Artemis II Moon Watch - Jennifer Gratz

"Changing history, and protecting some really special people". As the crew headed home on flight day 10 of the Artemis II mission, Jennifer Gratz and the service module propulsion console inside the Orion Mission Evaluation Room—within Mission Control at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston—were watching every burn, including the final return trajectory correction burn, making sure Orion brought its astronauts safely back to Earth. Credit: NASA Producers: Rad Sinyak, Erika Peters Editor: Nicole Rose Join NASA as we go forward to the Moon and on to Mars -- discover the latest on Earth, the Solar System and beyond with a weekly update in your inbox. Subscribe at: https://www.nasa.gov/subscribe "

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If we don't do the translator injection burn, we're not going to the Moon. But if we don't do some of our other burns to make sure that we come back appropriately, our astronauts aren't coming home. And so to me, being on this team means changing history and protecting some really special people. My name is Jennifer Gratz. I work on the SM propulsion console in the Orion Mission Evaluation Room.

So we are a room of engineers that have been working on designing this vehicle, testing this vehicle, preparing this vehicle for flight. And now we are here monitoring the data during the mission. My console in particular is the propulsion console for the service module. vehicles. In two parts.

You've got the crew module where the people go and the service module where all the main engines are. So we have sensors all over telling us pressures and temperatures, and we have to watch all of those and see, is this doing what I expected? And if it's not, what can I learn from this? Really a day on the console depends on what we're doing that day. We might have a really big burn.

The biggest burn that we did was what's called our translunar injection burn. And that was when we burned the biggest engine on the vehicle, and it sent us on our way to the Moon. Houston, Integrity. We firmly felt the power of your perseverance during every second of that burn. And it's your hopes for the future that carry us now on this journey around the moon.

I see my job partially as working to advance space exploration and make our mark on history, but also I see my job as simply being responsible for protecting these four human lives that we sent out into space. Seeing that sign that says Mission Control Center and walking in, it's a dream come true.

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