Artemis II Flight Day 2 Highlights

Artemis II Flight Day 2 Highlights: Includes perigee raise burn, translunar injection burn, and the crew’s first space to ground video communication – the first of several that will take place throughout the mission.

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Yes. And integrity. Houston, we do have you on video for the 4K encoder. Check out. That is such great news.

Stand by for audio checks with the wireless mic. Copy. Six hours and ten minutes since liftoff. I just did audio with the wireless. Mike, did you copy?

You have it on, and we copy good audio on the handheld mic. That is great news. We're ready to call 4K encoder. Check out complete if you are. We concur 4K check out complete, and whenever you're ready I have some words about, S-Pen string swap that we're interested in having you all perform and is great to see you all wave for smiley voices.

And we are really enjoying seeing you up there. Not as much as we're enjoying being here. That is true. This view on your screen coming from Orion, looking back at all of us on Earth. This is coming from a camera mounted on one of the spacecraft's solar array wings, just a little crescent Earth now six hours and 12 minutes since launch.

The first flight of humans aboard Orion. Houston. Integrity on one for fan speed. Slash cabin temperature. Houston's listening.

Baby, is it possible to lower the cabin fan speed a bit? And there's a lot of, of air flowing here. And if that is not possible, can we increase the temperature? Copy read. We understand the request and we are discussing how to implement.

We'll follow up. Yeah. Sounds good. No, no urgency there. But just know that that will be our desire.

Another. Copy. Now that the crew is awake, they are going to step into a brief post sleep period and then they will begin preparing for the perigee raise burn or PRB burn. That burn, scheduled to take place in just under an hour from now. About 59 minutes until that burn ignition start.

Houston, integrity. Good morning. We are with you for PRB. And integrity. And Christina, good morning to y'all as well.

Things are progressing well with PRB ups. We'll we can do a quick tag up here shortly once, we get our story ready. And this is mission control. Houston, you just heard a little bit of communication there on the Orion to Earth loop. And that is the voice link between the ground and the Orion spacecraft.

So that was NASA astronaut Christina Cook, who is one of the mission specialist aboard the Orion spacecraft. Again, there are four crew members currently living and working on the Orion spacecraft as part of the Artemis two mission. So Christina was speaking directly with the team here in Mission Control Houston, specifically the Capcom or Capsule Communicator, and that flight control position serves as the direct voice link between the crew and the ground. Houston integrity for cabin attempt. They go ahead.

Christina. Yes. It is very cold in the cabin. Any chance you can make it warmer or reduce the cabin fan? Little bit more so the ventilation is not blowing as hard.

So. Yeah. Christina. Understand? While y'all were asleep, we did, turn one of our knobs that we have, and that was the rad loop set points.

And we saw a very small increase in the temperature. And so we're going to take a look at some of these shell heaters, and we'll let you know when, we start putting some of that in work. And we can see if that affects the temperature in a positive way. Our next check with you is for your go no go confirmation. And Christina Houston is go for the burn.

Integrity cap is. Integrity. Houston, the solar rays are in position for the burn. Integrity. Copy.

And this is Mission control. Houston, we are about one minute out from the perigee raise. Burn. That burn expected to last about a minute. The burn will adjust Orion's perigee, or the lowest point of its orbit, into the correct orbital geometry to set it up for its translator injection, or TLC burn.

And that perigee raise burn is now underway. And there on your screen, you can see the eight pulse engines on the Orion spacecraft. Now, this is a visualization of the Orion spacecraft, as we don't currently have live views from the spacecraft itself. But this uses the data and telemetry from the spacecraft. Again, this perigee raise burn expected to last about a minute.

Currently, everything is proceeding as planned. And we do have confirmation that that burn is complete. It was a good burn. We're tracking a good burn. And we see the same.

And with a bonus trim burn. And there on your screen, you are seeing a live view of the Orion spacecraft from one of its solar array wing cameras. And you can also see another one of the solar array wings on the bottom right hand of your screen from the Orion spacecraft. Again, this live view is. This live view comes following that perigee raise burn.

For it there. We really appreciate it. So the good first, Well the two orbits Earth. I guess this one's just got a 38,000 mile apogee. We're going to pick up in 20 611 103, briefly checklist, and then we're going to sit down and get some rest.

Make sure you support. Yes. Great peer probe day. Excellent flight day one. You, get some good rest and we'll be in touch in a couple of hours.

You as well. Goodnight. Earth. Good morning. Artemis.

Two crew. While you're soaring beyond Earth, we're sending a little piece of home your way. Here are some messages from your NASA team to brighten your flight day. From your friends and our three flight systems branch. We are go for exercise.

Got. These are the two that go by from the Orion to existing. Wishing you an excellent mission around the moon from the Huntsville Operation Support Center's Systems Engineering Team store. This is from the Marshall Space Flight Center science branch to the crew of Artemis two. We rest.

You can read it at the back there. We just wanted to wish you a safe trip to the moon from your JSC. 14 from the Wallops Island Radar five crew. Go. Godspeed.

Good luck from your Orion mission planning team. I'm at Team Witness USA. Journey. Go right from all of us at NASA's Launch Services Program. We're so proud to support the journey to the moon.

And Houston integrity, we are ready to go. And that was awesome. Thank you for all of those messages. You are very welcome. Good afternoon and welcome to the Artemis Flight Control Room here at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

I'm NASA pao Leah Cheshire Mustachio for your orbit. One commentator ready to take you through a very busy day for the crew, namely with the trans lunar injection burn this afternoon that is scheduled for 6:49 p. m. central time. Expecting a five minute and 49 second burn on the OMS engine on the left.

The data visualization you're seeing is arrow, the Artemis real time orbit website. If you look closely, you can see we are now under 10,000 miles away from Earth. That will continue to, decrease until we get to 115 statute miles above our home planet. That will be the closest the crew is to the planet until they return for their splashdown on flight day ten. Integrity Houston has completed the poll for toy.

When the engine ignites, you embark on humanity's lunar Homecoming Ark and set the course to return integrity and her crew safely home. Houston is go for TLI. Integrity copies and your integrity crew is go for TLI. With this burn to the moon, we do not leave earth. We choose it.

Mission controllers go. The crew is go. You're getting a live view from Orion now of Earth. 10s until trans lunar injection burn start. Integrity.

Good engine. Good. Control. We show the same goes great up here. At Meti mission elapsed time of one day, one hour and 14 minutes into the Artemis two mission.

As Orion was flying 115 statute miles above Earth and 247,600 miles away from the moon, we have the start of the trans lunar injection burn that will send the crew around the moon, the first humans to do so in over 50 years. This. Velocity of the spacecraft ticking up now over 23,900mph. Two minutes into this five minute and 55 zero second burn. Continuing to get good calls here in Mission Control Houston from all flight controllers.

Integrity. We copy the enabled caution. No crew action. Okay. Integrity copies over three minutes.

Now into the trans lunar injection burn. These live views coming from Orion as it looks back on Earth, leaving a high Earth orbit and beginning its journey to the moon. We are now 230 miles above Earth, 246,500 miles away from the moon. We have one minute left in the trans lunar injection burn. Everything continuing to look good.

We have less than 20s left of this burn. This is the final major burn for the mission. Because this also serves as our deorbit burn. Integrity looks like a good burn. We're confirming.

Integrity. Copy. Confirmation from teams here on the ground to the Artemis two crew aboard Orion, we have trans lunar injection burn cut off and early reports that it was a very good burn. Orion, now 520 miles away from Earth. Just five minutes ago, we were only 115 miles above Earth's surface.

That distance will continue to increase as we are now on a trajectory to fly around the moon. For the first time in over 50 years. Live views from the Orion spacecraft as it looks back on Earth following completion of the trans lunar injection burn. The burn that commits us to flying around the moon. It also commits us to a return to our home planet on flight day ten and a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

But for now, these views of Earth as Orion starts its journey. And Houston integrity. We just wanted to share a little bit of the sentiment up here as we came around the planet. And, we're zooming over just 100 nautical miles above it. If you got a moment.

Please, Jeremy, we are all yours. Well, with that, successful toy cruise. Feeling pretty good up here on our way to the moon. And we just wanted to, communicate to everyone around the planet who's worked to make Artemis as possible. That we firmly felt the power of your perseverance during every second of that burn, humanity has once again shown what we are capable of.

And it's your hopes for the future that carry us now on this journey around the world. Hugs there at the Capcom console from NASA astronaut and Capcom or capsule communicator Chris Birch. With Artemis two back up and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jenny Gibbons. This is a live view from the Orion capsule. Looking back on Earth, our home planet, we are now 18,500 miles away from Earth.

When we conducted that trans lunar injection burn coming up on about two hours ago, we were just 115 miles above our planet. Obviously, that has increased exponentially as we are now on the journey to the moon and back home. Currently, Orion is 223,000 miles away from the moon. This is Artemis Mission Control, now Meti or Mission Elapsed time. One day, three hours and ten minutes into the Artemis two mission, the first flight of humans around the moon in over 50 years.

And we are going to the moon after a successful trans lunar injection burn today, we are now over 19,500 miles away from Earth and growing closer to our lunar neighbor, now 222,000 miles away from the moon. The view on the left side of your screen is from Orion. A live view looking back at our home planet. That small dot and down in the bottom right hand screen you can see Capcom Chris Burch wrapping up her, orbit one shift today, as well as flight director Jeff Ratigan. They've been leading the teams throughout orbit one and the trans lunar injection burn integrity.

Houston, you ready for the event? Houston. Integrity. We are ready for the event. ABC news, this is mission control.

Houston. Please call integrity for a voice check. Integrity, this is gio Benitez at ABC news. How do you hear me? Great.

Outstanding. We have you loud and clear. How about us? I hear you loud and clear. And I truly cannot believe it.

You are quite literally on the way to the moon right now and still speaking with us. Tell me, how do you feel? What's going through your mind? I mean, this was be so incredible because have you allowed the weight of the moment to really fit in here? Have you ever allow that to happen?

Around that to happen? Well, first and foremost, we all wanted to give a shout out to our families first, because we are pretty far from earth and we have not gotten to say hi to them yet. But there was a moment, about an hour ago, where Mission Control Houston reoriented our spacecraft as the sun was setting behind the Earth, and I don't know what we all expected to see in that moment, but you can see the entire globe from pole to pole. You can see, Africa, Europe. And as if you looked really close, you could see the northern Lights.

It was the most spectacular moment. And it paused all four of us in our tracks. Yeah, well, you are making history. Read Weissman, Christina Koch, Jeremy Hansen, Victor Glover. Congratulations to all of you.

America, the world is with you. We are watching every moment of this journey, and we will cheer you when you get back. And along the way. Thank you for joining us. Best of luck to you and safe travels.

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