seconds, PM.
Then three pilot parachutes will pull the main parachutes,
three of them, from the forward bay cover.
The forward bay housing all of the parachutes
at the very top of Orion.
The main shoot deploy is scheduled at 7.04 and 44
seconds, PM.
The vehicle will have slowed to just a very glacial
speed of 198 miles per feet per second I should say at that point at an altitude of 5,400
feet above the Pacific Ocean. The splashdown velocity of course will be zero. 19 miles
an hour is the velocity that the crew will feel under the three main parachutes as
they splashdown in the Pacific. Southwest of San Diego. So a number of major milestones
lie ahead, splashdown time is currently estimated at 7.07 and 7 seconds p.m. central time, 5.07
and 7 seconds p.m. Pacific time. That will conclude a total traveling distance from
launch to splashdown of 694,481 statute miles.
We're just one hour and 48 minutes away now from crew module, service module separation.
The crew has donned their launch and entry suits.
They've conducted leak checks.
Everything is in order and the weather is go at the Splashdown site.
Some of the flying assets that will collect imagery of the descent of integrity towards
Splashdown have already been deployed from the deck of the USS John Murtha.
The actual recovery team members will be deployed in helicopters and fast boats a bit later
on as we approach Splashdown and of course after Splashdown itself.
Once so the vehicle splashes down we'll be deploying the five inflatable airbags at
the top of the vehicle with helium that will ensure that the vehicle is upright throughout
the course of the recovery operations.
The team here in mission control will check all of the systems on integrity, make sure
that we are not leaking any toxic gases from the spacecraft, and that will be the signal
for the start of the power down of integrity systems and the ability of the first members
of the recovery team to approach the vehicle to set up the inflatable life raft called
the front porch, which will be used to bring the crew members out of the vehicle
into that front porch one by one after the hatch is open to integrity.
We expect the extraction of the crew to be some 45 minutes to an hour after splashdown,
which would be about 30 to 45 minutes after the vehicle is powered down.
I don't like talking over Rob. Rob does great commentary. So I agree, Talon, yeah. What would
they do if there were rough seas? So why do you actually some of the launch commit criteria
for this like launching a week and a half ago was making sure that there were no storms
in the area dude so how do they prevent it
watch the weather channel dude
you obviously can't be super accurate
if you're meteorologists in new england you never accurate
integrity houston we're ready for another cio to reading on the a g
so they can change it they can move around but it's launched to make criteria
It is 5.1.
Uh...
That's...
Houston copies.
And read earlier, I did misspeak.
The CO2 reading specifically would not have been affected by that particular bit.
Okay, sounds good.
That's good.
We just know we're an ARS suit
and that's very likely contributing to that.
Guys, the reason why the CO2 level's going up
is because putting on the suit.
We concur.
Putting on the suit is a very labor intensive task,
especially with the orthostatic garment
that they have on, they have a compression suit on.
So you have a compression suit on,
you have a space suit on,
try to put a space suit on over that.
It's hard to move in the compression suit.
the reason why they have a compression suit is so
when they get back down they'll be able to move around in the gravel
on terra firma a little bit easier
so putting that on
and then putting the space suit on over that
is a labor intensive thing so they're breathing more because it's a lot of work
that's why they're seeing increased co2 right now
the HVAC systems on Orion should be so ECLIS the environmental control and life
support systems
should should compensate like they should be able to deal with it
yeah everything is good but the it is trending upwards but everything is okay
they are over australia right now yeah
of course mule
you're about to be full of alphabets soup no it's full of cheerios
The head's not full of alphabet soups, full of Cheerios.
You know why it's just going, oh.
With Crunchberries.
Oh, my favorite.
What time are they doing service module separation?
I'm about an hour and a half, when do they digress from the suits?
When they're back on the John Murtha.
Entegra Houston for CO2.
Solar panel array movement.
Oh my goodness, look at that.
Look at that, man.
What a view.
What we'd like to do is open the ARS ISO valve to mix the cabin and suit loop air
for the time being and we would just need a call from you all when Christina and Jeremy
are getting in their seats and are a few minutes out from leak checks and we'll get that back
into a good config for you to start the next leak check.
Yeah, I know, Brynne, when we saw it this morning Earth was about this big on the
screen now it's about this big on my screen so it went from that to that
hey jackie that's a reasonably good idea can we just hang on that for a little
bit and see how we're doing dude dude wait hold up hold up look
that's the op-com sensor yep up to you we will wait let us know if you'd like
that uh cabinet mixing that's the op that's the op-com
sensor that they've been beaming is there a
CO2 number where you guys would advise us.
They've been beaming stuff back to the planet using that thing.
It's a little laser turret.
Stop touching it.
Reed, we would not want to go above seven.
Yeah, that's perfect.
What does monitor for just a couple minutes here?
Yeah, it's a turret.
Like it can go like this and it can move up and down.
That's the op-com sensor.
So they've been beaming data back through an optical sensor.
That's how we got pictures from the moon
with that thing right there.
Yeah, and we'll see.
So they're at five.
Mission control says they don't want above seven.
Houston, cabin entry, config is complete and Christina and Chairman, we are about to start
suit down.
Excellent.
On cabin config and copy suit down.
Have a good big is good.
That call from commander, we've got a board integrity indicating that following the
successful leak checks on the four launch and entry suits, the crew will begin to actually
don those suits now and then they'll climb into their respective seats, both on the flight
deck and the mid-deck of the integrity in preparation for crew module, service module
separation that's scheduled one hour and 40 minutes from now.
Oh, oh, oh, this is space. I'm in space.
using thrusters to move their position or gyros.
They use thrusters to change the orientation of the capsule,
but the solar array wings have motors, Mock, they have motors.
The solar arrays can move forward, they can move backward,
or they can twist, so they can point them into the sun
no matter what direction the capsule is pointed.
Integrity, Houston, for enter checklist,
your CMSM SEP ATP is set to go.
We see that on the PFD, Jackie.
And the call from Capcom Jackie Mahaffey here in Mission Control to read Wiseman indicating
that the pyros are armed for crew module, service module separation coming up 1 hour 38 minutes,
52 seconds from now.
Integrity now, squarely facing the planet Earth, 17,600 nautical miles away, headed for
a splashdown two hours, 12 minutes from now.
All of the recovery assets, the helicopters, the Navy P-3s, the parar-rescued divers, they're
all in place, ready to recover this crew following Splashdown.
And again, the chronology after Splashdown will call for the flight control team here
in Houston to assess integrity systems, make sure no toxic gases are leaking from
the spacecraft.
And first order of business will be the command to inflate the crew module upriding system
bags, the five inflatable airbags that will be inflated with helium to maintain its upright
position as it bobs in the Pacific before the recovery forces reach the crew.
About 15 minutes after splashdown is when we expect the green light to be given to
power down integrity systems at which point the recovery teams will begin to make their
way toward the vehicle to set up that inflatable life raft called the front porch buttressed
alongside the spacecraft.
That will be the precursor to the opening of the hatch and the extraction of the crew
members one by one into that raft giving them a chance to get their land legs back
as they feel the first sensations of Earth's gravity in nine days and their high-speed return to Earth
with their peak speed reaching some 24,061 miles an hour.
24,661.
So what is the actual splashdown?
Splashdowns in about two hours, but I guarantee you, if you keep the stream open, it's going to, those two hours are going to evaporate.
They have a little bit of heightened CO2 levels in the capsule right now. That's just because they were working on putting their suits on with a compression garment on.
Other than that, we're really not tracking any issues.
issues. Two hours will have laid away. That's right.
Now Zimbabwe's not at all. What we talk about, we can't talk about broken toilets
anymore. There's plenty of funny stuff going on like that in the space throughout the
space program do don't worry
so somebody to have a bean spicy be spicy green beans is one of the things
they can eat we saw jeremy's spicy green beans yesterday
i knew here how do i get the nasa batch you get it on the nasa stream
rachel they've been streaming amazing mission of the pretty bomb since the
gateway pause
since that's what i've mostly been working on three years but the
enthusiasm, the excitement of everybody, of everyone here is bringing me so much joy.
Rachel, it sucks.
I'm bumming about the EUS too, but I have a feeling the EUS and ML2 aren't going anywhere,
can't speak so much to Gateway, but yeah.
Hey, they're using the PPE for something and you know they're going to use the Halo
module somewhere.
So I'm glad, I'm glad the stream and this mission is, you know what Rachel?
I'm glad that this is bringing joy to people's hearts, too.
Oh, oh, oh, this is space.
I always tell people, being a spaceflight fan
has its ups and downs.
And no, that's not a pun because they go up there
and come back down.
It's their times when it really sucks.
Right now is not one of those times.
But yeah, I appreciate the kind words.
Thank you.
Thanks, Scott, yep, yep.
find your channel today that sucks but better late than never yeah please the
I'm glad you like it yeah question about splashdown is a
considerate of potentially difficult dangerous part of the mission your
opinion entry is the hard part code entries the hard part but yeah we're not
there yet so just sit back relax and enjoy the view guys this is the calm
before the storm
Houston, Christina's got an amazing view of home planet on the side hatch window and
it's lighting up the cabin and it's just a great blue hue to it and it's beautiful.
That is amazing.
When you kicked us out of the cabin, we turned on one of the saw cameras and also had the
earth's reflection on one of the arrays.
was very cool. Oh man, that is amazing. How fast are they going right now? This is Mission
Control Houston, Commander Reid Wiseman, reveling about the view of the Earth from a distance
of less than 17,000 nautical miles now, the cabin audio cable and room like are in F3
large stowed. We copy. The view that Reed Wiseman is describing is the view you're
looking at right now as the earth grows larger in the field of view with each passing moment.
We're about 29 minutes away from the start of the NASA Plus coverage, joining our 24-7
YouTube coverage as a simulcast for the remainder of the evening through the time the crew is
on the deck of the USS Murtha and in Medical Bay.
So we'll be looking forward to additional reports and other video coverage from the deck of the
USS John Murtha and other assets in the Splashdown zone as we continue toward Splashdown
and the return of Integrity's astronauts two hours and five minutes from now.
I don't know some freaks, dude.
I've been freaking capture cars like every time I go full screen.
So how much harder are the orbital mechanics for bringing a ship back from the moon to
dock with a station?
You need about 3,800 meters a second change in velocity to be able to do something like
that.
If they still had the ICPS attached, yeah, they might be able to do it, but the problem
with the ICPS is that it's using liquid hydrogen. Hydrolox will boil off, guys. The cryogenic
propellants don't last long in direct sunlight. They boil, and then it just turns to gas,
and you have no propellant. That's why the Orion service module, the European service
module is using that MON25 stuff in monomethylhydrazine, because that stuff doesn't decompose,
it doesn't go bad, it doesn't boil off, it just sits there in its tank and is
that's the same type of fuel we used for the Apollo CSM and the lander because
when you're dealing with cold propellants like cryo propellants like if I don't
know if you got how new some of you guys are to rockets you've ever seen a
rocket go off a bunch of ice comes off it's because they're using cryo
propellants cryo propellants give you a lot of energy you you get a lot of
kick out of them but the problem is they don't last very long they have a
very low shelf life once you get up into space that's a big problem to
solve in the future if we're going to go back to the moon and you know have a moon base that's
that you know we send people to relatively routinely. Yeah, Mon-25 and MMH are a hypergolic
propellant. They can sit in their tanks and they don't care, they don't boil off, they won't freeze
because it's some weird chem, weird forever chemical, it won't evaporate, it won't do nothing,
it'll just sit in its tank until you tell it to do something. A couple of minor updates just
And when we hit each other, it's like snow.
So for some of the key activities that will be coming up,
flight dynamics providing us with some updated information.
The start of the blackout period, just a one second change,
it's going to be estimated now at 6.53 and 54 seconds p.m. Central time.
The duration remains six minutes.
That blackout will end at 6.59 and 55 seconds p.m. all central time.
We expect to begin entering the Earth's atmosphere at an altitude of 400,000 feet
at 6.53 and 30 seconds p.m.
And one second difference now in our splashdown time.
If everything unfolds the way we believe it will,
Splashdown now scheduled at 7.07 and 8 seconds PM central time,
7.07 and 8 seconds PM central time,
5.07 and 8 seconds PM Pacific time
at the Splashdown zone off the coast of San Diego.
So Orion's trajectory looks like this. It's going this way
and it's going to come down over here somewhere. Think of it like an arc. It's going to go over
here and then it's going to come down over there. California is over there somewhere.
They did reorient the solar panel, so this is a slightly confusing view.
Earth's North Pole is over here. The South Pole is over there. Australia is right here in the
clouds somewhere. So like Japan is right here and Siberia is right here. Alaska is over there
somewhere. And then the west coast of the US is on the horizon over here. So, California's
somewhere right there. That's where they're aiming. And then Mexico is over here.
Ricky, they're probably... And one other update. The latest weather forecast from the
the spaceflight meteorology group. Passed on to Flight Director Rick Henfling calls for
the clouds in the splashdown zone to be in the process of dissipating. The winds are
somewhat reduced now just six knots. The wave heights still less than four feet. All
go forecast. Clean recovery conditions guys it's clearing out of the recovery area
we're good. Right now, right now, Ryan's approaching 10,000 miles an hour or about 16,000 kilometers
an hour. So once again the stage is set as integrity continues its negligible march toward
a splashdown in the Pacific two hours from now. I see it Bill thank you. 16,000 nautical
miles away from the earth we are just one hour and 26 minutes away from crew module
service module separation followed by a raise burn to tilt the aft end of the vehicle
up ever so slightly and improve its angle of attack into the Earth's atmosphere as a
mitigating action to reduce heat loads on the heat shield of the vehicle.
This is all pre-planned, pre-flight.
There's no differentiation between what we had designed this mission to do.
We are expecting to reach the first traces of Earth's atmosphere at entry interface
and 400,000 feet above the planet, one hour and 45 minutes from now.
So I see a lot of people asking this question. I'm just going to mute that for mute the feed
for just a moment. A lot of people asking like, well, what if the weather wasn't bad? Well, guys,
launch commit criteria. So if you're rewind back to when this mission launched,
which honestly that was only a week and a half ago. That feels like it was a month ago. Like a lot has
happened since. Part of the go commit criteria for launching the vehicle up into space is to make
sure that there's no storms in the vicinity of the of the recovery area. Now you're not going
to be able to predicting the weather like a week and a half out is a little bit on the difficult
side but obviously you're going to be able to see if there's no storm near the that's going to
be in that general direction, right? You're out. You're going to be able to tell that the recovery
forecasting, oh, five decimal five, we're still good on board. Okay, CO2 is not going up anymore.
It's leveled off. That's good news. Sorry. I just needed to see that. So guys, that's part,
that was part of the launch commit criteria to make sure that there's no storms in the area.
Now, with that being said, there's still a gigantic, there's still a gigantic landing area
that they can target, and they can steer the capsule to either fly further down range or
closer up range, right? They can land basically anywhere in this area, and that is a wide swath
of land right there, or sea, I should say. Honestly, just find the area with the calmest
waters and go. But good weather forecasting as part of your launch commit criteria here shows
that the the prime recovery area the area that they targeted when they lift it off is the right
the right call we got about four feet of surf which is nothing that might as well be calm waters
and very very very low winds winds can winds are what make the well not not entirely tides have
a lot to do with it too wind is a primary concern for making waves it depending on which way
the wind is blowing relative to the tide going in or out can create bigger surf
So, yeah, just something that's something to consider this right there was their bit one of their biggest things to okay launching this thing on the first so 10 days ago that was one of their biggest commit criteria they talked about that in the free flight
I actually learned a ton about it that dude. They said they said in that press conference that that was
That is tantamount to like being able to see the far side of the moon if they have to launch and it was in a window
Where the oriental crater was covered like was dark so be it the recovery conditions are way more
Important than taking pictures on the moon because what are the pictures worth if you can't come home, right?
So that was that is a hot that was higher on the list of priorities to launch this thing then actually seeing the stupid moon when you got near it
Yeah, so I see a lot of people ask that question that just thought I'd address it real quick
Well, I was saying that they talked about the co2 levels co2 levels of leveling off at 5.5% in each G
That's fine. It's no longer trending upward. We're good
stupid moon how dare you be dark when we get near you now it wasn't this time
the moon mooned us with a far side mooned us or did we move you know what I mean
Jared's on the ship cool sci-fi moon's like hey I'm not stupid yeah okay yeah
the moon is pretty cool we like the moon
blue screen is just a signal hand over guys everything's good
ej can you recap every problem they've had since flyby i didn't understand the
helium leak problem i know it got fixed
tib they were having problems with their mon 25
helium
a pressure it
The service module uses hypergolic fluid or hypergolic fuels.
So it's Mon25, which is mixed oxides of nitrogen.
It's a mix between nitric oxide and nitrogen tetroxide.
And then the fuel tank is monomethylhydrazine.
They use helium to pressurize those tanks
to pressurize the manifolds that go to the thrusters
so the RCS works.
one of the valves from the helium tank
from heat the helium one tank to the month twenty five tank inside of what's
called a pressure control actuator
one of the valves was leaking
was leaking helium
helium leaks for the same exact reason why hydrogen leaks
it's a pesky thing because it's so damn tiny
so one of the valves when they opened and closed it in the month twenty five
helium to month twenty five pressure control assembly
didn't see correctly again and it started leaking helium into the mon
twenty five tank
now that's not a big deal
it was just a little bit
what they did have to do a little bit of troubleshooting through flight day
eight and flight day nine about that pressure control assembly to get to
work right
it is working fine and it was no threat to the mission at all
the reason why is because downstream of that pressure control assembly there
was enough pressure
inside of them on twenty five tanks and the manifolds that go to the thrusters
to be able to do the entire mission
so instead of introducing more pressure and to be able to fire the thrusters
for longer the amount of hello
the amount of pressure that was in the system was enough to do the rtc two and
the rtc three burn
so there's really no threat to the mission here
however
however they had to do they had to do some troubleshooting
integration for entry checklist
I had to do some troubleshooting because you're not getting the service module back.
I need water.
Reed, with this time to EI, we expect you're about to be stepping into steps 9 and 10 in
the entry checklist.
In step 10 for the SIP switch config, there are no DELTAs.
No DELTAs to step 10.
Copy off.
No changes to step 10, whatever it is, that's good news.
Pib, does that help?
We don't know the length of the Artemis 4 mission yet, Max.
The red stripes that we see in the video, like, is that caused by radiation?
It's background noise code, yeah.
When they're in low bitrate mode, yeah.
noise starts to screw up the signal. Yes, long story short.
Being 800 plus miles offshore means rookie, they got a ride on the
sea stallion or an Osprey. Yeah. Why are your ears ringing?
Well, that's the sounds of space to lose.
No, I haven't heard about a jet-rope. Where they at now?
Well, they're approaching Earth, and yeah, I said Australia was over here, but that dang sure looks like the outback to me.
Yep, there's the Sunshine Coast. Melbourne's down here. Sydney's over there.
Adelaide's in the clouds right now. Darwin exists.
Parth it's still early morning that wave dudes you're on camera
Darwin exists was that not a astute observation like a description of Darwin it's there
every Australian tells me you know like hey what about Darwin they're like oh yeah it's there
I'm like, yeah, I don't know what that means, but all right.
Do you think that the GS2 explosion will delay blue moon? I think they were testing a tour,
if you really want my honest opinion. But we can talk more about that when this isn't going on,
guys. Like, look, I know Starship is doing some testing, like I know Space X is ramping up for
for the block three starship light etc etc
i know it i know that
blue origin posted pictures of the new stage i know the guy that took the
picture
that
good buddy of mine
all talk about none of that this is what i want to talk about
i think i need to say anymore
what a beast mode of a planet that is that's pretty cool right
thanks electric
stop showing where you live up
uh...
that's all right nothing i can do
that's our planet baby that's our home
how much could they still change their trajectory with rusters and heky it's a
foregone conclusion
not much at this point dude
the closer you get the harder because you're going faster you speed up when
you get closer right
the closer you get to
the harder it's going to be to change direction because you're going faster
think about it like if you were
driving down the highway and you needed to make an immediate turn right you'd
have to slow down first they you they don't have enough fuel to slow down
so
you're committed at this point you're coming they're coming down whether you
like it or not there yet trajectory correction is
uh... now don't get me wrong they have a little bit of leeway during entry the
computers can steer the capsule right to account for just being a like maybe a
little bit off like at the winds blowing too hard or something
yeah that's about it you're they're coming down there you're committed at
this point you're
you're on final approach so speak
plus one after the entire world yet
if you ever got to go to earth what one day would you do care like i'd be
happy with doing what these guys did just fly by the moon that would be good
enough for me I mean I'm not picky just getting up there I don't know what would
I do if I'm up there probably stare out the window I'd probably it probably be
like that you know like you know if you ever take a road to bus to school when
you were a kid like the kid that gets pushed up against the window and has
his face plugged up against the window like oh look at all the things I
I can see!
Like they'd be like,
EJ, you gotta come do work
and I'd be like,
NO!
You know?
Thank you.
Magic going to space and I'll be getting it out. Oh, that would suck.
That's not how it's suck.
Countdown, please.
This is Mission Control, Houston. Once again, a great
view of the planet Earth from integrity from one of the solar array
wing cameras. Now, just 14,000
nautical miles from Splashdown.
Splashdown schedule for 707 and 8 seconds p.m. Central time 507 and 8 seconds p.m. Pacific time
At a point to the southwest of San Diego in the Pacific Ocean
where the USS John Murtha is on station and
Where recovery team assets are being deployed to the predicted Splashdown site
To complete the mission of integrity's astronauts and their lunar flyby
With the earth growing larger in the field of view
the next major milestone, just one hour and 13 minutes from now
will be the separation of the crew module from the European
service module.
The separation of the crew module will set the stage just 3.5 minutes later.
When I was looking at the BFSSM set, it was the exact same time as our predicted SM set.
Can you just confirm we don't need that to be a touch later?
Hi there, sideways.
They point the tail of the vehicle.
They put the engines into the sun, dude.
It's to charge the solar panels more.
Henry, the matching is expected, that's when the sequence will begin for that whole set
config.
Top standing.
Thank you for the verification.
So they point the solar panels into the sun.
Here in mission control in the Artemis Flight Control Room, Capcom, Jackie Mahaffey confirming
some of the timeline activities with Commander Reid Wiseman aboard the vehicle.
The crew has suited up in its launch and entry suits, ready to begin the critical phase
of this mission, their homecoming to a high-speed entry and a parachute-assisted splashdown
in the Pacific.
Once again, the next major milestone, one hour, 11 minutes from now, the separation
of the crew module from the European service module as Artemis' astronauts head home
to complete this historic flight.
And the panels rotate the panels can move forward they can move back and they can rotate yes
mm-hmm you can see the panel on top left up there that one's rotated get rotated idiot
or solar panel look at that shot dude look at that marble that's nice that's nice I
would love to see this someday. That'd be really cool. We're gonna get a live feed
from Orion after separation. Amber, it's really about connection pending. Let's see.
We'll see what happens. You know, it's not necessarily that you can't get a
signal, right? It's really, we don't necessarily know how the antennas or
anything is going to do with Orion with people on it going through the
entry. We didn't really get much of a signal from Artemis 1 when it came in.
But maybe they've upgraded it since. So I don't know. It depends. We'll see. I'm
sure NASA has a trick up their sleeve.
Is that the south pole? Antarctica is down here. Guys, Antarctica is over here.
You can see Australia right there. Right? That's the outback. Right there.
Tasmania is down here. Melbourne's right there, Sydney's up there. Sunshine coast
here. You're looking at the east coast of Australia and then south coast so like
Adelaide would be over here. Perth is still in the dark. For my last explanation
Darwin exists. It exists. New Zealand's over there somewhere. You can
actually maybe just kind of see the northern island. I think that's it over there. I think.
Best view of the sky is from above. Yep, yep. Thorn is a nice city. Yeah, I've never been Rivergum.
How does the trim look so flimsy? I don't know what that means.
Flimsy? The solar panels are designed to just flap around. That's kind of normal. They do that.
Where is Old Zealand? Old Zealand is the Netherlands, guys. Technically.
Hello? Oh, press conference. Great.
Ode Zealand is under what no no that's no that's it. That's Atlantis is it not?
Darn's a good place a lot of world but you history there. I believe that
Fort Mosby too, but I know that's not Australia, but it was Australia. Oh
I know all about that Paul
Clostrophobic? No, I'm good.
You can have a press conference chat, you know, as a treat.
Oh, this is for NASA Plus to join into.
Oh, they're starting the NASA Plus conference. Yeah.
They're starting the NASA Plus conference, which is, yeah.
AV650CC1.
Where's the tone? I missed the tone.
All right, all right, all right, just in case this happens,
I got you.
We are saved.
There's a place called Humpty-Dew near Darwin.
That sounds made up.
Are you screwing with me?
Where's the life support sound?
Oh, I got that too.
So was you all along?
No!
No, that's the signal lock man!
I told you!
See my mods message in chat guys, Shatterman's Messages.
If you want to get that NASA badge today, it's probably the last day to do it.
Hey, Jemup!
Welcome to Mission Control.
We can go.
It's not a lot.
Nice job.
Okay, wait.
It's almost over.
Yeah, it's been fun.
It's been a privilege.
If you have KSP tutorials for newbies outcast, I'm gonna go ahead and guess that when Monday rolls around
I'm probably gonna need to do a little bit tutorials for some folks
Don't worry, I don't really have like tutorial vods
I mean I did at one point, but they got deleted in the twitch vod apocalypse
So I'm a I have a feeling we're gonna need to do new tutorials. So if you want live interaction like this
Monday. Monday and Tuesday. No math please. No, you don't need to know math to play
Kerbal. I mean it helps, but you don't need to. How would future satellite
constellations make these entry maneuvers? Will they make these
entry maneuvers more dangerous? Well that has to do with what's called space
situational awareness. Long story short, as long as we're tracking it
should be fine. I've played children of the dead earth before, Zedrunar. Not on
stream though. I'm just... I mean Kerbal Space Program. That's my... that's my thing.
What's that sound? I'm nervous. What is this? That is the sound of the life
support systems on Orion from one of the PAO events during the mission.
You're listening to the HVAC systems. I could just switch it back to the tone.
you want. How it collisions with other satellites avoided space situational
awareness so guys if you're ever if you guys wonder what the Space Force does
that's what the Space Force does. Space Force is two prime things when it comes
to stuff going around going on in space a space situational awareness and
space degree mitigation that are there that's like their founding thing
SDM and SSA. Know where every satellite is and use that knowledge to avoid satellites not crashing
to each other. What does that involve? That involves Space Force deltas, or, well, squadrons,
basically. That's what the Space Force calls them. They're called deltas. That involves
observation deltas. So, somewhere out there, there's some people that work for the Space
Force that just sit and look through a telescope all day and map all the Starlink
satellites up there or where the ISS is or where every satellite is. The Space
Force can track debris down to about 30 centimeter. They can track whatever and
knowing where all that debris is helps for better helps with a better launch
forecast.
That beep is hurting me by.
It's been going on the entire stream, alright.
We were always going to the moon.
Pushing ourselves to explore is just a core to who we are.
That's a part of being a human.
We shall return.
Continuing to test out every bit of Orion.
Coming back to Earth, 7 miles.
7 miles.
The humanity sets big goals.
We can bring together genius from around the world.
You have the best people on planet Earth
Nope. Nope. I'll go back to the official cast
Nope. Nope. We're not doing that to the moon
Today at this hour you are looking live at our planet from the integrity spacecraft
Nope heading for nope
We're not doing that the Pacific off the coast of San Diego just a hell no 35 minutes from now
And good day from the Artemis flight control room here at the Johnson Space Center Houston
where the entry flight control team is on duty at this hour led by flight director Rick
Henfling joined on the console with a voice shield and talking to the crew throughout the
course of the day. That is Jackie Mahaffey second from your left. Everything has gone
extremely well as we are closing in on the return of Artemis' astronauts from their flight
around the moon and historic lunar flyby that will culminate with that splashdown
of the Pacific off the coast of San Diego, just one hour and 35 minutes from now.
And with that, it's a good entry pad and we can continue in the procedure.
Integrity.
You're looking at a live view inside Integrity, re-wisemen on the left doing a fist bump
with pilot Victor Glover on the right and down in the mid-deck area just below their
feed suited up in their launch and entry suits are mission specialists Christina Cook and
Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency. A number of milestones yet to unfold before
splashdown just over an hour and a half from now. Earlier today, the crew woke up at about
10.
Alright, I'm going to fast forward us. Just going to make sure we're all caught up.
See, yeah, we were a little bit behind. Mr. Gasket, welcome to Mr. Control. Mr.
Gasket exhaust gasket welcome to mission control
Throw me a curveball. That's pretty funny aft gasket
You think of these
The next major milestone on the route home
and they're working on EBS and then seating up.
Not sure, Tally. Jeff, bugger of mission control.
Sun Joseph, that's fine.
Jackie Mahaffey talking to Reed Wyden on board integrity.
The spacecraft now about 12,000 nautical miles
from the Earth's surface.
The next major milestone on tap for the crew
will be the crew, the handover of communications
from the deep space network to the tracking
and data relay satellite system, the deep space network came into play after the trans-lunar
injection burn back on April 2 that propelled integrity toward its lunar flyby will be back
on the TDRS network here in about 41 minutes.
Following that, the next activity will be the pyrotechnic separation of the crew module
from the European service module that is scheduled at 6.33 p.m. central time followed
four minutes later by one final critical maneuver, that will be a 19 second burn of integrity's
thrusters in what is called the crew module raise burn.
Now what that does is it basically acts, if you were sitting in a reclining chair, you'd
basically tilt yourself back, it raises the aft end of integrity ever so slightly,
and that is the final opportunity for us to fine tune the angle of attack of integrity
through the area of peak heating and entry interface that will come a bit later on about
an hour and 18 minutes from now.
So after the rays burn we will be in the final orientation that will minimize any peak heating
on the heat shield of integrity and prior to the time the crew enters the Earth's
atmosphere at an altitude of 400,000 feet.
Entry interface, this is the critical time where the crew will reach the first traces
of Earth's atmosphere at an altitude of 400,000 feet, traveling 34,882 feet per second.
Just 24 seconds after entering the Earth's atmosphere, we will experience a communications
blockout expected to last six minutes in duration.
This is planned and it is caused by the interaction of the velocity of integrity with the friction
of Earth's atmosphere.
will be a buildup of plasma around the vehicle and that ionization will prevent any communications
with the crew and any receipt of data by flight controllers here in mission control.
That blackout is scheduled to begin at 6.53 and 54 seconds p.m. central time, again a
six minute blackout that will end, if all goes as planned, at 6.59 and 55 seconds
p.m. central time.
At that point we expect to regain communications with the crew and a reacquisition of data
through the tracking and data relay satellite system.
We will have a series of roll maneuvers.
These are computer commanded that will roll the vehicle slightly to the left then back
to the right that will bleed off excess energy as we begin our peak period of velocity.
expect to reach a maximum velocity of 24,661.21 miles per hour equivalent to
about Mach 33, 33 times the speed of sound shortly after we enter that blackout
period. Once we exit the blackout period of course we're in the denser regions of
the Earth's atmosphere and then we get set up for the parachute deployment
sequence. First the deployment of three forward bay cover shoots that
will pull essentially the top forward bay cover off the very top of the
integrity vehicle that will be followed by the deployment of drogue shoots and
then the final deployment of a series of three main parachutes at 7.04 and 44
seconds p.m. central time. From that point on it is about three minutes or
so until splashdown, splashdown scheduled at 7.07 and eight seconds
PM central time at a gentle speed of 19 miles an hour.
So just to give you some perspective, at the time that we enter the Earth's atmosphere,
we're traveling somewhere around Mach 32.
We will splash down at a speed of about 19 miles an hour.
The G-forces that we'll build on the crew members inside Integrity will build to
about 3.9 Gs. That is what is expected and what they have trained for and what the spacecraft
is designed to support.
So a lot of you guys are wondering why the two artificial horizons on the capsule are
in different orientations. One is oriented to the Earth's ground. It's oriented to
Earth's horizon. The other one as far as I can tell, I think Victor's is oriented to the latest
weather forecast out out on the recovery zone. The other one as far as I can tell seems to be
oriented to Orion's orbital plane, which means if you, you know, you kind of look at its orbit,
right, and you made that into a line, right, of its orbit, it's already that line is that
horizon, I think. I'm not sure it's a diff, it's definitely what's called a different reference
but we'll see.
Hey there, Ravya. Welcome to the bow of the USS John Murtha.
This is where we will report out live updates from the ship
as NASA and the US military work to recover our Artemis-2 astronauts
in just about an hour and a half. How exciting.
Now right now, as you can see, we are out in the Pacific Ocean.
We are just west of San Diego.
We're actually staged about six and a half miles away
from where we expect Orion to splash down.
And then we will incrementally move closer.
So at the time of splashdown, we'll be about five miles away.
And then we will move to 3.2 miles away.
At that point, we'll pause, make sure
that all the debris that might be coming down with Orion,
because basically some parts of the parachute system,
they're jettisons off Orion during descent.
So we'll just want to make sure that those all
land in the water, and that we are
safe to move even closer.
So we will make sure that we can move
a little closer and at that point we will move to a mile away from Orion and at
that point the ship will circle the capsule while NASA and maybe recovery
forces and we should have great views from here but also we have a ton of
cameras all around the ship for example we actually have some cameras
right to the last of me here on the bow there's a lot of strong stabilized
cameras we can really get up close to make sure that we are sharing all the
images we have available to you. We also will have some views from above. We actually have
five planes providing live views of Splashdown today. In fact some of those aerial assets just
took off from San Diego minutes ago. Actually here on the light deck you see four helicopters,
the two in the back those will take off in about 30 minutes from now also with live cameras. So
again lots and lots of imagery that we hope to share with you today. And then those two
two helos in the front, those two will pluck the crew out of the water and fly them back
to our ship.
Now the combined team here on the ship, more than 550 people left San Diego four days ago
and since then I've watched different teams train every day, train, rehearse, final preps
to make sure that they're ready for today, so to give us more of an update about how
recovery is going on right now, why don't we turn over to Paul here, Paul Serpinski.
He is the assistant Artemis recovery director, great to have you here, Paul.
Great to be here, thanks.
Absolutely. So you just left the landing forces operation center here on the ship. How are we looking for recovery right now?
It's looking great when I left they were just about to get into weather briefing with the mission control center in Houston
But listening to the loops this morning and everything has been going on the reentry trajectory correction burn
I'm sorry the return trajectory correction burn went great
They were right down the money right on the money right down the middle where there should be coming back
our forces here our
teams out in the water all our boats are launched or will be eminently so
yeah it's just coming along great yeah yeah it's really nice to see we did see
some of those boats float behind us we were hoping to give you a live view but
of course they floated right out of the camera shot as you came to us but so
basically the team right now here on the ship basically like monitoring but
really things will pick up about 15 minutes after splashdown yeah so a
couple minutes before splashdown things start happening really really fast
Some events during the re-entry, there may be a second or two apart, and so it just takes a whole lot of effort and a lot of updates back and forth between us and Houston to keep track of everything that's happening, all in real time.
And then after splashdown, that's when the recovery team really kicks into high gear.
We have our boat crews going out, our divers, doing hazardous assessments as they get progressively closer to the capsule, making sure it's safe for all of our people to go in.
And it's also safe for the astronauts to come out, because really at the end of the day, that's what we're here for, is we're going to make sure that the astronauts get home safe after their tremendous journey to the moon and back.
But then also we have, like you mentioned a minute ago, all of our imagery helicopters
are taking imagery, camera shots of it as it's coming in, all the way through and it's
flashed down.
I mean, they'll see it, it swings across the horizon, all the way to the ocean here.
And then afterwards we have to recover actually Orion to bring it into the wild deck of
the ship.
Absolutely, yeah.
And so once the astronauts are safe on board, then those same dive teams are going
transition into securing the capsule. They'll position some some equipment
around it to kind of facilitate that. The ship will move into position, will attach
a really big winch line to it, and then a bunch of tending lines. We'll pull a
capsule around behind the ship and then start to slowly bring it in. And then
yeah, Orion comes in, goes hard down, and everyone cheers. Yeah, great day.
Exactly. Lots to coordinate, a lot to manage. Basically planning for this
recovery. Artemis II recovery started a month after Artemis I launched. That was the uncrewed
test flight of the Space Launch System rocket as well as the Orion spacecraft. That was November
2022 a month later. All the planning for this. How does it feel to be so close to welcoming our
friends or astronauts home? I mean for the whole team I walked around the ship this morning
just kind of visiting with a lot of people a lot of groups and just kind of get the feel of
them and everyone has that same kind of mentality. Everyone's excited. Everyone's thrilled to
see all that work that we've been doing, like you said, for the last three years
since right after the last one came back until now and some people even further
back some of them go back a decade and so more. So everyone is just excited and
they're ready. They're really ready for this and just to be able to see our
crew come back that's gonna be a thrill for everyone. How are you feeling? Are
you ready? Is this something you ever thought you'd be doing? I'm ready. I'm
I'm excited. This has been the pinnacle of my career so far. It really has.
I've seen a lot of firsts, a lot of lasts,
but I can't think of ever topping seeing the first crew to go to the moon and
back in 50 years and to be here and be a part of that.
And it's just a tremendous privilege on behalf of the whole team.
I'm thrilled and so are all of us. We're ready.
Yeah. I definitely think that those words really embody how everybody on the
ship is feeling. So thank you so much, Paul. I appreciate you being here.
And so Rob, we'll toss it back to you. Again, we will continue to join you with live updates from the ship as much as possible.
Thank you, Megan. Back here at the Johnson Space Center, the entry team of flight controllers looking over the shoulders of Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover.
They're on the flight deck of Integrity, and again just below their feet in the mid-deck area, if you will.
Christina Cook and Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency.
They're in the final review of their entry procedures and all of the
activities that will follow here very shortly in trip hammer fashion.
We should note that after splashdown occurs,
the flight control team here in Houston will be monitoring the
orientation of the integrity spacecraft.
We are expecting it to splashdown upright in what
what is called the stable one configuration with the top of the spacecraft pointed upward.
Stable two would indicate that it is upside down in the water. Regardless of the orientation,
there will be five inflatable airbags called the CMOS system. That's the acronym for crew
module upriding system.
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Read Weisman's technology that the final steps in suit donning are now complete for the crew
that have been completed earlier.
The CMOS system, those five inflatable airbags, will be inflated with helium.
Those airbags will ensure that the vehicle remains upright while that activity is going
on. The flight control team here will be checking the systems on integrity, also making sure
that there's no leakage of toxic gas from the spacecraft. It should take about 15 minutes
from splashdown to the power down of all of the systems on integrity. And at that point,
assuming everything is in a nominal fashion, then the green light will be given for the
Navy recovery teams to begin to make their way closer to integrity to begin the erection
of a large inflatable life raft called a front porch that will be buttressed up alongside
the hatchway to the spacecraft.
That life raft will be used to bring the crew members out of this vehicle once the
hatch is open one by one.
They'll get their land legs back after nine days of weightlessness before they're
put in harnesses to be hoisted one by one in sequential fashion in an alternating fashion
to the two hovering Navy helicopters overhead.
Houston integrity, first status.
Alright, guys I'm going to go use the restroom, I'll be right back one second.
Seat 3 and 4 are connecting on the vehicles, we're going to be stepping into the leak
check soon.
One and two will be seated, three and four will be free float and we'll configure
epoch accordingly.
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Reid Wiseman talking about the current procedures with the suiting of the crew members and subsequent
leak checks, a final leak check for all four crew members.
Everything is actually running a few minutes ahead of schedule.
So once the life raft is inflated next to the integrity spacecraft and the recovery
teams have arrived alongside of the vehicle. The hatch will be open and the crew members
will be brought outside into that front porch as it is called one by one. They then will
be hoisted into the hovering helos overhead and those helos then will turn around once
the four crew members are on board, two for each helicopter and will head back to
the ship that should be about a 10 to 15 minute transit once the helicopters land on the deck
of the USS John Murtha. The crew members will be exiting those helicopters and brought
into Medical Bay on the deck on the ship itself for comprehensive medical exams. They will
spend a period of time yet to be determined on board the USS John Murtha before they
They are flown by helicopter to the shore in San Diego, to the San Diego Naval Air Station
and ultimately will board a NASA jet for the flight back to the Johnson Space Center here
in Houston.
Just to recap some of the key times that are coming up.
We are expecting the separation of the crew module from the service module just 43 minutes
from now.
That is expected to occur at 6.33 p.m. central time, 7.33 p.m. eastern time.
That will be followed just four minutes later by the crew module raise burn, the use of
integrity thrusters one final time in a 19 second burn to slightly tilt the vehicle up
into the correct orientation or angle of attack to ensure that it enters the Earth's
atmosphere at the right angle, if you will.
That will help deflect the buildup of heat against integrity's heat shield.
This was a deliberate move, a change in the procedures from the Artemis-1 mission that
resulted in unexpected Char loss on the Avco heat shield that had not been intended based
on the entry trajectory for the Artemis-1 mission.
What we're doing is we deliberately changed the trajectory of the entry from a skip
entry that was about a 3,000 mile transit across the Pacific Ocean.
We are expecting now from entry interface to the point of splashdown to have a range
of just 1,701 nautical miles and that in of itself will reduce the exposure time of heating
on the heat shield of the spacecraft.
Once the raise burn is complete then the stage is set for entry interface at 6.53
and 31 seconds p.m. central time.
That means that integrity will be entering the Earth's atmosphere at an altitude of 400,000
feet, traveling at about 34,882 feet per second, heading for its splashdown site off the coast
of San Diego, as you just heard from Megan Cruz on the deck of the USS John Murtha.
Splashdown once again under those three main parachutes is expected at 7, 07 and 8 seconds
PM Central Time, 507 PM Pacific Time, two-and-a-half hours before sunset.
The actual total distance traveled for integrity from launch to splashdown is estimated at 694,481
statute miles.
Now that includes the first high elliptical Earth orbit following launch that enabled
the integrity to move to 43,000 miles above the Earth at its apogee and enabling a 24-hour
period of systems checkouts before the flight control team here and the mission management
team gave approval for integrity to conduct its translunar injection that propelled it
on its way to the moon and its historic lunar flyby. So the total distance we expect
this vehicle to have traveled at Splashdown 694,481 statute miles.
With everything proceeding on track and on time, aboard integrity, the vehicle's systems
in excellent shape as the Earth grows larger in the field of view.
Let's go back to the USS John Murtha and Megan Cruz who is standing by.
Hey, Rob, welcome back.
Again, we are out in the Pacific Ocean, staged just about six and a half miles
from where we expect Orion to splash down now in just over an hour how exciting
and the weather awesome conditions here. I know you see some wind around blowing
around my hair but really nothing to speak of when it comes to having to
recover our astronauts as well as no waves here really. So yeah we're
expecting a really great day also hopefully some really great views you
can see behind me that some of the clouds are starting to break up so
that's really exciting. And now of course this ship has a lot of people
ready and excited to welcome our crew back home, including Dr. Rick Schuring here.
He is a NASA Flight Surgeon. Great to have you here, Rick.
You too, Megan. It is a blessing to be out of this day with our teams.
We've trained three years for this, non-stop with the US Navy, along with EGS.
And we so look forward to this day. And just by God's grace, everything's parting,
the skies and everything. The crew's doing great.
Looking forward to coming back. And our teams are ready.
So this is one of those days you've dreamt about and now it's finally here and we're ready and just thankful to be a part of it
Yeah, and you play a really integral role. What was the last time you spoke to the crew and how are they feeling in this last hour?
Before spashed out. Sure. Yeah, so the crew woke up when they splashed on they will have woken up about eight and a half hours ago
Me and my fellow crew surgeons doctors Chris Hassan
Rafi Khumjian from the Canadian Space Agency spoke with them
about six and a half hours ago just a double check on how they're doing if
there's any medical issues you know how they slept and then kind of go over
their landing day protocol for medications for what we call a fluid load to
try to replace some of the fluid and electrolytes that they've lost with just
a normal space adaptation once they got this they kind of have to
re-replace some of that fluid to help them with the whole landing kind of
re-aptation to 1g which they haven't done for the last 10 days and then
just kind of let them know how things are going to play out, you know, out with the open
water teams all the way until we finally get to the med deck. So they were very pumped
up, very hurried though. They had a lot of cabin configuration, a lot of things to get
ready. So they're excited, but also very focused on the job that they had to do. So, like
again, we've trained a long time for this and we're ready.
And you said some medications. I mean, those are kind of just to mitigate the
effects of obviously there, there are more than 695,000 mile journey back to earth.
It's just like anti-nausea medication, right?
Yeah, exactly, Megan.
The astronauts are very healthy, fortunately.
And even when they come back in reentry,
the human system is very kind of dynamic.
It has to re-adapt very quickly.
And one of the most common responses they get
is just some stomach awareness,
to some nausea, even to some vomiting.
And with our crews that land out in Carolina,
the Soyuz crews or our SpaceX crews,
They all kind of experienced the same thing.
This will be the first time we're landing in water since December 1972.
I worked with all the Apollo astronauts years ago and they all told me that landing in the
water, especially in the Pacific, can be very provocative.
So we take steps to give them medicines to really mitigate some of that nausea, vomiting,
help them feel a little better.
And also sometimes just use a little anti-inflammatory medicine just to help with coming back
to one earth, or 1G.
The effects of microgravity, especially as you age and you have a little arthritis, you
feel great microgravity.
And everyone kind of curses coming back to the ground like, oh dang, 1G, so that helps
a little bit.
But for the most part, the main thing is just replacing that fluid and then trying to help
them with that transition back to 1G and then we're ready to go.
Yeah, and their health is assessed almost immediately after they squash them.
Yeah, so we have Dr. Jesse Wang and we have our independent duty corpsman who
or the Navy version of paramedics,
extremely highly trained, highly experienced
Navy medics and divers who will go out there,
open the capsule about 25, 28 minutes after splashdown
and do the first initial assessment.
So Jesse and his team will go out there
and look at each crew, kind of do their assessments,
get vital signs, report back to Drs. Haas
and Kumji and I and back in the mid bay,
let them know how they're doing.
And then, if they've got the normal kind of
space adaptation kind of things, we expect that.
They're good to go on that.
If anything didn't go the way they want,
they're all prepared for that as well.
And Jesse and his team, I mean, this is a full-time job
taking care of sailors and folks who might be injured.
We don't expect any injuries.
But coming back, going $25,000 miles an hour down to 20
miles an hour, it's still a dynamic process.
I've heard it described as kind of like a car crash.
And then the crew will be ready to go.
And Jesse and his team will make that transition
to get them out to the front porch, do assessments on them again, call to our med bay, and then
once we have that and they're all good to go and the crew is feeling okay, we'll hoist
them up in the helos, that's about a three minute flight back to the flight deck and
that's where me and the astronaut chief Scott Tingle will actually meet them.
I'll get eyes on them, make sure they're all good, just take very slow transitions
and then one by one we'll either get them out with the SMTs, the Sauer med techs
under each arm, just, you know, kind of just walk them very slowly to Med Bay,
which actually helps them after they're back to 1G, or if they really
don't have their sea legs back yet, then we might put them in what we call a
stair chair, which will be right behind them,
and then just very slowly kind of get them back into Med Bay to start our
full assessments for the team.
Yeah, so a really great team here to support them as soon as they get back
and also all throughout the mission, of course.
You talked a little bit about this, but obviously, you know, we have seen
astronauts return from the International Space Station for over 25 years,
So we kind of know that journey, how it affects the body, but yes, we're talking about humans returning from the moon for the first time since 1972.
How is this different from your perspective?
So it's different in one very significant respect with on Apollo for exercise, they had something called the Apollo exergenia,
which was basically just a little canister with some ropes and they would have some resistance and kind of do that.
And the Apollo astronauts really liked that.
They liked the ability to exercise because you decondition from a musculoskeletal standpoint,
you lose your strength and you're standing very quickly.
We had something called the Orion Flywheel which was able in part much greater loads in
terms of resistance so they're able to do squats, deadlifts, different things, not
dissimilar to what the ISS astronauts do but with a lot less room to do it.
And they also did rolling activities for cardiovascular health and the crews loved
it.
but for the lunar cruise, the future lunar cruise, maintaining that physical conditioning,
which our astronauts' strength and conditioning rehabilitation specialists,
effectively known as the Acer's, back in Houston, really work hard to get them in the best shape
they're going to have to be in to get to the moon. That device hopefully will maintain that.
And Apollo only had about a 4.3 day journey to the moon. Our astronauts are going to have
about a 10 to 14 day journey. So maintaining that physical fitness, that strength and
and stamina is going to be crucial for the success of being able to do those very physically
demanding lunar EVAs.
So we're very excited about what the astronauts have said about the device and what they have
to say about the role exercise plays, you know, going to the moon and also the mental
benefits.
They just really like sweating, breaking sweat, and actually just feeling like, you know,
they're just getting a workout.
Right.
Thank you so much, Rick.
I really appreciate it.
I know they're going to be in good hands, so we'll let you get back to it.
Thank you so much.
Thanks for the time.
Okay, Megan, back here, mission control in Houston, everything is moving along in order.
This view of re-drisement on the left, Victor Glover on the right.
We have good suit leak checks.
Everything aboard integrity is an excellent…
Guys, I'm not trying to freak out.
I just like listening, but I'm just locked in.
I'm listening for information.
This is a tough part of the mission, man.
This is a hard part.
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Happy crew module service module separation schedule just 31 minutes from now
Now, the key point of interest, of course, will be the performance of integrity's heat
shield during its high-speed entry back into Earth and the heat-heating expected around
the spacecraft of some 4,000 to 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
On Artemis I, as I think most folks know by now, we flew a trajectory known as a skip
entry in which we performed an initial dip into the atmosphere to bleed off some energy.
we skipped out of the atmosphere and dipped back into the atmosphere before splashing down
in the Pacific, but after the mission was over with, we noticed unexpected liberation
of some of the charring effects on the heat shield known as Avcoat.
Before the flight, we had an opportunity to sit down and talk with entry flight director
Rick Henfling to get a perspective on what this all means and how the mission was
redesigned to try to protect Integrity's heat shield to a higher extent. Let's take a look at that interview.
Returning from the Moon is a lot different than deorbiting from low Earth orbit.
When we return from the Moon, we expect to achieve velocities upwards of 36,000 feet per second.
And in order to slow down to a nice graceful splashdown in the Pacific Ocean,
the flight crew is going to experience between three and four times the force of Earth's gravity
On Artemis 1, pressure buildup inside the char layer of the heat shield resulted in the char loss as we saw.
NASA established a Tiger team whose job was to investigate the cause of the problem
and then make recommendations on how to fly the Artemis 2 mission safely and successfully.
And so for Artemis 2, we are going to fly a profile that ensures the spacecraft will not see that same type of pressure profile.
And so the Char loss is seen on Artemis 2 will not be like the ones that we saw on Artemis 1.
Rick Henfling indicated that the orientation of the spacecraft and the shortening of the distance of transit to the splashdown zone from the point of entry interface when we reach the top of the Earth's atmosphere,
which will be coming up at 6.53 and 30 seconds p.m. central time should do the trick in minimizing the deleterious forces against that heat shield that were noticed on the Artemis-1 mission.
And we think we see a beautiful sunrise over the west coast of Australia.
Yeah, baby.
Oui, copy.
Commander Reid Wiseman, reveling in his final hour in space on this mission, as integrity
is passing over the southwest coast of Australia now at an altitude of some 7600 nautical miles,
that will begin the southwest and northeasterly transit across the Pacific Ocean. Let's
Let's talk a little bit more about some of the highlights and some of them.
Man, they really aren't giving me a chance to say anything, guys.
I'm just kind of sitting here.
They keep going, cutting from movie to movie to movie to movie.
I'm like, all right.
In interview to movie, I'm just kind of here.
I'm sorry.
Like, yeah, they're not giving me much of a chance to talk.
But yeah, they're, we are about 30 minutes out till service module
separation and about an hour from landing.
Two feet per second at an altitude of 400,000 feet.
Just 24 seconds after the entry interface, we will begin a blackout period of six minutes
in duration at 6.53 and 54 seconds p.m. central time.
Now right now, about 10 seconds after the blackout period begins, we are expected to
reach peak speed, which would be 24,661 miles an hour. That will be about 103 miles an hour
short of the velocity record set by the Apollo 10 astronauts, Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan and
John Young, when they returned from the moon on the Apollo 10 mission in 1969.
That blackout period is expected to last six minutes in duration.
At 6.54 and 52 seconds, PM Central Time will reach our peak heating period of about 4,000
to 5,000 degrees while we're in a communications blackout from integrity and its astronauts.
That blackout should end at 6.59 and 55 seconds, PM Central Time, at which point we expect
to regain communications with the crew, Capcom Jackie Mahaffey here in the flight control
room will be talking to the crew, calling them and will await a response from the crew
as they come out of that blackout period and at that point their altitude will be
just 157,000 feet above the earth traveling at 13,000 feet per second with a range
to splash down of just 147 nautical miles.
From that point on, the next key series of events will be the deployment of a series of parachutes
that we discussed before.
First, the forward bay cover shoot deploy that will pull the forward bay cover away from
the top of integrity followed by dro- Does this melon farmer have a GoPro?
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team that's the commander of the hour
uh... and that uh... will begin the recovery operations
that you just heard megan cruz uh... discuss
with uh... her folks on the urs
this is not the one that was called
all of integrity systems in great shape the crew is suited up
leak checks complete as we stand by for the next my major milestone
which will be the crew module, service module separation,
just 24 and a half minutes from now.
Okay, well, I can get a word in guys.
It's been fun.
It's been fun, man.
This has been a good time.
We'll celebrate more when they're back down,
but before we get to the EI and everything,
I just wanted to say that you've been following
the whole time.
Well, I appreciate you.
If you're just popping in now, I appreciate you too.
Thank you for watching.
So we're just gonna sit back, relax, and enjoy this year.
Let's see what happens.
And just to show you as Rick here in the place
is gonna lead you in his interview with Megan Cruz,
all of this happens to decelerate the vehicle
from traveling around Mach 33
to just 19 miles an hour at Splashdown.
All of that happening in just 13 and a half minutes.
But the vehicle and the parachutes are all designed to support all of that, so we'll
be standing by to report all that to you in sequential fashion as these milestones are
ticked off and as we hear from the crew during its entry back into the Earth's atmosphere
and ultimately when they emerge from the blackout period and at that point we'll be just
minutes away from splashdown.
Why is there a blackout? So with all of those blackout comes from the ionized
gases that are associated with a atmospheric reentry with capsules
going so fast when it hits the atmosphere guys that it's going to
start compressing gases up against the heat shield. It's going to compress
those gases so ridiculously hard that they start to rip apart. Artemis is
going to come in. Are the Artemis II Orion integrity is going to come in so fast it'll
start ripping air apart. When air gets ripped apart it ionizes. When it ionizes it turns
to plasma. Trying to get a signal through that plasma that it leaves a wake of plasma
kind of it's not exactly like this because plasma is not liquid but if you picture a
boat going through the water it leaves a wake. Plasma leaves a wake. It's tough
to transmit a signal through that wake. And by tough, I mean not impossible.
For the Earth's atmosphere, for their 13 and a half minute plunge back into the atmosphere
for splashdown. If we get on boards, guys, you'll see it. You'll see it in the windows.
The windows will start glowing orange. 11 below, right?
The caps will be recovered. There's people on board. I certainly hope so.
is really building here on the ship. I'm watching right now one of the weather balloons being
lofted up from the ship. Again, weather balloons very important for us to make sure that we are
tracking the right kind of weather and also the data that's needed for what's called our SAS
squad. So I see a lot of people saying like oh well SpaceX did it, oh well SpaceX did it.
The thing is is that Starship is an entirely different shape going through re-entry. The
The wake that it leaves is a little bit different with capsules because of their gumdrop shape.
You get a, you get a recompression off the back, the capsule.
You don't, you get a recompression for the nerds.
I know you get a recompression with a starship or a space shuttle coming in as well.
But that recompression is not as bad on starship because of it's a different shape.
And it's definitely not the same on the space shuttle.
So how the, what SpaceX does is when that thing is coming in, there's a star
link that's behind it on orbit and they can get the signal in because the wake is a different
shape, right?
With a pod, you don't really have that.
It's tough to get a signal through to a pod.
Even Dragon guys, when Dragon comes back, there's still a loss of signal.
That doesn't happen so much with Starship, right?
For the test flights, but because we're dealing with a pod here, you're going to get
recompression.
The wake kind of collapses in behind the capsule.
It's going to be tough to get a signal in if we do get one at all.
Oh, oh, oh, big space.
I mean, space is a 10-up.
As a commanding officer, I take that as one of my primary roles here on board.
Mission accomplished, and it's important safety always.
So my day really has, I would say my message to the crew is to sort of change over the
past 24 hours.
As we're leading up to today, we've been building up the excitement and motivating
the team for the training that we've executed, but really over the past 24 hours,
Now I'm trying to get us to slow down a little bit.
Trust our training, all right?
Don't believe all the hype.
Don't believe everything that's going on.
Just trust what we've done to get to this point,
and we do that what we successful today.
And also part of the big success
is obviously the coordination between NASA
and the US military.
How does it feel being able to support the human space
program we have?
Yeah, I mean, since 1959 with Mercury, Gemini, Apollo,
the history between NASA and the Navy
has been in lockstep.
But like any other skill, if you don't practice it regularly,
that's skill atrophies.
So we've had a few decades off from that.
Over the past four or five years, really,
this ship over the past year, we've
NASA, please.
NASA, please.
Constantly trained and working for this moment right here,
building up the hype.
But to get to this point today,
feel that trust on the training we've done.
We're working with NASA, the Air Force, the medical team,
dive team. You want to talk about high performance organizations coming together
working unison? We are seeing that here on board the USH John P. Murphy and I
can't be more proud of all the work that you have done.
You had some great words to say, just that, that it's really nice to see everybody working
together and so excited. I mean you just became the commanding officer of
the ship back in February. How does it personally feel for you to be a part
of this historic moment today? Yeah I mean first and foremost I'd say any
Any opportunity to command any warship in the United States Navy is a tremendous honor,
is a pinnacle of any naval officer's career.
That being said, as my command, changing command was approaching and I realized that Artemis
was going to be in the window here.
To say that I'm humbled and honored to be here is an understatement.
What really just excites me is the opportunity to see this crew who has been training
so hard over the past year plus, you know, come together. It is what inspires me, listening
to NASA and the ownership and pride they take. They make my crew better. I think we're making
NASA better together. That synergy is something that I'm happy to see and hopefully take
forward with me in my career. Yeah, it's all about partnerships. You couldn't do it
without you and we couldn't have gotten to the moon without our international partners
as well. So thank you so much, Captain. It was really great to have you here today.
Thanks, Megan.
All right, Rob, back to you.
Thank you, Megan, back here in mission control in Houston.
We just had a quick view of the crew.
We'll get that view back, and there they are again.
Here in mission control, the entry team of flight controllers
led.
Skipper was Johnson, man.
You see that?
He was ready to go.
He's like, oh, yeah, I want to do this.
This is going to be sick.
You know, let's do that.
Skipper was Johnson, dude.
All right, I'm going to fast forward us, make sure
We're caught up speed here.
Yeah, the camber is up there.
I know the WB 57.
There's plenty of planes.
We should, I mean, even if we can't get an onboard view,
guys, we should be able to get some views of...
Integrity as it bows.
We should be able to get some views,
images of the reentry from planes and stuff.
5700 nautical miles from Splashdown.
Just one quick note about the comparison from the Artemis-1 entry profile to the Artemis-2
entry profile and how that is serving as an extra layer of protection for Integrity's
heat shield, the Artemis-1 entry had an entry range of some 3178 nautical miles, a very
long down track and a very longer period of exposure to heat loads than we're experiencing
tonight. It also had that skip entry profile that we discussed earlier, dipping into the
Earth's atmosphere then back out then back in. It was about 20 minutes of exposure.
Integrity Houston, Com check on TDRS.
Jackie, we have it loud and clear on TDRS.
It's a weather balloon.
We have you the same.
And there's one of the weather balloons being deployed from the USS John P. Murtha.
Get the F-22s to balloon, shoot it down, that was a joke.
So the Artemis-1 entry had the vehicle.
It's going to be updated on GPS.
We haven't seen a track yet.
Nice, Norman.
Reed, we are watching.
We are starting to get into the window
where they may start acquiring.
So it should be within the next 10 minutes.
Can I hand over to the viewers?
Okay, so we're holding at step 17 and getting ready for CMRCS hotfire.
Everybody uses balloons to check the weather before last time.
And that exchange indicating that we are expecting to acquire data from the GPS system on board.
That'll be a navigational tool that will basically tell Integrity's computers that they're on track down the centerline of the corridor for the entry interface that will lead them to their splashdown point.
point. Once again the Artemis-1 entry exposed to the heat shield for about 20
minutes of peak heating for Artemis-2 we're going to reach a downtrack distance
of 1,701 nautical miles from the point of entry interface with just 14 minutes
of duration and it's basically a different angle of attack, a little bit
steeper angle of attack that will protect the heat shield from excessive
heat loads. So that is the difference between Artemis-1 and Artemis-2 all designed into
this mission to gather data to protect the heat shield since the Artemis-3 mission and
beyond will have a different designed heat shield that will allow that skip entry type
of profile to be resumed for all of the future missions coming back from the south
pole of the moon when we initiate lunar landings.
So we've handed over to the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System.
That's where we'll have communications for the rest of the flight.
Just to give you some time hacks here, we're 13 and a half minutes away from Crew Module,
Service Module separation and just 17 minutes away from the raise burn that 19 second
firing of the thrusters that will basically be the final fine tuning of the
angle of attack for integrity. So we have Judd Freedling, he was the Ascent Flight
Director. That's Rick Henfling right there. He is the Descent Flight Director.
He's running the show right now. This is Jackie Mahaffey right here. She's the
capsule communicator. She's being assisted by NASA astronaut Stan Love. He flew on
the space shuttle on the STS-122 mission.
What are they separating visually? Beppy, so if you look, Orion's made up of two
big... and once again the dual box view of some of the assets that are
involved in recovery operations today the integrity cabinet configured all crew
suited and seated that's he's been copies that confirmation from Reed
Weiss been aboard integrity ship is that you see the assets of being deployed to
the splashdown zone at the time of splashdown we expect the John P.
Mertha to be about five miles away from integrity, keeping a safe distance until we are sure
that the vehicle is in the water and upright and that it is in a good configuration system-wide
for the recovery teams to begin to approach the vehicle to erect that inflatable raft.
Two minutes to see him, RCS, warm up hot fire.
We're ready.
That call from spacecraft communicator Jackie Mahaffey indicating that we're two minutes
away from a quick burst of the reaction control system.
Thrusters, that will be a hot fire test prior to the separation of the crew module from
the service module.
The European service module has performed flawlessly throughout this flight.
all the burns that had been prescribed for that service module had been executed on time.
And without a problem, there is the European flight control room that has overseen the manufacturing,
the design of the European service module.
They deserve quite a bit of credit on this mission for not only propelling.
The service module separation guys is in the next, it's actually 13 minutes out.
I'll run ads right before it, so we will try not to show pre-rolls on Twitch as best
as we can during re-entry.
I hate ads.
I don't like them at all, but if I can control it in any way, shape, or form, I will.
So we're going to run an ad here, probably in the next 10 minutes, and I'll try
So I'm my best to give you guys uninterrupted entries so nobody gets an ad during Splashtown.
It's landing near San Diego, flying over Eastern Australia here.
Here in Melbourne to Sydney, look up, say hi.
That's cool though, you, right on.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, this is space, I am in space.
What you are looking at is a computer generated visualization based on real time telemetry from
integrity.
Currently traveling about 16,000 miles per hour.
Here you go, grease that sucker.
We've got a little bit of wind, but he's going to bring it down.
There we go.
Good job.
Integrity traveling about 16,000 miles an hour.
We're taking a look.
Copy that.
Now just about 5,100 miles from Earth.
Splashdown schedule 43 minutes from now.
We're just nine and a half minutes away from the crew module, service module separation.
Guys remember an hour ago when they were going 10,000 miles an hour and they were 50,000 miles away from Earth?
Remember that?
It comes up on you real quick.
It comes up real fast.
Oh, you're there.
Integrity, we are assessing details but so far looks like a good hot fire.
Okay, thruster hot fire was good.
Looks good on board, Jackie, thank you.
Read copies.
And Jackie, on behalf of you took the words out of my mouth, I was just about to say that
we had a good hot fire test of the thrusters in advance of the crew module, service module
separation that's coming up just eight and a half minutes from now.
So there's additional thrusters on Orion that aren't on the service module.
See these things right here?
One, two, three, four, five and six.
They just hot-fired those to make sure that the thrusters on this thing work before they
jettisoned the service module.
Now once again, we have two parts here.
Anything that's white is the service module.
Anything that's gray is the crew module or CM for short.
So it's CM and SM, okay?
When they go for service module separation, it will lose this part.
So it loses the solar panels and all the propulsion systems here.
All that's left is the crew module with Reed, Jeremy, Christine, and Victor in and the heat
shield that's back here.
But that hot fire was these thrusters to make sure that they work.
You need those to steer during reentry.
How do you test without adjusting the orbit?
Let Gary, you're too close.
You're too close to Earth for thruster hot firing to make any changes.
It's not going to perturb your trajectory in any way, shape, or form at this point.
going too fast in one direction. For the crew module, service module, separation.
Assuming it didn't work, what would be done? They tested the thrusters yesterday, dude, so you wouldn't even get to the school.
We're now inside 41 minutes until splashdown.
We have confirmed a good CMRCS hot fire and although we are not seeing GPS
acquired yet you can skip the troubleshooting steps in 157 for now.
Service module burns up guys it's one-time use.
That GPS discussion indicating that we will be acquired.
How do they ensure separation that can't damage the heat shield?
Well, those CMRCS thrusters that we were just talking about, after they separate, they're
going to do a basically a separation maneuver to make sure they get away from the service
module in the heat shield.
You'll see.
Of 24,661.21 miles an hour.
From the last drive, we're going to send out a service module.
So, on voyage, thank you.
Thank you to all of your...
All the ESA people in the European Space Agency for building that thing.
It did good.
The guidance navigation and control officer here in Mission Control confirming that we
have good lock on GPS data.
We are on a communications link now through the tracking and data relay satellite system.
Now following splashdown we're going to lose that link and go to what's called
the VLD are a very low data rate communications link
so that we can talk to the crew inside integrity
as they are on the water.
Integrity confirm we do see good GPS.
I got GPS lock, everything's good.
Oh, okay.
This is space, please.
The special GPS one is accepting in NAV channels,
one and three.
All right dudes, so I'm gonna shut off,
I'm gonna shut off the sub notifier and alerters.
So if you pop in with the sub from here on out,
I appreciate it, but I want to listen to the crew.
I don't want to make sure we miss anything from here on out.
This is a critical phase in the mission
and it really has to go right.
And I'm going to be listening so I can explain
if anything goes weird.
We have now armed the pyros
for the crew module, service module separation coming.
This is happening.
We're also going to run the ads.
I'll see you on the other side
so you get re-entry uninterrupted.
On YouTube, sorry, nothing I can do.
Once again, just 10 seconds after entry interface, we will see Integrity reaching its peak speed of 24,661.21 miles per hour.
That will be just seconds before we begin a six-minute blackout period.
Integrity, Houston. Your vehicle is in a good config for CMSM SEP and GO for CMRAE.
Houston, we see the same on board and copy go over CMRAs.
A few minutes to set.
That CMRAs referred to as the slight firing of 19 seconds by integrity thrusters with
a change in velocity of 9.9 feet per second, a slight nudge of the aft end of the vehicle
that it's tilted a bit upward providing the final angle of attack as the vehicle enters
the Earth's atmosphere. This being the mitigating factor that will reduce heat loads on the heat
shield as we reach a point downrange from the start of entry interface some 1700-1 nautical
miles to the splashdown site.
Alright Brandon, here we go.
Integrity systems in excellent shape.
We are currently 3,300 nautical miles left in this mission.
the flashdown schedule 36 minutes 39 seconds from now.
Integrity Houston, for the two enabled
prop cautions, what happened is while the thrusters were firing,
multiple pressure sensors on each of the strings
diverged a bit from each other. Those limits look to be set pretty
tight. We think it could happen again when the thrusters fire
in the future, so we are going to suppress those messages.
We concur with suppress, not inhibit, thank you.
Type parameters, that's, yeah, okay.
All right, the rate of pressurization.
That exchange between Jackie Mahaffey.
The rate of pressurization when they went to fire the thrusters was a little different between each thruster.
They think because it's just a conservative parameter, so it flashed a master caution.
Read and Jackie Mahaffey, the capsule communicator,
and so read the commander, both agree that it don't inhibit,
just it's gonna flash a master caution,
but that is well-known and understood behavior.
That's a big deal that they're in concurrence.
That's good.
That's a good sign.
Now coming up on about 90 seconds
until the crew module, service module separation.
Here we go.
Buckle up.
It looks like it's all quiet here in mission control as we enter the most critical phase
of the completion of this flight, all of the preparatory activities leading
up to the vehicle entering the Earth's atmosphere just 21 minutes from now.
up on one minute, mark one minute till crew module, service module separation.
face from here on out guys.
is 60 seconds ever.
There we go.
Clean set.
And we have confirmation of Crew Module, Service Module separation and a great view, albeit
momentarily.
Oh.
Houston gets up on board.
Houston copies and concur.
The European service module now separated from integrity, a job well done.
Integrity, no action for the four CDH cautions, those are SM related, not applicable.
Slashing warnings for service module components that are no longer attached, so we're good.
Is that all P? No, that is...
So with integrity now flying free on its own for the remaining 32 minutes of this mission.
Next up, the raise burn, a 19 second firing of integrity strifters.
Second redundant GPS is locked.
And take your decadence, get your gear up too.
Coming up on the two-minute mark until the rays burn, again this is the final tweaking
of the orientation of integrity to put it in the right angle, if you will, the angle
of attack that it will fly in during its entrance into the Earth's atmosphere.
interface now just 18 minutes 25 seconds away. This is a visualization but driven by real-time
telemetry. This is the maneuvering of integrity to the raise burn orientation. Just 2800 miles
from Earth. The graphic doesn't show service module separation. The graphic doesn't show it
guys so what you see we got a great view of the European service module out the
window with the sun hitting the side and the solar rays and the NASA warm right
there it's a beautiful looking machine
Roger
and we have completed the maneuver to the raise burn orientation one minute
away from the raise burn.
So the raise burn is just going to modify the trajectory just a little bit.
It's going to get them away from the service module so it doesn't come near them during
entry and it's going to put Orion on this revised flight trajectory so the heat shield
One lot char
We're in the end game come on what happens in service module service module will burn up
The crew module rays burn is underway, 19 second firing of the thrusters, and we have
a completion of the burn.
burn is nominal. No. Integrity, good. CM raise burn, your flight path angle is within limits.
Good. You're going to find no piece of that service module a little vaporized.
Integrity copies looks good on board Jackie.
So, the final maneuver is now complete.
Our trajectory for a splashdown in the Pacific 29 minutes from now is set and will not be
amended further.
And we have the right angle of attack to mitigate any excessive heat loads on the vehicle
during entry interface.
integrity he's in a heads up about calm coverage
when you perform the 180 roll for the first minute or so in that attitude we expect about a minute
elowa it's about admiral we copy read copies good
So for those who are watching, the series of events coming up, we will enter the first
traces of Earth's atmosphere, 14 minutes 45 seconds from now, 6.53 and 30 seconds is what
is pegged for entry interface at an altitude of 400,000 feet, traveling at approximately
34,800 feet per second, range to touchdown or splash down 1,701 nautical miles.
Twenty-four seconds after entry interface, we will enter a six-minute blackout period
in which we will lose communications with the crew.
This is expected due to the buildup of plasma around the vehicle.
and ionization effect due to the collision, if you will, of the velocity of the spacecraft
with the friction of the Earth's atmosphere.
That six-minute blackout is expected to begin at 6.53 and 54 seconds p.m. central time.
During that period of time, we will reach our peak speed of 24,661 miles per hour
that comes just short, based on unofficial data
from the Flight Dynamics Office right now,
will come just short of the velocity record set by Apollo
10 of 24,791 miles per hour in 1969.
We expect peak heating on the vehicle at 6.54 and 52 seconds
PM central time, a minute and 22 seconds
into entry interface. At that point we will be just 204,000 feet above the Earth traveling
at 33,000 feet per second. The blackout period is expected to last 6 minutes. We expect
that blackout period to end at 6.59 and 55 seconds p.m. central time. From the end
From the end of the blackout period until splashdown it is just seven minutes
at which point we'll start deploying the series of parachutes
to slow integrity down to an ultimate splashdown velocity of just 19 miles an hour.
We see the same waiting for the 180 rolls.
Okay.
So this is the heads up display that's on the capsule.
That is the information that Reed sees on his display.
That's the orientation of the capsule on X, Y, and Z.
That's what's called a ground track up here.
That's a shot on the aft deck on the John P. Murtha.
The two SH-60s are ready to go.
The parachute deployment sequence one.
These cameras right here are shots
of the other two SH-60s that are in the area.
Those are the recovery planes.
This is timeline over here.
I'm not sure what this is over here.
But this is that's the heads-up display on Orion. That's its heading right there
That's capsule orientation right now the capsules upside down remember what I told you guys about firing me about you leaving the heat shield angled relative to incoming velocity
They want to enter like this
So if you look the capsule is oriented upright you can see from the artificial horizon that she's up
Okay? You can also see on this telemetry driven animation over here, you could see when the RCS is firing, there will just be a little flash on that telemetry driven animation.
Deploy the main parachutes from the forward bay. The final sequence will have three main parachutes deployed. These will be 116 feet in diameter.
Each main parachute approximately 265 feet long when reefed.
About 10 minutes away from entry interface here, once entry interface happens, you should start to see this thing roll.
They'll start to roll. When they roll, their angle of attack relative, there's some RCS firing, their angle of attack relative, see? There it is.
It looks like they're going to roll a little bit before main entry interface but the capsule
is rolling relative to the horizon.
They're going to use that to change the angle of attack on the heat shield.
See?
There it is.
They said they might lose communications during the 180 roll here because of the
of Orion's 4th phased array antennas on the crew module.
It looks like we still got a good signal here.
Integrity is on a trajectory from Southwest and Northeast
across the Pacific Ocean, descending at a rate of 15,000
feet per second.
So you see, when they rolled it, when they rolled it right side up, did you see the angle
of attack changed?
They were pointed downwards, there's an onboard, there's an onboard we're starting, oh no
that's a reflection.
Okay, that's just Victor.
I'm amazed we actually got a picture. There's a picture looking out of Ryan's window.
There's the... Ryan in the EI roll 180 exit.
There we go. Entry interface 180 roll.
Of course, Diamond.
This view out of one of integrity's windows.
We had a call for three good barrows, those are barometric pressure sensors that see...
So at entry interface what you should start seeing guys here is the
recompression that happens from the bow shock, alright? So you're going to see
something like this. The recompression is where the turbulent air coming off
of the capsule and the ionized air that turns into plasma recombines.
You're gonna get recompression, you're gonna see two layers of it. You'll see
be one higher and one lower.
Oh man.
You can see the reflection of one of the crew members in the window.
Does Reid still have his damn GoPro? Dude, he has his GoPro!
Oh, that's going to be the gnarliest footage you-
go. Is it sticking to GoPro? Just a few clouds scattered clouds. Did you see it? Did you see the
reflection? Wave heights just about four feet. A gentle day in the Pacific for the homecoming of
of Integrity's astronauts.
Entry interface in seven minutes.
Was that why Dot?
I am not sure.
Integrity back in EI attitude.
If it might be the service module, dudes, I can't tell.
It's hard to say.
if it starts moving up it's the service module we see the same on board Jackie
call from Reid there still got radio still got radio signal
one more Jackie I think that might actually be the moon
I'll see you on the other side.
Houston purges complete.
Crew and vehicle are configured for entry.
Houston copies.
Okay.
We're as good as we're going to be, guys.
And we're in step 37 transferring mass data BFS.
Where's the moon?
damn it is it is the moon well that's pretty cool that's the moon
that's pretty special dude and he's been in instruction 509 we are not below
zero decimal two. I don't know what that means.
Entry interface in six minutes. Integrity no action required.
Integrity. Read copies. Pushing control.
Jackie Mahaffey says no action is required.
Pretty cool bomb.
Now six minutes away from entry interface,
we will hit the first traces of Earth's atmosphere
in an altitude of 400,000 feet.
Traveling about 34,882 feet per second,
range to splash down at that point will be 1,701 nautical
miles.
And once again, just a reminder, some 24 seconds after entry interface, we do expect to lose
communications with the vehicle and the crew during a six-minute blackout period when a
plasma shield will build up around the spacecraft due to the ionization, due to heating effects,
So what's going to happen is they're going to start compressing air up against the front
of the heat shield.
That air is going to get hot.
It's going to get so hot under compression from the air coming on because they're coming
in so fast that it ionizes, that creates plasma.
Plasma comes off of the vehicle in a wake.
It's hard to get a radio signal through that.
We might, but the cool thing is that plasma varies.
As they get lower in the atmosphere, you're going to get that signal blackout, but
there's a point here where we might actually be able to see some of the
recompression happening here on this live shot.
Houston, concur.
Your stream is delayed.
That blackout period to begin at 6.53 and 54 seconds p.m.
There you go. I'll fast-forward for you.
They're in AOA attitude, which is like 15-20 degrees.
How's that first shot?
That's a specific ocean down there and the moon on the horizon.
Come on guys, bring it on home.
Two minutes to entry interface.
view from integrity as it crosses from southwest to northeast across the Pacific Ocean three
minutes from entry interface should be approaching top speed here.
16 and a half minutes till splashdown.
The USS John P. Murtha and the recovery team is on station and in position as are the
airborne imagery assets that we hope to receive imagery from as Artemis enters the Earth's
atmosphere and through parachute deployment.
Pretty cool.
What does entry interface mean?
That's the point where the atmosphere starts to slow down.
Men know they're still accelerating.
When you hit entry interface, it's the point where the capsule starts running into the
upper parts of the atmosphere enough to get your velocity to start decreasing.
All of integrity systems are in great shape, but the crew is ready to complete its mission
just 15 and a half minutes from now.
All of the activities today have gone off in perfect fashion.
No issues with the vehicle, no issues with the crew, and the weather at the splashdown
site is good.
Just a quick refresher, 33,800, those are out of date.
Those numbers are out of date.
Let's go to the arrow.
Yep, 24,140 in accelerating.
That's approaching 40,000 kilometers an hour.
We're not at EI just yet.
Once again, you'll start, you'll know when we see EI,
you'll see recompression.
You'll start to see one minute over here.
Coming up on one minute until entry interface.
One minute to EI.
EJ logo's everywhere.
Once again, speed is approaching 40,000 kilometers an hour, above 24,000 miles an hour.
11.1 kilometers a second before the space nerds.
That's fast.
Mark, one minute until entry interface.
Here we go.
One minute, 20 seconds until the expected start of our six-minute blackout.
Integrity, one minute to a six-minute blackout.
Read copies.
This class is getting pretty close here, guys.
Remember, EI, where it is right now, is just a good way south of Hawaii.
So they're over near Hawaii right now and in 13 minutes they'll be in San Diego.
10 seconds till entry interface. Here we go.
Once again we might get some footage of recompression here we don't know.
Recompression is the weight that it leaves from reentrance. And we have
crossed the threshold now. We're entering the Earth's atmosphere. We're at 400,000 feet
traveling 34,800 feet per second there there we go we're getting some
thruster firings there time to splash down 13 minutes there we go there it is
there it is how are we getting this picture oh my goodness oh my goodness
there's the recompression there it is oh all right and as for their end signal
This will be a six-minute blackout period, no voice, no data from the crew, with 30 seconds
away from the anticipated point of peak heating on the vehicle, where temperatures will rise
to about 4,000 to 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
This is the true test of our trajectory.
And from the G-5 aircraft in the vicinity of the splashdown zone, this view of integrity.
So that pinpoint of light shows the vehicle as it enters the period of peak heating in
Earth's atmosphere, the first tug of gravity being felt by Integrity's astronauts since
their launch back on April 1st.
Here we go.
Four and a half minutes until the end of the blackout period.
to splash down 11 minutes 33 seconds.
You notice the telemetry here is not updating they can't get a signal out
through that plasma wake. Note if you look at the aft deck of the John Murtha
up there the two second SH-60s supporting search and recovery
operations have taken off.
Yeah, we got we got no telemetry here Adam watch this is what you're gonna want to watch for if they read if they get
They require landing and support officer reports that the P3 has acquisition on integrity
These will all start updating the nav ball will change position. You miss you blink and you'll miss it
Just watch keep your eyes peeled right you three and a half minutes left in this blackout period. This is a visualization of
of the plasma buildup around the spacecraft and the repelling of that heat on integrity's heat shield.
I'd prefer the mission control shot, Rob.
So right now read Invictor looking out the window. They can see the recompression that's happening up here. You can absolutely see it.
Uh, I've seen on boards before. I've shown you guys on boards.
And knowing read Invictor they're probably just like...
Flight Dynamics reports that airborne assets in the vicinity of the Splashtown zone do have a visual on integrity.
Temp doesn't change.
Still 2 minutes and 40 seconds left in our blackout period.
time to splash down 9 minutes 35 seconds you'll start to see the real big
deceleration here either that I'm not sure if they if this the animation can get a
signal here they should stick they should be slowing down what would it sound like
in there multiple airborne assets probably about the same as it does any other
time visuals on integrity temperature inside of that capsule is not gonna get
any hotter. The life support systems are on the capsules so all the HVAC systems
are going to try to keep temperature right at 75 with crew has wanted at the
entire time and that's what it's going to stay. That's how good that heat shield is.
And the WB 57 flying in the splashdown zone also has a visual.
And the Navy Helos also have visuals. Look at the speed now.
I really wish you'd show us Rob. The data's updated.
We are now processing data from integrity.
Landing and support officer reports the small boats are on route to the Splashdown target
zone.
Here we go, there's a shot on the WB57.
And it's gone.
We're getting updated. We're getting updated telemetry. There it is. She's updating. She's
doing the S turns. Just as discussed, we get telemetry. We get nominal RCS firings right
there. Come on, baby. Bring it on home.
Passing through 150,000 feet, our trajectory is perfect. We're getting intermittent views.
trying of integrity that's good news get in the time we're going to establish
a little patchy though come on integrity he's been
con check post blackout he's been integrity we have you out and clear
yeah trajectory is nominal and your recovery teams have visual
guys looks good all right we're not out of the woods action for the enabled
internal camera controller fail big cheers from the viewing room here in
mission control as voice communication reestablished with commander Reed Wiseman
all right now it's just the show America and a waiting world integrity is
five and a half minutes away from coming home come on baby
Passing 100,000 feet now. Really wish they'd switch off this camera.
Really wish they would do that. Range to splash down 19 nautical miles.
That's a shot from the WB 57. I don't know why it's insisting on trying to give us all epilepsy, but that is the capsule coming through EI.
Or not yeah, it's coming out of it. It's coming out of the plasma blackout the way past entry interface. Sorry, my brain's going a mile a minute
All right, all right, I can't just stop
Integrity impact to the camera controller fail is no cablin views of the shoot one of the cameras failed
integrity
We're processing good data through the GPS system, a good view of integrity, time to splash
down four and a half minutes.
And a view of integrity from the WB-57, we're at 50,000 feet.
All right, so we're going to look for some pilot shoots to pull the top ring off to
expose the parachute mortars for the drugs and the main shoots.
Here we go.
Something.
Capsule seems to be outgassing.
The pyros are armed for forward bay cover, Juddison.
It's the RCS still firing you right.
Yep, yep.
Here we go.
We got pilot shoots, ring jettison.
There you go, the first series of paratroops.
Droge.
And we're on drogues.
And he's sort of visual too, drogues out the window.
Hell yeah.
All right, now, the drogues are gonna separate.
Good drogues shoots.
They're gonna separate, and the pilot shoots
are gonna come out for the main shoot.
Next up, the deployment of pilot parachutes that will pull the mainshoots out.
I just said that.
Time to splash down three minutes in 10 seconds.
Perfect descent rate according to flight dynamics.
Biter reports good rates on two droves.
The droves shoot...
We need to stay on board.
The droves shoots are there.
They're basically like an airbreak to be able to stop you at high speed.
So you can get to a good speed to lower speed to deploy the main chutes
Try to deploy the main chutes when you're going too fast
They wouldn't reef correctly and they would separate
So the drogues are like a speed break to slow the capsule down
Passing through 10,000 feet
Still on drogues
This is a shot that's on the ship
Or nope, nope, this one's on a plane
There we go, there's the three pilot chutes
We got three mains out
Chutes reefing
Main chute deploy.
You better reach the front of that third chute, come on, inflate!
Search and recovery beacon has been activated on...
There we go!
There we go!
And we have three good main chutes.
Good three main chutes, good reefing, good descent rate.
we see three good-looking parachutes.
Integrity. Cabin pressure indicates no need for hydrazine checks.
Good.
Integrity copies.
No downward trend on the hydrazine thruster systems. That's a good sign.
This is a perfect descent for integrity.
It's crew sounding Hale and Hardy on board.
Time to splash down 1 minute 15 seconds.
Look at on the infrared shot, guys. Look at how hot the heat shield is.
She's pretty hot.
There it is. Orion integrity.
We're about to complete a journey spanning 694,481 miles
from its launch from the Kennedy Space Center back on April 1st and a trip around the moon.
So remember what I was telling you guys, the capsule has an offset center of gravity.
That's why it's kind of tilted, right?
And that's why they worry about the capsule flipping over and that's why surf is such a big deal.
Capsule has an offset center of gravity for being able to steer during reentries.
Yeah, the cops kind of hang into one side because one side's heavier and the RCS is still firing
What is the RCS still firing you don't need that no more
Yeah, any any Kerbal players through 1000 feet any Kerbal players right now that always forget to turn off the RCS during a reentry
Well, I guess you're vindicated dude and that the RCS still cooking up there
It might be purging it out. They might be just getting rid of the remaining remaining amounts. Yeah, it's possible
Yeah, no, there's four souls on board guys. That's that's
Integrity, splashdown sending post landing command now.
Splashdown confirmed.
Copy, splashdown waiting on VLDR.
Splashdown confirmed at 7.07 p.m. central time, 5.07 p.m. Pacific time.
From the pages of Jules Verne to a modern-day mission to the moon,
a new chapter of the exploration of our celestial neighbor is complete.
Integrity's astronauts, back on Earth.
This is the sweetest feeling ever, dude. Oh, this feels fantastic.
And the landing and support officer reports the vehicle is stable one. We still will be deploying.
The crew module upriding system to maintain that orientation. A perfect bullseye splashdown for integrity in its four astronauts.
That's history right there, baby.
Let's wait. I'm wait. I want to wait until the crew gets on the ship, but that is a huge milestone, dude.
One of those shoots didn't reef exactly right away.
The unofficial splashdown time,
7.07 and 47 seconds PM central time.
We'll get that refined for you.
That would put the end of the mission
at a mission elapsed time of nine days,
one hour, 31 minutes, 35 seconds.
And we're configuring for very low data rate.
VLDR config.
Once again, splashdown occurring in the Pacific, southwest of San Diego at 7.07 and 47 seconds
PM.
Integrity Houston, Com check on VLDR.
Houston, we have you loud and clear on VLDR, how are you? Very low data rate.
We have you the same, we'll meet you over in post landing. Hell yeah.
Perfect communications established.
We are stable one, four green crew members.
Houston copies all.
Read Wiseman reporting four green crew members. That is not their complexion. That is the fact
that they're in great condition. That's what that means. Thanks, Michelle. So stable one upright,
the crew module uprighting system is being deployed, the five airbags being inflated
through helium to maintain the upright configuration for the vehicle. This was a
textbook entry and a textbook touchdown for integrity. Read Wiseman, Victor Glover,
Christina Cook and Jeremy Hansen back on earth after a journey around the moon.
Dude, I have imagined this moment for a very long time and holy crap does it feel good. Wow.
Wow.
Seamoo's...
There's only four. One Seamoo didn't inflate.
Hold on.
It's supposed to be five.
Okay, what are Seamoo's? They're the orange balls.
Okay, there should be five. There's only four.
Crews on board the John P. Murth, the pretty active.
We continue to monitor the functioning of the CMOS system.
The airbags are being inflated to maintain a stable one
or upright configuration.
And there's a good view from one
of the naval helicopters hovering overhead.
Read Wiseman reporting four green crew members, meaning they're all in excellent shape.
Ordered Kerbalz.
Integrity Houston 4, Sar Beacon and Radio.
and rescue beacon in the radio.
So our beacon is in 406 and we're firing radio now, go ahead.
We see the beacon on, however the recovery team is not seeing the signal.
Your star radio uses the same antenna so you may run into trouble with the radio.
We got all five signals.
Take up here, we're also powering up the sat phone now.
Reid's taking out the sat phone.
We got five balls, Jett.
Repeat, five balls.
So integrity is in great shape.
And as the crew continues its post-splashdown
timeline activities on board,
Reed Wiseman once again reporting that all four crew members are in excellent shape.
And we have five inflated airbags to maintain an upright configuration so that the recovery
team can now begin a slow approach to the vehicle.
Meanwhile, here in the flight control room, entry flight director Rick Henfling is polling
his team of flight controllers for the start of powering down the vehicle after a thorough
systems check.
We have no toxic gases to be concerned about so the recovery personnel can approach the
vehicle but not until we have powered down the spacecraft that's expected to take a few
more minutes.
It's those are beacon lights guys that's not the RCS it's too high up on the capsule
to be the RCS.
The RCS is down by the heat shield so those are those are locator lights.
The CMRCS is down here.
Okay, yeah, thanks, Mr. Navyman.
They're down here at the bottom of the capsule.
They're near the water.
Okay, they're not at the top.
So they have to sniff around.
And the reason why they keep talking about toxic gases
is because the command module reaction control systems
use hyperbolic.
Integrity back on off.
Following it's a stark flyby of the moon.
They gotta make sure they're not leaking
because they're harmful to humans.
Rain on this frequency.
Yes, sir.
It has been after 10 days.
Cathartic, Lucas.
Reed Wiseman indicating some trouble with the SARS-Sat phone
on board, but that's not an issue.
What is more important is that the vehicle is solid.
No issues as we begin the power down of the vehicle
to begin the recovery process.
So what they're gonna do is they're gonna bring a raft
up to the capsule, they call it the front porch,
the Navy divers, Navy divers and Navy corpsmen.
So the paramedics in search and rescue
are gonna come up here,
they're gonna tie a raft to the capsule,
and then they're gonna come in on rigid inflatables,
put the front porch out, and they're, come on.
Ooh, new ice cream.
The capsule's gonna, they're gonna open up the capsule,
get the crew out, put them onto the raft,
and then helicopters will pull them out.
They'll extract them on the Seahawks
and bring them back to the Mertha.
And then Mertha's gonna move her into the mission.
The unpropelled officer here in mission control reports
that we have saved the prop system on integrity.
Can you say again that was very weak and broken?
Integrity Houston did not call.
Copy that, Houston. It might have been on the side radio, say am I?
Not yet, Nader. No one's been out at the capsule yet. Hey, Inverter.
Thanks, Nader. All of the milestones were executed in
perfect fashion. Integrity entering the Earth's atmosphere. Right on time. Reaching
it's peak speed shortly after a blackout period began.
We emerged from the blackout period, but the recovery imagery airborne assets were able
to pick up integrity's descent almost immediately through entry interface, tracking the vehicle
all the way down.
And finally you saw the sequence of shoot deployments, first the forward bay cover
being pulled off the top of the vehicle by a series of three parachutes, then the
drogue shoots were deployed followed by the three main shoots that slowed the
splashdown velocity of integrity to just 19 miles an hour.
Integrity, Houston, with no joy on SAR and SAT phone, we'd like you to command an additional
15 minutes for a total of 30-minute power down delay.
Going to keep the capsule on so they can keep in touch with the crew
because the search and rescue beacon is not working correctly.
I mean, I don't know how much of a technicality that is.
All right, Jack, you have selected T flash D plus 3 0.
No joy on star radio or sat phone.
The sat phone might be fine.
Stand by.
We have the master diver on star radio.
Please hold comms.
I'm glad you like it, Kingpin.
Not anything like it.
Hey, Lily, excuse me.
Hey, Jackie, we just got the master diver on the star.
Hey, all right, cool.
Do you wanna communicate with the Navy divers?
Regent inflatable should be on the way then.
Told ya.
Yeah, baby!
A good view of one of the fast boats.
Integrity Houston, if you are happy with your calm with master diver, you can go back to the 15 minute power down.
Cool. Moving up the power down on the timeline because they reestablished contact.
Yeah, we'll confirm here in a second.
Vic just saying take the crew on board integrity coordinating with the flight control team in Houston here in mission control on the timing of the power down of the vehicle.
Short story here, they're making, they don't want to power down the capsule, right?
They don't want to power down the capsule before they get established contact with these guys.
They want to make sure they can get these guys on the radio before they shut the capsule off
because you don't want to put the crew in a new scenario where they can't talk to anybody.
You always want to maintain in comms till they're egressed out of the vehicle.
Crew on board integrity and the recovery team that will get sorted out here shortly.
There's plenty of cooling on board integrity, so there's no rush to begin the power down.
I'm going to call you on the sat phone and I'm not getting an answer there either.
Concur. We haven't had anything come through.
Yeah.
Nice beans. Congratulations.
Why would you power the capsule off at all?
Like it has batteries. There's no way to generate more power.
And if you could relay to recovery that we hear them, but it does not...
But it does not appear so they are hearing us.
Houston copies and read just to confirm you are pushing the PTT on the radio.
No way.
No way.
There's no read.
Come on now.
So as we continue to sort out the communications between integrity and the recovery teams.
That's absolutely what was happening.
We are standing by for the initiation of the power down procedures that, as you see, the
recovery team is firing towards the side of the capsule.
The next major event will be the erection of that large inflatable raft.
You know how he didn't respond?
He said, oh, click.
It will be the port of call for the crew as they're being extracted one by one from
the vehicle.
We won't judge, guys.
That guy's been to the moon.
We're good.
He's fine.
Integrity Houston for Statsphone, we are going to attempt to call you.
Good idea standing by.
And Jackie, yes, we are pushing the push to talk.
The two buttons on the left side of the radio below the up-down arrows.
down arrows, we are utilizing them, I'm rebooting the radio to see if we get good comms.
Okay, he would, alright, cool.
Okay.
We copy all and just to confirm, you are seeing that you are touchdown plus 30-3-0 for power,
correct?
That's the affirmative.
No, he was using PTT, it's just what it's, he's going to restart the radio, the
Hock and the original inflatables are in the area, but once again, they don't want to get
near the capsule until they have an avenue of communication.
That's what's going on here, and that's why they're delaying.
We are trying a backdoor approach to have mission control here call the crew on their
satellite phone.
This all part of the coordination for the power down of the vehicle that will initiate
the actual recovery operation. The first boats with the Navy divers on board are standing
by waiting to close in on integrity to begin the process of erecting the large inflatable
raft that's called the front porch that will be where the astronauts are extracted
from so that they can have a few minutes to get their lamb legs back before they're
hoisted aboard the Navy helicopters for the flight back to the deck of the USS John P.
Murtha.
I think he said they can reply now.
So once again, crews, splash down, they're just making sure they can get in contact with
the radios to the Navy guys because you don't want them to not be able to talk to
each other while they're trying to handle the capsule or get the crew out or open
the hatch. And then look if the radios and Houston please don't reply. NRD very weak
but readable master diver we can hear but they cannot hear us. Look if this is the
worst part of the mission I think we're good but yeah it's I'm curious to see
how they're gonna solve this one. Houston can call them that's why they're
delaying the power down of the capsule so the radios on the capsule could still
work
they don't want to have
they did delaying the power down in the iran capsule because they don't
they don't if they can't talk to the
to mission control they power down the capsule
can't talk to anybody
the capsules off
so you you want to make sure that they delay power downs on the orion
before they well they get established contact with the navy divers
Can they open the hatch before power down? Yes.
And Houston on OE1, is there any chance that's IF into NRD?
I don't know what NRD is. Seahawk.
Don't they have iPhones? Dude, who knows what the thing goes with Deep Space did to those?
damn things dude and I mean you're not I don't know if you're gonna get a cell signal out there in
the middle of the ocean I'm just saying. NRD Navy Rescue Divers yeah that's probably what that is.
Hey Lex Edwards thank you for the 20 over on YouTube guys I see all the support over there
thank you so much. This is Mission Control Houston while we stand by for the establishment of
communications between integrity and the recovery team that is basically standing by very close
to the spacecraft, we're going to go to the deck of the USS John P. Murtha,
where Megan Cruz is standing by with Administrator Jared Isaacman.
Hey Rob, yeah, just such an honor to be able to be here on the ship, to be able to share and
experience this moment with everyone together. And of course, as you just said, here with
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. Administrator, how did you feel getting to witness this and
seeing NASA at its best?
I mean, I'm honestly, I'm still at a loss for words.
I mean, you know, like the childhood jarred right now
can't believe what I just saw.
I mean, almost been waiting my whole lifetime to see this
and then it's NASA administrator.
I just couldn't be more proud of the entire workforce,
the years, the effort, the late nights,
all the hard work from across the country
that contributed to this incredible moment right now.
And yeah, incredibly grateful too for our teams here
on the John T. Martha right now.
Yeah, look at the behind me there.
Got everybody.
What do you guys think?
We just brought some astronauts back from the moon, huh?
Woo!
Woo!
Woo!
Woo!
Woo!
Thank you.
Yeah, so grateful to the Navy, the sailors
that are here, the NASA teams.
I mean, this is a joint effort
that's on their way right now.
These recovery forces are getting out
to our Orion spacecraft to integrity,
get our astronauts back on the ship safely.
Yeah, and this is not just an accomplishment for NASA.
This is an accomplishment for humanity again.
historic mission to the moon and back how does this make you feel and what do you hope people take away from this well
I'll tell you know I think about I think about our crew members
That we've all had an opportunity to observe over the last ten days, right? I mean you're absolutely
Professional astronauts, I mean wonderful communicators almost poets
But then I think these were the ambassadors from humanity to the stars that we sent out there right now
and I can't imagine a better crew than the Artemis II crew that just completed a perfect
mission right now.
So, yes, it's a huge moment for everybody, right?
I mean, we are back in the business of sending astronauts to the moon, bringing them back
safely and to set up for a series more.
I mean, this is not a once in a lifetime, which you hear sometimes around here is like,
this was a once in a lifetime.
That hocks you so much.
No, it's not.
This is just the beginning.
We are going to get back into doing this with frequency, sending missions to the
moon until we land on it in 2028 and start building a base.
Yeah, are we going to build on the momentum for Artemis 3?
I mean, it's just around the corner.
Absolutely.
So I mean, that's part of me, too.
I can't wait to get the crew off of integrity right now,
but also getting integrity back on this ship
so we can start taking a look at it,
because all that data is so precious to us right now.
I mean, we are going to definitely
want to take a good look at the thermal protection system.
We're going to want to download all the data
they couldn't transmit back to us
and use that to inform Artemis 3.
But we're already making progress, right?
You had SRV segments already showing up at KSC.
Core stage for Artemis III is rolling out on April 20th.
We're getting mobile launcher one back in the vehicle assembly
building.
So yes, there is a lot to celebrate
right now on a mission well accomplished for Artemis II.
But for some time, we've got to start getting ready for three.
Amazing.
And last question, for people who joined us for all 10
days to see what we can accomplish together
with our international partners, what do you think about the fact that we're going to keep
doing this more and more and more?
It's incredibly exciting.
I mean, yes, it's the contributions, like the best and brightest across the NASA workforce
from across the country, our industry partners, our international partners, we had a Canadian
Space Agency astronaut on board in Jeremy, we had the European service module, and
you think in the days leading up this launch, I mean, 48 hours prior to launching
Artemis II. I was meeting with the Italian Space Agency. We signed a memorandum of understanding
to build a habitation module on the moon. I mean, you have countries, all of our allies
and partners coming together saying we are committed to this effort. We are returning
to the moon. We're doing it to stay. We are building that enduring presence. We
are going to master the skills on the surface of the moon so Sunday we can undertake
missions to Mars. It's just an incredibly exciting time and we're not going out
alone. We're bringing everybody along with us. Absolutely and speaking of everyone one more time
we're going to ask the crew here. You guys ready to land on the moon? Awesome, I love that. Okay,
well thank you so much administrator. Appreciate you being here. We're of course going to stay on
to watch the crew get extracted from Orion so stay tuned and we'll see you back here shortly.
So once again they haven't begun recovery guys because the crew can't radio the N.R.D. the
the Navy Recovery Divers, something weird, something weird
happening with the radios.
Thank you, Megan, and thank you, Administrator Isaacman.
We are in the process of working to establish
that communications link and to establish the procedures that
will lead to the power down of the spacecraft, which
is gently bobbing in the Pacific following a bullseye
touchdown that occurred at 7.07 PM central time,
507 p.m. Pacific time two and a half hours before sunset in the Pacific Southwest of San Diego
We have once again heard from the crew during that interview opportunity with the administrator
And we have four healthy crew members on board
Oh
Here's that's that's fantastic
We now have confirmation that the vehicle has been powered down
as per the procedures so we have vehicle powered down and the flight control
team here in Houston flight director Rick Henfling has handed over mission
authority to the exploration ground systems team out in the Pacific now we
will physically not get off console with this team until the crew has been
extracted into the front porch that inflatable raft that will be erected
along the side hatch of integrity so we're standing by for that in the
next step in the recovery procedures but everything is in great shape and we have
four healthy crew members on board the vehicle. Well I'm just gonna say this now
so look you know if you're a spaceflight fan we often look to the past we
have to look to the past you know Apollo 8, Apollo 10, Apollo 11, STS-1,
SDS-135, DM-2 in more recent memory. We often look to the past, to past missions, as the
missions that break records the fastest we've gone, the furthest we've gone. Most courageous
missions. But we don't need to do that anymore now, do we? We're riding our own history
books guys now. This mission? This is one people we'll look back on with the same
reverence we look back on with Apollo 8. This is only the beginning. It's just
gonna get better from here. Okay? We've gone to the moon. We went to the moon in
the 60s to prove that we could make the journey. Right? And once again, we can
prove it again. Right? And if we can do that, we can once again send people
from the earth to the moon. There's hope for everyone because we can do
anything, man. We can do anything. Cheers.
Cheers. In a variety of different configurations, each crew member will be
hoisted in sequential fashion and alternating fashion to crew members for
each helicopter before they turn around to head back to the John P. Murtha once on the
deck of the ship they'll be brought into Medical Bay for comprehensive medical exams.
But Reed Wiseman has reported several times that the crew is in excellent shape.
Yeah. Oh, geez. Did he just say that as you know?
So just to recap, it has been some 26 and a half minutes since the splashdown of integrity
in the Pacific. The vehicle is in excellent shape. It performed like a
champ all the way down through the Earth's atmosphere. All of the vehicle
functions were checked off in excellent trip hammer fashion. The parachutes all
deployed as planned. Splashdown occurring at 7.07 p.m. Central Time, 5.07
p.m. Pacific Time.
That is the coolest thing I've ever seen, man.
And after a bit of a tussle to try to establish a communications link with the recovery team,
we were finally able to run through the procedures for the powering down of the vehicle.
We've handed over mission authority to the exploration ground systems folks out in
Pacific and the recovery team will be approaching the vehicle shortly to erect the inflatable
raft called the front porch before opening the hatch to integrity to bring the crew members
onto that raft before they're hoisted onto two Navy helicopters, two crew members for
each helicopter before they're flown back to the deck of the USS John P. Murtha.
Okay, crew's moving in now.
You still don't know if they have radio contact. I don't know. I've been drinking. Excuse me.
Thanks, sweetie. That was awesome, isn't it?
Who's coming out first? Christina will be the first one extracted because her seat's closest to the hatch.
Thank you for all the support guys I appreciate it. I'm just keeping the
alert here. Giving the alert muted. I was just...
What a day dude. What a week.
I'm just I'm just enjoying myself over here with my whiskey.
It's the best too hot this NASA missions are the best ever dude. I wouldn't trade this for nothing
Thanks for being here and explaining my pleasure look at that capsule dude she's in good condition man
That's not bad dude. It's got a lot of the tape still on it dude. That's not bad
The back side of it though watch this side this side's gonna not have tape on it that one's balance that side's gonna be very hot
Thanks for covering the mission. No problem. I'm a Dale
What are they waiting for now? So the last time we checked Orion's crew could not hail the Navy diving team
The Navy diving team is not going to approach that capsule until they can contact the crew
but I do believe they said that that Rob Navias said that they powered down Orion so no I really
hope they got those radios working because yeah but if you're wondering where the coverage
goes from here guys I'm not we're not packing up shop here until they're out
of the ship until they're out on the ship until NASA pretty much ends their
coverage dude thanks for the education absolutely guys why not approach it if I
had to guess at this point that guy's probably sniffing for hydrosine not with
his nose with a gas analyzer you just got to make sure that some of the
toxic propellants that Orion uses which are great for spaceflight
thrusters but bad for humans. You want to make sure they don't have a leak?
Amaze, amaze, amaze, statement. This is Mission Control Houston. After talking to
the flight dynamics folks, we have a bit of a refinement on the splashdown time
for you. Their computation shows a splashdown time of 707 and 27 seconds
PM central time 707 and 27 seconds PM central time
Awesome was this is this is what I live for dude. I've been dreaming about this moment for
Long time that would equate to
A mission elapsed time of nine days one hour 32 minutes and 15 seconds what a ride
And what was that?
I saw it.
It was a longer message.
Thank you.
Once again, from Flight Dynamics, a splashdown time of 7.07 and 27 seconds p.m. central
time that would equate to a mission elapsed time of nine days, one hour, 32 minutes
and 15 seconds.
You've been excited to keep up the good twerk.
No, it's twerk.
It's twerk, Fred.
I told you.
It's torque, they torque things.
TORQUE, dammit.
Reports from the Pacific indicate that the recovery team
in communications with the crew aboard integrity
that the crew remains in excellent shape
as they await the approach of the team
for a final hazard gas evaluation before they move
to the side of the vehicle to erect the inflatable life
craft called the front porch. It'll be awesome, Doc, when it happens. Regular. I don't think
this is the maple stuff. Nope, just regular. This is Knob Creek, Small Batch, Kentucky straight
bourbon whiskey from Claremont, Kentucky. This is my go-to. Again, no issues with integrity.
vehicle is powered down. All of its systems are now safe. We have handed over mission
authority to the exploration ground systems folks in the Pacific but we will not stand
down and have the entry flight control team depart its positions until that inflatable
raft, the front porch is erected, the hatch open and the crew having exited the vehicle
So that's the next step in the recovery process that will lead to the hoisting of the crew members
For two crew members for each helicopter. They'll be hoisted. All right
We know that we know that they're going to be hoisted by helicopters
So this dude over here these guys in this rigid inflatable are sniffing around for hydrazine
You'd see one guy as a gas as a as a gas detector
On the starboard side of the rib
Once he gives the all clear that's when they can move in
And what he's been doing is concentric circles getting closer and closer every time, right,
to make sure that there's no gas in the area.
Once again, the propellants that Orion uses on the command module RCS is not, it's really
good for a propellant up there, but it's toxic to humans.
The Apollo Soyuz test project, they had a leak and they didn't detect it and people
got sick and almost died.
Don't want that. That's bad. So they're sniffing. See? They're sniffing around and
they'll get closer and closer and closer. When they deem the capsule all safe,
that's when they'll start breaking out the recovery crews here. Once again,
crew power down the capsule. If they power down the capsule, that means they're
talking to the divers. You never want to put yourself into a scenario here
where you don't have radio contact with somebody. If you power down the
capsule, you don't have contact with mission control, right? But if you
power down the capsule before you hail them on the radio then you don't have any
communication you don't want that you always want to have the crew be able to
communicate in this kind of scenario so once these guys give the all clear they
are in communication with the crew once they get the all clear that's when the
big boat's gonna come in and they're going to start the egress operations
see those guys are sniffing those aren't selfie sticks there's they're
sniffing around for hydrazine. They're sniffing around the thrusters. CMRCS has six ports. One,
two, three, four, five and six over there. They're sniffing. The sniff is...
Once again, what you're looking at is a shot of the Artemis II crew and Orion integrity
coming back from a nine-day trip around the moon and back.
The first time the U.S., first time anyone has been out in the lunar sphere of influence since December of 1972.
You're out at the moon on Monday you believe that
What is being powered down? It's the same type of thing that
The same power down is if you turn the car off dude, you shut you shut battery power to the computer
This is just like an airplane or car same thing
No, you're watching the initiation of the recovery now. Why do they power down the capsule? Well you
First of all the capsule might be charged you guys are you guys familiar with how formula one cars work?
How you don't touch the formula one car when it's on
Except if you're trying to get out or etc etc same idea
You don't want it you don't want to shock you don't want like static electricity shock computers or something during egress operations
Or anything like that shut the computers off. The hatch is mechanical, right?
So right now they're just a read took the keys
turned it to the opposition because he had contact with the with the Navy
divers they're just doing a final hydrazine sniff and then they can begin
egress operations. John P. Murtha. John P. Murtha. If you missed it earlier we talked
to Flight Dynamics and received a more official touchdown time of or
splashdown time as it were of 707 and 27 seconds p.m. central time 507 and
and 27 seconds p.m. Pacific time that would equate to a mission elapsed time of nine days one hour 32 minutes and 15 seconds
Right on Fluffy
What a day dude
My inbox is destroyed.
the lights are beacons guys they're locator light
I don't want it to end.
I'm staying here until they're in.
We're staying here until the end chat.
We're staying here until the end.
Yeah, they backed up a little bit.
We'll see what's going on here.
No problem, Cloud.
Has there been any splash down at night?
Yeah, we've watched SpaceX bring capsules down in the night.
I have to drag me out of here. That's right. You're here. Push-ups until they get up. No, not in the suit, dude. Not in the suit.
No.
What are your plans after all this?
Um, well, give me a couple of days to recoup dudes and then Monday, probably I got some plans next week that are going to mean I'm going to be away for a little bit.
Don't worry.
I'm going somewhere.
You'll like it.
I should be able to double stream it too.
the stream it to the moon. I wish continuing to get excellent views from the imagery assets
out at sea in the Pacific. The DSNY is still there because I think the dish might still
be transmitting but I don't know it doesn't matter. It's in contact with the recovery team that the
crew is in excellent shape no issues they're just currently biding their time waiting for the front
porch to be erected we have no hazardous we have no hazard gases and no hazardous situation
with the vehicle it performed perfectly all the way down from entry interface to it's
It's splashed down in the Pacific at 707.
Why couldn't he say constructed?
And as you can see, the first phalanx of recovery personnel
now pulling up alongside of integrity.
Normally, I don't know.
This includes maybe divers and maybe flight surgeon.
Yeah, but it's fine.
OK.
and other recovery personnel who have trained
for several years for this recovery process.
Absolutely, man.
Here we go.
How far up the splashdown target?
Not at all, Blark.
They were right on the money.
Dumpster, Dumpster Diner, thank you for the amazing and relentless coverage.
Question though, for Artemis III, could you do the whole thing in a Soydberg voice?
Oh no, I cannot my friend, I'm sorry.
I think I might actually go more insane than I already am if I do.
At this hour, some 41 minutes following splashdown, the vehicle has been powered down.
There's no hazardous gas emanating from the vehicle.
That's why the first team of recovery personnel has been able to pull alongside integrity,
and the reports continue to come in that the four astronauts are in excellent shape.
I've changed the heat shield, Artemis III.
You're going to need to skip trajectory for coming back from polar regions of the moon.
Yes, yes, no, yes, maybe, yes, yes, my man, looking good.
That was 10,000 bits on the Notifier.
You're rookie Karosawa.
Arigato, arigato Karosawa sama.
Ohio, gozaimasu.
Kanpai.
God, bits in there too.
Can you give a cronkite wrap up?
Once again, we have entered into the final frontier.
We have moved people back out to the moon.
Just like space programs of yesteryear,
we will be moving into a new era
of knowledge and understanding.
Come by, Yusuf.
Hey, come by.
all right. Thanks for the
French community. Cheers. Right
on. Got this. This is Mission
Control Houston continuing to
watch the initiation of the
recovery of uh integrity. I'm
not doing push ups in soup man.
Leave me alone. One by one.
Watch this. Can I join us?
Please craft on to a large
inflatable raft just a short
USS John P. Murtha where my colleague Megan Cruz is standing by to provide her situation report.
Megan, can you hear us? Can we watch them open the door please?
Hey Rob, yes I can hear you. Thank you. Yeah, we're back here on the bow
of the recovery ship where there are so plenty of people
peering out into the water. We are not very far from the action everyone is seeing on their screen
now, the Orion spacecraft integrity in the ocean surrounded by a number of recovery boats.
As Rob has been saying, those recovery boats, NASA and Navy personnel, specifically trained
to get the astronauts out of Orion, and some of our wide shots you can probably see that
there are six boats out in the water.
40 people out in the water right now.
Oh, 40 people.
That's neat.
Those are the Megans on the ship.
Hey, Star-Lord, thank you for covering the mission.
Absolutely, dudes.
Absolutely.
Cheers.
Cheers.
Cheers.
Cheers.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Arsenio Hall.
Woo, woo, woo.
I heard it too, Greg.
You hear that as well?
That's right.
The first order of the day is to set up the front porch and the stabilization collar.
You might also hear it referred to as the static collar.
Hey, there we go.
It's working side hatch.
All right.
Basically just to make sure that.
Quiet.
work that work the hatch mechanism there unlike when they ingress into the capsule there's no
in-air and outer hatch the the outer hatch guys was on the last the launch launch abort system
launch abort system was dead jettisoned after liftoff so there's only one hatch so you got to
work the mechanism there how does the mechanism work you usually just undo it with a ratchet
i mean but every every one of them is a little bit different is this the widest capsule
Orion's big, led Gary. It's a big capsule. Yep.
Any more guys on that boat? Yeah.
They will detour
the door. That's big for a lunar capsule. Let me put it that way. It's way bigger than the CSM.
The CSM could fit inside of that thing almost.
What's the stat on the diameter of Orion versus Apollo?
Apollo is 5 meter wide, and the CSM is not that.
The CSM is way smaller.
Yeah, Orion's 5 meter wide, the CSM is 3.9 meters wide.
Yeah, yeah, that's what I mean.
it could fit in the CSM could like fit inside of there. Hey Rob, what's up man?
It's coordinator at a thousand bits too. I'll turn the alerter back on, dudes. Thank you. Hey,
there we go. There we go. Patch is open. Mission control in Houston. There is a mission audio
loop here on the ship. You need American units. The Apollo CSM is 12.8. Orion is closer to like
18. It's big. It's a big capsule. Egrity is open. Dude, I'm telling you, Apollo was like
If you and three your buddy if you want if you wanted to hang around with three your buddies in a janitor's closet for three weeks
That's what the Apollo CSM was like. It's a way
Thank you for getting me interested in spaceflight before this mission
It has been a real blessing to share this experience with you in the entire community. I can't wait to watch more of these
up there Dean I'm hungry I'm hungry for the next one man we need we need Artemis
three we need that we we need oh man holy cow man
in total four will go into Orion so it'll be a little bit of a tight squeeze
but the goal is to have a recovery personnel with each astronaut.
Thanks, Daryl.
Why do they need to be heli-lifted?
Can't they ride back on the ribs?
The helicopters are there just in case of a contingency emergency.
And I'll be 100% honest with you.
Why ride in a rib when you could ride in the seahawk?
If you had a choice between riding in a rigid inflatable boat or a black-hawk helicopter
like- Oh, oh, oh, Mr. Space, I'm in space.
I'm taking the helicopter, dude.
Hey, Dino, thank you very much.
Digboot.
44-month reset.
Long story short, the Navy has more toys.
Oh, oh, oh, Mr. Space, I'm in space.
Jeez.
Thanks, guys.
We're on to Orion, building that front porch.
I don't think they have a capsule scoop up the ship. Well, that's what they're gonna do. They just want to get the astronauts on top of it.
As well as tow Orion back to the well deck of the recovery ship here.
Yeah, we didn't stop until Orion's in the well deck.
YouTube needs notifications too. Yeah, Rochelle after this.
I got to figure out a way to get that all to work sleep skype. Thank you for the tier one sub. I appreciate you
And so as we wait for that fifth balloon went in it was good
Get their assessment of the crew inside of a head
Prime son
So they got the hatch open here now
They're gonna put a put a put a raft up in front of the hatch to prepare for crew ingress or egress excuse me
Do you use LBS or ML OBS?
Time now.
There are no hazardous gases emanating from integrity that of course allowed the recovery
personnel to approach the vehicle and then open the hatch to begin the initial medical
assessment of the crew that you just indicated.
Now we're standing by for the erection of that inflatable raft, the front porch
alongside of the vehicle that will enable the crew to be extracted one by one onto
the raft have a moment or two to get their land legs back before they're hoisted into
two hovering Navy helicopters.
Yeah, Rob's just saying the same thing over and over again.
So yeah, they gotta get a raft that they put in front of the door called the front porch
and they're gonna use that to get the crew out and then helicopters are gonna come
in and egress the crew.
They're gonna pull them up on a tether, it's gonna be pretty sick.
I mean, most of Florida showed up for TM too.
Yeah, that's a good point.
Discovery, go and throttle up.
Well, Mazzy, three month reset, easy co.
Now think of the walls of Orion.
It's billet aluminum, so I don't know.
Discovery, go and throttle up.
It's billet aluminum stringer,
so I'd say at its thinnest, it's probably about that.
And thickest probably about a little bit bigger than that.
It's not, you don't need a big, the walls,
it's not a submarine guys.
You gotta remember, like up in space,
you have the vacuum, which is no pressure.
And then you have the inside of the spacecraft.
They were giving AGA readings the entire mission.
It's 15 PSI, 15 pounds per square inch differential
is nothing.
You don't need, you don't need a lot of material
between you and the vacuum to be a hundred percent
honest.
But, you know, you have to, there's, it's not,
all things considered, you gotta worry about like
debris hitting the capsule and stuff.
So they do make them a little bit thicker,
but you honestly don't need much.
This is how you Wombo Max.
That's right, we are Wombo Maxing, dude.
So once again, guys, what you're watching here is
Reed Wiseman, Commander Reed Wiseman,
pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist,
one Christina Cook, and mission specialist,
two Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency
have just come back.
capsule splash down they came through reentry from a 10 day excursion out to the moon and
back they did they land no they just did a flyby but this is a shakedown for the for the Orion
capsule make sure that the capsule is performing well and i'd say that capsule being there completing
a successful mission i'd say it did pretty good once again the reason why we're sitting here
just watching this thing flow down the middle of the ocean is because this is the first time
that humans have been beyond low earth orbit and into the lunar sphere of
influence since 1972. See December 19 1972 he just said it.
What's up with the collar? I'm sweating dude. Sweating my balls off here.
We got two Navy divers in the water. Robert Williams with $10 Super Chat over
Thank you
Flight controllers here to have a full 24 hours ride spun to evaluate the
Systems on integrity and the condition of the crew before I also streamed the 1972 landing in my dreams
Yes, yes, every no, it's not love a Rob seven month reset. What's up, dude?
What is the lander gonna look like so SpaceX is working on one lander in Blue Origins working on another
Thunder Gaming. Thank you very much. And then River Turtle with 1972 bits. The Lander, if you type into your search engine of choice, you type Starship HLS. That's Hotel Lima Sierra.
Whoa tilt starship HLS is the name of the lander and blue moon mark to is the name of blues lander we got Navy divers in the water
At least I think we do that's the parachute over there how much for the bits the little chat tell them to me tell me your bits
Did they swim in the orange suits? The orange suits act as a flotation device, dude.
Watched your splashdown coverage with my mom Liz who got to watch all the Apollo missions.
She absolutely loves your enthusiasm. I live for this stuff.
Oh, oh, oh, this is space. I'm in space.
But the landers were scheduled to use the landers for Artemis-4. Artemis-3 is a test of the landers in low-Earth orbit to make sure that you conduct, to make sure Orion can dock to them and everything works.
And then Artemis-4 and 2028 we go. Artemis-3 is in 2027. And I know people are going to say, 2037? Guys, it's only eight months away. It's not a long time in spaceflight.
And knowing Jared Isaac, man, it might be even sooner. Who knows?
How much for the capsule? The little balls.
Tell them to me.
Sell me your side hatch.
Ha ha ha ha.
Sorry, I'll stop.
Okay, I won't stop. Geez.
Did I see something on your suit jacket lining?
No, did you?
I don't got anything there and pockets are empty dude.
So guys, like I said, I've been waiting for the lunar mission for this lunar mission for a long time.
I uh, I'm savoring this all of it. I don't want this to stop. So I'm just gonna sit here and
Oh no, there goes the signal lock noise. No, it's gone!
Hey, Hunter, thanks for the five hats off.
My friends have also had something that worked there.
You're the best and I'll work with you again, okay?
I don't like it, but you can see the hatch is open.
It looks like we got people in the capsule.
That reflection inside of the capsule
should be Christina's seat.
With the side hatch of Orion having been opened
to set the stage for the erection
of the inflatable liferaft,
known as the Front Forge to be erected alongside the spacecraft for the extraction of the crew.
Let's play for you an interview that my colleague Megan Cruz conducted on the USS John P. Murtha
with Navy Diver First Class David McMahon that explains how this process is unfolding.
I really wish you wouldn't do that.
Oh, Davey.
So you and the team, one last look over of the stabilization power, Greg.
Yes, sir.
Okay.
This is what's going to stabilize the capsule out there in the ocean.
We don't know how good the weather or the waves will be that day, so this will help prevent
any unnecessary occurrences from happening, stabilizing the capsule and the astronauts inside.
So basically this is a float that will go around Orion.
I'm assuming that what they're doing right now, these are the lines that will attach the
Polar onto Orion.
That is correct.
And so what are they doing here?
the lower line that will secure the inflation device before we inflate it. That gives us
the go ahead that it's secure in its place and then we'll inflate it and then once that is done
we'll undo all the carabiners and get this orange line on top tied in the same fashion
and then this will be secured in the capsule and the astronauts can safely take the first steps
out of the capsule onto the front porch. Okay and how long will it take them to set up
up the stabilization. You should definitely be able to handle this in 10 minutes. Okay, wow.
And then you just mentioned the front porch. So basically after they set up this stabilization
collar, then they set up what's called the front porch here. That's great. Okay. And what's the
front porch? Front porch is basically a bigger waiting room for the astronauts to
sit in while we wait for the cop to see shut up and grab that. Okay. So the medical team
that was inside with the crew, they're going to help them out and onto the front porch.
that is correct. And then what happens here? We have a higher trained medical personnel also
onboard the front porch that will give them lookovers and just make sure they're okay.
How does it feel I mean your team, you to be part of the mission that's returning astronauts
from the moon in more than 50 years? We also truly honored to be a part of this as well as a
a bigger mission for the Navy, and jumping off the vessel to do great things.
And do you feel like you're seeing more ready?
Yes, yes, very ready.
Cool.
Alright, thank you so much.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Once again, the recovery operations are continuing out in the Pacific.
We shortly should see that life raft, the front porch, erected alongside the
side hatch of the vehicle.
What were they clapping for, Rob?
What were they clapping for, Rob?
Don't cut the audio!
A number of flight controllers have come into the
flight control room to receive congratulations
from entry flight director Rick Henfling,
but we're gonna stick with our operations
out of the Pacific as we await the extraction
of the four crew members
reported to be an excellent condition. Just popping in to say cheers old friend
always great coverage. Thanks man. He got bingo. He really likes saying that, doesn't he?
Again, while we stand by for that to be erected alongside the side hatch of the vehicle,
Let's go back to the USS John P. Murtha and Megan Crews.
I want to shut the alert off for a little bit.
Thank you for all the support, guys.
I appreciate every one of you.
Hey, Rob.
I'm pausing now to listen to some...
Pausing to listen to some internal audio loops again.
The operations team here on the ship,
communicating with everyone out on the water.
It seems like currents are hindering them a little bit from
unfurling and inflating the stabilization collar
as well as the front Porsche.
But again, the requirement to get the crew out within
two hours of splashdown, plenty of time.
So no concerns just yet. But as calm as the water looks, yeah, it looks like
It's hindering the teams just a tad.
So, you know, there's this big ship.
There's this big ship that you could tell it to,
but you don't have to worry about this.
You can see in some of our shots that side hatch still open.
Again, inside, there are now eight people inside.
Four divers, maybe divers.
Looks like they got a total line of power.
medical training, each assigned to an astronaut each.
Eight, eight, Bob, eight.
I got eight different people in my camps.
Making sure that they're comfortable, feeling good.
As you've heard us say in the broadcast,
they expect a little bit of discomfort.
Again, these astronauts just traveled back to Earth
25,000 miles an hour a nearly 695,000 mile journey around the moon if you think you've got car sick
again six boats out there all right lots of gear with them
so guys i'm gonna disable the pre-roll stuff here okay so you guys don't get ads
i'm gonna run another one right now just for the people that don't sound like i don't care
I appreciate it if you do but it's not expected so I'll run out so you guys can see this uninterrupted for a little while, okay?
Of course wanted to be ready in case any of our astronauts needed more medical attention while out there in the water.
You see now teams again.
all that. Trying to set up the stabilization collar and front porch for the crew to get
out of Orion. They need both right? The stabilization collar will keep Orion from swaying as you
see it is doing now. Do we know what happened to the small booster that the cap separated
connect to the front porch through the stabilization collar
so that the crew can take two steps
and they will be in the front porch
Well guys if you remember
First time you do this with the real thing you got it you got a chills even dm2
Even dm2 took a while for them to egress guys. I mean spacex has done 10 11 recoveries
Actually, it's more like 15 because they axiom missions. So
So this is the first time you're going to go a little bit slow and it looks like the
currents are killing them a little bit.
But all this is an opportunity to learn for when they get the next Orion back.
Audio loops, that's a good thing.
Again, things proceeding pretty nominally.
Even after fighting some currents out there on the Pacific Ocean.
Grugger, that's real.
Grugger, that's real, dude.
The second we decided to be like, all right, we're good.
That's when the, that's when the land grass.
Again, the goal, setting up the stabilization collar
and the front porch so that the crew can rest comfortably
in the front porch, get placed into harnesses
so that two helicopters can lift them off the front porch
and onto the USS John Murphy here.
The helicopters are going to take turns picking up an astronaut, so again, Helo-1 and Helo-2.
Really, London, did the MET show it at Citi Field?
Okay, and the recovery team here on the ship just got a report from the undersea medical
officer who is inside the capsule with the crew.
He is reporting all four members are green.
This is the only time I'm going to say this, but the Mets put the Mets put the capsules
Splashdown on the jumbo tron at city field. This is the only time I will ever say this. How about how about the Mets?
How about that Mets? Let's go Mets. That's pretty good, man
That's the only time I will ever say that and you're never gonna hear me say it again
Dang we have two helicopters circling
The activity you're seeing on the lot right now, but also
Here's each will take turns picking up an astronaut
So he low one will come on in
hover above the front porch about 40 feet above the front porch. A Navy recovery
specialist will be hoisted down into the front porch. We'll connect to the first
astronaut which is in effect. And then Hilo 2 comes around, picks up Jeremy
while Helo one stays above head and then Helo one will come back in for another
astronaut and then Helo two for the last astronaut and then back to the flight deck
here on the recovery ship. You know dudes when I do commons area launches
there's sometimes where I just shut up you or you just don't need to say as
much you know this is you just don't need to say as much like I didn't say
nothing during re-entry. I've just said yee-haw and a couple of other things, you know, like,
and I never shut up, but there are times where you just, you know, you need to say nothing.
Just do it, just watch. I'm, the crew would have to move through more of the ship
this way the helo, the helos would give a more direct quicker route to the medical bay
for our four astronauts. No, Reed is the last one out of the capsule, less.
Beautiful shots from our aerial and imagery teams.
I'm still whiskey.
Plans have dissipated for a clear view from the bow of the recovery ship here.
here. That might have something to do with it.
Thanks.
Thank you.
The egress order is Christina, then Victor, then Jeremy, then
Reed. That's just the order of the seats that are closest to the hatch.
Reed's seat is furthest from the hatch.
Looks like the rigid inflatable two up there has
has the porch and the Navy divers are getting ready to inflate the stabilizer ring.
You're about.
As you saw in that interview, just a few minutes ago.
It's damn nice to see this again, dude.
It feels, guys, you know, now that they're down, I was going to say this, I didn't want
to say it during the mission, but this, it came up a couple of times.
feels like we're riding the ship, so to speak. And I love the space shuttle. I love that thing,
but this feels like riding the ship. Oh, Beard, you're absolutely right. It's good to see this again.
This feels right. You know what I mean? Maybe there was a time a little while ago where I would
have said like, oh, you know, SMS is not reusable and that sucks or something like that. No. No.
No, no, no, I'm good dude.
I want a hundred more of those things.
You could expend as many of those as you want.
I don't really care.
I want more of this.
I don't care if the capsule is the only thing
that comes back, that doesn't bother me.
Because when you get down to it
and when you get down to seeing the mission,
you see that going to the moon,
sending somebody all the way out there,
at least for now,
while we're relearning how to do it,
that's useful.
It's a useful thing.
So, you know, in the same way that the Saturn Vs,
you know, went on to Valhalla, right?
You know, trading an SLS core
for what you see on the screen.
I'm good with that, man.
I'm good with it.
I'm fine with it.
Cause I never, frankly, never knew how this would feel.
I've never seen this before.
I've never, I don't know what it's like.
I don't know.
I've never seen the rush that it is.
I've never felt the rush of a capsule coming back
from on a transleroth injection trajectory from the moon.
I've never seen that.
But now that I have that context,
one, I see why people would always tell me,
like when I went off about the shuttle
and be like, now, Paul, it's better.
I understand now.
That makes a lot of sense.
I want more of this.
We need to do more of this.
One of these should be ready to,
shut up, one of these should be teed up and ready to go
and by the summertime, man.
Well, we need to do more of this.
I see the context now.
And, you know, I knew Apollo 8 was a ballsy mission,
but this, now I think I'd like to think
that I have some context in that regard.
Oh my goodness, it's absolutely insane.
Like, you know, zero spacer. I love the space shuttle. I love it.
I love that thing because that's what I grew up with. That's the NASA that I know.
Or that I knew, let's say.
But seeing this. Oh, man.
Oh, no, no, I like this better helicopter.
It looks like they got stabilizer out. Porches out. So we should be seeing crew egress here momentarily.
I know, Jack. It's pretty impressive, dude.
The porch is constructed.
We are donning the porch. Did you get my tip? I have Briggs. I have the alerts disabled right now.
But what did you do? You proposed to your girlfriend right on touchdown as we are big NASA fan.
And we love watching streams and we thank you for being amazing. And guess what? She said yes.
He said, yes, oh, congratulations, man.
Nice, Brigzy, congratulations to you
from everyone here at the Art Johnson Space Administration.
We say congratulations.
That's great, dude.
That was a good time, good time to do that.
Good for you.
It's basically lifting it up off of the water, just a tad.
Again, so it's not so...
Congratulations man.
It's just a day of W's dude.
Day of winning.
Like I said guys, you can see the Navy divers
walking around Orion right there.
It gives you a good idea how big the capsule actually is.
That's a pretty hefty piece of equipment right there.
Once again, for a vehicle that goes out
and looks around the moon, it's pretty good dude.
And now that front porch looks like it's nearly fully inflated as well.
You can see a much more to the left of the area.
Winning TigerBlood. Winning, winning!
And so once the crew get out of the line, they can stretch their legs a little bit on the front porch,
It appears teams now are about to connect the front porch to the stabilization collar.
Yeah, Bob, it's a little bit different, right?
And at that point when both are secure, we should soon see astronauts come out of Orion.
Dude, I have like 30 messages.
Cheers.
It's also my sister's birthday today, so happy birthday.
This fun is for you.
My cat's birthday.
All these views you see also being fed to the landing force operation center here on
the ship.
Of course it is very important for our recovery teams leading the mission to have all the
views that you're seeing as well.
listening to their communication loop here on the ship. Very quiet, which is a good thing.
I mean, things are going pretty nominally.
She's watching right now.
Meaning as expected.
Jason really come out of the woodwork dude what the hell what?
What?
Again, all this activity happening just 3,000 yards away from the ship.
So that means this will be a very...
Hocus Pocus get this out of the chase.
On the helicopters for the crew.
Two, three minutes.
And then we'll be back in a minute.
Thanks guys, thank you for all the support.
All right, do we got egress you'd be pulling them out now
Okay, you were three months old during a pile of 17 to experience this
Lake smooth mission live from one of the channels been awesome the front porch. Hell yeah, Bob
It looks like they are now getting ready to here we go Christina coming out
Deploy what they call the air rescue vest ARV
and so this is the harness that each crew member will get into in order to be
hoisted into the helicopters again those helicopters hovering just about 40 feet
above the front porch when they're ready just maybe it's the medical dog they
sent the medical guys in there imagine how smart you have to be to be a Navy
I'm pretty sure those people are pretty smart, you know what I mean?
Yeah, Farron, yeah, we've gotten a little bit, yeah.
Tore Bruno congratulated our next and brother and his daughter and worked on a lion.
All right, that's cool.
They are everywhere, that's right.
I'm by the front porch from Home Depot. It's the Navy's grabbies. Probably not. It's probably expensive, whatever it is.
I'm
loving suit and tie.
Give up the great work.
We have this mission control Houston.
Behind me, a fairly raucous scene as hundreds of flight controllers have poured into the
flight control room here.
This is reminiscent of the scene after the final shuttle mission of STS-135 although that
was the end of a program.
This is only the beginning of a program with the textbook splashdown of integrity in its
four astronauts.
We're standing by for the crew to be extracted from the flight.
Show us!
Show us, Rob!
Entry flight director Rick Henfling invited all of these flight controllers who have
contributed to this mission to enter the flight control room, to have an opportunity to receive well wishes and to
share the mutual glow that
exists in the wake of a textbook mission for integrity on the front screen here in mission control, a sign that says welcome
home integrity, taking humanity back to the moon going further and return.
Ohhhh, awesome! Zoom the camera out! Come on!
part of the uh... post-flashdown activities
even as we await uh... the crew
being extracted from the vehicle to be hoisted onto navy helicopters for the
trip back to the u s s john p mirtha
on the just ran the capsule of like dragons this is the way we did it during
apollo so they're just going to keep doing that just do what works to
yeah crow you're probably right
this little maneuver cost fifty three years NASA probably
i want to see them celebrating man i want to see rick thrown a kegger in there
let's go
rob
come on
the twenty-first entry
once again here in mission
yeah
part of this flight control room thanks guys white flight control room this is
the old shuttle flight control room robb is the only guy sitting at desk
Artemis missions to the moon and beyond
once again
quite a few flight controllers were invited in by entry flight director
rick henfling
richard the uh... jubilation comments there
following the six on the truth is there he's the second in charge of nasa you
know why he was invited in their exam was flight director for a long time he
was a flight director for the iss
and ultimately they're hoisting onto
navy helicopters
for a short flight back
to the USS John P. Murtha.
Splashdown occurred at 7.07 and 27 seconds PM central time.
I had an opportunity to talk to the head of flight dynamics,
Jeff Birch, a moment or two ago.
He said the trajectory of integrity coming
through the Earth's atmosphere was so precise,
they've never seen anything line up on a ground track
like today's entry by integrity for its splashdown
southwest of San Diego. Orion's good. We like Orion. We should have more of these. We should
make more of them. We need more of these. We need more. We need more Orion's. Yeah.
Isn't there a playbook for Hal Apollo? It's successful. What do you mean? Yeah. Yeah.
We need, I've decided, the lines are not still.
You can hear it.
There we go.
Jubilation here in the flight control room, the first crew member is out of integrity.
Hey, Christina's standing upright. All right, let's go.
Yeah, Lockheed, don't miss, baby. Lockheed, don't miss.
That capsule is great. What a machine.
We are expecting the other crew members momentarily to be extracted.
So anybody that's wearing orange, there we go. There's there's Victor
Victor's out
Christine is out sitting on the raft
We now have two crew members out
It's my boat
They have Dramamine. I'm pretty sure Victor and Reed don't care. They're they're Navy aviators. They don't care
Christina though. I hope so maybe I don't know
Yeah, John, I will I'll look guys you're linking videos to look at this like I don't care
I'll look up. We'll look up that stuff later, dude. I'm not just
Okay, thank you.
For about one hour from sunset out in the Pacific, everything continues to go well.
Integrity's systems function perfectly during its entry back to Earth.
And Reed Wiseman, the commander who will be last out of the vehicle,
reported that all the crew members were feeling very well.
That's right, Michelle. Just enjoying the moment.
see how here we go there's Jeremy Jeremy is out of integrity remember number three
now actually a night talk it's a night see that
Last standing by for the commander Reed Wiseman, who will be last out of his ship.
Bobbing in the Pacific under almost ideal conditions, integrity,
span 694,000 miles during its journey from launch to splashdown.
It's been an honor and a pleasure, guys. This is amazing.
However, the Navy dive is just placing them on the year. Just,
you just go over here. Just you stay there.
Are the orange suits able to hook up directly to the hoist them to the helo?
Yes.
I'm pretty sure they have a hoist mechanism on it.
That's that coverage.
Thank you.
Thank you, everybody.
This is fantastic.
And we now have...
Reed Wiseman out of the vehicle, all four crew members now out of integrity.
Reed's out.
Commander's last office shift.
Year year.
What a fricking W that's in hell, yeah!
This is great!
Oh, I take it enough of this!
was again all four crewmen that's what I'm talking about baby and the procedure to begin
hoisting them up to these two navy helicopters hovering overhead will begin short
party
Yeah, okay, I'll fix the tie next time, don't worry.
Our crew out of the capsule baby.
Oh this is mint.
That's a lot of flight directors man.
Mint, mint, mint, mint, mint, mint, mint, mint, mint, mint, mint, mint, mint, mint, mint.
Thanks Mark.
Part 24 will be sleep on the couch.
You ain't kidding dude.
But we're not done. Crew ain't on the ship yet.
Oh, oh, oh, this is based on your face.
Dark guy. Thanks, man.
Look at that. Four crew out of the capsule.
Does he need his passport? No, I think he's good.
Yeah, we got to get that next rocket lined up, dudes.
This is Mission Control Houston.
The mission is over, but the melody lingers on as jubilation continues here in the flight
control room.
We should be expecting NASA's Associate Administrator, Amit Shatria, to be joining
us shortly for a short interview while the recovery operations continue out on the Pacific.
So we'll stand by for that. And then we'll turn it back over to Megan Cruz aboard the
USS John P. Murtha. I'm so happy that he chilled work. That was bugging me. But now
We're good, man. We're good.
Yeah, Gendo, I had my reservations, but we're good, dude.
I mean, I would like to see that heat shield, but we're good.
That's all for getting a rush in the capsule.
Right, right?
That's right, Jeff. Why do all these people not wear GoPro's for up close footage? I don't know. Oh my god, zombies, thanks for the ride. Pretty fun, isn't it? Space missions rule.
it's there's nothing cooler dude it's such a fun ride it's so fun to keep up
with the missions it's something's floating over there I think that's one
of the bullies for the shoots night argue the man thanks for everything time
for some R&R soon well-deserved mad respect yeah thanks guys that I
wasn't sure what I was getting into when I said I would stream the whole
mission but I think it's safe to say that over the past ten days
has been some of the best stream and I've ever done this is thanks guys gonna do
it for Artemis one this is mission control Houston here in the Artemis
flight control room a number of flight controllers of basking in the glory of
the successful end of this mission that carried four astronauts around the
probably take the weekend off and the first test flight of Orion with crew
members on board splashed down occurring an hour and 32 minutes ago
back in the virus atmosphere for the vehicle it's for crew members in good
shape simply enjoying their time on the front porch as it were the inflatable
raft alongside of their integrity spacecraft please thank be more very
aspect of it Shatria the NASA associate administrator to join us here
momentarily for a brief interview before we turn it back over to Megan Cruz
aboard the USS John P. Murtha the recovery ship Jared thanks man thank
Thank you for all the support, guys.
Yeah, I think it's safe to say we'll be back for Artemis 3 and 4 and 5.
I'd say this is...
Oh, oh, oh, this is space. I'm in space.
Hey, Sarah. Thank you.
Congrats on the new viewer record again.
I wasn't even paying attention, dude.
Oh, oh, oh, this is space. I'm in space.
I was locked into that damn capsule.
You did great.
Thanks, Amber.
Do you do any edited videos?
yeah we're working on some stuff uh...
pretty new to you channel of the sea highlights
yeah
yeah well uh...
we're gonna cut up
good try to do a high-level best moments
somebody gifted a five bits are going crazy
thanks guys
leeks it's been an honor for the whole mission absolutely
some of us been here from stakeouts and i wanted to be here with you
thanks outdoors and appreciate you
I appreciate you guys.
I watched for 10 days, isn't it sick?
Thank you so much for the coverage.
Great that you created a community of space nerds.
Me, Ko, you're in the right place, dude.
It's what we do, helicopter.
We've been on quality base here in Eagle-Headslanding.
What a journey.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your passion.
Absolutely.
Thank you mate, it's been wonderful. My pleasure London. Pleasure's all on this side of the
stream guys. You know good and well that if I was in this to make money I wouldn't, you
know, I mean you guys take very good care of me. I appreciate all of you. If I could
thank everybody here, you know I would. This is Mission Control Houston. But you
don't stream for 10 days straight, right? Because you want to make cash. I stream
10-day straight because I love space and that's why I do this and I I want to show
people how cool it is and I'm just it's it is humbling as hell to know that
there's fans out there that are just as gung-ho about this in me as me it makes
me real happy it also it's really good at affirmation that I'm not going insane
so you know
We nailed it.
And we're done.
I'm smashing it.
Covering the whole mission.
Bring on Optimus 3.
My thought is always about these teams.
The team that's in the water right now, pulling the crew out.
The team here in Houston that worked so hard over the last 10 days.
No sleep to get this done.
We still have some work to do to get the crew to the med bay here on the ship.
They all look great coming out.
So hopefully that won't be too long.
I think we saw the administrator on the boat too,
given his thanks to the Navy team on the Mertha,
which they're just an incredible group of sailors.
I was able to visit with them a couple of weeks ago.
And then if you pull it all the way back to the workers
and the folks that joined the rocket at Michoud,
that made the heat shield tiles that held together tonight,
that, you know, that stacked the vehicle in Florida,
that integrated the vehicle in Denver,
that fired the engines in Stennis,
that fired the boosters in Promontory.
I mean, this is the entire team, you know,
coming together and being tested by the environment that this machine went through and they did
it right.
The work was good, they did it right.
Damn right, damn right they did.
And in other forums that this is just the first step, the cadence has to step up as
the administrator has indicated.
Thanks darling, I can look like the driver.
Now it's a little early for the full report card on how integrity did, but did this
mission ultimately from your eyes view exceed expectations?
It absolutely did. I mean, I was waiting to talk about this until we're in the water and
you know, I think we still, again, work to do to bring it in and really kind of go through
it bolt by bolt and see what we learned. But I mean, so far, given what we learned during
the mission and given how we performed on ascent, on entry, you know, I always think about
energy in terms of the states that you worry about the most. And every time we put these
machines through these incredibly energetic states that came through. So I'm fairly
confident that we made a big step tonight to get us on the path towards the surface.
I think the path to the surface is open now.
We do have to do all the work and we'll make sure we talk about that as clearly as we can.
We learned a few things during the mission, but I have to tell you this was an incredible
test of an incredible machine.
From an American psyche standpoint, the Empire State Building was lit up red,
light and blue tonight. Our coverage was seen in baseball stadiums around the
major leagues. How captivating was this experience for the American people for
the world in fact as we returned to the moon? You know I was I've not been able
to watch a lot of the coverage as we've progressed through the mission I will
tell you just you know from my witness in Florida before launch and then
seeing the people's faces here and then you know reading where I can about how things are going
I think I think this has been a gift to the world from NASA. NASA has given the world a gift
proving to
To folks all over the place, especially young people and that to me is what this is really about young people when they see
What we can do when we work together when we when we have teams that collaborate that you know, it doesn't matter how hard
The problems are we can solve them. I'm hopeful that Artemis too
as folks witness what we were able to do with this incredible crew and this incredible team
that we've birthed into the world, scientists and engineers and artists that have been inspired
by this. And even if they don't come work in the program, which separately they should come work in the
program because the Lord knows we need the help, but even if they don't want to come work in the program,
hopefully they grow up to recognize they can do amazing things and they work together and contribute
to society and be good citizens and really change the way, you know, the challenges
that are coming in the world are overcomable, if we do, if we work together like this.
We can do anything.
One final question.
You know, flying to the moon, we did it, we've done it again this past week and a half or
so, but the engineering that went behind the design of this mission and the precision,
the pinpoint precision of this vehicle entering that entry corridor, it's almost mind-boggling.
Yeah, it is incredible when you think about the energies involved and the uncertainties
involved that when we inserted the vehicle into orbit it was 99.2% down the middle when
we dropped the vehicle right on top of the fleet here.
Our guys knew exactly where to go but the guidance was perfect.
It's interesting.
I've got this question a lot over the last few weeks about.
We did this before, 53 years ago and I think it is a reasonable thing to contemplate.
like what I tell you is, you know, when we did Apollo, which again, the more we learn
about what they did, the more magical it seems what they were able to accomplish given the
technology and the learnings that they had.
But when we did Apollo, the architects of Apollo, you know, Gilbert, Seaman, Von Braun,
Mueller, they what they really, really wanted to do, you know, as they were contemplating
what it meant to expand a range of action to the lunar surface.
What they wanted to do was learn how to live and work in space for a long time.
They wanted to do that first before they were confident they could expand their range of
action to the moon.
Now, of course, the politics of the time and the mission at the time was different.
So they had to go straight to the moon and bring people home.
And after that, the program kind of lost its momentum.
But after that, NASA kept moving along those paths.
So we recognized during Apollo that reusability was going to be important.
We spent a lot of money on those machines.
We spent a lot of money on these machines here.
Even though, but we recognized that reusability
was important, which is why we built a wingspace plane
called Space Shuttle.
And then we used that reusable machine
to build a space station.
And we learned for 25 years how to live and work in space
and have been able to develop technologies
that can enable exploration.
So really what I think is now 53 years later,
we're at the point where the architects of Apollo
would have been pleased that we're now ready
to actually go back to the moon and go back to stay
because we've learned all the things we needed to learn.
There's a lot of people pleased here tonight,
and though, we really thank you for joining us,
Ahmet, Ahmet Shatrya, NASA's the subject.
I think that guy knows what he's talking about.
Ahmet knows what's fricking good, dude.
He's the second in charge at NASA, you know?
And you know good and well
from what he just said that he's a space nutcase.
Nobody would go around referencing Apollo systems,
engineering, architecture,
you know as they're impetus for doing what they're doing now
dude only only a space nut would say something like that
that's uh... that's like something i would say not that i'm comparable i'm
just a twitch streamer but yet there we go one astronaut up
this is mission control houston uh... with the crew members now beginning to
be hoisted aboard the navy helicopters
let's go to megan cruise aboard the u s s john p mirtha yeah let's get from
here let's not watch this cool thing that's going on
Because the helicopter...
Hey, Rob, yeah, back on the bow of the ship here, we are seeing the helicopters circling
around.
Oh, this is cool, man.
The first one there, having just completed picking up the first aircraft.
Hey, we need you to jump out of this helicopter and go fucking astronaut until we get back
here.
Okay.
Covering just 42.
All right, I'll do that.
of the front porch lowering a recovery specialist out of the helicopter that
person will touch down in the front porch just there yes sir say let's sir I
got this the crew members already outfitted with a harness that will
allow them to quickly attach grease that you see that the other guy kind of
Look at the power of those blades throwing water out at the center there.
The front porch with now three astronauts and the recovery special.
I know, I saw the space station, I just want to watch this, okay?
There we go.
And here we go.
Second astronaut now off the fuselage.
That looks like fun.
I want to do that.
That looks like fun.
I'd have fun doing that.
I'm like, hahaha.
I know.
That helicopter will now hover just a little bit.
hover just a distance away to give room for the first helicopter to come back
and pick up the third astronaut. All right let's see if this guy, let's see if this
guy overshoots again. He overshot, he overshot the first egress. As we wait for
that helicopter to come back, make its way back around. Come on buddy. I just want to mention that the
president of the United States called our NASA administrator today while he
was on the ship just minutes after we interviewed him live on our cover on this
history-making moment tonight
helicopter one again hovering 40 feet over the front porch you will soon see
Another recovery specialist getting lowered onto the front porch.
Wow. Imagine sitting on that front porch, the wind, the water blades, but again,
the recovery team determined that a helicopter flight back to the ship here
would be safer, faster and more comfortable for our crew who just
completed a 10 day mission around the moon.
Third astronaut in the air.
Did we like quickly back what I'm a first helicopter now.
When I first saw him in a press conference, when he got to the deputy
administrator position, I was like, I wasn't sure.
The more I hear him, it should be a talk.
No, no, he's the real deal, dude.
That guy's the real deal.
And now every time I hear him talk, I gain much more respect for that dude.
A flight tech.
He's cool, man.
He's the right guy for the job.
Now the other person left on the front porch, Commander Reed-White, man.
He's a real deal, man.
That second helicopter now making its way back over to the front.
Yeah, Sir Rodin, we're good, man.
We're starting, we're good, dude.
Here it comes.
You know, you know Rob handed it over to Megan Cruz, because Rob Navius is probably partying with those flight controllers. There we go!
Megan, it's final approach here.
Who's the last one? It's a reed? I can't tell.
Yeah, that's a reed.
Oh man that looks like fun. Oh I would enjoy the hell out of that.
Look look is that Christina in the window? Somebody's wearing orange in there.
Oh that looks like fun man. I would do that.
That looks like fun, I'd do that.
Yeah, I would do that.
Do you want me to do that?
I'd do it.
That would be sick.
That looks like fun.
Yeah, Jim?
It looks like fun, dude.
I'd be like, oh no!
Grab the side.
Here we go!
I don't know, Gore-Tex.
Oh, dude, that's HILT.
It's getting to see our four crew members minutes away from landing on the flight deck.
Please tell me this. They keep on this camera to see this thing land on the Mertha.
On this ship. Excited, ready, anxious, looking forward to welcoming this cold one.
Oh, that is badass, dude.
You know, er...
I see a lot of people asking, like...
I see a lot of people asking, like, oh, why did they fly away in the helicopters?
Why don't I just... That's why.
You see this picture, man?
Flight deck, which is just a cross from us.
Here on the bow.
Yeah, I see it.
I see it.
I see it.
I see it.
I see it.
Gazzino? Cool.
Oh! This is badass, dude!
First helicopter?
This is sick!
Look at this!
Slew that thing right in there, let's go.
Oh, that skill's right there. That's good stuff.
That's good stuff on the line.
Come on. Come on. Come on.
and
And wheels down. Oh very nice very very
helicopter very nice two of our Artemis two crew
That's that that was very nice right on the center line. That's perfect specialist
mint
Ding ding
There you go. He'll one on deck. They rang the bell John. Did you hear that?
and the mission audio loops
Spring to Bell
That's cool dude
Ahhhh let's tricky go
Two more helicopters on their way to the flight deck
One carrying the crew
The other
One of our imagery
Helicopters
Again kudos to our imagery and aerial teams
for
us these beautiful views. Dude, I will tell you this, I will tell you this, and I'm not just trying
to blow smoke up the, you know, Navy pilots and stuff. Dude, a ship that's underway, not easy to
land a helicopter on, especially if there's wind. That's not an easy thing to do. But also,
that guy just greased that damn landing. That was perfect. Like, it don't get better than that.
dude look at some gold it's a golden hour stuff oh it's sick it's his bad ass man
plenty of people here on the bow with this sick oh my gosh I'm nerding the
freak out that's awesome yeah I'm aduland in a plane dude yeah no no
freaking mad respect that's not easy that is not easy to do all right 42
Bring her in. Bring her in. You got this, homie.
Dude, this is great. Look at that.
I'm flying here by the Navy.
As we are seconds away.
Like I said, the ship's moving.
Dude, you're landing on a helicopter on a moving target.
There we go.
We all have all four Artemis II crew members
on the USS John P. Murpha.
Have a discord yeah exclamation point discord and chat look at that
Sure, they're happy to be out of the water
That is freaking bad ass. Oh, this is so cool on this recovery ship, but again
550 people who is John P. Murphy. He was a senator from Pennsylvania
Ready to welcome them home
But first
As we've been saying throughout the broadcast just making sure the crew once again crew from the Artemis 2 mission
First mission to go out to the moon since 1972 is on the recovery vessel now. All right glossary of terms here
You guys see a bunch of people with different shirts. All right blue are the plane handlers. Okay purple. They're called grapes
That's fuel. Those are the guys that handle the fuel
Green shirts are for arrested arresting gear and personnel
They're the care that catapult and resting your personnel. You're not gonna see much green here yellow or the aircraft directors
Red or red or ordinance, red or the ordinance guys.
Brown is the air wing plane captains
and then white are the quality control folks.
That's all the people on a flight deck on an American ship.
So if you wonder why everybody has different shirts,
they all have a different task.
Now why do they wear different shirts?
Cause the carrier is a very loud carrier,
a flight deck, even on the Mertha,
on a ship like this, it's a helicopter carrier,
technically it gets really really loud there's a bunch of helicopters floating
around you can't really talk to anybody so it's it pays to be able to see what
color shirt somebody is so you know who it is
oh that's sick that is so damn clean
personnel here on the flight deck
That's that third helicopter. Touches down.
Yeah, baby.
Flight 7-1, you gotta know, right?
Dude, that fourth helicopter was buttered. That blending was buttered.
This ship is in slain borders.
Stand clear of later names. Accu-free of 095. Burn of cover, substrate.
Throne article, summer design. Hold on trash and garbage station.
Well, just a few folks on the flight deck itself. There are plenty more on some upper decks.
I see some low views. A very pop crowd over here.
Yeah, it sounds like Megan's...
The announcements being made over the ship's loudspeaker system remind...
Megan must have set up shop next to one of the speakers on the bow of the ship.
So that teams can work quickly to get the crew off of the helicopters and into the medical bay
Our mix maybe that's some cool stuff man. I always said the Navy has the best toys just saying
Those speakers are loud. Well, yeah, dude, you gotta be able to hear it
Splashdown today 506 p.m. I was going for clear the heck well deck
If you're wondering what the Mertha is, the Mertha is a landing platform dock, so LPD is
its designation.
Its whole number is LPD-26.
What this ship does is it's half helicopter carrier, half troop transport.
It's designed to carry a marine expeditionary unit and be used for beach assault.
So the back half of the ship is an aircraft carrier, well a helicopter carrier technically.
It's on an aircraft carrier.
Back of the ships, a helicopter carrier
like what you see here.
And the front half is a, it carries a troop complement.
But underneath the well deck on these San Antonio class ships,
right, underneath the flight deck is the well deck.
They're under there, they can put landing craft in deck.
I mean, it would be LCACs or LCACs for short,
but we're not doing that today.
Down in the well deck, they have Orion.
So what they're gonna do, they're gonna open the well deck
they're gonna put the capsule in the well deck. Oh yep, shut it down.
That'd be pretty cool, Yard. Yeah, this is designed for to have the Marines go get
funky on a beach somewhere. No, not like that. Yes, like that. Yeah, they could have
LC user AAVs. Yeah. You could have AAVs if you, you know, your tank is secretly a snail.
Oh, you just put the rotor brake on. You see that? See the rotor stop? See the rotor's
just
The capsule already in no the mirth is sailing to the capsule right now. It's underway towards the capsule, but it's not
She they have far dude. They're gonna get it's close. It's close to it
So, like, do they go through customs? No. No, they don't need to do that. They did that
as a joke during Apollo. What's a road of breaks look like they lined them all up? Of
course they lined them all up, dude. That's some Navy Tism right there, Bill. You got
to line them all up. What are you not going to line them all up? What are you crazy?
All right
Here we see pilot Victor four helicopters
Like perfectly symmetrical the rotors better be freaking lined up right if I'm the skipper on the ship those rotors better be aligned
All right, I don't give a frick what nobody says line a line the damn things spirits
Look at Vic that familiar. It's just chilling from Victor. I can see it. He's just chilling Christina
I'm sure feeling the same way just blocked a little bit by our camera here, but we'll see her here shortly
So keep the rotors clear of the side doors.
A photographer taking their pictures.
Victor, so you know folks on the flight deck.
They look like they're in great spirits.
Happy to be home I'm sure.
If you're sitting at home I hope you too are wondering what would you want to ask
them if you've got a chance to talk to them because that is what I'm thinking about getting
the opportunity to talk to, ask questions of these four astronauts who just made history
as the first crew to return to the military.
He's just taking it all in.
He's just chilling.
It's like, this is pretty neat.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Because it's the Navy variant of the UH-60, right?
Those blades, those blades fold up.
Oh, there we see Christina there, also smiling, finally peering out, waving at the cameras.
Hello to you too, Christina, yes.
Welcome back. Welcome, welcome home.
Amaze, amaze, amaze. Did you see that? No, frick, no, no way, no way, no way, no way, hold up.
Welcome back.
Watch.
Welcome, welcome home.
Maze, Maze, Maze! Yes!
A loudspeaker announcement on the ship saying welcome home integrity.
Nice. Nice.
We know what that was.
That was sick.
I love this crew. It's through freaking rules, dude.
I kind of think that he might be talking to his other two crew members.
What's on their heads?
I forget guys. What's the name of that helmet? It's the the helmet that has like the Picatinny on it, dude
I
Don't know what it's called
Ops core now we see some navy personnel the fast helmet. Yeah, there you go walking up to the helicopter
This is again the first helicopter carrying pilot Victor Glover
the
so
wait wait wait wait
Ruan what are you sayin?
the blades are required to be xed out for securing them down
aaaaaaah
there you go
so
do the
if you like
so Ruan if you enable the
if you
put the rotor brake right
on this thing
and I'm saying it like I know where that control is
upon
is it up there?
I have no idea
uh
will it
will lock into the same place every time?
like with the
with the blades crisscross
like diagonal like that?
Is it it will it like it will it interrupt it like lock it into position or do you have to like hit the brake and time it?
It locks in that orientation right on dude
By the controls a NASA administrator Jared Isaacman. He is on the flight deck as well as flight surgeon Rick Schuring
walking over
To Victor and Christina first we saw the administrator walk over to the other helicopter
which is carrying Commander Reed Weissman and mission specialist Jeremy Hansen.
We heard from Rick earlier in the broadcast again he said he's gonna be out
there on the flight deck to do another initial assessment of the crew, ask them
how they're feeling, anything bothering them, but again from behind the scene,
worry about where the blades are.
I'm feeling pretty good for folks who have traveled 695,000 miles from Florida to the
moon and now here to the Pacific Ocean.
We're now seeing NASA administrator Jared Isaacman walking across the flight
deck he had been talking to Reed and Jeremy now approaching Victor and Christina a hug from Victor a hug from Christina
What a moment that we're getting to experience together
Families in Houston and families might be on the ship. I don't know
Is Jared out there? I'm sure congratulations for your words, you know, we got to speak to the administrator live on his broadcast as well and
He said the kid in him right now giddy
absolutely giddy. Jared's probably like you. We were able to accomplish today. Jared's probably like
yo send me next. Call him safely and in good spirits after a 10-day mission around the
moon. And here we go. Be quiet man. We've seen Jeremy walking, waving across the flight deck
now on his way to the medical bay.
It's a short walk, less than a minute.
Again, that's why the recovery team decided to use helicopters
to get them on the flight deck
for that short walk to medical bay.
And now on the flight deck we see the chief of the astronaut office, Scott Tingle.
No, the ship's turning, look, the ship, um,
Rick Schering, switching to Starburn, over to the other helicopters, big hugs, big hugs.
The mirth is going that way.
From Victor Christina, turning to Starburn.
to Scott. Again, a gorgeous sunset, setting the stage for this recovery tonight.
Yeah, this is some top-down stuff going on right now.
All right. And now here we are, Christina.
Making her way. Looking thankful, grateful, happy to be home.
She's awesome. That's so cool.
You can see she's looking up again. Lots of people. Just a few levels up.
Oh, dude, they gave her a Mertha hat. That's old school.
Welcoming her home.
That girl walking all the way up.
Scott holding the door like a gentleman, but back on his way to the other crew still on the flight deck.
The red is usually ordinance, but I guess they're photographers today.
You know, mom, camera.
Still on the flight deck?
It's like the same thing. You just smile and make a little flash or something.
And Reed Weissmann.
It looks like Victor will be the next one headed to medical bay more hugs more hugs
right?
He's a hugger.
Angromatic.
What are you saying dude?
As the guy that served as an army flay paramedic I can confirm hoist work is a lot of fun and
it can be scary as anything when they go sideways but I'd do it again.
I'd do it.
I'd do it.
That'd be that looks like.
Victor applauding.
Yeah.
That's bad ass, man.
That's pretty sick, dude.
That don't need no help.
No, no, no, no, man.
Dude, let me put it to you like this.
I was 10 days out there.
I came back 10 days.
I'd have the people next to me in case I blotted,
but I'd try as hard as I could.
Me, I'd be like, yo, I'm walking to that data.
I'd be like, hey, I'm walking to that data.
I'd be like, hey, I'm walking to that data.
I'd be like, hey, I'm walking to that data.
I'd be like, hey, I'm walking to that data.
Me, I'd be like, yo, I'm walking to that damn door.
I would, I would muster all of my remaining strength
to walk to that stupid door.
I'd be like, yo, I'm walking there.
I'm not falling, no, I don't need no help.
Leave me alone, I'm walking to the door.
Where's the door?
I'll run over there, but no, I wouldn't run.
Applause from the group there on the flight deck.
I'm sure as well as.
There's rain.
On the level just above them, packed with people.
That's awesome.
That's looking good as he takes his steps towards the medical bay.
Well this can be repurposed by the captain.
Considering they're in zero order, this one makes this mission redesign red temporarily.
There you go.
So yeah.
There are four.
Smile Bay for the faster.
There are two crew members back on the ship.
Again, now they will head into medical bay.
I can relax.
We're good.
they will be assessed by flight surgeons from both NASA as well as the Canadian Space Agency.
A more in-depth assessment.
When they get to medical day they will each have their own nurse.
So the mirtha turned to starboard.
They'll be helped out of their suits.
And now they're going, it looks like-
And then again will.
Looks like the mirtha's going dead slow right now.
Any squids can you confirm?
looks dead slow to me
it looks so that tells me they're getting near that their tone the capsule
in beautiful shot of that sunset
illuminating our flow right
so bad feelings
said what i needed to say
show the new viewers some of your case
you know what king
All right, and now they're astronauts safely on board.
I want to welcome on Artemis Recovery Director,
Lily Villarreal.
Lily, I don't know how you must be feeling right now.
Ecstatic relief.
Ecstatic relief.
Of course, we still have to bring the capsule
into the wall deck of the ship,
but this is a major milestone to have the crew here
on the ship and in that bay.
Our team has been preparing and working really hard
and I'm just so proud of them all.
Everything went very well, just as planned.
Our teammates in Houston, the flight control team
was just amazing.
We were able to have great conversations
and communications about everything.
And I don't know what else to say,
I'm just so excited.
It's such a wonderful feeling to get to this point.
Again, we still have to get the capsule,
but this is huge for all of us in land recovery.
I couldn't do this without my team and of course the full support of the U.S. military.
There's going to be lots of high fives when we get the capsule back in and I'm so happy
that the crew is doing well, Ryan is doing well and thank you for, you know, for everybody
watching.
Thank you.
It was great to watch the crew come back to the ship with you.
How are you feeling when you were seeing them looking so happy to be home and feeling
really good you know the funny thing is is that we had video of them from outside
the Orion vehicle they were like that from the beginning when we opened the
hatch there they were already out of their seats having a good time waiting for us
to open the hatch and they opened the hatch and of course we did the first
medical assessment everybody was doing very well and they were just having
such a great time with with the medical team that was inside the
capsule. I think they were all taking selfies with the phones that they had, probably talking
about what they saw, and it was just smiles all around. They were having such a great
time. And then we put them on the front porch when we were ready to put them on the front
porch. And again, you could see they were just so ecstatic to be home and talking
to everybody. So we were very happy to see all of that in the control room of the
ALFOC.
remarkable is that again if we think about their journey the 695,000 mile
journey around the moon and back coming back at 30 times faster than the speed of
sound I mean how remarkable is that that they are in such good spirit I mean
this is an amazing crew. Alright, the JSA control I'm gonna the astronauts are in
med base are probably getting out of their suits now so we are go for step
155 suit doffing and pictures that they have that you know we'll get a hold of
now that they're back on the ground and I can't wait to hear how you know a little
more than what we saw on the press briefings from the crew about what they
saw it's just fantastic you know some of my favorite people do on the ten days
was a science team and how excited they were and so we this is exactly how
how we feel in the Landry Recovery Team when the science team went, oh my goodness, when
they heard all the discussions about the moon. This is exactly how we feel now in the Landry
Recovery Team. We're so ecstatic. Again, we have to recover the cab, so I want to make
sure we don't forget about our Orion.
It really is all about business. She's thinking about what's next. But, yeah, speaking
of these 10 days, I mean, we have been along for the journey with them, live
with them 24 seven for 10 days and just really seeing the engagement that we've
gotten from around the world. What do you hope people take away from this mission?
I think that's fantastic. So you know my story was that I went to the
K-Space Center. I'm actually it was born in Columbia. I was 10 years old when we
moved to the United States but when I was seven my family took me to the
Visitor Center and that's when I learned about Apollo and we went to the
moon and I learned about astronauts and that story was what really fueled me to
want to do STEM and want to be an astronaut and I think that this Artemis
program is going to do exactly what you know with girls you know my age back
then a seven young people right now girls and and even like young men
obviously but we want to empower people to know that you can do this right if
you want to come and work for NASA if I did it they can do it and Artemis
programs just can inspire everybody and I'm so happy about that like a poem
inspired me. Thank you so much Lily really appreciate you being here as you
said still a lot of work to do five to six more hours to recover Orion
that's still out in the water so I'll let you get back to it but you had
beautiful words to say again. We hope that this inspires people. We hope that you come
and join us at NASA and accomplish great things for us in the future. Back to you, Rob.
Thank you, Megan, and safe sailing out there in the Pacific. Here in Mission Control, it
is now all quiet. The team of flight controllers and all their support personnel have left
the room to enjoy the aftermath of a textbook touchdown by integrity that
splashed down in the Pacific right on target to complete this historic flyby
of the moon the Artemis-2 mission. With that we'll wrap up our coverage for the
night and point you to a post-splashdown news conference in 15 minutes at 935
10.35pm Central Time, 10.35pm Eastern Time where managers will discuss the return of the integrity spacecraft and the completion of the Artemis II mission.
With that, we'll wrap up our coverage for this evening and historic mission in the history books.
This is Mission Control Houston.
Main chute deploy.
Oh, they're not gonna put the caps on?
And we have three good main chutes.
That's lame.
Use Pagrity Splashdown, sending post landing command now.
Splashdown confirmed.
Copy Splashdown, waiting on VLDR.
Splashdown confirmed at 7 0 7 p.m. Central time 5 0 7 p.m. Pacific time
Hey, Aron, thank you for your service man. Hell yeah, that's cool, man
So
Well, I was hoping we would see the mirth of pick up the capsule, but I guess not
There's a presser in 15 minutes. Oh, oh, we're watching that. Oh, we're watching that hell. Yeah, we're watching that
Nice excellent
Oh man
We got to watch press conference dude. You're my new favorite streamer man. Oh, thanks guys
I'm glad you guys like this. I do space news is throughout the week on twitch here where we talk about what's going on in the space program
So if you want updates for the Artemis 3 stack and how they're gonna put it together
I will give you the updates as soon as I learn something
And I don't just do that we cover SpaceX I cover Starship launches every launch usually
I mean there's a Starlink going off during the press conference
So I kind of want to watch the press conference over the Starlink, but yeah dudes
that's what I'm talking about. What is that? Did we get Master Snake? That's an 1,100 viewer
raid. I was wondering what was going on. Oh man. Hey, did you guys enjoy the coverage?
Hopefully Snake could translate most of it guys. He was so I had I
Had a master snake and he he was re-streaming me and translating it into French
Which is pretty cool
Cupboards was insane. Thanks for that. Absolutely
Thank you
Thanks once again for stellar commentary and all your hard work and dedication to bring this mission to people all around the world my pleasure
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
What the hell man
Merci beaucoup
Oh, my goodness.
All right, RJ, are you going to head to bed?
Pat, good night.
What's up?
What?
Artemis-2 has landed.
They splashed down into the only reliable laboratory on this mission, the Ocean Capper.
Congratulations, EJ, and congratulations to the team.
You both worked hard over the last 10 days.
Chaos.
Discovery, going throttle up.
Holy shit.
What the hell, man?
You got to be kidding me.
What is this?
What is this?
What are you doing?
Stop.
We're good.
It's good!
I...
All right, fine, whatever, go off, dude, I don't know!
Oh, oh, oh, Mrs. Space, I'm in space!
Man!
You two, Jack, but which side is going bananas?
We just got raided by another streamer that was re-streaming me and translating it into French.
But, yes.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Oh, um, Mr. Space.
Mr. Space.
And Mr. Space.
Excellent.
Se-magnifique.
Pup, pup, pup.
That's awesome, dude.
What's next after this?
Well, we got to watch Post Flight Press Conference, dude.
Oh, oh, oh.
Mr. Space, I'm in space.
Your French is good.
That's about as much French as I can speak dude.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Holy snikes.
Oh my goodness.
What is happening?
I gotta sleep.
Screw sleep man.
We just went to the moon.
We just went to the moon and we came back baby.
Whoa!
That's what I'm talking about.
Oh I love this shit.
This is great.
I'm in space.
I'm in space.
Dude I wanna do this tomorrow.
Let's go.
Let's watch again.
Let's do it.
This is great!
Discovery, go ahead and drop it.
Do you know in how many years the next mission is?
Uh, 2027 for Artemis III.
Am I going? No.
No, no, no.
He's going ahead of the landing.
A small thank you from all of us who grew up watching you and because of you now work in the spaceflight industry.
Ad Astra.
Oh, oh, oh, this is me. I'm in space.
Drew, I don't know. We might need to do another one. I didn't think the squad would go this long
We'll play it by ear throughout the presser
Tell us thanks for the 10 pounds dude. It's going off in both chats. I can't keep up with this man. Thank you so much everybody
I am dude. I am so happy. I like
I am relieved. We're good. The mission's good. They just got to fish the capsule out. We are good, dude
This is freaking sick
Oh my goodness isn't space freaking cool
doesn't it this is awesome this is so good it's so good oh just oh I'm getting
like emotional about it man it's badass I could do this every day oh god this
rules dude oh it's so good I can't get enough of it
man. Oh, oh, oh, this is crazy. Yeah, good, good stuff, man. Good stuff.
People in my life that think this is boring. Whatever, dude.
Remote. I know it doesn't make sense for me to do this, but I just want all of
chat to hear how proud of you I am. It's been wonderful over the past week to
watch you share your enthusiasm I love you to the moon and back baby oh oh this
is space I'm in space likewise sweetheart
I love you the moon and back you're my whole world baby
From a former US Navy corpsman and CM of KSP-1, thank you for the last 13 years of science,
education, and hope.
Astro perus bearer my friend never stop you absolute rock star oh and stop we're
not stopping at the moon no stopping at the moon write this down
M-A-R-S Mars bitches red rocks you you
Yeah.
The moon. Yes. I said it. The
moon. Program. Thank you for
the twenty. I'm in space. I'm
in space. Thanks for the two
dollars super chat man. I
appreciate all you guys. Red
Flintstone gifted up five.
Let's go. Let's freaking go. I
Saturday. What's a Saturday? Don't care. Let's send people there. Let's do it. Jupiter to let's go.
Let's freaking go, baby. Let's go. Let's go to Uranus.
I don't know what's there. I don't give a frick. Let's send people there.
I don't give a frick.
No. Sorry. It's getting a little rowdy.
Give it some people to your mom and she's more gravitational pull than anything. It'll be great. It'd be great for science
We can yeah, we can send people to Pruto to prove that's it that it's a planet
Thank You Bremo for letting us have your man for the ten days. You're amazing
Box Mac, dude, you already get the video, you do that again, holy shit!
Check it has been an incredible journey, thousands of you have been with us since launch and you guys have been amazing.
On behalf of the entire mod team, thank you for being here and being awesome.
Shout out to the mods.
You, EJ, are follow.
No.
We will be there for the next 107.
Oh, oh, oh, this is space. I'm in space.
You guys did great. You guys did great. Thanks for keeping this keeping this piss boat on and even kill. I was geeking about about rockets
I appreciate it a lot
Freaking common mods W press conference is starting
Thank you for bringing this to my family 50 years from now to remember this and thank you. This means so much. It's generational win. That's what it's about bro. It's like what I'm it was saying. And what Jared says we want kids dressing up as astronauts for Halloween. I want I want to see kids in orange jumpsuits rolling around in Halloween dressed as you know little girls dressed like Christina cook and little boys dressed like Reid Victor and Jeremy.
And Jeremy, that's what we need.
This has been a fantastic week.
Thanks to you.
You are much appreciated.
Are you still going to have that space beer?
I don't know if I should drink that, dude.
Maybe we should save that for walking on the moon.
Just save that for walking on the moon.
What about some victory push-ups?
the press conference has started.
Snarfer with a hundred bucks, holy sh!
Come on, dudes, oh my God.
I'm good, like I'm good, like you've covered my,
you've covered my freaking mortgage
for like the next three months.
Geez, man.
We're good, dude, holy crap.
I love this. I love space. I love the stream. I love every one of you guys. This is awesome.
This is so good. It's so cool. This feels...
Welcome to Anglality Base here. The Eagle has landed.
Might you have the energy to stay live long enough to play Kennedy's Rice University speech after the presser?
Amazing coverage.
Oh, oh, this is space. I'm in space.
I'll see what I can do.
No, not you, King, but yeah.
Colin, thanks for the $2 Super Chat.
All right, guys, we got the press conference.
We got the post-life press conference, baby.
Let's do this.
You know what?
Yeah, actually, you know what?
Let's just roll.
AJ, I know the others have said it.
Your perspective streams such an awesome experience.
x-roy
x-man thanks everybody
be awesome to hear that speech
will play it at the end of the play after the presser
will do it after the press conference
yeah well do not all update the back with some s ls footage don't you worry
the big orange deserves it
I love you for doing this.
It helps us learn.
My pleasure, dude.
I'm just doing what I love, and I'm so blessed, dude.
Being the position that I am, dude.
Bye.
Thank you.
You can be damn sure when NASA's teed up another mission,
i will be here
and i will do the whole thing
absolutely
i see it yo shi i see the youtube time over there uh... yeah you know what
dude well this pressure well this press is loading up we should probably jog the
youtube but so youtube guys you're gonna stand but you see a quick loss of
signal here
i'm gonna bring you guys up on the title screen i go everywhere that press
conference starts real soon
uh... but yeah i'm just going to talk to you too but to stand by for loss signal
for about
fifteen thirty seconds okay
of at the second i the second i hit the not live button on youtube the
fricking the
brick and think
alright we gotta go we gotta go before the b-roll stops right
All right. All right. Hold on. Hold on. Let me rename it
Thanks for the great coverage in your site during the 10-day mission much love love you too man. Hell yeah
All right, stand by for reacquisition a signal in YouTube in five four
Okay, YouTube, we are back.
All right, the pressers, the Artemis II post flight press conference starting up now.
Welcome to part 24.
Let's do this.
Oh, yes.
Oh, yes.
and we have three good main shoots one of the shoots didn't reef right away and I was I was getting I was like no
splashdown sending post landing command now splashdown confirmed splashdown waiting on VLDR
splashdown confirmed at 7 0 7 p.m. central time 5 0 7 p.m. Pacific time what a freaking triumph this
This was, oh, dang, that picture freaking goes so hard, dude.
All right, so we got Amit, Laurie, Rick, Howard,
and I don't know who the guy is on the other side.
In the Pacific Ocean at 7.07 p.m. central time this evening,
after NASA's record-setting mission that took them
around the moon and brought them home.
Good evening and welcome to NASA's
conference space tour in Houston.
I'm Rachel Kraft with NASA Communication,
several leaders to talk about a successful mission.
They are Amit Chathria, Associate Administrator, Dr. Lori Glaze, Head of the Artemis Programs,
Rick Henfling, Entry Flight Director, Howard Hugh, Orion Program Manager, and Sean Quinn,
Exploration Ground Systems Program Manager.
We'll hear briefly from them and then take questions from here in the room and on
the phone.
And with that, we'll start with Amit.
Good evening.
Yesterday when we're in this room we told you that the crew would put their lives behind our confidence and they did
Yesterday in this room. We told you that
Today belongs to the engineers and technicians who touched this machine and it does and their work was good
Welders at Michouds gave the heat shield and joined the rocket technicians at Kennedy pack parachutes stack the vehicle
Stuck to Ryan, Stuck to SLS, engineers in Bramon, Torino, and across the Alliance
Build to Service module. Workers at Utah cast the boosters, teams that
stratified the engines. Flight controllers in this building in Houston sat
console for 10 days straight. It sat silenced in an eight for six minutes
while plasma took the signal. Navy divers pulled the crew out of the
Pacific in an incredible way. The vehicle spoke for all of them and
at 25,000 feet per second it said the work was good. As we say in our
business physics boats last. The families of the crews said this week there
have been happiness and joy but also anxiety wanting to get their curve
their their loved ones home safely. I was with them tonight. Four families sat for
those six minutes and their courage is the same as the crew that just came home.
You gave them right on it. Yesterday, Fleckart, Jeff Radigan said we had less
than a degree of an angle to hit after a quarter of a million miles from the
moon. Their team hit it. That is not luck. That is 10 that is a thousand
people doing their jobs.
Skills.
You all heard the crews watching the mission.
They were incredibly inspirational.
They carried the torch from Apollo through station
and around the far side of the moon.
Their words belong to them.
We'll get to hear from them as soon as they're back here.
But tonight belongs to the team that built the machine
that they wrote.
Damn right.
We talk a lot about what gets in our way.
The impediment to action is where
we find the way to get to action.
What stands in the way becomes the way.
This program faced every obstacle an institution could face.
The team met each one with work, and tonight is the proof.
But that work needs to continue.
The path to the lunar surface is open,
but the work ahead is greater than the work behind us.
It always will be.
53 years ago, he managed to left the moon.
This time, we returned to stay.
Let us finish what they started.
Let us focus on what was left undone.
Let us not go to plant flags and leave, but to stay.
With firmness in our purpose,
gratitude for the hands of built-in machines and with love for the ones that we carry with us.
Welcome home integrity. I'll hand it over to Dr. Glace.
God, I'm it's the freaking man. Thank you so much. Love that guy.
So y'all, we did it. We sent four amazing people to the moon and safely returned them
to earth for the first time in more than 50 years. Hell yeah. The generation now knows
what we're capable of. Welcome to our moonshot. I want to thank our entire team across this
nation and around the world who gave every ounce of ingenuity and effort to make it.
I am so proud of each and every one of you, what you have achieved over the last 10
days. NASA has shown that ambitious goals are worth pursuing and can inspire the world.
We are so thrilled to have read Victor, Christina, and Jeremy back here on Earth and safely aboard
the USS John P. Murtha.
Our team is fired up and this mission, as we've been talking about, is just the beginning.
To all of our new followers out there, please stay tuned.
This is the first mission, our first mission to the moon, of many more to come.
And we can't wait.
Our teams are so ready to get to work on the next mission, explore the space and bring
the world along with us.
I'll pass it over to Rick.
Thank you all for your continued interest in this mission.
What a truly spectacular day it was for NASA and all of our international partners.
Rick, you freaking kill me.
said time and again that they were going for all of humanity and today we
fulfilled that objective by completing their journey and returning them safely
to earth. I've got a few stats for those who are interested. I'm interested.
Flight Dynamics Officer and Mission Control. Yeah baby. Integrity in her crew
four astronauts flew 700,237 miles. We reached a peak velocity of 24,664
miles per hour. We hit our flight path angle target within 0.4 percent. We flew an entry
range of 1,957 miles and we landed within less than a mile of our target. What a tremendous
day.
Oh, that's freaking fantastic, dude.
Freaking wreck, dude.
Wow, what a fantastic day.
What a beast!
I mean, how green is a team of reaching this day and I appreciate Amit's comments.
So many people have worked very hard tirelessly to get this day.
I think this mission has been historic and has demonstrated new capabilities for Orion
spacecraft has taken our crew farther than any crews that have ever gone to the moon
impact safely.
I love Orion.
2,756 miles and that is a fantastic feat. We got a lot more to do and I'm so happy
that we get to have this moment but we're going to have a lot of these
moments coming up and I want to thank the entire Orion team. They have worked
tirelessly, they've dedicated many hours, they've committed to excellence and
innovative and attack challenges that we've come up with for both our NASA
team, our industry partners, and our European team as well. We did it together.
We brought the crew home safely. They did a reserve around applause. It was a
terrific day for them as well. And I want to thank the crew. They have been a
fantastic inspiration to our teams as well. You've heard their messages. We
are so happy they're back on the ground. We can't wait to see them. And
finally, you know, we've learned a lot from this mission. Number one was
bringing the crews home safely, but it's also a test flight. And like Ahmed said, we have a work
ahead of us to be done. We're going to learn from this mission. We're going to look at the data
and then move forward. This is the start of a new era of human space exploration. Thank you.
Frickin' go, dude. Let's frickin' go! Well, thank you, Howard. What an incredible
end to an incredible mission. I gotta tell you, I think I'm trying to pick out the best
It didn't happen today and I'll just say that we were sitting in the back room getting ready for this press conference and
Howard gets a call from Reed Weissman the commander of
It was so great to hear his voice and tell us that all the crew is okay
And we could say that we did our mission we accomplished what we set out to do
I'm very proud of the
Efforts of the exploration ground systems team that supported both the launch and recovery operations
alongside our Navy partners. All the hard work and dedication over the last couple years
paid off today and the team did a great job. Our recovery teams are currently in the process
of bringing Orion back on the well deck of the ship and hopefully within about four or
five hours it will be hard down in the back end of the USS Mertha. It's good to be
NASA. It's good to be an American today. Thank you.
right. Alright it's time now for questions. We'll start here in the room and take
several from the phone. For those on the phone you can press star 1 to get into
the question queue and please limit to one question if you can. We'll start here
with Joey. Thanks so much Joey, we'll have a floor there and congrats on a
really nice mission. I'm curious to hear more about how the astronauts are
doing, where are they going to sleep tonight?
And then also, when do you guys expect
to announce the crew for Artemis III?
Thanks.
All right.
That's a fair question.
So the question, Joey, is soon?
I will not put units on that.
Not a value, but soon.
Rick, you want to talk about the crew?
Yeah, we saw the crew a number of times
after they got out of the spacecraft.
We saw them on the front porch.
Everybody was happy and healthy.
I saw Victor as he was sitting on the edge of the helicopter
on the flight deck of the ship,
and he was smiling and in good spirits,
and everything we've been hearing from the surgeons
is the flight crew is happy and healthy
and ready to come on to Houston.
Hi, Lauren Gresh of Bloomberg, congratulations again.
They go so hard.
Obviously, it's been such a great mission to watch
from start to finish,
but I guess I'm wondering if you had to categorize.
this was a test flight. What would you say is the issue that you feel maybe the most grateful
arose during this session so that you could apply that lesson learned to the next?
Howard, why don't you take that one? Yeah, I think we're taking a lot of lessons learned. Certainly
learning about how the crew operates a spaceship has been a really great learning experience
and flying and ability for them to test drive the bar spacecraft has been good. I think
I think as we mentioned previously our pressure control assembly where we discovered a leakage
through the system.
I think we learned a lot about that, that is a new finding.
Certainly we're going to go investigate that, we're going to look at that and move forward
and make sure that we make some changes if necessary, but we'll get all the data
and we'll go forward from there.
That's the snot out of that thing, Howard.
Let's go.
Marsha.
The administrator described the crew as great communicators, almost poets.
How is, you know, this is going to be a tough act to follow for the upcoming crews soon to
be picked.
Talk about this crew in particular and what they brought to this that went beyond the
scientific and the research and the engineering, please.
I'll just say that this particular crew, you know, they've gotten to know each other so
well.
So each of them individually are just absolutely amazing individuals, but they, as a group,
you could watch them and what they brought as you watched them in Orion over the last
10 days operating just seamlessly between the four of them.
Just the teamwork, the camaraderie, just, I think they really brought an amazing sense
of what we're trying to achieve with this mission.
It's a mission for all humanity, a mission for all,
and they really did represent that
and tried to communicate that.
I do know that our entire astronaut core is spectacular,
and so I have no doubt that the next teams
will also rise to that level.
Jackie.
Hi all, Jackie Waddle, CNN, congratulations.
Question for Rick, I'm really anxious to hear
what that blackout during re-entry was like for you.
And also just wanted to ask, you know,
that splash on target being less than a mile off is incredible.
Can you walk us through if anything, you know,
was outside of ordinary?
I know we heard on comms there were some sensor issues
just before entry interface.
Just curious to hear more about that.
Thanks.
Sure. So, you know, blackout,
there's really no beating around the bush with that.
You know, it's a difficult time
because the flight control team wants to see data.
We want to look at the data.
We want to be able to provide input to the flight crew
and how to fly their spaceship.
And when we don't have data,
we're trying to figure out what to do with ourselves.
But we knew when blackout was going to start,
it started when we expected.
We knew when it was going to end.
It ended when we expected.
And so that gave us the trust
that the spaceship was flying itself correctly.
As far as some of the cautions
and things that came up on the way down,
the prop cautions, they were,
We think that again, that was learning of the spacecraft.
Some of the limits are set a little bit tighter
than we probably should have had them set.
And we disposition those and moved on.
As far as the comms post-landing,
we don't quite know what was going on there,
but we worked around it.
We had comms with the recovery team
and we safely handed over the mission authority
at the right time.
Okay, Josh.
Hi, joshdinnerspace.com.
Really excited to hear that the crew is doing well.
I'm interested, you know, we saw Victor sitting on the edge of the helicopter once they landed
on the ship and it was great to see them all, you know, walk across the deck.
They were set to do an emergency egress test with a ladder, a backpack, you know.
I'm wondering if they've performed that yet, how soon they will be performing it
if they have, how it went.
I'm not familiar with the emergency egress test post-landing.
that this was a test mission the number one goal was to get the flight crew out of the spaceship
as fast as we could and we weren't looking at any post landing objectives. Yeah we did do I think
back when we were back on the launch pad we did during the CDDT we did an emergency egress but
yeah but that's the only one I'm aware of. Yeah but we'll check on it for you. Eric.
Eric Berger, ARS Technica, congratulations on making what I know is really hard, look easy.
who's a beautiful mission.
It's not in the super chat.
You said the work ahead is greater than the work behind us.
Can you talk about as sort of NASA
rises to these far greater challenges in Artemis 3,
Artemis 4, and building the moon base,
how important it is for you and the agency
to be flying humans in the deep space again,
and sort of to be at an operational cadence.
This has to be pretty uplifting the workforce
to put the 50 years of not being back to the moon
behind us. Yeah it's huge. I mean flight cadence and iteration is the key to
reliability and safety. You know we were waiting to fly this mission for
for several years. A lot of that was because of you know the issues we saw
during our flight. To make sure we did that the right way and we tried to make sure the
machine was perfect before we flew it. But the real way to do that is to keep
iterating. Keep flying. Keep learning. Keep getting data in the flight
environment. So that piece of how we've changed the architecture and
demanding that a higher cadence is going to be, I would say, mandatory for us to be
successful. We need that muscle memory to exist. We need the the data to keep
coming in and we need to be able to quickly iterate and change the machine
as we learn from it. Everything we learn from Artemis II we're gonna get right
after it, but I would say it's essential. Okay, Irene. Well I love that guy. That
guy's awesome. I got a main question. I don't care. I don't care. Aviation Week and Space Technology for Amit. What do you think will be your
biggest challenge to ensure that this mental and responsibility of inheriting
what Apollo did does not end like Apollo. I think the one of that we talked
about this a little bit before you know what the architects of Apollo they
Bill Ries von Braun, Siemens Mühle, they what they really wanted to do when
they were given the challenge of expanding the range of action to the
Moon was to learn to live and work in space for a long time.
They wanted to do that first.
I talked a little bit about this with Rob earlier.
I think, and of course, because of the nature of the environment
they were in, they were in a race.
They achieved their objectives, their geopolitical
as well as technological.
But once it was done, it was done.
And I think the foundation they wanted to build on
is what we went to afterwards.
So we wanted to investigate reusability with shuttle.
We did that.
We wanted to learn to live in space for a long time with station.
We've got to that point now, 25 years of occupation.
Now it's interesting.
I think where we are with the program is kind of where
they wanted us to be before they decided to go do that,
to actually enable a sustainable presence to learn how to live
and work there for a long time.
So it's a weird irony of history that it took that long for us to do that.
But we weren't sitting idle while that happened.
We developed the capability to have an enduring presence in space.
And now we're going to take advantage of that.
that we'd reach back to the moon.
Okay, we'll take one more in the room from Ken Chang,
and then we'll go take several from the phone.
Hi, it's Ken Chang from your time.
It's for Rick and everybody else.
Can you talk about what the last 13 minutes were like?
It had to be some anxiety.
And what was the moment where you could finally relax?
And when did you start celebrating in mission control?
Well, certainly there's anxiety.
If you didn't have anxiety bringing this spacecraft home,
you probably didn't have a pulse.
You know, we were, I have a lot of trust in my team.
You're correct, dude.
All flight controllers in the room on entry day
went through a rigorous training process
and they are the system experts
on their respective part of the spacecraft.
And so while there's anxiety, there's a lot of confidence
because the team is there to do a job
and we've trained well and we executed well.
We all breathed a sigh of relief
once the side hatch opened up.
That's when we brought the team in.
We said a few words to the flight controllers.
And then we turned around to the families
and waved to the families and gave them a thumbs up.
And we all watched as a flight control team,
as each of the four astronauts got out of the spaceship.
And we're hoisted up onto the helicopters.
It was a great day.
Oh yeah, Rick.
Rick and Rick, too.
We'll take several questions from the phone now.
The first one is from Micah Maidenberg
with the Wall Street Journal.
Hey, good evening.
Question for Laurea or Howard.
I know it's very, very early here, but any initial thinking about the heat shield performance
relative to Artemis 1, and could you walk through how the heat shield will be assessed
in the coming weeks and months?
Thanks so much.
So I'll just start, and then I'll hand it over to Howard, how's that?
So, you know, initially we gathered a lot of data already.
And you saw there were aircraft that were positioned in order to do some imagery and collect data.
So we've got some of those data that can be analyzed in the coming days and weeks.
We also had divers below the surface that took imaging of the heat shield before it
was brought onto the Murtha, so that we could understand exactly what state it's in after
it landed.
And so we've already, I think we've already begun the data gathering piece of it.
I'm sure there'll be more assessments once we get on the ship.
then Howard why don't you talk kind of what the next steps are?
Yeah, we already have two of our heat shield experts on board, the ship.
And so when we get the crew module into the well deck and
we'll do some inspections right off the bat.
Like Lori said, we've got underwater divers that are taking pictures.
And then after that, once we've inspected that on the ship,
we'll transfer back to Kennedy Space Center.
We'll have opportunity to look in detail and do scans of the heat shield.
we have a lot of good data from that. We also captured a lot of great imagery.
Obviously we haven't had time to digest all that data, but we will in the next
several days and make sure we understand if there's anything that
happened that was anomalous. But we're very excited. The team is very excited to
get that data from both the imagery and seeing it live in person.
Next up is Jackie Mogensen with Scientific American.
Hi, thanks for this. I wanted to follow up on
one of the earlier questions about the astronauts. I was curious if it might be possible
to tell us a little bit more if we know about what the astronauts
will be doing in their first days back on Earth, what their first meal
might be or activities with their family. Thanks so much.
Well, the top priority is going to be to get them
get them properly back to their families here in Houston. As far as the specifics I'm sure each of
the crew members has something special planned with their families and that'll be the priority is
for them to take some time and spend with their loved ones. And I'm not sure we answered it but
we do anticipate them arriving back here in Houston 12 to 24 hours after a splashdown so that
would be between 7 in the morning and 7 in the evening tomorrow. Next on the phone is Jeff
with Space News.
Good evening.
I wonder if we can talk through what the processing of the Orion spacecraft is going to be now that it's back.
What point do you sort of extract all of the lessons learned from the mission
and start applying them to Artemis III in order to have that mission ready to go launch in about a year's time?
Thanks.
Good get Prescottentials, Andy, but I don't know.
Maybe we will.
A 30-day report that we will put together.
together. Every team will be doing their due diligence and analyzing all the data we have.
The crew module will get transported back to Kennedy Space Center. Sean's team, Exploration
Ground Systems, is going to decontaminate the vehicle in terms of the propulsion system
has hydrazine, and so we'll be working through that. In the meantime, we'll be pulling
hardware off the boat in parallel with other activities, and when we get back to Kennedy
Space Center, we've got about 286 components we're going to reuse in future missions
already and then we're going to decide going to look at other components and
determine if we can reuse those as well. A lot of work not only on the hardware
flow but also all the analysis of the data we're going to need going forward to
learn from this mission and carry forward for Artemis III and beyond. Okay we'll
take one more from the phone and then come back here into the room. The next
question is from Richard Trubo with Orlando Sentinel. Hi thanks again for
taking the time. This is another question for Howard. For Argonis III, the docking system
that you have to do with Blue Origin and or SpaceX is that... What point would that system
be sort of in place on on the new capsule and and I get for on it how how our
get-to-contact is progressing towards having something that can actually go up
there on your timeline. Thanks. Okay I'll start with our docking system. Our docking
system is ready to go. It's already been qualified. We've already got the
flight unit at Kenny Space Center. Later the summer will integrate it on top of
the crew module and we've done a lot of testing already.
So the final part is actually the mechanical mating
of the docking hatch and the docking,
or I'm sorry, the docking mechanism itself.
And so we have a standard way of doing dockings in space
that we expect Blue Origin and SpaceX to work with us on
and accomplish that mission.
Yeah, and as far as the other part,
I think we've got, we're in a massive test campaign.
We've got a huge test coming up of the Blue Origin Mark I lander,
which will be the smaller version of the lander they want to use to attempt the landing missions.
There's going to be a test flight of that this year.
We also have the test of the Block III snoreshift and Super Heavy,
which is coming up hopefully in a few weeks here.
It's freaking gone, dude. We're going to be here for that.
Every day in this program,
we're going to be testing big machines and we're just going to keep getting side-by-side with them to help them make progress.
Winning.
Okay, Jackie, and then we'll come back to the other side of the room.
Thank you, Jackie Goddard for The Times of London.
My question is for Howard. As a little boy, you were inspired by Star Wars.
I wondered if today is better for you than Star Wars.
And for future space travelers looking back at today, what should they see as being the significance?
Don't try it. I have the high ground.
I've watched my old interviews or something, but I would say a thousand.
I don't know what the number is.
Thousands of times better.
You know, I would say that I shared a moment with my father.
He took me to see Star Wars.
He's not alive today.
I wish he was, because that little kid who saw
and was inspired by the stars,
and now we're able to send our crew out to the stars
the farthest any humans have been.
I mean, I can't even express just how I feel
and the goosebumps I have.
And I would say that for all the kids out there,
I mean, just pursue the dreams.
I can't say any better than the crews.
You know, I tell my kids also,
pursue what you're passionate about.
And my passion is the space program.
My passion is NASA.
And I was able to accomplish that today
and hopefully many more days going forward
that you have an opportunity to do
what you are passionate about.
And hopefully those kids who are in love
with human spaceflight, in love with going to the stars
will be inspired by us, especially by our crews,
and come join us, come work for us.
We got a lot of missions ahead.
Hell yeah, hell yeah!
Let's fucking go!
Thank you, Ariel Muntzatzos from Televisa Univision.
Thank you for the day, Joe.
The Univision until today, for which the communications
blackout lasted six minutes, was Apollo 13,
if I am not mistaken.
Today's lasted six minutes, around six minutes.
Does that say anything about the design of the ship,
or what is the reason behind that?
And also very quickly, can we see Hispanic
in one of the next missions of Artemis?
Thank you very much.
As far as the duration of the blackout,
a lot of that, that's just dictated
by the physics of the approach trajectory.
You know, the Orion spacecraft, when you get enveloped by, you know, plasma that's thousands
of degrees, the radio frequency of the antennas just can't shoot through that.
You know, in the space shuttle we were lucky we had the tail, and we had an antenna up
on the tail, and it took us a while to figure that out.
That's the way to keep calm.
For Orion, it was six minutes, but it was predicted.
It played out exactly as we predicted, so that just gave us confidence
that it was flying the way it was supposed to.
Will.
I think you will Robinson Smith with spaceflight now and congratulations again tonight.
And answer the second question for Rick the the whole flight operations team has been exceedingly
busy throughout the course of this mission in preparation for this mission.
I imagine there will be a little bit of breathing room now that the crew is back
safely on earth but when do you kind of get the band back together to start prepping
for Artemis III and will it be the same complement of flight directors that we saw for Artemis
to. Thank you. Well you're right that the next mission is right around the corner
and you know we'll take the lessons learned from Artemis II. We learned a
bunch on how to fly people in space both from a vehicle operations but also from
how to run a control room with a deep space mission and when when the
time is right we'll get back into flight specific training and you know
we we've got a core group of about 30 flight directors and they're all
extremely capable and you know I think anybody who's assigned to that
next mission is going to be as successful as the three of us, myself, Judd and Jeff.
No, Rick, you've got to come back, dude.
No, we need G's like you.
I'm talking about the Sky News.
Congratulations on a very successful mission.
Amit, you spoke yesterday of there only being irrational fears.
I wonder if you succumbed to any, and if so, what they were.
But more of such a successful test flight, how much of a boost is this to NASA's confidence
in its wider mission to stay on the moon?
For the campaign, this is a huge step for us to build confidence, not just in our understanding
of how this machine performs, but just that this organization can rise to the standard
of qualifying a vehicle like this for crewed flight.
I think that's huge.
It took a lot of discipline and a lot of changes
between Artemis I and now to get there
and the team really rose to the equation.
These folks here, they did a tremendous job
of instilling the amount of discipline and rigor
and belief in the qualification standards
to make sure this is gonna work.
And so to me, that was almost the biggest objective
of this mission was to prove to ourselves
that we could move to crude flight
but maintain the same level of risk knowledge
and understanding, but also really, really focus on what
that looks like to your point, that it is when you fly the crew,
when you fly any crew, you can be paralyzed.
You can almost be paralyzed by risk,
because you become so close to them.
You understand what's at stake.
When you're with the families, you understand what's at stake.
But the crew knows this, and we have to do it, too,
but organizationally understand that what we do
is we take calculated risks.
and that it's gonna take risk to explore.
But you have to make sure you find the right line
between being paralyzed by it
and being able to manage it
and bound it the right way.
Based and risk mitigation pillar.
And then after that we'll come to Michael
and then take several on the phone.
Andrea Leinfelder of the Houston Chronicle.
This question is for Rick.
I enjoyed seeing the flight controllers storm
into a white flight control room
and I was just wondering were those the controllers
from the back room,
There are people who are up duty who just couldn't be away.
And why was it important to open the room to them
and to let more of the Houston workforce
celebrate that moment, thanks.
That was anybody, I made a call out to anybody
who had worked the mission no matter what shift
or what room you were sitting in to come into the room
and just soak in the moment
with the rest of the operations team.
They all deserved it.
They worked tremendously hard,
both pre-flight and during the mission.
and it was a time for us to celebrate together
before celebrating outside of that room.
Now like a party, Rick threw a dagger in there.
That's what I'm talking about, baby.
Hi, Michael Atkinson, Houston Public Media.
Congratulations again.
My question is also for Rick.
I think that we've asked the crew several times
if they've felt the weight of this moment.
And I'm curious if you felt,
or if your other flight directors felt the weight of this,
that as you were going through this,
you're like, this is what Gene Kranz felt,
this is what Chris Kraft felt.
Did you ever feel that moment?
Good question.
There were a couple of times where you're just,
you kind of, you have a lull in that shift
and you can kind of sit back in your seat
and just look out the window.
I do that at ISS a lot when I work down the hall,
working in Ficker One.
You just enjoy the view.
As I worked early in the mission on the planning shift,
The moon was getting bigger and bigger, and it was fun to just sit and watch the moon
get bigger.
And then as we worked on the entry minus one day shift yesterday and then on the entry
shift, it was fun to watch the Earth get bigger.
And it was fascinating to watch orbital mechanics take over.
And in the last day when I took the console, I think we were earlier this morning, I think
we were over 50,000 miles away from Earth, and we made up that last 50,000 miles
in the last 8 hours and it's a fun job to do.
Let's go Rick!
We have Anthony Leone with Spectrum News.
It's a fun job.
Thank you so much for taking our questions.
This is certainly a historic moment.
NASA has kicked off the return of humans visiting the Moon.
How does it feel to write this big chapter in our history book?
I have to tell you, my background is in planetary science, and I was an active planetary scientist
for a couple of decades, and I had this incredible honor to come over and work with the human
space flight side of NASA and the team that have put this together, but as someone
who has been interested in what we can do in exploring the moon and going beyond low
earth orbit.
I think the weight of this mission and just how incredibly impactful it is that we have
actually achieved this.
During our lifetimes here, we have done this.
When I was, Apollo was when I was a child and to be here now and say, we actually
did this.
back and we're going to go build a moon base. We are going to have an enduring presence on
the moon, just incredibly powerful.
The next question is from Manuel Massanti with Exploracion Espacial.
Thank you so much. Congratulations to everyone. Manuel Massanti with Exploracion Espacial.
You know, NASA showed one more time that space is a unifying force around the world
with a crew that's connected so well with people in – that doesn't matter which country.
How important was – for anyone in the panel, how important was this mission for the agency
and for the future of the audience program?
This is big.
This is a big one.
Real.
The most important human space flight mission I think we've done in many decades in terms
of what it meant historically, but also what it means for the future of the agency.
we talked before about for many folks,
this is the end of a long journey
working on these machines.
And for a lot of our workhorse, it's just the beginning.
But it is definitely an inflection point for all of us.
So it's hard to understate just how incredibly valuable it
is to the entire team.
Let's go here to Zach.
Yes, thank you.
Congratulations.
Zachary Albert with the Launchpad from Canada.
Ahmed, if you could send a message to NASA in 50 years.
We've taken a lot looking back at the last 50.
What would you say to the administration and the NASA
then when hopefully we've become a multi-planetary species?
And for each of you, is there a word or a quick phrase
on how you hope the history books classify this mission
that started us going back?
You know, it's a couple weeks ago,
as with the administrator, we were doing a different event
and we were talking about how we were really gonna make choices
and change our focus towards the moon,
towards building a moon base,
towards doing incredible things again.
And right before he and I walked up on stage,
he turned to me and he said,
you know, at some point,
we're people gonna look back at what we were doing
and we're gonna be like those guys
that were hogging out logs to cross lakes
just to see if we could do it.
And then in the future,
people are gonna look back at us and go,
wasn't that quaint and isn't that interesting how they did that, but I mean that's kind
of where I think this is going to land and the great team of things, you know, we of
course Apollo achieved amazing things, we've done amazing things since then, but this I
think is going to be an important step and hopefully history is kind to us as a result.
Okay, Stephen, did you have one?
Thank you all so much and congratulations again.
My question is about the two backups.
They've trained for this mission themselves all the way.
I'm not trying to ask if they're going to be on trying to get you to tell me if there
are RMS3 or not, but can you tell me a little bit more about their fate?
during Apollo and seeing that the backup crew of one mission was slated to be the prime
crew of a later mission.
So both Jenny and Andre were part of this crew in every way.
They trained with them.
They were in the white room when they were closing it out.
They were with them.
The families were together.
Jenny was with us in the end of the room today.
So they're part of this crew and I'll leave it at that.
Yes.
Go ahead.
Thank you, Dr. Allison McGrath from Mysterious Meteorites.
Given the crew's successful demonstration
of the 4K video stream with the laser combs,
will there be another test of this?
And what does this mean for TRL readiness level
for, say, a planetary spacecraft mission?
Thank you.
That's a good question.
I think we've had an incredible
demonstration of the optical communications
and the 4K video streaming.
That was just fantastic.
I think we've really shown that this is an amazing
capability that we'd certainly like to implement in the future so we'll have to
see how that works and see what we can see how we can make that happen. Just to
point out that we have actually closed an optical link for much further away. Yes we have from Mars. So we're working on that.
Mars distance. Okay we'll come around here just need to wait for the mic to
make its way over. Hey Rohos thank you for the $5 super chat. I appreciate you.
I thank you again for doing this and again, congrats on just such an amazing mission.
Beverly can see us for a space scout here.
And I just had a quick question.
We've seen some really incredible imagery throughout the course of this mission.
It's been great, you know, to get that downlinked quickly with the laser bombs.
And I'm curious how much of that imagery that was taking during the mission on board has been downlinked
and how much of that still remains on the spacecraft to be recovered later. Thank you.
I don't happen to know the official stats, but we can certainly follow up with you at a later date.
I do know that Reed had made the comment that even though they sent back quite a bit,
the stuff they have with them is pretty amazing.
So once we get it off the physical media on the vehicle, hopefully we'll be able to get it to you guys soon.
Yeah, we'll get all those SD cards. We'll get them all downloaded.
And of course, all of the imaging that was required on Monday, that was the science imaging.
All of that will be made available through the planetary data system.
Okay, we'll take a few more from the phone. Next is Alejandro Turnbull with Space Scout.
Hi, congratulations everyone on a fantastic mission. Question for Rick. As the spacecraft
was descending under parachute we saw in the infrared camera some flumes emanating from
the vehicle that looks like either venting or thruster firing. Just wondering if you
little to what the spacecraft is doing and what exactly caused those plumes. Thank you.
Yeah, not knowing the video that you're referring to,
I would imagine that's probably the spacecraft
reorienting itself. When we're on our main parachutes, we do a
reorientation to ensure that the most robust structural portion of the spacecraft
contacts the water first. And so I suspect the plumes you were seeing
were the crew module reaction control system thrusters firing.
The next question is from David DeMalt with about Space Today News.
They weren't firing the USES.
Of course, I'd like to say just not congratulations, but I think this is just one of the most spectacular
missions NASA has ever accomplished.
And a lot of people compare this to Apollo 8, and I can tell you there is no comparison
to what has been done with the Orion spacecraft and the technology from our European Space
agency partners. I was there for the beginning of Apollo, and I'm probably the most broadcast
journal of the day. But my question to each of you, what was your wild moment?
Let's start with Mr. Quinn. You're kind of literally over there.
I didn't hear the question. Pick an awesome thing.
Pick an awesome thing.
Well, being a guy from the Kennedy Space Center, the launch was a pretty special day.
all those in the vehicles clear the vehicle and the vehicle clear the tower and have that
rocket rise off the pad was absolutely amazing.
Alright, I knew Victor always says touchdown, getting on to the water.
You know for me the greatest moment was the parachutes, the main shoots deploying.
I think seeing that, I was chanting go, go, go by myself, somebody shot a video of that.
I think I was going crazy, but I just kept saying that as the
drugs came out, but when the mains came out and they started
slowly inflating, I mean, that was just a tremendous moment.
You know, like I said, objective number one is get the crew
home. And I know there's all kinds of things that can happen
after that, but having those mains and getting the vehicle
to 16 miles per hour from 24,600 miles per hour is pretty
amazing. And getting those shoots down is a was a great
moment.
I'm going to vote for the naming of the two craters as my top moment.
Yeah, baby.
I know it's all still fresh.
So for me, I'm probably going to say two things.
When the crew, when Reed reported back, you know, four crew green after splashdown.
That's what we're hoped for, right?
So that was pretty awesome.
And then when they started, we saw Christina come out of the capsule.
Then I was like, okay, we're here.
Okay, we'll take.
I'm going to be a little bit tomorrow when I see my friends again.
Alright, one more from the phone and then back into the room.
Where did this come from?
So the phone question will come from Russell Pounds from Pacific Rim Media.
What a G, dude!
Oh my goodness.
Hi, this is Russell calling from Alaska today.
Congratulations to all of you.
I'll tell you, there were tears of joy in the room here where we were watching.
My question is about logistics.
I'm thinking about all of the moving parts it takes to bring food, power, telecom and so forth on a complicated mission.
What were some of the logistics lessons learned that might be useful to organizations back here on Earth?
Interesting.
Yeah, I think it's started. I mean, it's incredibly challenging to plan for a mission like this.
you know, even though Ryan's a big spacecraft,
making sure we have everything we need,
we think we count through contingencies,
we lose systems, sometimes we worry about that,
we wanna make sure we have everything ready to go.
I will tell you though that, you know,
just haven't thought about this for a while,
the logistics of flying a 10-day mission,
even this far away, pales in comparison to the logistics
of keeping crew on space station constantly going,
so I would say that a lot of our logistics learnings
have been derived from that, you know,
That's not just consumables and water and gas, et cetera,
but it's also thinking about the reliability of the systems
and when they're gonna fail,
it's hard to predict sometimes how to do that,
sparing the machine and making sure
we have everything pre-positioned
in the event that we have failures.
That comes from a lot of learning
with pre-flight and in-flight.
But in space logistics is gonna be a huge challenge
for us going forward as we really contemplate
a wind-based, but hopefully we'll defeat forward
lessons from, obviously, this mission,
but I think through space station together
as we build that moon base.
Okay, we'll take a few more here in the room.
We'll go in the middle there.
Hi, justine and I are Houston business journal.
Echo and congratulations, great mission.
While we were following along,
we had a lot of voices from the space industry,
especially here in Houston kind of chime in
and express their support as well.
And I know that a lot of those companies are working on specific NASA proposals or submissions,
but in general, you know, how would you say you'd like to see the industry kind of respond
to, you know, the kind of achievement that NASA has done here in hopes to continue with Artemis?
I'll take the first stab on that one.
Well, how I'd like to see industry respond is to take this as not just the inspiration,
but the challenge.
heard that we really want to speed up our cadence and be able to to return our
crew back to space within a year into the surface of the moon in two years. In
fact, hopefully land on the moon twice in 2028. In order to do that, we're not
going to be able to do that alone. We need all of industry to work and come
along with us and they need to accept that challenge and come with us and
really start the production lines that are going to be required in order
to achieve that goal. Okay let's hear in the white hat.
Hi JJ Love with Tech Talk Media. I just have some words of recognition for you
all and the entire Artemis team. What you have done this week is remind the
people of Earth that wonder is worth chasing, that curiosity is not a
luxury it is the most human thing we have. You didn't just test a spacecraft, you
tested mankind's potential and carried all of us with you in the process. Every
kid who looked up at the moon this week did it differently because of you. People
who needed something to believe in found it in that splashdown tonight. So thank
you, not just for the data and not just for the mission, but for proving
that the pursuit of what's possible is still alive and well.
We are so grateful.
Thank you for that.
Thank you for that.
I would tell you that, you know, for everybody listening, this is the taxpayers program.
People pay for this, the people invested in this, they invested in all of the things
that we do, and so we're grateful for the support.
Got you back, dude.
Got you back.
I'll take a couple more questions and then we'll go ahead and wrap.
We have one here and then further back.
Hello, congrats.
Emily Martin from Seattle's Best Friends.
Reid Wiseman addressed a shout out to the ESM right after it separated from Orion,
saying that it powered their journey on the moon with perfection.
I was wondering what comments you might have on the performances of the ESM
and on the future of that collaboration with Europe.
You're pretty broke.
Yeah, I would say that the European Service Module
in general performed as expected.
I know we learned a little bit
about the pressurization system and we'll work on that.
But overall, really great part of our spacecraft,
really appreciate our European partnership.
We do have continued partnership with them
for Artemis III, IV, we're building ESN V as well,
and we'll continue to do that as we move forward.
All right, we'll take one final question.
Hi there, Chelsea Torres with Fox.
Again, congratulations on a historic mission.
Again, test flight and one thing that we are
as humans are explorers.
And so I'm curious if you're able to kind of talk
about this during Lunar Flyby,
we saw the excitement not just from the crew,
but also from everyone in Mission Control.
Was there anything that kind of stood out to you,
whether it was Determinator,
the certain pictures and data,
anything at all that you can speak to
that maybe you didn't know before
about the lunar surface,
our planet space itself that you'd like to speak about?
Thank you.
I'm just gonna call out the one thing
that I thought was truly unique about this mission.
I mean, certainly there's a ton of new things
that we've done with having our crew observe
far side of the moon
and being able to observe these features
after the incredible training.
But I'll tell you, the one thing that really stands out to me
is being able to watch our crew observe an eclipse by having
the moon passing between their spacecraft and the sun.
That was a totally unique experience and something
that I was so proud that we could all participate
and travel along with them and experience that moment.
It's one of the gnarliest pictures I've ever seen.
All right.
That's all the time we have today.
Thank you very much to our participants today
to all of you for following along. You can find the latest information about our missions on
nasa.gov and hopefully soon information about the expected arrival time of the crew back in
Houston tomorrow. Thank you. Yeah baby this party don't stop.
Well, here we are.
I mean once that guy's so
Oh, hey Arctic
Watching I've had too much fun and learned so much here. We've seen many firsts Falcon Heavy Starship and
1997 f-250 and now Artemis
Cheers, EJ. Here's to more fun and more milestones.
Hey, you forgot about the cars and coffee, dude.
What about the cars and coffee in Sudbury?
You think I forgot about that?
Damn, man.
No, thank you.
Thanks, Arctic.
Thanks, man.
Sick it's all add to Astra.
What was my coolest moment?
Dude, watching this with you guys and having Twitch staff come in here, say we're on the
front page and then watching that close approach where Victor was describing the Oriental Crater,
that is burned into my memory.
I will never, ever forget that ever.
When him saying the Terminator is just calling to me, it's just calling to me.
I can't stop looking at it.
What is burned into my head dude?
I'll never forget that.
That was the gnarliest thing I've ever seen in my life.
It was awesome.
It was yeah.
It was just that.
That was it for me dude.
So that's what it's like to see a lunar mission.
I had never seen one and a lot of people here haven't seen one, but for the people that
have before, I just want to tell you that we get it.
Oh, we get it.
Josh likes space.
Thanks for the 20 bucks.
Thanks for all the bits, guys.
So proud of you, buddy.
Nailed this.
Hell yeah.
Off to bed.
All right, friend.
Thanks, guys.
Dude, I get it.
I totally get it.
It feels like a weight has been lifted off of my shoulders because I mean, you know, once
again, the people that saw Apollo, the people that got into space because of that, people
that were before my time, you know, it, you don't, it's space, being a spaceflight fan
has its ups and downs.
It's like when the lows happen, they're the lows and it sucks and it hurts and you know,
since the shuttle stopped flying, you know, there's been W's, there's been commercial
crew, there's been Falcon 9 flying, we get Starship launches, we get all New Glenn coming
around like, you know, all these other companies and stuff, but guys, I'm gonna be 100% honest
with you and I don't mean this to denigrate like commercial companies at all.
I love SpaceX, I love Blue.
I love every company.
I don't really, you know, like just this is such a extraordinary phenomenon, right?
And we get tons of it, but nothing ever captured the magic of a shuttle mission.
We've gotten close, but nothing ever captured the magic of a shuttle for me, right?
And like I said, you know, I would always have conversations with my parents, like
especially with my dad, mom too, you know, like,
it's like, oh, did you see the shuttle mission do that?
And my dad was like, that's no Apollo.
That's no Apollo mission.
That's no Apollo mission.
I'd be like, yeah, whatever, pal.
I get it, dude.
We get it.
Like, there's been so many lows.
We're in the Van Guelty base here,
the Eagle has landed.
Thanks, EJ, for making an incredible mission even better.
Your insight and passion for spaceflight
truly inspiring. Here's to the next Artemis mission streams. Yeah. Thanks guys.
Ghostly dough. Hell yeah dude. And it just this feels like a weight has been
lifted. It feels like since Apollo the ship has just kind of been doing this
and we kind of did some cool things with the shuttle and I'm not once again not
to not speak about the shuttle. I love it. I love that thing. But this it
It feels like a weight has been lifted.
Like we, this is, we're back.
Like this, we are, you know, I've always,
I've always dreamed as a kid
about when we were going back to the moon.
And, you know, there were so many nights when,
when I leave stream, when I would leave stream
and I would go outside and just look at the moon.
I go out and look at the moon.
I'd just look at it
And be like, well, you know, we'll be back there one day.
We'll be back there one day. I don't know when, but we'll be back.
And I would always, you know, that the third part about that is that I hope we'd be back in my lifetime, right?
Like, hey, Stardust, this past April, France. Thanks for the raid, guys.
And all of a sudden, we're here.
We're here, man. We went back. We sent somebody there. We sent four people there. They came back.
It's awesome. It's awesome. It makes me so ridiculously happy.
Um, like I said, it feels like we're finally back on track.
It feels like a weight has been lifted, like that burden of
shouldering, you know, all the times where we weren't doing
Apollo, like, I don't know how many people I told I had to tell
like that canceling the Apollo for it was the worst
mistake that NASA ever made.
And like, you know, how we've been trying to fix it since
and, you know, how like, you know, canceling
consolation sucked and all this other stuff like, dude,
That's fine. That dude, it's gone.
It's like, it's cathartic, man.
It's cathartic, because anybody, like I said,
it's a set at the beginning of this.
Anybody that's a space flight fan knows
when stuff goes wrong, it really goes wrong
and it sucks and it hurts and it's terrible
because we care about this stuff, right?
But to see the amount of winds that NASA raked in
over the last week.
Oh man, oh man, we're on to better,
we're on to bigger things.
This is, this is excellent.
I never ever thought I would feel this good about this.
Like if you asked me like two months ago,
you know, I was worried about Artemis II
launching during the Super Bowl.
Like, I can't tell you how tone deaf
that actually is from me.
Like I did not see the significance of this mission.
I knew it was going to be good.
I knew people would like it,
but I didn't know it would feel like this.
This is, oh, it's so good, dude.
It's so good.
It's awesome.
I love it.
I can't get enough of it.
I want more.
I want more.
I don't know about you guys.
I want more.
What Super Bowl?
Yeah, exactly.
I, JP, I'm having my Loki crying in a room right now.
because it's over.
So all right, man, we got plenty of good stuff coming.
We got plenty of good stuff coming.
Shut up, Yark.
So guys, yeah, it feels great.
It feels great.
I am just, this is me being overcome with emotions.
I ramble and I talk too much.
I talked too much anyway, but that's, you know, you know what I mean.
Yeah.
This is awesome.
And, you know, there were times where I had the alerted muted on both sides.
There was some, I noticed there were some super chats like, Drunar, hey, thank you.
Before I launched, before launch, I said Starship flight one and nine landing felt more impactful for spaceflight,
but hanging on the edge of that splashdown was a whole new level. It's dude. I can't... Starship
missions are rad. See this? I saw that. I saw that thing do that. I saw it with my own eyes.
And that's awesome in its own regard. I love it and I never want SpaceX to stop pushing the
envelope, but this hits different dude. It's so different. It is so different. It's...
It's that magic that I remember when I was a kid, when I would watch the Hubble, when
my dad showed me the Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions.
I remember that.
I remember him showing me that.
That magic that I saw as a kid, that's this.
That's this, man.
That's this.
That's this baby.
Engine Uber, right?
Contact light.
Okay, engine stop.
It's so good. It's so good. It's so good. I want more. I want more. I want more. Thanks
for all the coverage so yeah let's uh let's wrap it up um guys I just wanted to
say thank you thank you for doing this with me I I wasn't sure if I could do
the whole mission but we did and we came through with flying colors and I do not
regret one second that I was on here you know doing 16-hour days explaining
everything to you guys I don't regret it for a second and you clearly you
guys love it so I love it too and that is the most endearing thing that a
streamer can can feel if you've done content creation before you know good
and well it is the best feeling when the people in chat are loving what you're
doing and you're just having a good time it's so easy it's easy to just
roll you know and we've had some tough times here on the stream with Kerbal
going out the way it is and then cities and everything and, you know, we've had tough times,
but, you know, we've moved on to brighter pastures, I think, and I think, yeah, I'm just, all
that does is just motivate me to work harder and bring you the best space content and
just stem content that I possibly can.
So yeah, I just wanted to say thank you.
Thank you very much.
I really appreciate it.
from the bottom of my heart for me, Vremo and Titan, we really appreciate it and just
one last thing before I go. Mom, Dad, thank you. Thank you for showing me space. Oh, oh,
oh, oh, this is space. I'm in space. It means a lot. I love you guys. All right. Before
I get too mushy. I'm gonna leave you guys with this. It's probably gonna mute the VOD. I don't care. Here
Here you go
Witnesses to the first earth rise in the consciousness of man
Apollo 17
Gene Cernan takes that remarkable photo of Jack Schmidt standing on the moon with a hurt over his shoulder.
See, that's why we went to the moon to take those pictures.
We didn't go there to conquer it or to claim it or simply beat the Russians to it.
Sure, we wanted to find out what the moon was made of to satisfy questions of science that have plagued us since the dawn of man.
But more than anything else, we went to the moon to see if we could make the journey.
Because if we can do that, if we can voyage from the earth to the moon, then there's hope
for all of us.
Because we can do anything.
William Bradford, speaking in 1630, of the founding of the Flemish Bay Colony, said that
all great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulty, and both must be enterprise
and overcome with admirable courage.
If this perhaps a history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man and his
The quest for knowledge and progress is determined and cannot be deterred.
The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not.
We need to be a part of it. We need to lead it.
For the eyes of the world, we are looking to space, to the moon, and to the planet beyond.
Our leadership in science and industry, our hopes for peace and security, our obligations
to ourselves as well as others, all require us to make this effort, to solve these mysteries,
to solve them for the good of all of them.
There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in our space as yet.
It's hasn't a hospital to us all.
It's conquest deserves the best of all mankind.
We choose to go to the moon.
We choose to go to the moon, we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the
other things.
Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
Because that challenge is one that we're willing to accept,
one we are willing to postpone, and one we intend to win.
Oh, oh, oh, Mrs. Waze, I'm Mrs. Waze.