Artemis II Flight Day 8 Highlights

Artemis II Flight Day 8 Highlights

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Good morning from Mission Control Houston. Here in the inner in the Artemis flight control room at the Johnson Space Center, we are coming to you live with our 24/7 continuous coverage of the Artemis two mission at a mission elapsed time of six days, 14 hours, 51 minutes and counting. I have here beside me Andre Douglas, NASA astronaut and also Capcom Artemis two crew backup member. You have several job titles. Yes, I do.

It's, quite an honor. I'm sure it is. Can you tell us a little bit? You've been kind of a jack of all trades for this mission. Tell us that you were.

I saw you, closeout crew. I've been seeing you here on console. You've trained with the crew. Tell us what you've been up to over the course of the mission. Yeah.

So, primary job has been to back up crew. It's been really fun. We do all the different systems training. We do, all the different, much like, module and and everything. Training.

It's it's great. So, you know, some of the things we do is, go out to the field and we do geology. And it's actually been a lot of fun going out to Iceland and just experiencing the beauty of the country and learning about rocks. And so that's been amazing. In addition to that, the closeout crew job has been awesome.

We work with the Exploration Ground Systems, group, and the whole purpose of closeout Crew is to make sure we close the module out to make sure that we can rescue the crew, to make sure we understand the emergency escape baskets, all of that stuff. It's been exciting. And, in addition to that, you know, working on, Capcom console, trying to understand what's going on here at MK, and making sure we interact with all the different disciplines and, and great things that we do. So it's been awesome. And I'll tie this back to the science.

One of the things that's very cool about what we're doing is, you know, for the moon and, collecting observations, there is the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter that takes pictures around the moon. Right. And when we get that, it's a it's a string of images that's going on the longitude slowly rotating about the axis. And we can't see necessarily that overall view of the moon shot. Right.

So now we have a flyby with humans that can get in and really use their own minds to figure out what angles are great and when to zoom in, when to not. And we can combine the data from LRO, the orbiter, and now these photos. And now we have this much more complete picture. So just extrapolate that concept out to what would Mars be like. And even the base when you have these different views, you really get an understanding of perspective.

Because one of the things on the moon that the crew talked about was, man, looking at this from a 3D perspective, it really pops out. And you see that at Earth, when you're on ISS and you're looking at cloud formations or you're looking at, hurricanes when they're flying by, you know, every 90 minutes, they can kind of see how that's changing at an angle. And like that's just something that is really hard to describe. And you also might see phenomenon that it's hard to see from a 2D perspective or, you know, a time stamp perspective. So again, with Moon to Mars and being able to put all of these assets together, that's going to give us that just ultimate view.

And both spatially and temporally. It's pretty, pretty exciting. I'm excited and I'm excited for what the future holds. This mission I don't know about you, but for me, it's been phenomenal to see the images coming down, to see all of the burns, the crew happy, the eclipse glasses, I loved it. Yeah, it's awesome to want.

Your friends and colleagues at the Canadian Space Agency wish you another great day on your voyage. Canadians everywhere, inspired by your journey and we're with you every step of the way. Let's go. You're looking live at a view inside the Orion spacecraft now, on flight day eight into the first flight of astronauts aboard Orion. All four crew members are just wrapping up their post sleep period, getting ready for the day and getting ready for their daily planning conference.

We're expecting that here momentarily when they'll talk down with teams in Mission Control Houston getting an update on their systems aboard the spacecraft, any plans for today, and asking and answering any questions. Again, some of the activities we expect the crew to participate in today include putting on and measuring for their orthostatic intolerance garments or ECGs. They'll also get in some exercise, and we will see them in a couple of public affairs events as well. This is Artemis mission control. You're looking at a live view inside the Orion spacecraft of our crew on the Artemis two mission.

Now, our mission elapsed time of six days, 19 hours and 30 minutes. We. The crew woke up at 10:30 a. m. central time today.

Just completed their sleep period. And their DPC, their daily planning a conference. Houston. Integrity. The code valve is closed.

We have a good view out the windows. Our crew camera view is only so-so. And I'm waiting on your go. I will stop recording. Roger.

And, soar view is breathtaking. We love a good wizard. The less said about the snow, the better. Houston. Integrity, we are waving at you out of window two.

It's a beautiful blue little crescent out there. Thank you. We can't quite make you out, but we appreciate the thought. We're working on changing that. Thank you.

Stan. And while I have you, can we do another jump just for, purposes? Yes. You may. It's time.

Please do. Thank you. Sir. That was NASA astronaut Christina Cook reporting to Capcom. Stan Love and all of us here on the Earth that outside the windows of Orion, she can see us right now.

Of course, this is the view looking back on the spacecraft from a camera mounted on one of its solar array wings. We've been getting beautiful views of both the moon and the Earth, as well as incredible views of life inside the spacecraft. You can find all of those on images dot nasa. gov and make sure you follow NASA and NASA Artemis on social media to make sure you don't miss a thing. There we got so much going on, I feel like we're on the International Space Station right now.

This is an awesome day here. Hey, could you confirm this is my final exercise of the mission? It'll just help me with stowage management. Right? That's correct.

Okay. Thanks, man. And for what it's worth, today's exercise is the last exercise for all crew members. Starting tomorrow, we will not have the time. Integrity.

Houston, for optical comm. Go ahead. Stan. Okay, read. Long story here.

We are still not locked up on optical comm. We suspect, solar array blockage. So between exercise sessions, between when you're done and Christina starts, we want to put a 25 degree roll on the vehicle. About to be about a one minute maneuver to an attitude where we think optical comm can see the ground terminal. Now, when we do that, will we will have only one phased array antenna pointed at camera.

So if that antenna fails, we'll lose comm and a swing. A string swap will not recover it. So if we lose calm while we're in that attitude, you will have to maneuver the vehicle back to by its tail the sun, where a second antenna will be available. And have a procedure number and some check mic numbers when you're ready to copy. I am complete with exercise so you can start that team working in that direction.

Go ahead. Sam. You can see some of those maneuvers happening right now. Again, targeting to, sync up with up comm. The optical communications.

This is a live view from the spacecraft looking at the service module. This video coming from a camera mounted on the tip of Orion's solar array wing. There are four solar arrays. Each solar array could panel two three bedroom homes. Integrity, maneuver and damping complete.

We are a go for crew exercise. All right, we copy. Thanks, Dan. The flywheel team. This is a great device.

We really enjoyed it in this small cabin. It's perfect. And it gave us a lot of good opportunity to get our heart rate up and also get some great resistance exercise. So we just wanted to shout out a nice. Thank you.

Here we go. We had, thank you guys. Thanks for the words and the cheers. That was commander Reed Wiseman calling down that they have finished exercise for the mission and that's worth celebrating. Integrity Houston.

No action on the enabled caution. That's part of our cabin repress it should clear on its own soon. Copy. Thanks, Sam. NASA astronaut and capsule communicator Stan Love calling to the crew aboard the Orion spacecraft.

They received a caution about their, cabin pressure. However it was, it will clear out on its own after the oxygen levels out inside the cabin. We are currently pressurizing Orion. There was a demonstration flight test objective to have the cabin pressure at 10. 2 p.

s. i. That re pressurization has been going on for about an hour and a half now, and the pressure is currently at 13. 27. We're currently at a mission elapsed time of seven days and six minutes, meaning it has officially been a week since Orion launched to fly around the moon and come back to Earth, targeting that splashdown in two days, one hour, 25 minutes in the Pacific Ocean.

We do expect to see the crew and hear from them shortly during the Canadian Space Agency public affairs event. That'll be in about 40 minutes. What? We got you loud and clear. Josh, great to hear your voice.

We got Jenny and Capcom, and, it's great to have you on board. Integrity. Thanks for joining. Thank you guys. We're good.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Jeremy and your crew aboard. We have a very special guest tonight who would like to say a few words to you. And so set the background that they are their personal apparel of today's honorable Mark Carney, Premier ministre to Canada. How about, well, merci beaucoup. Joshua.

To that boy, Jeremy, to the committee on what I would say to Canada and Canada. Yeah. So ten months? Yeah. The group of the end zone or been is on me since I don't play out the rules on time, probably for now, say, flux going as fast and, as I say, Canadians are so proud of what you're doing.

And the collaboration and I. I just want to have a chance, if I may, I mean, I'm thrilled, I'm absolutely thrilled to be speaking with you, Jeremy. And, and the crew, we've all been watching and, inspired. And. Terry Houston cabin repress is complete 14 seven.

And we'll stay that way for the rest of the mission. Stan, we definitely appreciate that. And we'll you should probably just carry a note forward, for future missions, if you do a large repress like that, there are certain things such as CPU use that, collapsed pretty significantly during that damage. But there are some, some things that we probably would want to event along the way as we come back and pressure. Put it received loud and clear.

It will take that note. That was commander Reed Wiseman calling down to the ground. We did conduct the cabin pressurization today. The cabin pressure was capped at 10. 2 p.

s. i for an extended period of time as part of a test aboard the spacecraft. As this is a test flight, the first flight of humans aboard Orion, everything we learn is helping us prepare for future missions. Houston integrity. Calling the blind from a helper.

And, just doing a test for the Delta noise reduction. Flexible activity. These actually worked really well. We have three crew members on filters, one in the toilet, and we're using the Bluetooth feature to talk between them. And, they sound really good.

Noise canceling, makes them very quiet. And then, talking to each other with push to talk on the headset. This is Artemis is mission control in Houston, Texas. You just heard NASA astronaut Victor Glover call down from the Orion spacecraft. You can see a live view of that Orion spacecraft.

He noted that he was making it call in the blind, which means that he knows that the team here cannot respond to that call because we are currently in a forward link. Loss of signal. This is Artemis mission control. Following that brief data rate change, we now have those live views back of the crew inside the Orion spacecraft. Again, they're working through some stowage activities to start preparing for reentry prep.

They will do a lot of their reentry preparations tomorrow, when they will be reconfiguring, reconfiguring the cabin to prepare for splashdown. And they will also be studying their entry procedures. In addition to stowing some of their equipment, they will also be installing their seats to ensure all items are secured for reentry. We all just had that weird vibe of packing up that we were getting sad. Oh, we feel it too, but we'll be happy to have you back.

Awesome. Let me have a look. And, we'll let you know if we have anything we can tear for you now. Otherwise, we'll wait for. I don't.

That sounds great. And Victor spinning is making us giggle. It's really spectacular. Integrity. This is NASA pao Courtney Beasley.

How do you hear me? Hey, Courtney, we hear you. But you are very low. Okay, I will try to talk a little bit louder. Read.

Victor, Christina and Jeremy, it's great to see you today. We have a room filled with media eager to talk to you. We have you loud and clear. Wonderful. We have a room full of media ready to talk to you today, and we also have them on our phone bridge.

We have a limited amount of time, so we're going to go ahead and hop straight into questions. We'll start here in the room with Marsha Dunn. Go ahead. Marsha Dunn, Associated Press, for you read. Could you please describe your emotions when Jeremy called down to Mission Control to ask permission to name a lunar crater after your late wife, Carol, it was a pretty emotional, powerful moment down here.

Marsha, it was a powerful moment up here as well. We, my crewmates approached me when we were at Kennedy in, in quarantine, and they said, hey, we the three of them had talked and they would like to do this. And that was an emotional moment for me. And I, I just thought that was that was just a total treasure that they had thought through this and they had offered this. And, I said, absolutely.

I would love that. I think that's just the best. And I said, but I can't give the speech. I can't give the talk. And, Jeremy, the kind of guy is he said he would do it.

And, and it was getting emotional there. And I think when Jeremy spelled Karl's name. Karol, I think for me, that's when I, was overwhelmed with emotion. And I looked over and Christina was crying. I put my hand down on Jeremy's hand as he was still talking.

It was right there on that rail and, he I could just tell he was trembling and, and we all pretty much broke down right there. And, just for me personally, that was that was kind of the pinnacle moment of the mission for me. That was, I think, where the four of us were the most forged, the most bonded. And we came out of that really focused on that day ahead. I think that was a very caging moment for the four of us.

Thank you for that question. And it was a great moment. And we have seen just some extraordinary things, things that I thought we might see. It looked similar to what I thought they might look like and other things that I just had never even imagined. And, those were different perspectives that we saw these things from.

But, I have to say, it hasn't changed my perspective or the perspective that I launched with. The perspective I launched with was that we live on a fragile planet, in the vacuum and the void of space. We know this from science. We're very fortunate to live on planet Earth. And the other perspective that I've sort of learned from others through life is that they're, you know, our purpose on the planet as humans is to find joy, to find the joy and lifting each other up by creating solutions together instead of destroying.

And and when you see it from out here, it it doesn't change it. It just absolutely reaffirms that you said integrity for a quick, kind of a bio item, but more of an item for the folks in the control room. There. Well, go ahead. Do you have our video still?

We do. But I'm not sure if it made it in the handover. But this morning, we were asked to go unpack, a very special item, and we just wanted to we wanted to share in an IPO event. We just didn't get an opportunity to do so. So we were to share with you all, because we need to share this.

Like this. This has to be shared right? So in Victor is, in Victor's hands. Here is it is the Apollo 18 flag that the agency asked to have put on board, Artemis two so that it could take its rightful trip around the moon. And, the four of us are just honored to have this year.

We're honored that it is in our presence and that it is in our presence. And we are honored to carry the torch from Apollo, through Skylab, through the space Shuttle, through our beloved International Space Station. And now back further than humans have ever gone around the far side of the moon and safely home back to Houston. So we just wanted to share this with you because it needed to be shared. Thanks.

Carrying the torch indeed. Thank you for sharing it with us in the world, and we'll look forward to welcoming you and that flag back to Houston shortly.

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