0:03 S0 ... for us. 0:06 S1 Okay. Jackie, and then we'll come back to the other side of the room. 0:10 S2 Thank you. 0:10 S2 Jackie Goddard for The Times of London. My question is for Howard. 0:14 S2 As a little boy, you were inspired by Star Wars. 0:18 S2 I wondered if today is better for you than Star Wars. 0:21 S2 And for future space travelers looking back at today, what should they see as being the significance? 0:27 S2 Thank you. 0:28 S3 Wow. Um, you probably be watching my old interviews or something, but, uh- ... 0:32 S3 uh, I would say a thousand... 0:34 S3 I don't know what the number is. Thousands of times better. 0:37 S3 Uh, you know, I- I would say that, uh, I shared a moment with my father. 0:41 S3 He took me to see Star Wars. He's not alive today. 0:44 S3 Uh, I wish he was, uh, because that little kid who saw and was inspired 0:49 S3 by the stars and now we're able to send, uh, 0:52 S3 our crew out to the stars, the farthest that any humans have been. 0:56 S3 I mean, I- I can't even express, uh, just how I feel and the goosebumps g- boo- goosebumps I have. 1:03 S3 Uh, and I would say that for all the kids out there, I mean, just pursue the dreams. 1:09 S3 I- I can't say any better than the crews. 1:11 S3 You know, I tell my kids also, "Pursue what you're passionate about." And my passion is the space program. 1:17 S3 My passion is NASA. 1:18 S3 And I was able to, uh, accomplish that today and hopefully many more days going forward. 1:23 S3 But you have the opportunity to do what you are passionate about and, uh, 1:26 S3 hopefully those kids who are in love with human space flight, 1:30 S3 in love with going to the stars will be inspired by us, 1:33 S3 especially by our crews and come join NASA, come work for us. 1:37 S3 We got a lot of missions ahead. 1:41 S1 Okay. Go ahead. 1:42 S4 Thank you. Ariel Moutsatsos from TelevisaUnivision. 1:45 S4 Um, the only mission until today that, uh, for which the communications blackout 1:53 S4 lasted six minutes was Ap- was Apollo 13, if I am not mistaken. 1:58 S4 Today's lasted six minutes, around six minutes. 2:01 S4 Does that says- say anything about the design, 2:05 S4 uh, of the, of the ship or what is the reason, uh, behind that? 2:10 S4 Uh, and also very quickly, can we see a Hispanic in, uh, one of the next missions of Artemis? 2:18 S4 Thank you very much. 2:21 S5 Uh, as far as the, the duration of the blackout, a lot of that, uh, 2:24 S5 that's just dictated by the physics of the approach trajectory. 2:27 S5 Um, you know, the, the Orion spacecraft, the... 2:30 S5 when you get enveloped by, you know, plasma that's thousands of degrees, uh, 2:35 S5 the radio frequency of the antennas just can't, just can't shoot through that. 2:39 S5 Um, you know, on the space shuttle we were lucky we had the, 2:41 S5 the tail and we had an antenna up on the tail and, and, uh, 2:44 S5 it took us a while to figure that out that that was a way to keep calm. 2:47 S5 Um, for Orion, uh, it was six minutes, but it was predicted and it, 2:51 S5 it played out exactly as we predicted. 2:53 S5 So, um, that just gave us confidence that it was flying the way it was supposed to. 2:58 S1 Will. Hi. Thank you. 3:02 S6 Will Robinson-Smith with Space Flight Now and congratulations again tonight. Uh, question for Rick. 3:07 S6 The, the whole flight operations team has been exceedingly busy 3:12 S6 throughout the course of this mission, in preparation for this mission. 3:15 S6 I imagine there will be a little bit of breathing room now that the crew is back safely on Earth, 3:19 S6 but when do you kind of get the band back together to start prepping for Artemis III? 3:23 S6 And will it be the same complement of flight directors that we saw for Artemis II? 3:28 S6 Thank you. 3:29 S5 Well, you're right that the, the next mission is right around the corner and, um, 3:32 S5 you know, we'll take the lessons learned from Artemis II. We'll, uh... 3:35 S5 we learned a bunch on how to fly people in space, both from a, 3:39 S5 a vehicle operations, but also from how to, how to run a control room, uh, with a deep space mission. 3:44 S5 And, uh, when, when the time is right, we'll get back into flight-specific training and, 3:48 S5 you know, we, we've got a, a core group of about 30 flight directors and they're all extremely capable. 3:53 S5 And, um, you know, I think anybody who's assigned to that 3:56 S5 next mission is gonna be, uh, as successful as, as the, the three of us, myself, Judd, and Jeff. 4:05 S1 Yes. We'll take you. 4:08 S7 Uh, Tom Clarke with, uh, Sky News. 4:10 S7 Uh, congratulations on a very successful mission. 4:13 S7 Um, Amit, y- you spoke yesterday of there only being irrational fears. 4:18 S7 I wonder if you succumbed to any, and if so, what they were. 4:22 S7 Um, but more after such a successful test flight, 4:25 S7 how much of a boost is this to NASA's confidence in its wider mission to stay on the moon? 4:33 S8 I mean, for the, for the campaign, this is a huge step, you know, for, 4:37 S8 for us to, to build confidence, not just in the, 4:40 S8 in our understanding of how this machine performs, but just that this organization can rise to the standard of qualifying 4:46 S8 a m- a vehicle like this for crewed flight. I think that's, that's huge. 4:49 S8 It took a lot of discipline and a lot of changes between Artemis I and now to get there. 4:53 S8 And the, the, the team really rose to the equation. 4:55 S8 The- these folks here, they- they did a tremendous job of, 4:58 S8 of instilling the amount of discipline and rigor and, and, and, 5:00 S8 and belief in the qualification standards to, to make sure this is gonna work. 5:04 S8 And so, uh, to me, that, that was almost the biggest objective of this mission, 5:08 S8 was to prove to ourselves that we could move to crewed flight, but maintain the, 5:13 S8 you know, the same level of, of, um, you know, risk knowledge and understanding, 5:17 S8 but also, you know, really, really focus on, on what that looks like. 5:20 S8 You know, to your point, um, the... the... it is... 5:23 S8 when you, when you fly the crew, when you fly any crew, um, you, 5:27 S8 you can al- you can be paralyzed. You know, you can be... 5:30 S8 you can almost be paralyzed by risk because you, you, you become so close to them. 5:34 S8 You understand the... 5:35 S8 what's at stake when you, when you... 5:36 S8 with the families, you understand what's at stake. 5:39 S8 But the, the crew knows this and, and we have to do it too, 5:41 S8 but organizationally understand that what we do is we take calculated risks and that it, 5:46 S8 it's gonna take risks to explore, but you, you have to make sure you find the right line between being 5:51 S8 paralyzed by it and being able to manage it and, and, uh, and bound it the right way. 5:56 S1 Okay. Andrea. 5:57 S1 And then after that we'll come to Michael and then takes everyone on the phone. 6:02 S9 Andrea Leinfelder of the Houston Chronicle. Um, this question's for Rick. 6:06 S9 I enjoyed seeing the flight controllers storm into white flight control room and I was just wondering, 6:11 S9 were those the controllers from the back room? 6:13 S9 Were there people who are off duty who just couldn't be away? 6:16 S9 Um, and why was it important to open the room to them and to let more, 6:19 S9 like, uh, the Houston workforce celebrate that moment? Thanks. 6:23 S5 That was... Anybody... 6:24 S5 I- I made a call out to anybody who had worked the mission, 6:28 S5 no matter what shift or what room you were sitting in to come into the room and, 6:32 S5 uh, just soak in the moment with the rest of the operations team. Uh, they all deserved it. 6:36 S5 They worked, uh, tremendously hard, uh, both pre-flight and during the mission. 6:39 S5 And it was a, a time for us to, um, celebrate together before, uh, celebrating outside of that room. 6:51 S10 Okay, Michael. 6:55 S9 Hi, Michael Adkison , Houston Public Media. Congratulations again. 6:58 S9 My question is also for Rick. 7:00 S9 Um, I think that we've asked the crew several times, uh, 7:03 S9 if they felt the weight of this moment, and I'm curious if you felt, or, 7:08 S9 you know, if you know your other flight directors felt the weight of this, that, 7:11 S9 as you were going through all this, you're like, "This is what Gene Kranz felt. 7:13 S9 This is what Chris Kraft felt." Did you ever feel that moment? 7:17 S5 There were a couple of times where you're just... You kind of... 7:20 S5 You have a, a lull in the shift and you can kind of sit back in your seat and just 7:24 S5 look out... just look out the window. 7:25 S5 You know, I do that at ISS a lot when I work, uh, 7:28 S5 down the hall working in, in Figure 1. 7:30 S5 Um, you just enjoy the view. You know, as we... 7:35 S5 As I worked early in the mission on the planning shift, 7:37 S5 the moon was getting bigger and bigger and it was fun to just sit and, 7:40 S5 and watch the moon get bigger. 7:42 S5 And then as we worked, uh, on the entry minus one day shift yesterday and then on the entry shift, 7:47 S5 um, it was fun to watch the earth get bigger. 7:49 S5 And, uh, it was, uh, 7:53 S5 fascinating to watch orbital mechanics take over. 7:56 S5 And in the last day, when I took the console, I think we were... 7:59 S5 Uh, earlier this morning, I think we were over 50,000 miles away from Earth 8:04 S5 and we made up that last 50,000 miles in the last eight hours.