Artemis II Moon Watch - Quyen Jones

From air pressure to rocket thrust, the Orion spacecraft experienced many forces in flight — and engineers like Quyen Jones in the Orion Mission Evaluation Room inside Mission Control at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston were tracking them all. After a clean launch and a spot‑on translunar injection burn, her team was excited to see Orion’s in‑flight data line up with years of testing as the crew headed toward the Moon on Artemis II. 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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On the spacecraft when you're flying, there's going to be lots of different things pushing up against you, like the air pressure. And when you, thrust the thrust from the rocket engines, they're going to be pushing against our Orion vehicle. And so we make sure that all of those different loads or things that are pushing on the vehicle are not going to break our vehicle. My name is Quyen Jones, and I work on the MTL console, which is the Mechanisms TPS and Loads and Dynamics Console. So we saw a really good launch Everything went according to plan.

We have to check the solar arrays that when they deploy they don't go under any like unexpected loading. And they didn't they deployed beautifully. And that all the configuration of the vehicle was in the right orientation for all of the burns and events that we're going to do. And so we just tracked that to make sure that nothing funny is happening. Well, with that, successful TLI, crew is feeling pretty good up here on our way to the moon.

So once we get that in flight data and can compare and, you know, and confirm what some of our assumptions were that were based on, testing and textbooks, and confirming that in space. I'm excited for that. And I'm excited to see humans go around the moon.

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