Artemis II Moon Watch - Lorelei Lohrli-Kirk

"From the Moon to our eyes back on Earth." Lorelei Lohrli‑Kirk worked on the imagery console inside Mission Control’s Orion Evaluation Room at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, helping bring the stunning imagery captured by the Artemis II crew and Orion spacecraft back home to us. 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"

What is said in the film

We have somewhere in excess of 30 cameras on the vehicle currently. So I'm just excited to see things we haven't seen before. My name is Lorelai Lohrli-Kirk. I work at the Imagery Console be able to turn the vehicle cameras are, primarily what we use for engineering imagery. So we have one on the top of each solar array wing, and we have three in the cabin.

Two of them look out the windows. One of them looks into the cabin. At the display units. We have the docking camera that's a GNNC sensor that they use for the rendezvous. We have a bunch of handheld cameras.

They’ve got iPhones. They've got the Nat Geo cameras. The GoPros. They have another little handheld GoPro. We took some long lens photos, and we can see all of Oriental and maybe even a bit of the annular ring.

So we know we aren't in low Earth orbit anymore. Of course there will be on comms on the back side of the Moon. So that's challenging. We have to get everything setup ahead of time because we won’t be able to turn the vehicle cameras on and off. The best imagery we're going to get is from handheld cameras.

But that requires a lot of coordination. It is phenomenal. And the moon we are looking at is not the moon you see from Earth whatsoever. Aretmis four now, when we’re gonna have boots on the moon, I mean, that’s gonna be really exciting. I was four years old when we landed in ‘69.

It's a dream come true because I never thought I would get to do that.

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