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I do have to say that if I was a flatearther, I would be eating really good today knowing that they decided to do the moon launch on April Fools. It's like if you're a flatearther, you're probably thinking, "Oh my god, they're doing it right in front of us and they think that we don't notice." Can you really think about that? Discovery. Hey, here we go. Damn. Let's go. Wow. So, it looks like that's kind of the way. Oh, this is this is the explanation. Okay, let me see this. Artemis 2 is NASA's mission to the moon, launching in early 2026. It'll be the first time that humans have visited the moon in over 50 years, but it's more like a test flight. Okay. Four astronauts will fly to the far side of the moon on a 10-day journey using the most powerful manned rocket to date. Today, I'm going to break down Artemis 2 for you in three parts. The spacecraft, the mission, and the crew. So, let's go. All right, let's see it. So, this is happening in an hour or less than an hour. Before we get to the mission, I want to explain the Aremis 2 spacecraft real quick. Mhm. So the whole rocket that they're using is called the space launch system or usually just called the SLS. It has two solid rocket boosters on both sides space shuttle and an orange core stage in the middle. Mhm. On Artemis 2, the solid rocket boosters have something that make them really unique. They have a giant America 250 logo paint, broth anniversary of the United States of America, which is in 2026. Pretty cool, especially considering that this rocket was made by engineers from every state in the United States. Nice. The next rocket stage is called the interim cryogenic propulsion stage or ICPS. Uhhuh. Above that is the upper stage, Orion. Orion is really the star of this rocket, and it has a few major sections, too. This bottom section is the European Service Module or ESM, and it provides power and propulsion. It's the way that Orion gets around in space. Then there's the crew module, sometimes called the capsule. And this is where that's the thing that lands. In fact, astronauts will stay in this capsule the entire mission on Artemis 2. The I wonder if it smells bad. I bet smells bad in there, right? Integrity. When the entire mission is done, this capsule is the only part that will return back to Earth. Yeah. And finally, this top tower bit is called the launch abort system or L. Hopefully the astronauts won't need it, but if they do, it can actually pull the capsule away from the rest of the rocket if there was a major malfunction or an explosion and hopefully save the astronauts lives. If you want to learn more about the SLS, I have a whole video about that right here. Now that we know our spacecraft, let's talk about the Artemis 2 mission specifically. Okay, as I mentioned before, Artemis 2 is a test mission. Artemis 1, the first test of the space launch system. It launched back in 2022 and was an amazing success. But Artemis 1 was uncrrewed. Now it's time to test this full system with crew on board. And this crew is going to be able to test out a lot more of the human. See, like I feel like we when was the last time that that we went to the moon? Like Yeah. I feel like it's been a long time. 1972. [ __ ] No crude US missions have gone beyond low Earth orbit since then. It's been over 53 years. Holy [ __ ] I didn't realize it was that. Uh, wow. features, docking, radiation shielding, communication, eating. The four of us will gather to share meals when we're on our 9day trip. Katy Perry, they just went to work. Our device to portion of water to fill up water bags, rest, and also to rehydrate the food. Sleeping exercise. This is the flywheel device. Hydrate the food. I want to see that. Sleeping. Damn, bro. That shit's bright. God damn. Like, it's so like damn. Look how bright that is. It'd be hard for me to fall asleep. Exercise. And what I kind of want you to imagine is a rowing machine. So, we can do rowing like a cardiovascular workout. Can do weightlifting with it. So, we can do squats. I think that the reason why they have to do that, this is like again I'm not a I'm not a moon magician so I don't really understand this but I think that the under the the reason why is that the body whenever it doesn't have the gravity of earth like obviously your body is made to push against and to exist in opposition to the gravity of earth and the moment that you don't have that you have muscle atrophy you have other forms of bone loss etc that are very very problematic So basically making sure that these guys are getting exercise in like a way that stimulates those muscles is like incredibly important. That's what I understand from somebody that doesn't know what the [ __ ] I'm talking about. Do lifts. Uh we can do curls. Varied levels of resistance to really put a lot of stress on our muscles and our bones. Going to the bathroom. Inside the capsule, this would be the floor. You would float over to it. Uh open up this hinging door. Float on in. So, this is the uh this this is the the the the poop module. All the human things that we couldn't test before. Artemis 2 will launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida from launchpad 39B. Launchpad 39B launched Apollo 10 to the moon in the 1960s and many shuttle missions, including this shuttle mission that I got to see launched when I was a kid. That's really cool. That's badass. and it will launch as early as February 5th, 2026. And when the countdown hits zero, it's going to be the most powerful manned rocket launch in history. 2 minutes into launch, we're going to jettison the solid rocket boosters and be left just with the core stage powering it into low Earth orbit. And this is when the launch abort system will be jettisoned as well. 8 minutes in, the core stage is out of fuel. And so it's going to separate and fall back to Earth while the second stage, the ICPS, ignites and gives the final push to get the crew into space. After two burns, the ICPS is going to have Orion in an elliptical high Earth orbit. And so now Orion is going to be 46,000 mi away from Earth on the far side and the close side of its orbit. Are they trying to use like the force in order to get it closer to the moon? I guess 115 miles from Earth. And this orbit will take about 1 day to complete. During this first day, Orion's going to separate from the ICPS and begin to do a docking practice maneuver. In the a what coming years, Orion will dock with the lunar lander and the gateway station. So, we need to know how well does the autopilot work? Do the thrusters work the way we expect them to? If you remember the two astronauts who were stuck in space for a while, Butch and Sunny, last year, yeah, I remember people were really worried about her because they were in space for so long, they were worried about bone loss and other types of muscle atropy, too. testing out a new spacecraft called Starlininer. And the whole reason that NASA kept them on the space station for months instead of weeks was because of bad thrusters. We need to make sure Orion does not have some. Once Orion passes back by the Earth, it's going to reignite its engine for the trans lunar injection or TLI. This is the final push to get our astronauts to the moon for a free return. I don't really know, right? But like, does this mean that this is the final push? Are they trying to use the force that gravity has from the Earth to try to push themselves towards the moon? Is that why they're using the thruster at that time? Cuz like if that's the case, that's crazy. Yes. I just assumed that was too simple, right? I mean, like, but that's actually what they're like a slingshot. Yeah, bro. Imagine using a planet's gravity as a slingshot. That is insane. God damn the [ __ ] bro. This is This is nuts. To get our astronauts to the moon for a free return trajectory. What is a free return trajectory, you may ask? It means the gravity of the moon and the earth will naturally bring Aremis 2 back home. No additional burns required. This is a great idea for a test spacecraft like Orion. If anything goes wrong with Artemis 2, it'll just naturally come back to Earth using gravity alone. This is actually the same. Oh, it's just going to show up. Flight path that ended up saving the Apollo 13 astronauts after their disaster on the way to the moon. Oh wow. For Artemis 2, the journey to the moon is going to take 4 days. During that time, the crew is going to be running. Is it that far away? Really? H how? 2,000. Uh, give me give me one sec. I use bathroom. That That's I mean 2,8 283,000. It doesn't seem like it's that far, right? All right. All right. Give me a minute. Now, we got to figure out how how far away this really is. Wait a wait a minute. Let me understand this. How many football fields is that? How many football fields is this? 120 yards long. How many of them is it? 4 mill 4 million football fields away. That's really far away, guys. God damn. It's 11 times around Earth. Holy [ __ ] I didn't know that. Emergency procedures, including what to do in case of a major radiation event. See, if humans are going to do these long missions that we're talking about, like going to maybe one day, going to Mars, we have to figure out how to deal with deep space radiation. Orion has deep space radi. Wait, what the [ __ ] Shelter on board and the astronauts are going to test and see how effective it is in actual use. All right, so as I mentioned before, Artemis 2 is not a lunar landing. The astronauts are not going to be walking on the moon for this mission. This is a lunar flyby mission. If you're at all familiar with the Apollo 8 mission from the 1960s, that's the Christmas Apollo flight. This mission is really similar. Their flight is going to take them 230,000 m away from the Earth to the far side of the moon. As you may already know, there's a side of the moon that always faces the Earth, and then there's a far side of the moon that we will never see from standing on the Earth's surface. So, like, they could draw a dick on it, and nobody'd ever know. It would be like a little secret. And that's the destination for our Artemis 2 astronauts. Maybe that's where Hitler is. This is a simulation of what that flyby mission for Artemis 2 is going to look like. This is actually what the astronauts will see. Yeah. Secret moon deck until it rotates. says the closest the astronauts will get to the lunar surface is about 4600 miles. This seems I mean in terms of millions fly Orion will do any necessary little corrections that it needs to to land precisely at the right place and the right time back on Earth. After another 4 days, Integrity will separate from the ESM and reenter the atmosphere for splashdown. They will splash down. picture of Texas next to the moon for how big it is. Oh my god. Oh my. It's that much bigger than Texas. I thought it was like half that. That's a That's big. The moon's really big. You guys see how big the moon is? In the Pacific Ocean, be picked up by the United States Navy, and complete their 10-day mission. All right, so let's talk about the crew. There are four astronauts on board Artemis 2. Reed Wisman, Victor Glover, Christina Cook, and Jeremy Hansen. This one was short. As you might guess, these four people are exceptional. Some of the best of the best. The exact people you would pick on an Artemis 2 mission. I'm going to highlight just a couple of things that stood out to me about each one of their bios, but seriously, you need to go read them. I've linked them all in the description of this video. These are incredible people who have done amazing things in their lifetimes. Reed Wisman will serve as the commander for Artemis 2. I would be, dude, I would be scared going to the going out out into outer space, man. I would be like just because like I mean like it's literally you're you're like going into space. Like I would I would be willing to like leave the atmosphere maybe, but like to the moon. Like, yeah, you're going into the void. I mean, I feel like though like I mean I I I don't know. I mean, there's probably a lot of guys like I mean this kind of like the same as like uh you know, sailing around on a boat back in the day, right? He's a 27-year Navy veteran, a pilot, a father, an engineer, and a Baltimore native. Wiseman has been an astronaut since 2009. And he's So, are they having 200? So, this guy's been around for a bit. Is that him? Let me Let me I want to see this. So, I guess that's him doing running where it simulates Earth's gravity. Damn, they've really planned this out. Veteran, a pilot, a father, an engineer, an astronaut since 2009 and he's logged 167 days in space. 167. God damn. Victor Glover will be the pilot for Artemis 2. He's a test pilot, a legislative fellow with the United States Senate, a father, and an engineer from California. He served in Operation Iraqi Freedom, and has flown 40 aircraft across 24 different combat missions. Oh, bro, they're going to make it. Oh, they're going to make everything going to be all right. Yep. And Glover has been an astronaut since 2013. Christina Cook is a mission specialist on Artemis 2. She's an electrical engineer, an Antarctic explorer, a firefighter, and has worked on major scientific programs for both NASA and Noah. Holy crap. She grew up on a family farm in Michigan and attended North Carolina State University. I really have to say that grew up on a family farm in Michigan and went to to like what was it? Some some state college like that. That's right. That's [ __ ] right. She's been an astronaut since 2013 and holds the record as the woman with the longest single space flight almost. So, she's been in she was in space for 328 days. What the [ __ ] God damn. Full year. And finally, we have Jeremy Hansen. Hansen is a Canadian astronaut and he will be a mission specialist for Artemis 2. He's a pilot, a physicist, a colonel with the Canadian military, an aquinaut, and a father. He first got his wings when he was just 16 years old and became a firefighter pilot for the Royal Canadian Air Force. He became a CSA astronaut in 2009. And in 2017, he became the first Canadian astronaut to lead a NASA astronaut class. Wow. And get this, Artemis 2 is going to be Hansen. So they they really brought in all the uh all the real talent, I guess. First space flight. You can't really beat the moon as your first flight in space. So that's the crew. Four incredible astronauts who are going to be able to test out everything for future missions and be our first return to the moon in there's also like and I have to talk about this a little bit is that there's a cultural value in the fact that we have like there there are multiple reasons why this is important. And I want to talk about two of the big reasons is that number one, whenever kids are able to see a rocket go to the moon, they think, "God damn, maybe space is cool. Maybe science is cool. I should learn how to do that." Right? So there's the aspirational value of just simply the fact that this type of stuff is out there. It's happening and it's that big. There's definitely that. And I think that that has a tremendous like it's the same thing. Remember why I talked about how there needs to be more bald eagles around? It's something that on paper doesn't make sense, but in reality means everything. And I think that being able to see this stuff happen is, you know, it it's inspiring for an entire generation of people, right? It's massively inspiring. And then the second thing is the elevation of people that are extremely successful in scientific STEM fields because really you don't have the same type of celebrity status of you know uh scientists other types of astronauts and people like that that we used to right everybody knows knows Buzz Aldrin everybody knows you know Neil Armstrong right these are the guys that first went to the moon but nowadays I mean that was like 50 years ago that a really long time ago. And so having that I think it creates another spectrum where there are now more aspirational figures inside of the American and the western consciousness and really the world's consciousness that have arrived there not through nepotism not through musical talent not through uh you know like some sort of genetic uh you know I guess like beneficiary for like you know being athletically talented uh not for being a good singer but for being a top performer and a massively successful person inside of the field of science. I think that that is tremendously important and I feel like we don't really like how many famous scientists do we really have? How many famous doctors do we really have? Like not that many of them. And the only famous doctors that we have are famous because they went and they did something else like Dr. Oz or Ben Carson or somebody, right? And so Bill Nye Yeah. I mean, Bill Nye is a good example. Yeah. And we have a handful of them, right? We do. We have a handful of them, but there's not that many. So I think this is massively important. Dr. Disrespect my point. Exactly. Five decades. So the big question, when is Artemis 2? Very soon. The first launch window for Artemis 2 opens on February 5th, 2026. Now, it took Artemis 1 a couple of launch attempts before NASA got everything working properly. But the result of that attention to detail and that patience was a very successful flight. And this time, Artemis 2 has actual humans on board. So, don't be surprised if there are a couple of scrubbed launch attempts over the next couple months. Me and my family are hoping to be there for launch, hopefully with some of you guys. And if you are as excited for the Artemis 2 launch as I am, be sure to check out all of the Artemis 2 shirts and merch that I have put out on my Digital Astronaut Etsy shop like this one available now. Be sure to like and subscribe and you can check out my other Artemis videos right here. Yeah, I think it's a huge value. Like it's it's a massive tremendous value whenever you have people that are top performers inside of scientific fields that are elevated and held in high regard as celebrities. I think it really really matters a lot and like I would say that like unfortunately the last time that kind of happened was like with co with Anthony Fouchy but like that was very it was very political. It was just very problematic and so it didn't happen in the way that I think that a lot of people would have wanted it to right and we need to celebrate scientists. Yeah, I I agree with that. So this is it. Let me see if I can pull up a few more of these and uh and look at it. Can they play WoW on the ship? Uh maybe all 10 of all of our uh all of our commercial partners, the international partners that come together on my sincere appreciation for everyone who is currently working. Yeah, this is nuts, man. And uh people barely know these guys. They get mogged by Andrew Tate. I don't think it matters if they're getting I I feel like for whatever reason like they're more focused like I feel like going to the moon like I can't spell it. I can't I can't spell it. Give me a minute. Where is it? Vassels who who now they they look up to some. It's not the music. It It has to have the music on it, too. Where's the music? Give it a minute. Look, when you realize how fake it all is, the football, the basketball, the the Lady Gaga, the Justin Bieber, uh, you know, who gives you these carbon tax messages, they tell your kids they got to love Justin Bieber, and then beer says, "Hand in your guns, pass the cyber security act, and uh, you know, the police state's good." And then and then your children are turned into mindless vassels who who now they they look up to some twit instead of looking up to Thomas Jefferson or or looking up to Nicola Tesla or looking up to to Mellin. I MEAN KIDS, MELLIN'S A LOT COOLER THAN JUSTIN BIEBER. He circumnavigated with one ship the entire planet. HE WAS KILLED BY WILD NATIVES BEFORE THEY got back to Portugal. And when they got back, there was only like 11 people alive of the 200 and something crew. And the entire ship was rotting down to the waterline. That's destiny. That's will. That's striving. That's being a trailblazer. GOING INTO SPACE, MATHEMATICS, QUANTUM MECHANICS, secrets of the universe. It's all there with ITS BEAUTY. IT'S INCREDIBLE DETAIL into it. THEY WANT TO SHATTER YOUR MIND. TALKING ABOUT JUSTIN BIEBER. It's pure evil. They're taking your intellect, your soul, and giving you Michael Jordan and fever. Unlock your human potential. Defeat the globalist who want to shatter your mind, man. Bro, like that was insane. I remember I remember whenever that happened. This is like a long ass time ago, but uh man, I love him so much. Yeah, dude. was so [ __ ] good, wasn't it? Oh my god, it went hard. It did. It absolutely did. Okay, let me go and find this here. Here we go. Yep, there it is. 22 minutes 15 seconds in counting from Artemis to NASA's boldest test flight in a generation. I'm going to set this up. Just make sure we're caught up. Rocket roll to the launch pad. All right, we're going to watch this. Tell me what color it is. Uh, blue. Is it blue? Does it blue? Why does your chat hate Canadians? Um, I don't think the chat really hates Canadians. I think it's like an America. It's like the It is kind of cool and impressive. one of the coolest things. It's like a playful rivalry, I think. Yeah. I I don't think it's it's serious. I mean, there's some Canadians that are [ __ ] but you know, Americans are [ __ ] too. Yeah. It's like sports teams. Yeah. My favorite part was this one little girl. She had a question. She patiently held her hand for a long time. Yeah. I do think there goes a long way. Like astronauts meeting with kids and [ __ ] like that. I think that's a perfect little kid moment. I just like Wait, are you my mother's cats astronauts? Are all my mother's cats going to become Yeah, they will be for sure. It's great PR. Yeah. Well, it's it's more than that. It's about making a as I said, it's about making a culture surrounding science, education, and understanding things and and being a successful person in that. Making that. That's so cute meaningful kids in there making it matter you know even just being real like I don't I mean the last guy that was really well known uh for being a scientific genius was Stephen Hawk Houston that turned out exponentially grown throughout the day we started showing you live shots FROM IN THERE PROBABLY hour ago and take a look at all the people there getting ready to witness the way it together it's something really special to be propaganda for the win something like this I mean is it really propaganda I I guess you could say it is and officials and kids. Sure. Where's your space suit? It's amazing. People from all around the world. I'll wear it whenever I have to go to Taco Bell. It's it's something it's probably just about as dangerous, right? Just how much support. As I said, like Yeah. Somebody in China said, "Imagine how good flat earthers are eating that the first moon mission is is on April Fools." They said, "Bro, they're doing it right in front of your face that issue." So, right in front of you for a launch. Yes, it's Oh, they cleared it. Uhoh. Here we go. Do you think legit science streams rocket center here? Uh, yeah. If they if there was two crew sitting right there inside Orion, if there was a a kinetic element to it, the opening of our launch window. And right now we are targeting the top of that launch window. So, we could be launching here. Damn, bro. They still on Windows 98. Wow. I I think it's actually Windows 2000 professional excited and you know I'm glad they were able to clear the problem with the battery on the L and everything has gone really smoothly today it's been great the weather password it's a beautiful day for a launch and so now as we are so close to possibly launch now just what are your final thoughts as we are about to embark on a mission back to the moon the first time in more than 50 years 50 years, you know, so proud of the crew and all of the teams here that made this happen. Um, you know, they are carrying the torch from the Apollo era into the Artemis era. Um, and you know, as the crew likes to say, they want to be the shoulders that the next generation him with the update. Yeah, we're so back. Yeah, we got to go to the moon more. We need to go to the sun. Go at night. They want to be the the crew wants to be That way it can land on it. wouldn't be it wouldn't burn you up. Maybe next maybe after this they they'll do that. We're going for all it's in the name of their c integrity representing humility and the professionalism of everyone that got them there today. So they got it out. Proud of them. We love them whenever it'll be night time over there. We cannot wait to see what they see. Just leveraging everything we've learned so far agency. Taking us from Apollo now to the launch pad here. 39B. I've been playing that game a lot with Orion. How many hours am I on that game? Poised to fly us into the history books. 200 200. And before we leave you now here at the host desk to get back into operations, we just wanted to answer one question for you guys. We asked you earlier on today, what are you most excited for? And we asked you to Twitch, Instagram, you guys said launch Twitch. You guys said lunar flyby. So, I think you guys will all be very excited since we are now about 17 minutes. Yeah, I'm ready to see this. Our launch window today. How would they know where to land? Approach terminal count. Let's send it back to Daryl now. And fire. Isn't there like a hot spot on the sun? All right. Thank you. I say like on the opposite side of that. I just want to give you update on the launch abort system that they you just reported that they cleared. Um they believe they're convinced this is an instrumentation failure. Um so there are two batteries on the lass. The last spot with the help of my 2-year-old son's model rocket could use this. So it's okay. The last is right It's the tower above Orion. Orion capsules inside here. It's used to pull Orion off. uh the rocket in case the rocket is something's going on with the rocket either on the pad or in flight. It's crazy how much power it takes to move it up like that. Bad. Well, I'm sorry. One of the two batteries reported an out of family temperature and it was very much out of family. And so they checked their data going back into the vehicle assembly building where they recharged uh the batteries and worked on them and they have good solid data. they reported uh that tells them that this is an instrumentation failure that there's something wrong with the sensor and so they took it before the mission management team which has to accept the risk any changes to uh launch commit criteria which this would be one and they all fully accepted it. So now we are clear as far as that constraint is concerned. And one quick thing as we countd down now we are getting into the final minutes before liftoff. Um there's a 2-hour window. We haven't quite set the T0 yet. Uh but this is a list of the cutouts. There are 150 cutouts that are included for this two-hour launch window. And that's important. They're in very small print. That's important because there's basically 16 minutes inside this window that they cannot launch. And these are because of an asteroid, small things flying in orbit. There's a lot more things in orbit than there were back in Artemis one when we had 35 to 40 cutouts. Um so uh that for that reason UFOs could be an alien cutouts. They're going to be managing the launch window um as we go forward. So, this just reminds me of Starfield. Weighed out one of these cutouts. They range in time between two seconds to 23 seconds. But you'll hear the NASA test director talk through that. We're getting ready to merge that loop from NASA test director uh Jeff SP. Aren't you nervous? No. You've got the best guys in the world doing this. They got 50 years of precedent that they're building off of. This is going to go off fine. I mean, like, I would assume so. So, now I'm listening to I mean, these guys, they know what the hell they're doing. Their operational channel. Well, if it blows up, I mean, I don't know. I would be really bad. I mean, mistakes can happen, but like I would assume it to not blow. I I feel like these are the kind of guys that don't make those kinds of mistakes. I mean, like, if you were, think of how much money it cost to make one of these. Would you want to put an idiot in one of these? [ __ ] no on 212 for com check. Absolutely not. How me? I hear you the same. STC, you put a dumbass in there. GTC is on 212. All right, copy that. Not the 80s anymore. Yeah, I feel like they're going to have it's going to be locked in like I'm not I'm not confirming communications with his team. They have a launch abort. Yeah, they said that there's like a secondary abort system. I don't think you're going to get another was it Colombia? Uh the one that blew up every time. be two polls that we'll hear something like that. One from Spalding, the NASA test director, confirming the ground system. I take a NASA project the first time around. Yeah, but this isn't the first time. See, it's Artemis 2. We have a clear board. No constraints, but we need confirmation from each calendar individual on the on the um imagine if they call it on the NASA test director team. It sat as close to Concord. So, we'll hear him pull his team. The other poll that we're waiting for is the poll from launch director Charlie Blackwell Thompson, who will take that final status from NASA management before giving the go to come out of a hold. Now, you're seeing the clock countdown at Lminus 12 CCLC or NRS1? Uhoh. CCL. Yes, sir. Reconfigure ARS primary loop ISO valves. They're going to fake it again. Yeah, that's why they're doing it on April Fools. This is the reason why they had to shut down open AI SOA so they could fully AI generate an entire rocket launch. Integrity copies. They had to dedicate all of the computational resources to doing this to make it as photo realistic as possible. He has had a discussion with CIS and with Mer Manager regarding the observation CI had a few minutes ago photos of the condition that they observed has been there since manager has had a chance to review the findings and they do not have any constraints which AI generated. You never know, bro. Okay, copy all director ent. Ram went down massively. That's good news. Ram's going down massively. It's going to continue going down cuz they're figuring out alternate ways of doing it. RAM going up and it staying up was always like you knew that was not sustainable. It was a stop gap until they figured out a better uh a better workflow. And CGLs NTD cancel pending please. GLS copies. And then they have storage up. Oh, is that right? It used to be a dollar for we got a little bit more work to do um before we pick up the clock and we're about a little over a minute from getting to tminus 10 minutes but we've cancelled the resume time there and then we'll pick it up um after we get through all of our work and uh and anything else that we need to do uh to get through the remainder of crazy we're watching it for the first time in 50 years to get to our T. Isn't that weird? Like I didn't even know was going to happen. When we get to uh 50 seconds from now, we'll extend that. Hold CVC. You see the moon? We're going to the freaking moon. Yeah, I did see it. 400 290 looking to verify that we are configured for assent. Yep. My dad watched the first moon landing. He was on uh he was on leave from the Vietnam War and he watched it uh in Florida with with my grandma. I have an LCC violation of O-CT-004 Sband transpander anomaly. Um, this was a transient LCC violation. So, transponder one had a de modulated SNR estimate. Sounds bad. Went down to 2 dBm. Um, when it should have been between 10 and 13. It is now back up to 12, but we did lose that for just a moment. Um, it does not appear that we lost our bitsync or carrier lock. Yeah, it's too bad around to be indicative that we lost our lock with the vehicle. Um, so at this point, recommendation would still be held. Um, however, we do have a pre-planned contingency procedure. Um, if we want to look at that, but again, this was transient, so we're back in a nominal range. All right, let's see. LP NTD, they're figuring it out. Yeah, we're not seeing that hit. So, I guess question for COC. Was that less than three samples? Is that below our persistence? They're probably going to give us That's why they had a two-hour window. Standby. Let me look. It did look like it did persist for several seconds on mine, but um, let me take a look at the number of samples. I got to listen to this. Did I get a repeat on the uh affected LC timer suck? Yeah, they usually have this It's going to be O-C 10 minutes for a while. Yeah. Yeah. This is I mean SpaceX does the same thing like when something isn't like absolutely perfect, they they just wait until things are are lined up just for safety. Well, yeah. I mean, think about how much money they spend on this rocket ship, right? and they have like four really good astronauts. You won't have this thing blow up or get it [ __ ] up, right? It also make us look bad, right? I mean, you have a rocket, it doesn't like I mean it it'd be kind of embarrassing if we were able to go to the moon 50 years ago, but we couldn't do it now. Like that would be really embarrassing. Look at the data right here. Looks like that was a single sample. There's like one outlier. Yeah, copy that. Um RFTS does report that they also lost lock for about 5 seconds. Um so I would love to ask K US and see if they also lost lock with the vehicle for any extended amount of period. That's on a Canadian being a member of the crew in the current political context. Nobody gives a [ __ ] about that. Like I think people are willing to put that aside. Like I mean we have people from Russia that are in the ISS, right? I'm pretty sure like that's correct. There are things that go beyond that. Yeah. So in China too the allowance is effectively up to you know 30 seconds up to 3 seconds. I mean if Iran could get their [ __ ] together we'd probably still have people from there too. Not an LCC violation I believe. I mean this is it's a it's a like I think the the expansion of science is a is a global human front. It's not something that's like a regional access we're trying to verify. But got that zero sugar coat. Oh, that's so nasty. Why do you drink that? Okay, for both K US and CO that's affirm. We do have lock for CO except for weapons. Yeah. So from the integration console perspective, uh we did have a temporary loss there within the allowable and per the requirement. Let's go. And this is Houston flight. We have lock and we have good telemetry here in Jesse. I think it's going to keep going. And K US is reported to they have good lock now. The closest I've seen is like they they stopped it at 2 minutes one time for SpaceX in a go configuration per your LCC. Yes sir. We'll see what happens. LP you concur with that? Yes sir. LP concurren. They're going to fake this moon landing too. They don't need to. They're not they're not going to land on concurs. All right. And I'm going to go ahead and just verify everybody has everything else complete. Launch director. And if we do, we'll be ready to pick up the poll at that time, unless there's something else that you're aware of. No, sir. Let's uh verify all our work is complete. And I would like one last uh check of our constraints list. All right. Let's see. OTC, are you still uh waiting for COM config or are you That is affirmed, sir. Okay. Your only open item. Yeah. OTC, this is CBC that 400 step 290 is complete. This means there's going to be another war. Okay. So, I got a feeling that's not it. That's affirm. All right. Copy that. STC. STC is complete. And GTC GTC is complete. They lost contract. Auto returns. All right. And LP like what? Interstellar open. No open con. And launch director. With that uh we are clear and ready to uh pick up the launch readiness with your go Saturn. Oh go. All right sir. I am uh go for the poll. Well that was Venus cuz that was the All right. What and for all personnel this is the entity conducting the Artemis 2 launch readiness check. Verify ready to resume count and go for launch. OTC OTC is go. STC. STC is go. GTC's go is go. Safety console. The safety console is go. LP LP is go. RTD RTD is go. Houston flight. Houston flight is go. Rock. Rock is go. And CDR. Crew is go. Copy that. Thank you, Reed. And launch director NTD. Our launch team is ready to proceed at this time. All right, NTD, I copy all. At this time, I'll perform my poll. Attention on the net. This is the launch director performing the final poll for launch. Verify no constraints and go for launch. EGF EGS program chief. Damn, look at everybody. Artemis chief engineers are go. Copy. Thank you. It's crazy. We can even do this chief officer. The Artemis CSOS are go, man. Copy. Thank you. Range weather, the white monsters launch weather is go. Yeah, thank you. LWO and Artemis MMT chair MMT is go. Thank you, John and Integrity launch director. Go to the moon for content. I'd be afraid to go I go to the space, but I don't know if I'd be ready to go Oh [ __ ] This is Christina. We are going for our teammates. This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity. Your Artemis 2 crew is go for launch. Full send. Victor, Christina, and Jeremy. Let's get it. On this historic mission, you take with you the heart of this Artemis team, the daring spirit of the American people and our partners across the globe, and the hopes and dreams of a new generation. I didn't know that was a real term. Full Godspeed, Artemis 2. let's go. Yeah, I didn't know it was a real term. And ND and launch director. Go ahead, launch director. Yes, sir. You have a go to proceed with countdown. Copy that. I'll put it in work. CDR entityd go. So how big is it? This thing's pretty [ __ ] big, huh? 10.1.1 steps eight and nine. Those are like normal buildings. 10.1.1 89 going right right on there. Like god damn. CVS ent start and verify recordings of our Orion cameras. Copy. Okay. Well, there you heard it. RSR entity RSR. Oh, it's got that [ __ ] around enable at this time, please. It's currently at tminus 10 minutes. Once we wrap up this last bit of work, arm rotation enable complete. We're going to start that clock. Copy that. Thank you. Oh boy. Integrity crew close a lot visors. You're a few seconds behind. I think I am, but I don't want to refresh it again. I mean, I think it's it's caught up enough. NASA NASA. Yeah, I know they're going to we're going to be going to the moon real quick. It's like next year real time with lock on the Orion. It was transitory. It's very short. They checked the data, confirmed that they had a good luck transmitter on the Orion work through that issue. You think Russia and China are watching this and clearly everybody is probably everybody be watching this with the world watching. Impressive work by the launch team. Honestly, I didn't know it was 50 years since we last even went around the moon. I thought that's we landed on a few minutes at 6:24 p.m. Eastern time and goes until 8:24 p.m. Eastern time and ECL entity will be waiting for your verification on the short purge. ECL copies and for all personnel once we get that short purge verification we'll verify that we are clear to go and then we'll proceed with the terminal count. Uh oh, here we go. Two million watching on YouTube. There's two million people watching on YouTube. There's no way. This is says 1 point 1 point uh probably in collectively. Yeah, it's probably that that many like this is just 2 million total. This is a big deal. I bet it's probably over a million people watching. ECL time estimate about a minute. 120k 140k on Twitch. Damn. Refresh. Okay. This is uh 122,000. So, we're going into the launch window, but not by much, it looks like. Wrong stream. Oops. Just wrapping up. Okay, I got I got I got time. I want to find it. No, this is NASA. This is NASA. Once that's completed, you'll hear NASA test director Jeff Spalding just ask for the ground launch sequencer. To go ahead and start the clock. The ground launch sequencer is an application software runs on top of the launch control system in the firing room. Acts like a conductor of an orchestra executing hundreds of commands in precise order and timing. It's all autonomous. NASA's body 212 short purge initiations verified. All right, copy that. And we're verifying our constraints. This shit's fake as [ __ ] I know, bro. It's so fake. It's not real, bro. It's a fake rocket watched about a guy about flat earth. All right. And we're clear from cut flat earth. And with that, we're going to resume the clock momentarily. All right. Here it comes. And CGLs, you can resume the clock on your mark. GLS copies. 3 2 1 mark. GLS mainline has been initiated. There it is. T-minus 10 minutes and counting. Uh, it's a little bit confusing. I got to take it down. And that begins terminal count. Our new T0 is 6:35 p.m. Eastern time. 6:35 p.m. No, no, no. It's in 10 minutes. Counting down to liftoff of Artemis 2. It's in 10 minutes. Cuz the other timer says nine. See? See? They just they [ __ ] up. Now, you're going to hear two voices on the loops. Mhm. If everything goes nominally, NASA test director Jeff Spalding, who's directly managing the launch team, and Alex Mendelos, the GLS operator. Two million people watching this on YouTube alone, just on one channel. He has the ability, which has probably got like four or five million people watching the countdown. A lot of people ask about whether there's a launch button. There certainly is not. Flight and rock. Our new T0 is 223512. Is there a go to the moon button? 3512. Uh yeah, set cruise control to the moon. Confirmation of the exact T 0 635 and 12 seconds. You know what's funny is they might actually do that in the future. Our T0 is 635. So the entire thing has no possibility of human error. Eastern time. It's like hyperine. There's no launch button. This is autonomous. But there is a button that keeps you from launching. And that button allows the GLS operator to pause the countdown outside of terminal count and during terminal count and submit a hold to the next holding point. So the clock that's a really big bird if there's an issue almost the same size as the rocket stable holding point. Bird's got to be like what configures the rocket and ground systems to a stable point where they can stop the countdown if that's needed. But right now we are counting down our next big milestone. Looking to retract the crew access arm. Eight minutes. TLS is go for crew access. And there you see the crew access arm moving away. I'll be stressed, bro. That's the path that the astronauts took to ingress into the rocket. What about all those little What about all those little orange things? Until this point, that was their way off the pad if they needed to evacuate. But now with that arm retracting the backup transistors you abort system. All right, begin arming that shortly. Escape. No way back. Going to the moon, [ __ ] Of course, the launch abort system. Great shot there of the crew access waiting has to be the worst part. Yeah, bro. I'm gonna be honest. Like the moment that I I saw that if I was in that thing, I'd be getting stressed out. Pull Orion rocket in case of an emergency, whether it's on the ground or in flight. This is critical safety hardware that protects the lives of the astronauts. Starting at t-minus fire, bro. Is that right? GLS will start bringing that and other high energy systems online. High energy system with core stage pressurization. Some space [ __ ] with the sher is going to Iran. It's actually a missile to No, I don't think so. is taller in the Statue of Liberty. I heard Statue of Liberty wasn't that big. Weather is 90% go. The range is go. Here it is. Here it is. All systems are go. TLS is go for core stage tank pressurization. The valve of the liquid hydrogen tank has now closed and that tank is beginning to pressurize to flight levels because that hydrogen is naturally boiling inside the tank. What? We'll get the liquid oxygen tank a little later in the count. Now, the team is waiting for verification that if needed, the Artemis 2 crew could use the launch abort system to pull Orion safely off the top of the rocket in an emergency. Oh, yeah. That's like if it gets [ __ ] up. Listen in for that call. TLS verifies last capability available. Years ago, we barely had cars. This shit's going really fast. I feel like it's going even faster now. That's great news. And you heard the NTD verify that with the commander of the mission. TLS is go for FTS arm. Now work is being done to arm the flight termination system. This is so the range safety can send a flight termination command if the rocket flies too far off track. There's a brief built-in delay so the launch abort system has time to pull the astronaut safety first. L2 high flow bleed check. All right, the high flow bleed check. That's so the cryo team gets verification that the RS25 engine of all exponentially. It seems that way. Temperature for launch. I'm ready. Was not blinking. Yeah, I was just I was thinking about actually something else. I was just I I zoned out for a minute. play the interstellar music. No, bro. I'm just I'm not trying to complicate this. Okay, I'm just trying to watch it. GLS is core stage APU start. Core stage APU start. Those are auxiliary power units. Highspeed turbines which provide pressure to hydraulic pumps. It steers in a gimbal at tminus 2 minutes and 30 seconds. This is what allows that to What about all that stuff next to it? Is it just going to like I feel like shouldn't you move that off? Like coming up in about 20 seconds. We're listening for go for purge sequence 4. That's a helium purge of the four core stage engines. Course stage engines down the propellant valve. This gets all the air and moisture out of there. GLS is go for purge 2.4. Moving through the milestones. All is looking good. 3 minutes. All right, boys. Let's get it. Coming up in just a few seconds, we're going to get that thrust vector control actuator test. This is a gimling of the engines. This is exciting. Four RS25s. Three of them shuttle heritage. One of them built from shuttle parts. This history first time in 53 years. Last one was in, as they said, 1972. Oh, [ __ ] Now we're going to start moving the power from both the upper stage and the lower stage of the rocket to internal. Taking ground power away and now going to battery power. TLS is go for upper stage. I was here. Yeah. Yeah. I'm actually I'm really curious to see what's going to happen with that stuff connected up stage. To me it just seems like and it's been switched to battery. Same milestone for the lower core stage coming up at t-minus 1 minute and 30 Right now, the fourperson Artemis 2 crew is 248,000 miles away from the moon. And if all goes well, they will fly by it in 6 days. Damn. CLS is go for core stage to internal power. All right, there's the rocket's core stage, which houses three flight computers, is now on its own power. One minute, boys. No more margin on these batteries. We'll see if they have a last minute cycle back to tus to recharge if we had a hold. 1 minute. One minute left. Right now, the rocket does not know what the T0 is, but coming up at t-minus 33 seconds, control shifts from the ground launch sequencer to the rocket's onboard autonomous launch sequencer, or ALS. The rocket will count itself down, but honor any holds that could come from the ground. Oh, that's smart. Now, shortly after liftoff, Houston will take control of the rocket and my colleague Gary Jordan will take over commentary. GLS AI. Great call out. The rocket is on its own. If it's successful, explorers ready to ride the most powerful rocket. Is this the strongest rocket of all time NASA has ever launched. Yeah. Or NASA's done. Sound suppression water is flowing. 15. All right. 15 seconds. And here we go. 10 9 8 7 Imagine being the guy. Five engines. 4 3 2 1 booster ignition. And liftoff. It's actually happening. The crew of Artemis 2 now bound for the moon. Humanity's next great voyage begins. What happened to the Oh my good pitch. Roll pitch. Houston now controlling the flight of integrity on the Holy [ __ ] Integrity AMT high. That's a rocket. Yeah. Holy [ __ ] Look at that. On time. Passing 30 seconds onto the flights. Integrity passes the ultimate. Target milestone. Wow. Control. Houston. Good performance. Engines. Space launch system. Core stage. Integrity. 3 miles in altitude. I wonder if they can live stream from the moon. last forever. Will we be able to watch the moon? This loud? I bet it is. Probably cuz it's a rocket. What the [ __ ] is that? Mission of elast time. One minute. Approaching max Q on three on. Stan, we have you loud and clear on clearly on. Have you the same? Communication signal transfer confirmed as Integrity and its crew go supersonic. Seconds into the Artemis 2 mission. Integrity is 14 miles in altitude, 8 miles downrange, traveling more than 2600 mph. Man, I wonder if they have a will they be able to show it from the from the rocket. Look, I wonder if they will be able to like they had to have some cameras hooked up to that [ __ ] right? They will. 1 minute 50 seconds on mission last time. Standing by for main engine throttle down to 85% ahead of solid rocket booster separation expected at the 2 minute 9C mark. We see throttle throttle down. Upcoming AI videos is being shot down. Damn. Look at everybody. Convert separation. Main engine's throttling up. Guidance converged. Those are the booster things. Yeah. Integrity. Guidance converged. Performance nominal. Upper stage ready. They're really out here. Integrity. SM priming complete. It's round, guys. Well, I don't know. 2 minutes 45 seconds of mission elapse time into the Artemis 2 mission. Thrusters on integrity and upper stage confirmed in a ready state ahead of service module fairing separation. Fat Earth is in shambles right now. Integrity 49 miles in altitude. Just wait. Oh, bro. No. No. No. Turn it off. Turn it off. No. LOOK HOW FAST IT TOOK. And now they're already up in space and [ __ ] God damn. Shut it down. No. No. Standing by. Launchboard system. Jettison. Houston integrity. Good. Last jettison. Great view. Damn. Copy. Jettison. Team Eco 8 plus 02. We see the sale on board. Stan and Houston has you loud and clear on Tedras at the Carman line. Outstanding Stan. We have his name. Greatest April Fool's joke. 50 seconds to the flight of Artemis 2. Wiseman Glover Cook and Hans cross the boundary to space with good com checks. GPS signals acquired after last jettison. Now working on internal checks to verify accuracy. Damn. Flight dynamics officer analyzed the time of main engine cut off 8 minutes time of mo. Oh, it's in 8 minutes. Okay, so that's like four minutes from now. Two minutes or six minutes now at the same time it launched. Iran launched missiles at Israel, man. So, we're going to the moon. They're going to the Iron Dome again. They're trying to blow up another uh another barn. Of course. Yeah. Integrity GPS processing. Wait, guys. Why is there a Sora logo at the corner? The same. And we have a beautiful moonrise. We're headed right at it. Damn, look at that. Approaching 5 minutes into the flight. Commander Reed Wiseman confirms he has visuals of his destination. GPS guidance navigation and control software finishes internal checks and sends to navigation channels. Integrity three engine press. Three engine press. Uh-oh. On time now passing 5 minutes. Radiation Artemis 2 mission. At this point, three good main engines are all that's needed to carry integrity to a nominal main engine cut off target. Uh-huh. Though at this time we're saying four good engines here in mission control. So they got a bonus engine. Integrity 75 m altitude. 330 m approaching 10,000. 8 minutes is when they leave the the atmosphere. It should be in like 2 or 3 minutes. SpaceX is better. Yeah, they got they got to get their camera situation set up. Yeah, they got they got to fix that. I want to I want to see some more angles of this thing. Integrity looking good at 6 minutes. is lagging. Is it 10,000 miles per hour? Yeah. Uh, rockets are fast. And engine performance. Yeah, that would be correct. Soon report the shutdown plan to flight director Jud Freeling expected. They go really fast. Integrity 78 miles in altitude, 460 m downrange. Air integrity. Expect nominal shutdown. 11,000 miles an hour. That's pretty fast. Copies nominal shutdown. Yeah, it's pretty [ __ ] fast, man. 6 minutes 40 seconds of mission elapse time. Shutdown plan is as expected. Again, the time of Mika was confirmed flight. What's the black wavy view? I'm I don't I don't know actually. It could be the camera on the moon. They're like recording it. They're like, "Okay, they're coming." Mission elapse time. Throttling down as we approach the abort once around option. Milestone. 7 minute 30 second mark. Mhm. Now 84 miles in altitude, 650 miles downrange, traveling more than 15,000 mph. Integrity AO A open. Look at that, man. Holy the window is now open for an aboard once around option that would target splash down in the Pacific Ocean. Still following nominal ascent at this time. About 10 seconds remaining until the main engine cut off of the space launch system core stage. 16,000 17,000 mph and core stage separation. It's pretty fast. You got to get GoPros for these guys. We got watch out for the space. Integrity nominal courseated. Damn, that was badass. We see the same on the camera. Yeah. What the [ __ ] 8 minutes 40 seconds into the flight, we have a nominal main engine cutoff heading in the right trajectory on the way to swing around the moon. Core stage has separated, done its job. The space launch system upper stage, the inner rim cryogenic propulsion stage or ICPS still attached to the Orion spacecraft. Holy [ __ ] man. Some 20 minutes time. Integrity crew of Reed Wiseman, Victor, Christina Cook, and Jeremy Hansen now in orbit around the Earth at the beginning of their journey to the moon. Why haven't they shown the astronauts? And Houston looking ahead to PR numbers so far per the pad. So, I guess they're just going to keep going faster and faster probably because of the uh the lack of [ __ ] uh the gravity, right? I'm assuming that's usually what happens with the SpaceX ones, too. Capcom and Stan loves now reminding the crew that the uh the slingshot time of ignition is as expected prior to booster ignition. That time being 49 minutes 50 seconds of mission elapse time. the lack of atmosphere. Yeah. Wouldn't that disprove flat earth theory? Oh, you're trying to disprove the flat earth. Good luck. Good luck, brother. That's right. Yeah, that's a you're you're going to get them this time. Like, there's no way they can say this one's fake, right? There's no way. April fools. I know. Yeah. April fools, guys. It's actually flat. Where' the boosters go? Uh, I don't know. Probably somewhere in the ocean or some [ __ ] right? Integrity. Good assume. Yeah, I don't know if I don't think they try to catch him the same way SpaceX does. Copy that, Stan. Good. I mean, you got to remember like NASA's funded by the government, so they just waste money like, "Oh, it's a billion dollars." Oops. Well, that's the way it is. Oh yeah. Kill two birds with one stone. Yeah. They're going to fall off and run. And Terry Houston for PWD setup. Just a reminder, halfway open on the secondary. We copy that. Halfway open. SpaceX was contracted for this project for the boosters. I'm pretty sure they got to contract SpaceX for the cameras, Passing 11 minutes of mission elapse time. here. Overhearing the conversation between Capcom Stan Love and Commander Reed Wiseman already passing some milestones. We have a good nozzle extension deployment system that is confirmed um complete. We also have the visors are confirmed up now past the dynamic phase of flight. That is ascent. Oh, that the thing over the uh their launch and entry suits. Uh it's crazy. Probably all the astronauts, they weren't even alive the last time this happened. probably now. Not as needed. Isn't that crazy to think about? Those visors. I would say like the overwhelming majority of people weren't even alive when the last one happened. Egress or get out of the suits to begin some of their initial tasks of activating some of the systems aboard in the integrity spacecraft. Yeah, they're real young. I think they're probably 12 minutes of mission elapse time. Again, the uh parige rays maneuver that's targeted uh near 50 minutes of mission elapse time, 49 minutes 50 seconds. Uh that's uh what the crew is going to be working towards. The commander Reed Wisman pilot Victor Glover will focus on preparing for that milestone. In the meantime, uh, mission specialists Christina Cook and, uh, Jeremy Hansen will start some of the activation of environmental control life support systems. You may hear confirmation of their activation over the Orion to Earth um, communication network. Houston C3 ox power back in auto. Copy C3 ox. And we're 2 minutes to maneuver. Well, they turn they turn the light off. Why is it so dark? 13 minutes and 30 seconds of mission elapse time. We're going to continue to follow the uh crew of the Artemis 2 mission. They are beginning their journey around the moon to verify the systems that will take us to make sure the moon is still there. Incredible ascent. Artemis 2 is word on nothing happened to it while we were gone last journey to the moon. Still milestones to come up as we await solar arrays that will get integrity into a high earth orbit around the earth before engines are fired to get us around the moon. We'll keep track and its crew from here in Mission Control Houston. Uh but for now, we're going to send it back to you, Megan, and Nicole at the Kennedy Space Center. Very jealous to hear how the launch experience was over on the Space Coast. The Solar Array wings open. People are just joining us. Welcome back to the Space Coast where we just saw Artemis 2 lifttoff 14 minutes ago. And wow, what an amazing launch and an emotional one, too. As soon as the rocket lifted off, Nicole, you had tears in your eyes. I had tears in my eyes and we had all these people around us cheering. It was amazing. Yeah, the energy was wonderful. I mean, it was a beautiful launch. U you know, we've got four friends and family members headed to the moon. It's pretty amazing. Yeah. How does that make you feel as someone who uh you know is an astronaut as well, but also as you said, friends. Yeah. So, just so proud of them. You know, I bet man, we don't have the words in the English language to describe this kind of an event and pride, uh love, so many miles per second. They are truly um breaking some barriers and hopefully, you know, as uh Gary just said, they've got a long day ahead of all the way to everything. But so far, what a beautiful launch to watch. Yeah. To be returning to more than 50 years. Maybe they go farther from Earth before them. Maybe they see uh parts of the moon that we've never seen. Speaking on Yeah, I know. A great start to what could be all of these uh milestones. radiation belt one to two hours. This is also a big deal to welcome in the artist. Yeah. How do you see that? We saw some beautiful shots we were covering of uh of course the rocket, of course the earth um falling away up into our ascent, but also some of those crowd shots where we saw young and old just emotional overcome by this history making moment. Man, we are going back to the moon for all and we saw that today. We saw that in all the crowds and yeah, you guys just saw that view. the seeing people on the moon again. I think would be crazy over the crest of the earth and you could see the sun peeking over and it's happening in 2028. That's what people said. Imagine what they're in now and I can't wait to see what they're looking at in about five or six days. Yeah. And you know, I I know a lot of people are like, you know what, I'm I'm surprised this launched on the first try because we know like any little thing we have to be uh keeping safety in mind, making sure we're ready to go. But we were ready to go and I think it surprised a lot of people. What a wonderful surprise on this Wednesday evening. It did, you know, and it kind of surprised me as well, but you know, it's just a testament to the team here that has been working. So, I mean, you got one thing to do. You know, Artemis one, we learned a ton of you from the wet dress for Artemis 2. We were able to go in fix those things. We even today, not mishaps, but a couple, you know, anomalies today that the team creatively came up with solutions for. It's just a test. They're stuck on a 4day loading screen Sounds like me playing while on my dad's computer. Uh Christina load and Jeremy on their way now uh to the moon uh in Earth's orbit and awaiting the next in-flight milestones deploying Orion's solar arrays. So why don't we get back in with mission control? Yeah, I want to see I want to see some more about this. Hey, thank you Megan. Again, we're following along in the action. It is a long day. They have a number of procedures they need to get to immediately in their timeline. That's the next level. And integrity Houston. Damn, bro. Are the red things aliens? We copy Houston. Thank you. Good job, guys. Keep it up. Cross the matrix to um flight controllers here initiating. Has it gone through the firmament yet? connection between some of the batteries aboard the Orion spacecraft. Oh, there they are. Allowing for an even distribution of This is the flight control teams that took us through ascent of the Artemis 2 mission. This is ground control FAO. I don't know. Now we're as you see passing 18 minutes of mission elapse time. Booster. The Orion spacecraft integrity and the interim cryogenic propulsion system are maneuvering tail to sun. I don't find out yet. It is in this orientation now integrity anywhere on that moment GNC. Isn't that a place you get supplements? Mission. Damn. So, they're just showing it. Look at all those monitors, man. And there's nobody playing like a video game on the other screen or something. Nobody's doing like Hongkey star rail dailies on autoplay. What? Uh, they're actually working routed to his displays. Aboard integrity. Look at them, bro. They're all working. Propulsion engineer confirming that no action is needed. They're pressing through with their nominal procedures to prepare for the parige rays maneuver. Yeah, nobody's playing mine sleeper. And of course, the solar deploy ahead of that. No doom. Yeah, solar ring wing deploy is a critical milestone. We'll continue to to have our coverage uh follow the mission until that deployment. Successful launch is just the beginning. The deployment of the solar arrays and successful confirmation that those solar array wings are drawing power is a significant milestone and says to the flight control space program mission power needs to be drawn um to be to continue through some of the I wonder what they think the most accurate space game is until then the AOA open option that was called Starfield just a bunch of nothing around is the current option uh yeah you go to a planet there's nobody will be switched to the time that the solar array wings are deployed and latched teams a little bit more flexibility. Integrity Houston update on their own. What's this here? What the guy do? Uh, give us just one minute cuz I remember whenever I would watch the Space X ones, the velocity of it would reach like 40,000 mph over east to west expected 1 second earlier at 51 minutes 26 seconds. So, have they totally left the atmosphere yet? Like, I don't know if that's a stupid question, but like purg maneuver, burn. All right, Stan, we copy. One second. uh earlier for 5126 teachers east to west. Half of you are saying yes, half are saying no. Starting deploy thermal knives are firing. They're 500 miles from Earth. Concur. Thanks for the report. Read back of the reports that you just heard on the Orion to Earth network. Still high Earth until the slingshot has maneuvered the sun. That's right. 10 nozzle on the end of the ICPS is pointed towards the sun and the solar array deployment sequence has begun. Solar array deployment deployment confirmed until they are what is called in a latched uh position. Once they are latched and confirmed to be drawing power, they can switch the mode to atto and continue along the The teachers hand over at the pad. That message meant uh the crew was provided The crew is going to high Earth orbit. They aren't there yet. Yeah, I don't know. Numbers of when to expect the tracking. I never really paid attention to a lot of astronomy stuff. Currently orbiting Earth in an altitude of 545 statute miles above the Earth. They are in a near What's their expected arrival time? It's in like 6 days. They're going to show up satellites, geocynchronous satellites that are How much money did the ship cost? Does it say how much it costs to do this after the Apogee rays burn that occurs later today? The uh burn itself will put them in an altitude that surpasses uh the range of like4 billion satellites and they will transition to the deep state space. Think about how many daycarees you see temperature measurements right near the line message you saw earlier. We're going to suppress those. That's a lot. Five concord. Is this crazy that for five concords you can literally go to the moon? Think about that. Integrity. Thank you. Oh, I don't know. K. Do you want to make a shitty video game or go to the moon? Think about wait. Oh, damn. I don't know if they're going to show any more of it. Honestly, like what they should do the next time they do one of these, they have to have the camera set up. They have to have like 10 more cameras cuz I feel like that like people want to see what it looks like. I don't know if they're not they're just not showing it or what, but like they definitely need to have those cameras locked in. Passing 23 minutes of mission elapse time into the Artemis 2 mission cuz like the ones that SpaceX has are so good. Like they got to just use those. This is after a launch. Oh, they're rendering it. They're rendering the central time. Eastern time just 16 miles,000 orientation you're seeing from our arrow visualization that uh translates telemetry that we're getting from the spacecraft and puts it into a model so you can follow. I bet it's not that we are if they can figure out going to the moon and like a video for going to the moon 50 years ago. and nozzle that you see at the left end of your screen. Though it is currently not that nozzle is pointed towards the sun and the solar arrays are currently deploying from this position. They look fully stowed in a position. We are happy to report that Jeremy has the O2 sensors on the oxygen. Copy O2 sensors. Again, Commander Reed Wisman and pilot Victor Glover overseeing the deployment of the solar arrays. And we'll follow the attitude maneuver changes ahead of the first uh burn of the ICPS engine, the parig race Houston, we see four saws deployed and latched ready for ATO preferred. Pakistan uses Arma 3. We're almost there in the procedure stand. Yeah, they use Armor 3. Uh, you know, like [ __ ] uh Iran uses chat GPT and we have NASA a 7second miscompare between the ME on Orion and ICPS. We'd like you to read us the ME from your center status bar and on for the ICPS on stack sum on a stack man. and stand. What game is this? It's Halfife one. Precise alignment. I want to see if they're going to show some more footage of the uh of the rocket. Man, precisely aligned with ICPS. Iran also had a space program, but all their rockets couldn't reach space yet. They all crashed in Israel. I heard some of Iran's rockets crashed all the way uh in Saudi Arabia. A little bit off course. Didn't quite make it to the moon. Yeah. Jeez, guys. Not so good. This is 25 minutes 45 seconds into the flight of Artemis 2. We have confirmation that all four solar array wings are deployed and latched. Oh, this is the configuration needed to switch to at preferred, which you did hear confirmed from pilot Victor Glover. That it's got the little things out there. There was also a discussion with Capcom Stan Love and Commander Reed Wisman about the alignment of the ME clocks on the Orion spacecraft and uh the ICPS. Commander Reed Wiseman confirmed the clocks are in sync. I wonder if SpaceX is ever going to be able to go to the moon. We're proceeding with today's mission. 26 minutes of mission elapse time and counting. I feel like if they go to the moon, they should like they should take the company the company uh public like right after they go to the moon, right? Like as soon as as soon as you get back, guys, the company's going public right now and just [ __ ] make like trillions of dollars. They're going to go to Mars. They're going to try and go to Mars. I think we'll probably like I mean, is there any plans for them to have a manned mission to Mars? I feel like there's really not. Like, honestly, I don't really see the reason why we would have a manned mission to Mars, especially with how much technology has evolved. It just seems like a waste of human capital to like send somebody to Mars because it's gonna be hard for them to get back. Like it's pretty much impossible right now for somebody to get back from Mars. So like I I I don't know. Like they got to figure out a way to like just make it, you know, at least like just a few years cuz I heard how long does it take to get to Mars? They say it's like three years, right? Or something like that. Six months. Oh, that's not so bad. I like I guess a six month. I mean, like, yeah. Uh, yeah, that's really not that's not so bad. But I do feel like if you had the robotics for it, wouldn't you just be able to simply have somebody go mission control Houston, we're approaching 28 minutes of mission and basically just control a robot that's basically a person. cuz I feel like that would be a lot easier than sending an entire guy over at uh 5 uh p.m. and and 12 seconds p.m. 6:35 and 12 seconds p.m. Eastern time. I want to see if they go back to the the the actual footage of of the thing. I'm ready to see that. Good uh main engine cut off, core stage separation, and a good trajectory to begin today's mission. You're describing Optimist. I mean, I understand how the uh spacecraft has uh maneuvered. I don't really keep up with a lot of this stuff. We're standing by for another maneuver to maneuver into uh the burn attitude. This is where the uh RL10 engine of the ICPS send people to Mars as soon as the mid30s per raise We did hear confirmation that the perigee raise maneuver time of ignition has been confirmed per the pad which means it was the predicted time uh prior to liftoff integrity for goal to have a permanent bases there back up in case something happens to earth okay stand we're watching go ahead what do you think muscle will gear up with all his companies borning company do underground work robot to go first solar need batteries and resources and gas to get over there. I think that aren't they trying to like do some kind of energy source from gravity or something like that? Like I I I don't know exactly how that works of integrity that will switch the navigation source. Like I mean I could see how it would theoretically work but like I just don't know how pilot Victor Glover like I mean how do you how do you capitalize on that kind of yeah uh as energy from gravity to confirm I I don't know what it was exactly which has occurred there's a term that they had for it I just don't remember what the term was par maneuver that we're heading towards uh from actually uh inside 20 minutes at this time from the time of ignition of the parig rays maneuver that the next thing that's going to We did have a successful deployment and launched of all four solar array wings. Turner's making antimatter and studying it to the that's big ass long [ __ ] thing in your course flight controllers here in mission control Houston will continue to evaluate that everything is good before committing to that burn. The parige raise maneuver does raise the perigee, the lowest point in the orbit from 15 to 100 nautical miles. The 100 nautical mile mark uh is needed to continue in low Earth orbit and hit the target for the apogee rays burn. That will put them in a high earth orbit uh for the remainder of the day and set them up for the right um the right position to execute the trans lunar injection and head to the moon tomorrow. Trans lunar injection. The burn duration of the parig rays maneuver is so they're actually totally leaving the orbit tomorrow or not totally but like you know obviously to get into the uh correct position before firing that uh main engine on the ICPS. Woke the pad had a woke rocket tracking and data relay satellites uh east to west. satellites that are positioned around the globe. And as Orion makes its way, space already created Starship HLS supposed to be uh bus as a human landing system to take Artemis from the rocket down to the moon. Oh, that's right. Cuz they had a secondary thing and counting. I feel like if we had a moon base like maneuver is not executed at the perigee. uh it is rather executed on the um uh actually closer to the apogee. There's a I mean like there's an aura factor of having a moon base. Personally, I think there's a huge aura factor for that. Nautical miles. Like if we had a base on the moon, I do feel like that really would I mean that would just be really cool. The 26 second duration burn does not conflict with the uh time that they've reported of the tracking and data relay satellite handover from teachers east to west. Again, geocynchronous satellites that are used not only by integrity today but the international space station as well. Uh oh. Uh that time of handover is uh 51 minutes 26 seconds. Plenty of margin uh before the um paraj rays maneuver cutoff happens and the trajectory is analyzed to see whether it was a good burn. Uh good burn means that the burn was performed as expected. You launch plans for a moon factory. I haven't seen that at all. Like your idea of a mission to the sun at night. Yeah, true. Which country would you belong to if you were born on the moon? Well, the thing is that like actually the answer that's like super simple, super obvious, right? But like the people just over complicate everything with us on NASA ridiculous following along on our continue to follow. Yeah, we're going to rename Earth to America until Yeah. And then we can call the moon Russia or China to cover the mission 247. Half of the moon can be Russia. The other half can be China and then the Earth can be America. Wrap up our coverage here shortly. And now that uh solar array wing deployment has occurred on NASA America Prime. Oo, I like the sound of that. America Prime. Let's see what it's saying. Again, we will continue coverage 24/7 at the NASA YouTube channel. Yeah, for those that want to see all of the upcoming milestones, there are select times where we will be coming back to NASA plus and other streaming platforms. So if you attack the moon, you're attacking the latest on when to find those activities. What about Uranus mission? We do want that. um maintaining transparency in the mission and providing you all the information can't say that on what's happening in space as Reed Wisman, Victor Glover, Christina Cook and Jeremy Hansen head uh on their mission probably. That'd be too much. That'd be too much. Relax guys. Build prisons on the moon. Ooh, the moon prison. What if they jump really high and they go inside integrity at this time? Again, these wings have deployed the You got to like tie them down. Integrity is maneuvering uh to its like a harness on a head. The execution of the parig rays maneuver. Yeah, they could jump over the wall, build a taller wall. Seeing these steps is done by Wisman and pilot Victor Glo. That's what you got to do. Mission specialists Christina Cook and Jeremy Hansen focusing on some of the system activation inside of Orion, namely the environmental and control and life support systems. It's a good day to be an American. I'll tell you that. Some of these critical systems are very important. It's good to have a Canadian uh Canadian astronaut there. Those systems are uh in a good condition in a reliable condition to uh uh provide badass the necessary uh environmental and control. Um the moon would have their own religion. They worship the earth through the reverse mission that extends 10 flight There's gravity on the moon. You can't jump that high. You probably can jump higher than you could jump on Earth, right? Standing by for an update to the uh par raise maneuver time of ignition. Should be right up to the crew very shortly. Yeah, I'm going to be honest. Like the next time they do this, they got to get like 10 cameras on this thing. Like hook up like 50 GoPros to this [ __ ] cuz like I want to see what it looks like. I want to see what the Earth looks like right now from like their perspective that they have. Like that's what I want to see. I want to see what the [ __ ] it looks with like that good quality. I'm sure like they probably take a picture of it, They probably built like the I wonder I wonder can they can they bring their phone? I bet Verizon does like Verizon or AT&T work there. I wonder. Yeah, probably not. It's probably pretty far away. No. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. No signal. God damn, bro. Like I thought I had airplane mode on. Put rocket mode. And uh yeah, I don't know. Oh, we need a Starlink by the moon. Yeah, I wonder honestly like how far away it would be able to work out. Houston, with that update, we are approaching uh a hot spot. A little more than 13 minutes from the time of ignition of the parig rays maneuver. That time updated to be 2 seconds earlier was 49 minutes 50 seconds of mission elapse time. We'll now move to 49 minutes 48 seconds. The duration of the burn, that's what was referred to as the TGO, uh will still remain at the at 26 seconds. Relatively short duration burn. again just raises the parige of the orbit today. This is 24/7 at the space station. I wonder what what it would be like if you jerk off in space. Making sure they hit the mark uh on that uh time of ignition. I just wonder is the primary concern of I don't know. Commander Reed Wiseman and pilot Victor Lover. I mean cuz you're up there for like a long time activating those environmental control and life support systems. I don't know. Well, I I was just thinking about I I I I don't look guys members are wearing the It's for science. I'm asking questions for science. Okay. Optimus. I don't know why I've been acting so weird about We have time update instructions when you're ready. What does it say? A snow globe. Yeah. Say April Fools. Yeah, they're going to say April Fool's. Integrity, we uh copy. The whole thing was fake. Our hands are pretty busy at this time. I think we will call you back when we're ready for that. We can call you call you back. All right. Uh that one is not urgent. Uh 2 minutes to maneuver to PRM attitude. We are watching and uh concurred. Yeah, I really they have a vacuum tube for that, bro. Pilot Victor Glover confirming that maneuver. It's called a flashlight. Yeah, I know. I heard about that. Again, that the point of that maneuver is the engine of the ICPS, the RL10 engine in the proper orientation to execute that 26 second burn. It needs to point in the correct position to achieve the goal of absolutely whack. It is honestly like they really need to like this is embar. It's actually embarrassing. Some of the environmental control would get this from the 1972 mission. They said, "Yeah, let's just run it back." They they definitely could do a way better job of the next like the uh the media tech for it is like way way way better. Like I think they definitely need to level up here on the ground. Mission control Houston flight director Jud Freeling is doing a poll with all flight controllers in the room uh to see if we are in a go position to go ahead and…

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