Artemis II Moon Watch - Luca Fossati

"Four crew members. One spacecraft. One global team". From Mission Control’s Orion Mission Evaluation Room inside NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, international experts like ESA (European Space Agency)’s Luca Fossati supported the European Service Module—the powerhouse that supplied Orion with propulsion, power, air, and water—throughout the Artemis II mission. 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

The lives of four people is literally in our hands. And I felt like a big responsibility. I'm Luca Fossati and I work for the European Space Agency. The bottom part of the spacecraft, the service module is called the European Service Module because it's done, it's done in Europe. We also call it the powerhouse of the Orion vehicle because of course, we have the four solar array wings and also power in the sense that we do have the engines.

The engines that are used for every single maneuver until the separation before reentry. And integrity. MCC is go for the burn. Okay. We copy you're still go.

And we're go up here. The first couple of days where I think were very hard. Lots of work to do, lots of things happening, lots of things to understand of the spacecraft. Right now that things are a bit calmer, still hectic, but a bit calmer. now there is time to realize the magnitude of what we've done.

Yeah, it's a great moment. We have an extremely exciting and challenging few years ahead of us. This is just the first step and it's extremely exciting.

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