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This is a

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live view of the Artemis
two rocket and spacecraft

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at the launch pad at NASA's
Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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Today, we'll discuss how progress towards
launch and the mission are going.

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Welcome,
and thank you for joining us today.

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I'm Rachel Kraft with NASA communications,
and I'm joined this afternoon

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by several NASA managers
to talk to you today

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about how our progress towards
launch are going.

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They are Doctor Lori Glaze,
Acting Associate Administrator

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for NASA's Exploration Systems
Development Mission Directorate.

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Shawn Quinn,

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Exploration Ground Systems
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Chris Cianciola, Deputy

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Program Manager for the SLS Program.

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And Howard Hu, Orion Program Manager.

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We'll have some opening remarks
from each of our participants today,

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and then we'll take questions, both

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from reporters here in the room
and those on the phone.

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For those who are joining us by phone
today,

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a reminder that you can join the question
queue by pressing star one.

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And with that,
we'll start with Lori. Great.

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Thank you so much, Rachel.

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And thank you to everyone

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that's tuned in and here today, 
for helping us

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share in this incredible excitement
of the Artemis two launch.

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We are getting very, very close.

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And and we are ready.

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You know, we held our flight readiness
review a couple of weeks ago,

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and since that time, all of our
operations have been going very smoothly.

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It's been going very well.

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Our flight systems are ready.

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The ground systems are ready.

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Our launch and operations teams are ready.

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And our flight operations
team in Houston are also ready.

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The crew arrived yesterday,
and I know that they're ready.

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They are more than ready.

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They can't wait to get off the ground.

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It was really terrific to see them,
to see their crew arrive in Florida,

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where they'll be spending
the next few days,

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doing their final reviews
of their procedures,

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and spending some time with their families
while they remain in quarantine.

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Tomorrow,
tomorrow, our mission management team,

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will become the primary decision makers,
regarding our readiness for launch.

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The team, the MMT team, will be meeting
in the afternoon tomorrow.

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To review the closure plan
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Work, open work items that came out
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to help ensure that we're ready to go.

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Before
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and take a moment to make sure
I thank all of the personnel

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who have put in thousands of work,
thousands of hours of work

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over the last few months,
including nights, weekends, holidays.

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To get us to this point,
with help them and their incredible

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dedication to this mission,
we wouldn't be here today.

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I also want to thank our program managers,
that are with us here.

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They have been overseeing
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within their teams
to prepare for Artemis two.

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But not only to prepare the hardware
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but they're now also at the same time,
helping to ensure that we're ready

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for the increased cadence
of the Artemis missions that are to come.

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And so that we are ready
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and the new flights
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And with that, I'm going to pass it
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Thank you very much, Lori.

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Well, first of all, it's
great to see everyone

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and I appreciate all your interest in
what we do now.

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This week has already started to be
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with the arrival of our, Artemis
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they were pulling up into the airplanes,
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in the daylight.

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And it was just.
It was really, really cool.

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Yesterday we had an important meeting.

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Our launch countdown pretest briefing.

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This is, like, the last step before we get

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into the actual launch countdown,
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And I will tell you
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launch countdown
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And Charlie Blackwell Thompson,
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you know, in all the years
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shuttle launch countdowns,
I've never had one that was as clean

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as this one, meaning
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All of our nonconforming SES were closed.

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And, the team and the ground systems
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to get in the launch countdown.

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The one thing we are watching
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And, we got our latest forecast
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officer from the space launch, Delta 45.

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And the thing we're watching
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The thick cloud rule and also, winds.

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So right now we're forecast to be 80%
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So that's good.

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So the last time we met, you know,
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we need to get out to the pad around,

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the 19th, and, we did.

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We held the schedule, and it was the
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Or pad the VAB,
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It was, 21 days.

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Our previous, record
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In that time,
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out of their flight termination system,
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the helium two we talked about last time
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on the flight termination system.

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Since that time at the pad,
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we've installed our emergency
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extensible columns
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and we've retracted urgent service
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Our launch countdown teams.

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You know, today was, interestingly
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and, turns out
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Well, since we were so far ahead
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we were able to give the team
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And they've taken advantage of that.

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So, getting in the launch countdown,
we've checked out our crawl systems,

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our to unlock systems,
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We've done radio frequency tests with our,

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launch vehicle and the spacecraft,
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And, so we're we're really ready.

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We're going to start our launch countdown
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We'll finish some pad washdown,
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wash downs, and we'll get on with it.

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So at this point,
we can safely say the crew is ready.

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The rocket's ready.

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Spaceship's ready.

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Ground systems are ready,
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the weather cooperate on Thursday,
and we're ready to go.

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So with that, I'll turn it over to Casey.

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All right. Sean, thank you.

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We, too
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This is our first opportunity
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in more than 53 years.

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You think about the last mission
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for humans in deep space
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I do appreciate your interest,
and I'm happy to be here to represent the

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SLS program.

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On behalf of Manager
David Beeman and the entire SLS team.

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Our teams are working
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Sean talk about all the work
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but the energy and dedication of the team
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Everybody's excited.

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Now, we all recognize
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of this mission,
but our teams are still focused on

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making sure the rocket is fully prepared
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That is our focus.

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Since the rollout was complete on the
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connection to that
ML and the Pad infrastructure are correct.

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The vehicle is talking to the pad,
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and everything is is coming along good.

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everything seems to be going
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We have completed all our ordnance checks
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That all went well.

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That was a critical safety milestone
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And tomorrow marks
the start of our launch countdown.

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And we'll be working with the same
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Make sure this rocket is ready.

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Our number one goal is to make sure
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That is our highest priority,
and that is our unwavering commitment.

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And we will be there to support the crew
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Well, ship.

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Well, deck ship.

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So with that,
I'm going to pass it to Howard.

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Thanks, Chris.

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I am also very excited
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and, representing the entire Orion team.

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You know, we've worked very hard
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I'll tell you that, certainly.

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You know, we've had our share of work
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And when we roll back to the vehicle
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on, and, we we didn't have anything,
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We did top off our launch abort system.

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So from our perspective,
our spaceship is ready to go in. Fly.

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Victor, Jeremy and Christina
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I would say that, 
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that we have final, items that we load,
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We're going to have that loaded
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Last, last second to last minute, set
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So nothing, unique.

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Very much standard, processing that
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And of course, tomorrow night at around
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evaluation room team, that's the experts
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The flight control team will be,

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on station and starting the launch
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They'll be ready to go.

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This team is comprised of all the experts
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team and our European team.

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to make sure that, we tackle any, issues
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the flight control team
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making and understanding of anything
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And happy to be getting to this point
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You know, after, Chris and,

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Celeste team, gives us a beautiful ride,
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We've got a lot of things that, we're
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We've got, paired reraised maneuver.

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apogee raise burn.

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with the ISPs, and it's really awesome.

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Time, in terms of just from, 
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background to see all that happen.

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with the life support systems
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as I said, our mission evaluation room
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the data very closely and ensuring
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commit to the moon through our, 
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So that's going to be a very, important
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We're looking forward to seeing
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And operating
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You know, I would say that,
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that the team is, certainly poised
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They're very excited.

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We've worked many years of testing,
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over the last several months
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And, on behalf of the entire Ryan program

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team comprised of, experts from the U.S.

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We're excited for this mission.

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We're ready to go.

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And we look forward to, successful,

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almost ten day, mission
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So thank you.

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It's time now for questions.

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We will start here in the room
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A reminder for those on the phone.

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You can press Star
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if you don't mind limiting it
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And, let us know who you'd like
to answer that question.

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And with that, we'll start here
in the front row with Marsha Dunn.

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Hello, Marsha Knapp,
probably for you, Lori.

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NASA's just rolled out
this big moon base plan,

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and it seems to me that that puts
extra pressure, extra attention.

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So much extra on Artemis two to do. Well.

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What's your take on that?

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I mean, I'm not perfect, but like,

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so much is riding on this mission
now that perhaps wasn't before.

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Could you talk about that?

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You got Marsha.

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I think there's always been a lot
riding on this mission on Artemis two.

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We've always recognized from the beginning
that the future of the Artemis program,

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the first major step with crew
is the Artemis two mission.

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You know, we completed Artemis one.

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We demonstrated our sales capabilities,
but Artemis two, where we're really

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testing out the capabilities of the Orion
system, environmental controls.

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There's always been a lot riding
on this mission, but what I can tell you

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is that the rollout of the the moon base
plan and the ideas for the accelerated

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launch cadence, in my opinion,
have actually energized our teams.

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I think our teams are so excited
to see an opportunity

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to not have to wait several years
before the next mission.

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They are what I see, driven now

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to how can we work to achieve this
amazing, launch cadence

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that allows us to keep our learnings
and turn them around quickly,

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and build the muscle memory
we've been talking about.

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So from what I see,
it's more of an energizer than anything.

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All right.

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Second roll.

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Bill Harwood

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and Bill are with CBS news for Howard.

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You know, making the first flight
with a complete life support

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system puts an awful lot on the plate.

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That has to work for that.

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During that first 25 hours before the
the tail burn.

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Can you give us a sense of what gives
you confidence

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that that system is going to work

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the way you want it to
in the environment of space?

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Just based on the testing
you've done on the ground and,

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and the legacy systems that are involved.

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Just just overall confidence.
Oh, that's going to work, right.

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Because obviously it has to
if you're going to go to the moon.

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Yeah.

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So, Bill, I would answer,
just like all our primary systems

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and all the systems on spaceship,

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we do a lot of testing, uniquely
for life support.

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We put actually humans with the life
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both, in the cabin, environment
and also in the spacesuits.

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And, we've been designing the system
since the very beginning, the program

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in over the last decade plus,
we've been doing testing across the board,

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with, suits
and with the environmental control systems

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in the cabin
and with subject, human subjects.

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We have, vacuum chamber

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in at Johnson Space Center
that allows us to do that.

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So that's one part of it in terms of
the final kind of check out with people.

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But along the way,
just like any other hardware

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we do, we tested the
the individual box level.

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We tested the harness and connector level.

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And then we also tested integrated system.

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You can imagine it in a pallet.

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And of course we do
the spacecraft checkout as well.

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So there's a varying, steps

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that we take and, increased fidelity
by which we do this testing.

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And that testing includes
the actual flight software that controls,

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some of that E-Class hardware,
life support hardware, that we need.

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So, very robust test campaign
comprised of,

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not only just components,
integrated systems and with people.

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Okay.

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We'll come here. Second row.

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Ma'am. Grush.

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Hi. Loren Grush with Bloomberg.

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I'm just wondering,
do we know at this point

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the distance that they will come within
the moon if they launch on April 1st?

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How does that change
throughout the April window?

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And if it does change,

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will they still be breaking the distance
record for human crew?

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Thanks.

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Great question.

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Maybe I don't know.

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Howard, do you know the at
the top of your head with the distances?

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I'll just call these numbers because
we're doing the math on it right now.

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252,799

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mile statue miles, on April 1st.

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So that'll be the farthest point,
that we're going on the moon.

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And, of course, we're going to be, 4144

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statue miles further than the Apollo,
has ever gone.

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So in terms of distance, we're working
that on the second, third and fourth.

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I would say, let's launch
on the first and, go from there.

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Okay.

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But we are doing the calculations and,
if you Loren, if you need

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those numbers,
our teams are working on it very hard.

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Yeah.

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Let's go.

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Third row.

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Hi. Thanks for doing this.

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Lori, you mentioned that there's still
a couple of close out items from that far.

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Can you remind us what those are
and where those stand?

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And then I also wanted to ask about.

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I mean, we talked about ground forecasts.

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Really curious about in space weather
forecasts.

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I know you guys are working with NOAA,

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to kind of crunch those numbers,
but they're kind of difficult to predict.

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I just would love
if someone could speak to,

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you know, how
those conversations are going and

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and what you're prepared for if there is,
you know, space weather event.

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So I'll see if I can remember off
the top of my head with the items were,

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the one thing that we held for
we had one item that had to be closed

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in time for the L minus two,

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and that item was working
with our medical teams, with, Chief

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medical officer, looking at,
other countries around the world where

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if we had an emergency abort
and we landed in different seas,

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and we needed to use medical facilities
that were nearby in some of those other

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countries,
it was working with those countries

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to ensure
we had the right agreements in place.

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And I believe
those are getting close to closure.

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They will be closed by tomorrow.

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And so that will
that's the intent. There.

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Some of the other items
were, really a constraint to rollout.

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And so those have all been closed
before we rolled to the pad.

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I'm trying to remember what they all were,

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and I can't remember
from the top of my head.

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Shawn,
you may remember what some of them was.

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Our comm systems.

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We've had some challenge challenges
with our comp systems.

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We've done some configuration changes.

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We've done some retest,
and I think we're in good shape to go.

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Yeah, I know we've closed them all out.

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There was like four items, maybe three
in addition to the international piece.

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And they've all been closed.

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Okay.

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We'll do a couple more.

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Hand the room.

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Let's go with Irene Klotz
and then Jeff Foust.

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Thanks, Irene Klotz with Aviation Week.

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For Shannon, has a, stop work

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order now
been issued for the mobile launcher, too.

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And, as far as SLS and Orion,

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if you're able to each,
just give a summary

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of where the hardware status is
for the core stage.

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Vadim is three and the Orion, crew
and service module for three.

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Thanks.

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So, so we have issued a stop work order
for Mobile Launcher two.

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We've pivoted the team to 
be begin removing some of the hardware

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that's common to mobile launcher,
one that we can use as critical spares.

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Some of these items are very long.
Lead items.

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They're hard to build,
and they will be put to good use,

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for future Artemis missions
for supporting, Mobile Launcher one.

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And from there.

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So let's move on to the parts
right for ESA, less, the boosters,

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the F segments are being loaded on the
rail cars and they're ready for shipment.

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So they'll be here in the first part
of April.

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As you know, the core stage is, 
the engine section

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for core stages in high Bay
to be an outfit at the top for FIS

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will be leaving McCue
at the end of April and arriving here.

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I CPS is already complete
in its own dock here locally.

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Obviously OSA are both, in storage,
waiting on the phone call to for assembly.

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So we're in really good shape
for our mystery.

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And from our perspective,
you know, we've been making good progress

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on this three so on the crew module side,
we are wrapping up

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the final big installation.

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So, the heat shield is going,

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getting attached to the crew module
this month, as well as a side hatch.

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And then it's going to go
through its paces

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for testing as an individual element.

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The crew module itself,

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if you might remember, the European
service module arrived last December.

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Making great progress.

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We finished up thermal cycle
testing on that.

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And, we're on plan for the summer to,
put both the crew module

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and the service module, together.

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All right, let's go to Jeff

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Foust,
and then we'll go to several on the phone.

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Hi, Jeff.

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Out space news to start a little bit
of a follow up to that question.

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We're talking now about doing three more
Artemis missions through the end of 2028.

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Rapid increase in the cadence compared
to the gap between Artemis one and two.

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What lessons have you learned in the lead
up to Artemis two that you will apply

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to be able to increase that cadence
for Artemis three, four, and five?

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Well, I can tell you from a ground
processing perspective, we, reduce

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our processing time and, multi-purpose
processing Facility, by 50%.

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That's where we serviced Orion
and that's where we fueled it.

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And, in the launch abort systems

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facility,
reduce the processing time there by 30%.

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And so,
you know, we've already started applying,

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lessons learned from the Artemis
one flow to Artemis two.

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And that's why we're here today.

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That's why we're able to hold, you know,
our February February commitment to roll.

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And as far as getting ready for Artemis

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three is concerned,
we are going to be challenged.

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There's no doubt about it.

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But our team is, energized.

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They're fired up.

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They look forward to the increased
launch cadence.

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We'll do you know, we've already started
collecting lessons learned from Artemis.

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Two processing as well.

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And, you know,
there will be probably some,

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you know,
we'll probably have to staff up a bit.

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We'll have to, you know, go to different
shifting profiles will have to, leverage,

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you know, the,
you know, the, the Orion folks

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and the SLS folks during our processing
fellows to take full advantage of,

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you know, all the knowledge that we need,
and we put that together.

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Well, we're going to go for it.
We're going to try to meet

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the administrators challenge for us
and for Miss Ellis.

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I will say we're assisting, Sean's team
more and more through our OEMs here.

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As I do the processing
before we even get here, we have, we've

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upped our, presence in the supply chain
at our sub tier vendors.

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We have engineers in the field

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helping these vendors work through their
issues, building these critical parts.

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And then, one of the biggest items
that's going to help us out

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is with the new core stage
processing that we have.

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And how by two,

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which is vertical integration, it opens up
a lot more work areas that we have.

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We can work internal in the volumes
and external.

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The vehicle at the same time

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as previously.

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When we built the first one
and the second one, we had mostly,

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horizontal work. Right.

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So the vertical assembly and how they do
it has been a big enabler for us.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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I think from the Orion perspective,
you know, even before this announcement,

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you know, we are very much, geared towards
trying to build, our spaceships faster.

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So, all the investments
made over the last couple of years,

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not only increase more infrastructure,
in the operations checkout facility,

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which is where we build and put together
the Orion spaceship, we increased in,

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the infrastructure there, including ground
support equipment, including,

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our gantries, things like that, to enable
us to build two spaceships in parallel.

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And, that was our investment.

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So I think, doing
that has helped us, look forward in terms

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of meeting the ministry's challenge to
to get three,

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Orions out the door as quickly
as we can to support these missions.

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I think the other part that,
very similar to what Chris was talking

472
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:18,333
about, you know, supply chain
and our supplier base is very important.

473
00:25:19,351 --> 00:25:22,337
Obviously
we have, all the hardware for three,

474
00:25:22,370 --> 00:25:25,190
but four and five, we're
still getting delivery as a hardware,

475
00:25:25,190 --> 00:25:29,127
and we need to make sure that cadence,
is, is quickly,

476
00:25:29,127 --> 00:25:32,664
moving forward, providing the hardware
we need to build the spaceship.

477
00:25:33,031 --> 00:25:35,450
And, that's something
we're investing a lot of time in.

478
00:25:35,450 --> 00:25:40,405
Very similar to what Chris described
by being in with the, supply chain and,

479
00:25:40,405 --> 00:25:43,458
helping them where we can
and just like the minister has said,

480
00:25:43,458 --> 00:25:47,729
I think it's really important for NASA
to engage actively, to enable this

481
00:25:47,729 --> 00:25:50,732
to happen, as quickly as possible
to support these missions.

482
00:25:52,133 --> 00:25:52,467
All right.

483
00:25:52,467 --> 00:25:54,236
We'll go to several
questions on the phone.

484
00:25:54,236 --> 00:25:57,272
The first one will be from
Joey Roulet with Reuters.

485
00:25:58,890 --> 00:25:59,658
Hey, thanks.

486
00:25:59,658 --> 00:26:02,110
Question for Howard or Lori.

487
00:26:02,110 --> 00:26:05,780
On the last call with the astronauts,
we were talking about the docking or not

488
00:26:05,780 --> 00:26:09,618
docking the, 
manual control test with Orion.

489
00:26:09,618 --> 00:26:14,689
And I was wondering for Artemis three if,
the prox ops is going

490
00:26:14,689 --> 00:26:19,427
to need to be manual or autonomous
or a little bit of both.

491
00:26:19,427 --> 00:26:22,380
How is that going to play out
for that mission? Thanks.

492
00:26:22,380 --> 00:26:24,232
So I'll take the first part
and then we'll we'll

493
00:26:24,232 --> 00:26:26,685
kind of hand it over to Howard
if he has more detail.

494
00:26:26,685 --> 00:26:31,556
I will tell you that our teams
are actively working right now to,

495
00:26:31,556 --> 00:26:35,477
to really better understand
the mission profile, for Artemis three,

496
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:40,231
we know, our primary goal
is to rendezvous and demonstrate

497
00:26:40,231 --> 00:26:44,119
rendezvous and docking with one or
both of the human landing system landers.

498
00:26:44,970 --> 00:26:48,923
I expect details
of exactly what those look like

499
00:26:48,957 --> 00:26:52,861
and will be developed
over the next, months and maybe

500
00:26:52,861 --> 00:26:56,514
a little beyond that as we really refine
what those operations look like.

501
00:26:56,798 --> 00:27:00,452
But, you know, the key
goal, honestly, with Artemis

502
00:27:00,568 --> 00:27:06,741
three, first off will be to coordinate, 
the launches and rendezvous.

503
00:27:06,741 --> 00:27:09,744
That's going to be a big challenge
in and of itself.

504
00:27:09,861 --> 00:27:14,149
Then the the actual rendezvous operations
and the proximity operations,

505
00:27:14,149 --> 00:27:17,519
I imagine, will be fairly similar to what
we're trying to do with Artemis two.

506
00:27:17,652 --> 00:27:20,238
But we'll need to do that carefully.
And then the docking maneuver.

507
00:27:20,238 --> 00:27:21,623
So I'll, I'll hand it over to Howard.

508
00:27:21,623 --> 00:27:22,741
If you want to say more detail

509
00:27:22,741 --> 00:27:26,611
about what you anticipate
those docking procedures to look like.

510
00:27:26,961 --> 00:27:28,563
Yeah,
probably take up the rest of the time.

511
00:27:28,563 --> 00:27:30,482
Talking about my favorite topic
of rendezvous.

512
00:27:30,482 --> 00:27:31,816
Prox offs and docking.

513
00:27:31,816 --> 00:27:34,052
But, I'll say very shortly.

514
00:27:34,052 --> 00:27:37,439
Orion, we've always been, designed
and we developed

515
00:27:37,439 --> 00:27:40,442
for autonomous capability
all the way to docking.

516
00:27:40,508 --> 00:27:44,329
So the crew does not need to take over, 
in a manual way.

517
00:27:44,663 --> 00:27:49,250
But in the, heritage of the shuttle
program where the crew members,

518
00:27:49,551 --> 00:27:55,306
would take the the stick and fly,
what we call being on the docking access.

519
00:27:55,306 --> 00:27:58,343
So that right aligned,
with where the docking mechanism

520
00:27:58,460 --> 00:27:59,878
and where the hatches are.

521
00:27:59,878 --> 00:28:01,880
And depends on the distance.

522
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:06,351
I can't remember the shuttle time,
but for us, it will be something.

523
00:28:06,351 --> 00:28:08,403
We'll talk with the flight operations team
and the crew,

524
00:28:08,403 --> 00:28:11,690
whether they would take the stick
and finish the final approach

525
00:28:11,690 --> 00:28:14,693
and docking, the physical docking or not.

526
00:28:14,809 --> 00:28:17,429
So that's important. Discussion.

527
00:28:17,429 --> 00:28:20,181
But more importantly,
just like anything else,

528
00:28:20,181 --> 00:28:23,184
you know, we want to make sure
we understand our manual capabilities.

529
00:28:23,184 --> 00:28:25,103
And so the Artemis two demonstration

530
00:28:25,103 --> 00:28:28,907
gives a crew an opportunity to really,
I would say, test drive the car.

531
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,010
They get a chance
to really get a sense of,

532
00:28:32,010 --> 00:28:35,063
the feedback through the system
of how the spacecraft performs.

533
00:28:35,447 --> 00:28:37,315
And that's going to be really important.

534
00:28:37,315 --> 00:28:38,850
And whether they need to or not.

535
00:28:38,850 --> 00:28:41,853
For Artemis three,
that's, we can decide that later.

536
00:28:41,986 --> 00:28:43,138
But to characterize that,

537
00:28:43,138 --> 00:28:47,192
to understand that, capability
and what the spaceship, can do

538
00:28:47,192 --> 00:28:50,879
and perform and the response that it would
provide, is really important.

539
00:28:51,079 --> 00:28:55,083
And I think, demonstrating that arms, too,
will definitely give us, a great

540
00:28:55,083 --> 00:28:58,553
understanding and buy down risk as we move
forward to Artemis three and beyond.

541
00:29:00,271 --> 00:29:02,507
The next question is from Will Robinson.

542
00:29:02,507 --> 00:29:05,510
Smith with Spaceflight Now.

543
00:29:06,928 --> 00:29:09,798
One, thank you for taking the time
to speak with us today.

544
00:29:09,798 --> 00:29:11,483
Question for Howard.

545
00:29:11,483 --> 00:29:16,488
Hugh, if I may, we heard from Christina
earlier today during the crew briefing

546
00:29:16,488 --> 00:29:22,494
about the, limitations of the suits
as it relates to abort scenarios.

547
00:29:23,011 --> 00:29:26,131
But can you go into some detail
and talk about

548
00:29:26,581 --> 00:29:29,417
once you get beyond the Clyburn,

549
00:29:29,417 --> 00:29:33,421
specifically,
what are the abort options for Orion

550
00:29:33,738 --> 00:29:36,591
if you need to make a maneuver
that doesn't get you

551
00:29:36,591 --> 00:29:40,462
all the way out to the moon,
but is more of a you turn back before then

552
00:29:40,712 --> 00:29:43,698
and then just briefly, what is the abort?

553
00:29:44,249 --> 00:29:47,719
Region weather looking like right now
for a launch on the first.

554
00:29:47,936 --> 00:29:49,687
Thanks. Okay. I'll ask.

555
00:29:49,687 --> 00:29:51,873
I guess I'll answer the first question.

556
00:29:51,873 --> 00:29:55,710
I don't know about the abort weather,
so maybe I'll turn to Sean to, to help me

557
00:29:55,710 --> 00:29:56,377
with that.

558
00:29:56,377 --> 00:30:00,048
We have, very capable abort coverage.

559
00:30:00,231 --> 00:30:02,300
You might hear a lot
about the ascent piece,

560
00:30:02,300 --> 00:30:05,787
but I think you're talking about TLI
or trans lunar injection.

561
00:30:06,054 --> 00:30:07,255
Burn that we would do,

562
00:30:07,255 --> 00:30:11,342
what we call those is, 
I would say less aborts, but early return.

563
00:30:11,726 --> 00:30:14,879
And what you would do as we move out,

564
00:30:14,879 --> 00:30:18,633
post TLI, we have a capability return

565
00:30:18,633 --> 00:30:21,836
back to Earth at any, along
any point of the trajectory.

566
00:30:22,187 --> 00:30:24,038
And it's different types of burns.

567
00:30:24,038 --> 00:30:27,926
Certainly early in the mission,
I think the first 36 hours or so,

568
00:30:28,142 --> 00:30:30,411
we'll probably do what I call
turn and burn,

569
00:30:30,411 --> 00:30:33,364
which is you would not go to the moon
if there was an emergency,

570
00:30:33,364 --> 00:30:37,252
a significant emergency, which we would
have to bring the crew home immediately.

571
00:30:37,802 --> 00:30:40,271
We would do that. Burn,
execute that burn.

572
00:30:40,271 --> 00:30:43,758
And, we've always we've already done
all the calculations.

573
00:30:43,758 --> 00:30:45,143
We know what we need to do.

574
00:30:45,143 --> 00:30:47,612
And so the crew come home safely
after that.

575
00:30:47,612 --> 00:30:50,849
It's probably safer at times,
from a time perspective,

576
00:30:50,849 --> 00:30:54,419
to fly around the moon and come back
and take that free return trajectory.

577
00:30:55,203 --> 00:30:58,907
You're not getting any more time savings,
and you don't have to do another

578
00:30:58,907 --> 00:30:59,390
big burn.

579
00:30:59,390 --> 00:31:02,927
You're on that path forward
to hitting our entry corridor.

580
00:31:03,211 --> 00:31:06,598
And, so I think that's
where we will make a decision as a,

581
00:31:06,598 --> 00:31:10,652
as a mission management team to determine
how best to to move forward.

582
00:31:10,652 --> 00:31:14,305
But we do have a continuous,
early return capability

583
00:31:14,305 --> 00:31:17,609
that we've already run hundreds
of thousands of trajectories against,

584
00:31:17,892 --> 00:31:21,029
and ensure that we are able
to get the crew home safely.

585
00:31:22,313 --> 00:31:22,547
Yeah.

586
00:31:22,547 --> 00:31:25,500
As far as, launch abort
weather is concerned,

587
00:31:25,500 --> 00:31:28,503
it's currently
forecast is go on Thursday,

588
00:31:29,070 --> 00:31:33,024
we have, three types of aborts
that we could do right after launch.

589
00:31:33,024 --> 00:31:35,276
One is called a last aboard
a launch abort system.

590
00:31:35,276 --> 00:31:36,661
Abort where the,

591
00:31:36,661 --> 00:31:40,882
spacecraft would, land, 
you know, fairly close to the launch site

592
00:31:41,399 --> 00:31:45,737
and then a untargeted Atlantic abort,
which would land somewhere

593
00:31:45,737 --> 00:31:49,641
across the Atlantic near near Africa,
and then abort once around.

594
00:31:50,725 --> 00:31:53,995
Possibility if we went into a single orbit

595
00:31:53,995 --> 00:31:57,382
and then come back down near our
nominal landing site in San Diego,

596
00:31:57,715 --> 00:32:01,519
our recovery forces are gathering
as we speak out in San Diego.

597
00:32:01,519 --> 00:32:05,073
All the equipment that we're going to use
for, recovery is being loaded

598
00:32:05,073 --> 00:32:09,560
on the ship as we speak, and, and we're
we're ready to go as far as our abort,

599
00:32:09,661 --> 00:32:11,212
scenarios are concerned.

600
00:32:12,947 --> 00:32:13,765
Our next

601
00:32:13,765 --> 00:32:17,402
question is from Christopher
Mack with the Hudson Star Observer.

602
00:32:19,170 --> 00:32:20,672
Thank you all for doing this today.

603
00:32:20,672 --> 00:32:23,508
I guess my question kind of follows up on
to what was just mentioned.

604
00:32:23,508 --> 00:32:26,761
I know you don't
have everything available at this time,

605
00:32:26,761 --> 00:32:29,747
but if the launch were to happen
at the beginning of the,

606
00:32:30,031 --> 00:32:33,418
the two hour launch window on April 1st,
can you talk about what approximately

607
00:32:33,418 --> 00:32:36,421
the splashdown time would be off
San Diego?

608
00:32:37,138 --> 00:32:38,539
Oh, I don't have that.

609
00:32:38,539 --> 00:32:41,542
We can follow up with you follow up

610
00:32:41,793 --> 00:32:44,829
once we hit, once we do that TLI burn,

611
00:32:44,879 --> 00:32:47,882
it's it's set,
but we'll we'll find it for you.

612
00:32:48,916 --> 00:32:51,085
Okay, let's go back to several
more here in the room.

613
00:32:51,085 --> 00:32:53,538
We'll come on this
side here in the front row.

614
00:32:56,007 --> 00:32:57,659
Hi, Josh Jenner, Space.com.

615
00:32:57,659 --> 00:33:00,862
Are there any even minor technical issues

616
00:33:00,862 --> 00:33:05,817
or risk assessments that are still open
that may, pose the potential

617
00:33:05,817 --> 00:33:09,504
of pushing the launch into any,
you know, by a few days into this window?

618
00:33:10,555 --> 00:33:11,639
I mean, I'm going to jump in.

619
00:33:11,639 --> 00:33:13,791
You're looking at Sean,
shake his head. No, there.

620
00:33:13,791 --> 00:33:17,128
There's, you know, little things
that we find as we go that we're working

621
00:33:17,128 --> 00:33:20,181
right there, but none of them are
threatening the first right now.

622
00:33:21,265 --> 00:33:22,133
Yeah, I would agree.

623
00:33:22,133 --> 00:33:25,403
I mean, we had a minor issue on our flare
stack where one of our pilot lights

624
00:33:26,070 --> 00:33:26,754
don't work.

625
00:33:26,754 --> 00:33:27,505
We have three of them.

626
00:33:27,505 --> 00:33:29,540
One of them doesn't work
to fix it. Tomorrow.

627
00:33:29,540 --> 00:33:31,559
But that's the kind of stuff
we're talking about right now.

628
00:33:31,559 --> 00:33:32,927
And I'll take that any day.

629
00:33:32,927 --> 00:33:33,695
Yeah, yeah.

630
00:33:33,695 --> 00:33:36,447
And vehicles. Quiet.
And we're not working anything.

631
00:33:36,447 --> 00:33:38,900
Yeah, we're, we're
we don't have any issues with working.

632
00:33:38,900 --> 00:33:39,384
Like I said.

633
00:33:41,185 --> 00:33:42,053
Okay.

634
00:33:42,053 --> 00:33:44,889
We'll come to Phillips Los

635
00:33:44,889 --> 00:33:47,892
I Phillips last I think this is for Chris.

636
00:33:48,409 --> 00:33:51,412
Just following up on questions
from Irene and earlier.

637
00:33:52,647 --> 00:33:55,099
It sounds like there's a lot of vessels
hardware for Artemis three

638
00:33:55,099 --> 00:33:58,703
that's going to be coming to the Cape here
this month or April.

639
00:33:59,170 --> 00:34:02,173
I had one follow up on that, which was

640
00:34:02,190 --> 00:34:05,426
when the when the 4/5 gets here,
is the engine section

641
00:34:05,426 --> 00:34:08,429
going to be ready to do that
final meet with it.

642
00:34:09,330 --> 00:34:12,750
It's there is some work still to be done
when it gets here.

643
00:34:12,750 --> 00:34:14,902
Doesn't it's not like it
rolls in and lifts up.

644
00:34:14,902 --> 00:34:17,905
So there's, there's a little bit of work
that has to be done,

645
00:34:18,056 --> 00:34:19,974
but it's, it's all part of the plan.

646
00:34:19,974 --> 00:34:23,478
And but it's ready. And based on,

647
00:34:24,829 --> 00:34:26,964
our assessment last week.

648
00:34:26,964 --> 00:34:27,231
Right.

649
00:34:27,231 --> 00:34:27,949
We looked at

650
00:34:27,949 --> 00:34:31,803
where everything was in the blockchain
and the work that's being completed.

651
00:34:32,270 --> 00:34:34,789
When Sean's going to need it,
we're going to have it ready for him

652
00:34:34,789 --> 00:34:37,291
when it's time to
to hang it on the booster.

653
00:34:37,291 --> 00:34:39,444
We'll be ready to go.

654
00:34:39,444 --> 00:34:41,512
Okay. We'll stick here with the room.

655
00:34:41,512 --> 00:34:44,515
Thank you.

656
00:34:44,749 --> 00:34:47,668
Did anyone or did the cubesats

657
00:34:47,668 --> 00:34:51,989
onboard the mission need
anyone have any any kind of servicing or.

658
00:34:51,989 --> 00:34:54,542
They're ready to go?

659
00:34:54,542 --> 00:34:55,827
Yeah, I can tell you.

660
00:34:55,827 --> 00:35:00,681
We are carrying four CubeSats for, 
payloads, secondary payloads,

661
00:35:00,681 --> 00:35:03,835
from our international partners
for different, international partners.

662
00:35:03,835 --> 00:35:06,954
We have, one from Argentina, Germany,
South

663
00:35:06,954 --> 00:35:10,191
Korea and Saudi Arabia.

664
00:35:10,291 --> 00:35:11,959
Thank you.

665
00:35:11,959 --> 00:35:15,480
And I think only one of them required
a top off on their battery.

666
00:35:15,746 --> 00:35:18,149
The others were fine.
They didn't need any work.

667
00:35:18,149 --> 00:35:21,085
The fourth one, the
the battery was topped off, and it's fine.

668
00:35:21,085 --> 00:35:23,371
So they're all in very
good shape. Ready for launch.

669
00:35:26,007 --> 00:35:29,010
Okay, we'll go here to chem.

670
00:35:29,927 --> 00:35:31,262
I can Kramer. Thank you.

671
00:35:31,262 --> 00:35:32,897
Thank thanks for this, update.

672
00:35:32,897 --> 00:35:34,765
And good luck with everything.

673
00:35:34,765 --> 00:35:37,768
Howard, let me let me ask you,

674
00:35:37,919 --> 00:35:40,922
can you describe the parks Uproxx ops

675
00:35:41,122 --> 00:35:44,125
in in a lot greater detail than than

676
00:35:44,192 --> 00:35:48,746
what we've heard, and I want to know
how close it will be to like,

677
00:35:48,746 --> 00:35:52,700
when you would do the human landing system
docking on Artemis three.

678
00:35:52,700 --> 00:35:54,652
I guess it's going to be informed there.

679
00:35:54,652 --> 00:35:58,489
But can you go into how much
and what are we going to see in real time?

680
00:35:58,489 --> 00:36:01,826
Are you going to have video of this proxy
demonstration?

681
00:36:02,243 --> 00:36:03,211
Thanks.

682
00:36:03,211 --> 00:36:04,428
I don't know about the video part,

683
00:36:04,428 --> 00:36:06,864
but I'll just give you some, 
quick highlights.

684
00:36:06,864 --> 00:36:12,303
You know, we,
we separate from the upper stage and,

685
00:36:12,303 --> 00:36:15,473
and then we'll go out, 
probably about 100m.

686
00:36:15,923 --> 00:36:19,427
So we'll flip over
and then we'll start doing that approach.

687
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,747
And the approach
will be all the way to about ten meters.

688
00:36:22,747 --> 00:36:24,415
So about 30 some feet.

689
00:36:24,415 --> 00:36:27,001
And so the crew will be manually piloting
along the way.

690
00:36:27,001 --> 00:36:29,754
There's specific things, the tasks
that they're going to be doing.

691
00:36:29,754 --> 00:36:33,958
In and it's going to be very exciting,
I think, to just

692
00:36:33,958 --> 00:36:35,343
not only because a new spacecraft,

693
00:36:35,343 --> 00:36:37,979
but something that will play forward
in terms of what their ability.

694
00:36:37,979 --> 00:36:39,030
Like I said earlier.

695
00:36:39,030 --> 00:36:41,399
And so that demonstration,
then there's a second part,

696
00:36:41,399 --> 00:36:43,734
which we back away again and do a hold.

697
00:36:43,734 --> 00:36:47,939
And then actually, the
I would say the ICP slews over

698
00:36:47,939 --> 00:36:51,709
and then we do another process,
other, reflectors on the side,

699
00:36:51,709 --> 00:36:56,180
the ISPs that we're using, to dock
or to, to, reflect from

700
00:36:56,397 --> 00:36:59,333
and to get,
get understanding how that would, work

701
00:36:59,333 --> 00:37:02,036
in terms of visualization
from our docking camera.

702
00:37:02,036 --> 00:37:03,721
And so all those things
will be very important

703
00:37:03,721 --> 00:37:05,423
for us to understand the closer approach.

704
00:37:05,423 --> 00:37:09,710
Now, rendezvous and docking
is thousands of miles, right.

705
00:37:09,710 --> 00:37:11,062
Starting at very far away.

706
00:37:11,062 --> 00:37:15,600
So you're getting very close
in terms of what, what the final sets of,

707
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:19,770
our ability to do prox ops
and demonstration, for final mission.

708
00:37:19,770 --> 00:37:21,872
But there's a lot of work prior to that.

709
00:37:21,872 --> 00:37:23,040
Obviously, we can't do that now.

710
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:26,010
We will do some long range, bearing.

711
00:37:26,010 --> 00:37:28,796
We have a camera bearing camera
as we depart

712
00:37:28,796 --> 00:37:32,149
from ISPs and capture
all that data as we go forward.

713
00:37:32,149 --> 00:37:33,935
So the equipment that we need,

714
00:37:33,935 --> 00:37:36,988
to understand the environment
that we're going to be under,

715
00:37:36,988 --> 00:37:39,991
and what we would get is really important
to capture for this mission.

716
00:37:40,441 --> 00:37:44,578
But certainly there's still a good amount
of work remaining to do to enable

717
00:37:44,578 --> 00:37:47,999
for us to do the entire rendezvous
and docking scenario.

718
00:37:49,133 --> 00:37:49,817
And, Ken, to

719
00:37:49,817 --> 00:37:52,853
your question about what
you can expect to see, we do expect

720
00:37:52,853 --> 00:37:54,088
the public will be able to see

721
00:37:54,088 --> 00:37:57,408
the same view from the docking camera
that the crew is seeing.

722
00:37:57,842 --> 00:37:59,277
So we'll be able to show you

723
00:37:59,277 --> 00:38:02,280
that if all is going well,
that's going to be exciting.

724
00:38:03,180 --> 00:38:05,700
Okay, our next question,
we're going to go back to the phone.

725
00:38:05,700 --> 00:38:08,970
This is from Claire Cameron
with Scientific American.

726
00:38:11,906 --> 00:38:12,440
Hi there.

727
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:13,824
Thanks so much for doing this.

728
00:38:13,824 --> 00:38:18,362
I did want to ask again
about the potential for space weather

729
00:38:18,362 --> 00:38:22,616
and how you are sort of planning for that

730
00:38:22,616 --> 00:38:27,288
and whether that could have some impact on
launch date.

731
00:38:27,588 --> 00:38:29,357
Thanks.

732
00:38:29,357 --> 00:38:32,510
I believe I saw a note this morning
that says, right now

733
00:38:32,510 --> 00:38:34,795
we're not watching anything, in the, the,

734
00:38:34,795 --> 00:38:38,332
weather report we got today and said
the space weather risk was low.

735
00:38:38,582 --> 00:38:41,485
But we can look and see
if we can get you additional detail,

736
00:38:41,485 --> 00:38:44,672
but that's, right now,
we're not keeping an eye on anything.

737
00:38:47,391 --> 00:38:47,758
Okay.

738
00:38:47,758 --> 00:38:50,761
Our next question is from David Daniels
with about SpaceX

739
00:38:50,761 --> 00:38:53,748
today news.

740
00:38:54,181 --> 00:38:56,467
My question is for Ron Howard.

741
00:38:56,467 --> 00:39:00,021
This morning, there were two,

742
00:39:00,021 --> 00:39:03,924
comments
made about how Orion might be performing.

743
00:39:04,625 --> 00:39:07,128
The first one,
I believe it was, commentary

744
00:39:07,128 --> 00:39:10,831
who said something about having
the addition of the life support system

745
00:39:11,032 --> 00:39:14,335
might have an effect
on how the spacecraft might operate.

746
00:39:14,902 --> 00:39:19,223
And the second one, 
I thought interesting was about exercising

747
00:39:19,223 --> 00:39:23,928
inside the spacecraft and how that
might affect the Orion spacecraft.

748
00:39:23,928 --> 00:39:25,529
Operations.

749
00:39:25,529 --> 00:39:27,598
Could you comment on those two, please?

750
00:39:27,598 --> 00:39:28,249
Yeah. You bet.

751
00:39:28,249 --> 00:39:31,102
The first one, the way we get rid of a

752
00:39:31,102 --> 00:39:34,105
carbon
dioxide is we've ended on the spaceship.

753
00:39:34,321 --> 00:39:36,974
So we have a, component,

754
00:39:36,974 --> 00:39:40,795
called us CO2 humidity control box.

755
00:39:41,128 --> 00:39:45,533
And that box absorbs
the CO2 that comes out of human beings,

756
00:39:45,900 --> 00:39:48,169
and then we dump it overboard,
and that's venting.

757
00:39:48,169 --> 00:39:51,172
And you can imagine
if you're anywhere a physics student,

758
00:39:51,272 --> 00:39:55,159
you can imagine that
when you impart of force on the vehicle,

759
00:39:55,159 --> 00:39:58,679
whether it's venting or anything else,
there's you got to counteract that force.

760
00:39:59,130 --> 00:40:01,699
And, so that's what we talk about

761
00:40:01,699 --> 00:40:05,636
when we talk about the ecosystem
imparting some things on the spaceship.

762
00:40:06,387 --> 00:40:07,488
So we have to correct that.

763
00:40:07,488 --> 00:40:11,659
We have, very robust attitude
control system, closed loop.

764
00:40:12,042 --> 00:40:16,764
And so you don't just any of those,
situations and we could swing,

765
00:40:16,764 --> 00:40:22,219
this CHC or the CO2 he made
control system, 15 minutes, 30 minutes,

766
00:40:22,403 --> 00:40:26,424
however we want, based on what we need,
how much CO2 we need to remove.

767
00:40:26,757 --> 00:40:29,543
And so this is going to be,
important understanding

768
00:40:29,543 --> 00:40:33,330
of how the spacecraft,
controls our attitude of the vehicle.

769
00:40:33,397 --> 00:40:36,650
And make sure that it responds
to this venting environment.

770
00:40:36,901 --> 00:40:37,651
That's one piece.

771
00:40:37,651 --> 00:40:39,820
And then the second thing is very related
as well.

772
00:40:39,820 --> 00:40:40,888
We have a flywheel.

773
00:40:40,888 --> 00:40:42,323
That's our exercise device.

774
00:40:42,323 --> 00:40:44,842
Think about it's not exactly a rower.

775
00:40:44,842 --> 00:40:47,928
If you go to the gym. 
It is more than that.

776
00:40:48,212 --> 00:40:52,249
But you can see
as, as, in a rowing kind of motion,

777
00:40:52,466 --> 00:40:54,418
which is what
they're going to be doing in space.

778
00:40:54,418 --> 00:40:56,837
You could see that
there's dynamics involved

779
00:40:56,837 --> 00:41:00,291
in terms of the forces
that are being applied from that, motion.

780
00:41:00,741 --> 00:41:05,095
And those forces have to be counteract,
from a spaceship perspective as well.

781
00:41:05,095 --> 00:41:08,182
So our jets,
our reaction control jets will be,

782
00:41:08,182 --> 00:41:12,086
augmenting or,
dissipating any of those things.

783
00:41:12,086 --> 00:41:14,889
So that's going to be really 
interesting test as well.

784
00:41:14,889 --> 00:41:18,626
We're going to try to, I think, cycle
through each crew member, 30

785
00:41:18,626 --> 00:41:22,730
minutes of exercise, a day is,

786
00:41:22,730 --> 00:41:26,267
I think our plan still and then we'll have
a lot of understanding of the dynamics.

787
00:41:26,567 --> 00:41:29,303
And, 
it's really important that, obviously,

788
00:41:29,303 --> 00:41:32,690
as we go into deep space, that, 
the human body gets to exercise,

789
00:41:32,957 --> 00:41:36,894
and we're learning a lot on this mission, 
beyond what we have in space station.

790
00:41:36,894 --> 00:41:39,830
Space station has a lot of, 
great exercise equipment.

791
00:41:39,830 --> 00:41:44,251
You can't put all the treadmills
and things like that on our spaceship.

792
00:41:45,019 --> 00:41:48,472
And so this, flywheels is a really great,
exercise

793
00:41:48,472 --> 00:41:52,293
tool that, we're learning from and,
utilizing as we go forward.

794
00:41:53,544 --> 00:41:53,911
All right.

795
00:41:53,911 --> 00:41:55,496
We'll
take one more question from the phone,

796
00:41:55,496 --> 00:41:57,748
and then we'll come back into the room
here.

797
00:41:57,748 --> 00:42:01,202
Our next question is from TJ Mascaro
with the Epic Times.

798
00:42:04,038 --> 00:42:04,705
Good afternoon.

799
00:42:04,705 --> 00:42:06,473
Thank you all so much.

800
00:42:06,473 --> 00:42:09,210
Question for, Lori and Howard.

801
00:42:09,210 --> 00:42:13,397
When we were talking to the astronauts,
they mentioned, an eclipse event.

802
00:42:14,014 --> 00:42:17,301
If, they launched on April
1st and second.

803
00:42:17,401 --> 00:42:19,520
Can you talk a little bit
more about that,

804
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:21,922
what you're expecting
and preparing for sure.

805
00:42:21,922 --> 00:42:25,943
So I'll speak to it from kind of
the exciting science part of it.

806
00:42:25,943 --> 00:42:30,381
And then, Howard can speak to it
from the Orion performance, side of it.

807
00:42:30,681 --> 00:42:33,050
Yeah.
I think it's going to be very interesting.

808
00:42:33,050 --> 00:42:36,086
In this flight,
if we are able to launch on the first,

809
00:42:36,086 --> 00:42:39,273
the crew are going to get to have
some pretty interesting eclipse

810
00:42:39,273 --> 00:42:42,259
opportunity, to be able
to look back at the disc of the,

811
00:42:42,509 --> 00:42:45,629
the moon, with,
the sun being an eclipse.

812
00:42:45,629 --> 00:42:48,782
And I think from a science perspective,
they'll be able to see the,

813
00:42:49,133 --> 00:42:50,601
the sun's corona.

814
00:42:50,601 --> 00:42:54,138
And I think it'll be really fascinating
and an a great kind of

815
00:42:54,138 --> 00:42:57,324
observation, opportunity
for the crew there.

816
00:42:57,341 --> 00:43:00,261
It's it's kind of a, I think going to be
a unique thing on this one.

817
00:43:00,261 --> 00:43:00,678
Go ahead.

818
00:43:00,678 --> 00:43:01,879
Howard, you want to speak to the.

819
00:43:01,879 --> 00:43:04,915
Yeah, I think, you know, 
I get question a lot.

820
00:43:04,915 --> 00:43:06,417
When are we launching?

821
00:43:06,417 --> 00:43:08,218
Why is this day in? This day is out.

822
00:43:08,218 --> 00:43:10,938
There's a lot of several factors,
obviously, but.

823
00:43:10,938 --> 00:43:16,193
But, power is one of the analysis
that we do, to screen for eclipses.

824
00:43:16,193 --> 00:43:19,346
We, we know where the eclipses are
happening, and,

825
00:43:19,346 --> 00:43:23,300
we want to make sure we're power
positive is what we use the word for.

826
00:43:23,484 --> 00:43:26,537
And so when we screen across
multiple trajectories, multiple days,

827
00:43:26,787 --> 00:43:29,990
every minute of the launch period,
by the way, to ensure

828
00:43:29,990 --> 00:43:33,527
that we have significant,
power positive, margins

829
00:43:33,744 --> 00:43:37,948
when we enter into, into a Lips eclipse,
something like that.

830
00:43:37,948 --> 00:43:41,418
Lips eclipse, and then making sure that,

831
00:43:41,502 --> 00:43:44,822
there's not other segmented, eclipses
that could happen.

832
00:43:45,022 --> 00:43:48,742
So we have time to recharge our batteries
and so when we do that, we,

833
00:43:48,742 --> 00:43:53,130
we run hundreds of thousands
of trajectories per each launch period.

834
00:43:53,514 --> 00:43:56,133
And so I think many of you asked,
when can we launch?

835
00:43:56,133 --> 00:43:57,234
A lot of that work

836
00:43:57,234 --> 00:44:00,688
across multiple launch periods
will be done by a really great team.

837
00:44:01,021 --> 00:44:05,509
And we look at, all the power
and any aboard cases as well.

838
00:44:05,542 --> 00:44:08,545
Also, when we have abort trajectories,
we will also have eclipses.

839
00:44:08,762 --> 00:44:13,067
So for north nominal and abort, 
for the April 1st to the six,

840
00:44:13,067 --> 00:44:16,170
we've,
we've got power positive margin and so,

841
00:44:16,170 --> 00:44:19,340
that's why we can say that we can fly
these missions with confidence.

842
00:44:20,841 --> 00:44:21,175
All right.

843
00:44:21,175 --> 00:44:22,760
We'll come back into the room.

844
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:26,030
Let's go over here to Marsha,
and then we'll come to Josh again.

845
00:44:26,030 --> 00:44:27,181
More AP again.

846
00:44:27,181 --> 00:44:30,234
Lori,
you I've heard you say I for out of you're

847
00:44:30,234 --> 00:44:34,071
figuring on
for a real true attempts in six days.

848
00:44:34,071 --> 00:44:37,491
How do you figure that
and and a countdown question

849
00:44:37,508 --> 00:44:41,328
if it's just the weather in the rockets
sitting on the pad for two hours

850
00:44:41,612 --> 00:44:45,082
and doesn't go if it's just weather,
can you turn that around in 24 hours

851
00:44:45,082 --> 00:44:46,500
and try the next day?

852
00:44:46,500 --> 00:44:49,620
So I'm going to talk to just a little bit,
and I'm going to hand it to Sean

853
00:44:49,620 --> 00:44:51,588
because he can
probably give you more detail.

854
00:44:51,588 --> 00:44:53,807
So we have six days

855
00:44:53,807 --> 00:44:57,294
that each of those six days,
the first 3 to 6 are viable launch days.

856
00:44:57,628 --> 00:45:01,081
But we do need to, if we do a scrub at,

857
00:45:01,081 --> 00:45:04,068
there's, 
at least 24 hours to turn around.

858
00:45:04,585 --> 00:45:10,224
And in some cases, we need to replenish
some of the, the, the, the, the gases

859
00:45:10,224 --> 00:45:13,761
and things that we need to, to fuel
the spacecraft and run the spacecraft.

860
00:45:13,761 --> 00:45:16,397
So those sometimes
we'll need to do a 48 hour scrub.

861
00:45:16,397 --> 00:45:16,947
So if you take

862
00:45:16,947 --> 00:45:20,701
the six days that we have available,
if some of those are 24 opportunities

863
00:45:20,701 --> 00:45:22,469
and some of them are 48 hours scrubs,
we think

864
00:45:22,469 --> 00:45:25,939
we can get up to four launch attempts
within that six day period.

865
00:45:26,223 --> 00:45:29,009
Sean can speak more to the
the resources that are required

866
00:45:29,009 --> 00:45:33,497
and what drive the 24 versus 48
as part of getting ready for Artemis two,

867
00:45:33,497 --> 00:45:38,118
we actually, installed a new 1.4
million gallon hydrogen door.

868
00:45:38,552 --> 00:45:42,923
And so that enables us, the four
launch attempts that the Lord referred to.

869
00:45:43,273 --> 00:45:44,341
Yeah.

870
00:45:44,341 --> 00:45:45,325
There, you know, 20

871
00:45:45,325 --> 00:45:48,862
whether it's a 24 hour scrub or a 48 hour
scrub really depends on the reason.

872
00:45:49,496 --> 00:45:51,598
You know, it
depends on what the hardware problem was.

873
00:45:51,598 --> 00:45:57,421
Or, you know, or
when we scrub in in the launch countdown.

874
00:45:57,421 --> 00:45:59,790
So for real late,
that means we're using more hydrogen.

875
00:45:59,790 --> 00:46:02,092
We're we're building off more hydrogen.

876
00:46:02,092 --> 00:46:02,876
We scrub early.

877
00:46:02,876 --> 00:46:06,013
We're not bleeding off as much,
but we're prepared for a 24

878
00:46:06,013 --> 00:46:09,533
hour scrub
turnaround, for just about any case.

879
00:46:10,651 --> 00:46:11,718
Purely weather.

880
00:46:11,718 --> 00:46:11,902
Yeah.

881
00:46:11,902 --> 00:46:14,905
If it's purely weather,
we can hit a 24 hour.

882
00:46:16,590 --> 00:46:18,025
Okay, we'll come here.

883
00:46:18,025 --> 00:46:21,028
Let's wait for Mike to come around. Yep.

884
00:46:21,812 --> 00:46:22,262
Hi, Josh.

885
00:46:22,262 --> 00:46:24,948
Junior Space.com again.
How are this? One's for you.

886
00:46:24,948 --> 00:46:28,919
You mentioned Orion's attitude control
system, and I know there's a demonstration

887
00:46:28,919 --> 00:46:31,922
of the two different attitude
control modes during the mission.

888
00:46:32,089 --> 00:46:34,975
Can you talk about the differences
between the six degree and three

889
00:46:34,975 --> 00:46:38,612
degree of freedom, configurations
and which scenarios?

890
00:46:38,729 --> 00:46:42,382
Both of them are sort of advantageous over
the other to be used?

891
00:46:43,433 --> 00:46:43,700
Yeah.

892
00:46:43,700 --> 00:46:47,004
You know, 
Wow, that's a very good question.

893
00:46:47,004 --> 00:46:48,438
I yeah, it was expected.

894
00:46:48,438 --> 00:46:48,772
Okay.

895
00:46:48,772 --> 00:46:51,775
So going to back to,
guidance, navigation control.

896
00:46:51,775 --> 00:46:55,863
So six degrees of freedom
allows you to obviously, do x, Y

897
00:46:55,863 --> 00:46:57,447
and Z and translate as well.

898
00:46:57,447 --> 00:47:01,502
So, for us, we're always in the six
degree of freedom, configuration.

899
00:47:01,502 --> 00:47:02,853
That gives us a fine control.

900
00:47:02,853 --> 00:47:06,557
If we needed to, we'd go to a three off
to clean, three degrees of freedom

901
00:47:06,557 --> 00:47:09,893
to clean it up if necessary,
based on the RCS configuration.

902
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:12,212
But in general.
And then we're going to do a test.

903
00:47:12,212 --> 00:47:12,930
Both.

904
00:47:12,930 --> 00:47:13,146
Right.

905
00:47:13,146 --> 00:47:16,550
Our our ability to control
the spacecraft is really important.

906
00:47:16,884 --> 00:47:19,970
And our ability to have a closed loop
control system that allows us to do both.

907
00:47:20,153 --> 00:47:22,739
And that jet selection logic
along with that.

908
00:47:22,739 --> 00:47:25,409
So we have multiple jets that we can use
to fire together.

909
00:47:25,409 --> 00:47:27,778
And combination
is really important as well.

910
00:47:27,778 --> 00:47:31,198
So all those things are part of our
I guess that the answer is yes.

911
00:47:31,198 --> 00:47:32,966
We're going to do both. Yes,
they're very important.

912
00:47:32,966 --> 00:47:36,770
But in general, six degrees of freedom
is, is the control, mode

913
00:47:36,770 --> 00:47:38,188
that we would generally want to be in.

914
00:47:40,591 --> 00:47:40,891
Okay.

915
00:47:40,891 --> 00:47:44,161
We'll go to one on the phone
we have Micah made in Berg

916
00:47:44,161 --> 00:47:47,147
with the Wall Street Journal.

917
00:47:47,965 --> 00:47:49,016
Hey. Thanks, Rachel.

918
00:47:49,016 --> 00:47:50,183
Maybe for Lori.

919
00:47:50,183 --> 00:47:53,604
Could you remind me just about the role
of the prime contractors?

920
00:47:53,837 --> 00:47:59,092
At this point,
specific to SLS and Orion, like,

921
00:47:59,092 --> 00:48:02,663
our folks from the companies actively
working with NASA teams right into launch.

922
00:48:02,663 --> 00:48:03,630
Or is it more

923
00:48:03,630 --> 00:48:06,867
they're on standby if something comes up
some color, there would be great.

924
00:48:07,134 --> 00:48:07,951
Thanks so much.

925
00:48:07,951 --> 00:48:09,753
Yeah, thank you for the question, mica.

926
00:48:09,753 --> 00:48:12,689
In fact,
I'm really excited to answer this one.

927
00:48:12,689 --> 00:48:15,926
You know, we are still working

928
00:48:15,926 --> 00:48:19,129
very, very closely with,
with all of our prime contractors.

929
00:48:19,129 --> 00:48:22,916
In fact,
you know, the the issue that we had

930
00:48:22,916 --> 00:48:27,571
that required us to roll back to the VAB,
the the helium, quick disconnect,

931
00:48:27,771 --> 00:48:32,943
connection, there was a great example
that showed our, our NASA teams

932
00:48:32,943 --> 00:48:38,332
and our contractor teams from,
from Boeing and ULA, and from our,

933
00:48:38,432 --> 00:48:41,001
our, ground system contractor teams

934
00:48:41,001 --> 00:48:44,538
and our NASA teams
all working together as one team.

935
00:48:44,988 --> 00:48:46,340
It was fantastic.

936
00:48:46,340 --> 00:48:48,625
And it's great to see we're,
you know, we're

937
00:48:48,625 --> 00:48:50,661
just trying to solve the problems
and get the work done.

938
00:48:50,661 --> 00:48:52,129
So we are working really closely

939
00:48:52,129 --> 00:48:55,832
with our contractors,
all the contractors and the NASA folks,

940
00:48:55,832 --> 00:49:01,038
including the folks from Boeing,
Lockheed, ULA, north of Grumman.

941
00:49:01,271 --> 00:49:02,489
We're all in there together.

942
00:49:02,489 --> 00:49:05,125
And there's more as well,
but we're all in there together.

943
00:49:05,125 --> 00:49:07,828
And when we get questions about
how are we going to turn around

944
00:49:07,828 --> 00:49:11,298
faster and be able to implement
the accelerated plan

945
00:49:11,298 --> 00:49:14,901
that the administrators rolled out
for Artemis three, 4 or 5 and beyond?

946
00:49:15,235 --> 00:49:16,136
I think this is the way

947
00:49:16,136 --> 00:49:20,007
we're going to work together in the future
much more closely and more integrated

948
00:49:20,240 --> 00:49:23,093
and more collaboratively
with these integrated teams.

949
00:49:23,093 --> 00:49:24,895
So it's been a great demonstration here.

950
00:49:26,396 --> 00:49:26,780
Okay.

951
00:49:26,780 --> 00:49:29,783
Let's go on this side to Loren
Grush again.

952
00:49:31,101 --> 00:49:33,153
Hi. Thanks for taking a second question.

953
00:49:33,153 --> 00:49:35,522
I'm just curious, what,
if any, flexibility

954
00:49:35,522 --> 00:49:38,959
do you have with the biggest maneuvers
that you have planned in space?

955
00:49:38,959 --> 00:49:42,512
For instance, if a burn doesn't happen
exactly at the right time,

956
00:49:42,679 --> 00:49:45,332
is there any wiggle room
or are there just some maneuvers

957
00:49:45,332 --> 00:49:48,835
that have to go off as planned
and or else they can't happen?

958
00:49:49,136 --> 00:49:50,971
Thank you.

959
00:49:50,971 --> 00:49:51,989
Maybe you want me to take that?

960
00:49:51,989 --> 00:49:52,139
Yeah.

961
00:49:52,139 --> 00:49:55,192
Why don't you take,
So all our burns that are on Orion's

962
00:49:55,192 --> 00:49:58,195
side, obviously,
including the trans lunar injection burn?

963
00:49:58,228 --> 00:49:59,963
We have a recovery plan.

964
00:49:59,963 --> 00:50:01,999
So, two things could happen.

965
00:50:01,999 --> 00:50:04,818
One, if your main engine, cuts out.

966
00:50:04,818 --> 00:50:07,220
So we have our auxiliary engines
that would go forward.

967
00:50:07,220 --> 00:50:12,709
We also could also do a replan of that
and, continue that, burn as well.

968
00:50:12,826 --> 00:50:17,064
So that that's there, we certainly have
covered, all the other burns.

969
00:50:17,064 --> 00:50:19,583
There's one burn,
that's we call critical.

970
00:50:19,583 --> 00:50:20,717
That must be done.

971
00:50:20,717 --> 00:50:22,853
It's, return trajectory correction.

972
00:50:22,853 --> 00:50:24,738
Burn three, RTC three.

973
00:50:24,738 --> 00:50:27,858
It's about five hours
before we hit entry interface.

974
00:50:27,858 --> 00:50:29,242
That really corrects

975
00:50:29,242 --> 00:50:32,279
and makes sure we hit that corridor,
which is really important.

976
00:50:32,412 --> 00:50:36,349
Obviously, for making sure
we can get the crew home safely,

977
00:50:36,349 --> 00:50:38,635
through, the Earth entry point.

978
00:50:38,635 --> 00:50:41,455
And so that's our only burn
that is, critical.

979
00:50:41,455 --> 00:50:44,157
The rest we can, replan, I would say.

980
00:50:44,157 --> 00:50:47,310
And clean up as necessary
if we do not get a full burn off.

981
00:50:48,512 --> 00:50:50,797
Okay, let's go to Bill Harwood next.

982
00:50:50,797 --> 00:50:53,366
For for Mr.

983
00:50:53,366 --> 00:50:54,084
Quinn. You.

984
00:50:54,084 --> 00:50:55,919
I'm a little confused
on the recycle options.

985
00:50:55,919 --> 00:50:57,721
I thought if you guessed it up

986
00:50:57,721 --> 00:51:00,774
and got late in the window,
you couldn't do a 24 hour turnaround,

987
00:51:01,224 --> 00:51:05,062
that there's some limit that, you know,
if you put fuel on board, that affects

988
00:51:05,545 --> 00:51:06,379
when you can go again.

989
00:51:06,379 --> 00:51:09,382
I just wanted to clarify
that that was true for Airbus one,

990
00:51:10,133 --> 00:51:11,701
not true for Artemis two.

991
00:51:11,701 --> 00:51:14,538
You know, we've got the 1.4
million gallons sphere.

992
00:51:14,538 --> 00:51:17,841
That gives us a much more significant,

993
00:51:17,841 --> 00:51:20,927
hydrogen storage capability
at the launch site, the later the window.

994
00:51:20,927 --> 00:51:22,979
So, yeah, I believe so.

995
00:51:22,979 --> 00:51:25,048
I mean, I'll confirm, but I believe so.

996
00:51:25,048 --> 00:51:27,317
Yeah, I read next.

997
00:51:27,317 --> 00:51:29,719
I'll start another, countdown question.

998
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:35,492
Is there a point, in the count
where if you hold or for weather

999
00:51:35,492 --> 00:51:39,679
or technical issue that you no longer
have the whole two hours,

1000
00:51:39,679 --> 00:51:43,967
like if you get into terminal count,
is it commit

1001
00:51:44,067 --> 00:51:47,537
I mean, are you able to stop and retarget
later in the window,

1002
00:51:47,537 --> 00:51:50,941
or do you lose some options
at some point in the countdown,

1003
00:51:51,541 --> 00:51:54,528
we can recycle about T -five minutes.

1004
00:51:54,661 --> 00:51:57,831
If we if we if we hold account
before T -five minutes,

1005
00:51:57,831 --> 00:52:00,417
we can recycle back
and try for another attempt.

1006
00:52:01,551 --> 00:52:01,818
Okay.

1007
00:52:01,818 --> 00:52:04,137
We'll take another one on the phone
from Will Robinson.

1008
00:52:04,137 --> 00:52:07,140
Smith with Spaceflight Now.

1009
00:52:07,791 --> 00:52:09,943
I thanks Rachel for allowing another one.

1010
00:52:09,943 --> 00:52:15,482
Question to I suppose
whoever wants to take it, maybe Sean,

1011
00:52:15,832 --> 00:52:19,553
if the IC isn't able

1012
00:52:19,553 --> 00:52:25,158
to get Orion into the high Earth orbit,
but the Orion module,

1013
00:52:25,158 --> 00:52:28,161
both crew and service are working
just fine.

1014
00:52:28,195 --> 00:52:32,482
What would a low Earth orbit
version of Artemis two look like?

1015
00:52:32,482 --> 00:52:34,284
About how long would that last?

1016
00:52:34,284 --> 00:52:37,637
And what operations
could you accomplish in that scenario?

1017
00:52:37,771 --> 00:52:40,707
Thanks. Sorry. Question for Howard again.

1018
00:52:40,707 --> 00:52:44,060
So we also have, what we call
alternate mission

1019
00:52:44,060 --> 00:52:48,331
scenarios by which we allow ourselves
to potentially do a circular orbit.

1020
00:52:48,331 --> 00:52:53,253
We have a couple options, to circuit lies
and execute as much,

1021
00:52:53,253 --> 00:52:58,341
of the objectives that we can,
if there's something that happens,

1022
00:52:58,341 --> 00:53:01,945
where we could not,
get the upper stage to get us a nice burn.

1023
00:53:02,095 --> 00:53:03,330
So there is various options.

1024
00:53:03,330 --> 00:53:08,034
We looked at, we're able to do
some of those mission, completion things.

1025
00:53:08,401 --> 00:53:10,854
And it depends on where we get
dropped off.

1026
00:53:10,854 --> 00:53:11,538
What happens?

1027
00:53:11,538 --> 00:53:15,258
So, it depends on the scenario we're in,
but we're definitely ready

1028
00:53:15,258 --> 00:53:16,376
for those types of scenarios.

1029
00:53:16,376 --> 00:53:18,628
Well, and the flight control
team knows what to do.

1030
00:53:18,628 --> 00:53:21,298
We've already done, planning for that.

1031
00:53:21,298 --> 00:53:23,750
We've already assessed
a lot of those trajectories,

1032
00:53:23,750 --> 00:53:27,120
to make sure that we're ready to go
and have in my hand if necessary.

1033
00:53:28,488 --> 00:53:28,955
Okay.

1034
00:53:28,955 --> 00:53:32,008
We'll go actually back there for Miles
Dorn.

1035
00:53:32,792 --> 00:53:34,678
Dorn, CBS news question for Howard.

1036
00:53:34,678 --> 00:53:37,731
I know the main engine is used
for the TLI burn.

1037
00:53:38,031 --> 00:53:40,133
Which engines are used
for the other burns?

1038
00:53:40,133 --> 00:53:42,452
The ATC burns, the RTC burns.

1039
00:53:42,452 --> 00:53:45,655
Is it all the auxiliary thrusters,
or can you use both?

1040
00:53:45,655 --> 00:53:48,091
What, what's the plan?
The OMS burn is too.

1041
00:53:48,091 --> 00:53:48,842
Too much.

1042
00:53:48,842 --> 00:53:51,411
We don't expect to make that correction
or navigation.

1043
00:53:51,411 --> 00:53:55,198
State should be, very good
unless something happens along the way

1044
00:53:55,198 --> 00:53:55,999
and we can't,

1045
00:53:55,999 --> 00:54:00,620
so all of them are planned to be on the,
what you call auxiliary ox burns?

1046
00:54:01,254 --> 00:54:04,074
We if they're small enough,
we might even do in the reaction

1047
00:54:04,074 --> 00:54:06,943
control system
on the service module as well.

1048
00:54:06,943 --> 00:54:09,396
So that'll depend on, you know what?

1049
00:54:09,396 --> 00:54:13,800
As we approach each OTC, each RTC,
which is outbound trajectory correction

1050
00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:15,819
and then, return trajectory corrections

1051
00:54:15,819 --> 00:54:17,871
will determine
how best to utilize our thrusters.

1052
00:54:17,871 --> 00:54:20,573
But yes, in general,
it'll be the auxiliary engines.

1053
00:54:21,708 --> 00:54:22,108
Okay.

1054
00:54:22,108 --> 00:54:25,111
Let's go to Ken here in the front.

1055
00:54:25,528 --> 00:54:26,012
Thank you.

1056
00:54:26,012 --> 00:54:28,999
Thanks for a second question,
Ken Kramer, SpaceX up close.

1057
00:54:29,099 --> 00:54:33,086
Howard, what
what is the width of the reentry corridor?

1058
00:54:33,770 --> 00:54:35,522
I don't know if I've heard a number.

1059
00:54:35,522 --> 00:54:38,792
And I would also like to get an update
on the Rs 25 engines.

1060
00:54:38,792 --> 00:54:41,244
You got to build new ones
for Artemis five.

1061
00:54:41,244 --> 00:54:43,263
We haven't heard a lot about it.

1062
00:54:43,263 --> 00:54:44,748
So. So what is the status?

1063
00:54:44,748 --> 00:54:47,600
Because if you're going to launch Artemis
5 in 2 years,

1064
00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:50,820
you got to get them built and tested
pretty soon.

1065
00:54:51,438 --> 00:54:52,739
Thanks. Yeah.

1066
00:54:52,739 --> 00:54:57,077
I when you say with I'll have to get back
with you on what you're asking.

1067
00:54:57,110 --> 00:55:01,131
You mean the width of the corridor
in terms of cross range, is that correct?

1068
00:55:01,314 --> 00:55:01,915
The cross range.

1069
00:55:01,915 --> 00:55:03,083
We got range downrange.

1070
00:55:03,083 --> 00:55:05,485
Track of up to 70, 75.

1071
00:55:05,485 --> 00:55:07,671
Even even as their approach.

1072
00:55:11,207 --> 00:55:11,541
Yeah.

1073
00:55:11,541 --> 00:55:13,076
I'll have to get you that number.

1074
00:55:13,076 --> 00:55:16,079
Sorry, I don't remember off
top of my head on that one.

1075
00:55:16,463 --> 00:55:17,097
Okay.

1076
00:55:17,097 --> 00:55:20,000
The state astronauts are real
concerned about that.

1077
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:20,967
Yeah, it's.

1078
00:55:20,967 --> 00:55:24,921
Yeah, I can probably delve into more
of it, but, we'll get you that number.

1079
00:55:25,488 --> 00:55:27,240
Okay?

1080
00:55:27,240 --> 00:55:28,792
Okay. And on the Rs 25.

1081
00:55:28,792 --> 00:55:31,311
Right for arms five.

1082
00:55:31,311 --> 00:55:33,780
They are in production,

1083
00:55:33,780 --> 00:55:34,464
flight set.

1084
00:55:34,464 --> 00:55:38,218
So we've all completed,
our acceptance hotbar

1085
00:55:38,218 --> 00:55:40,770
and on two of those new engines already.

1086
00:55:40,770 --> 00:55:44,207
So they are in the production phase,
and we're working through it.

1087
00:55:44,341 --> 00:55:47,327
You you'll go back, you can
you can pull some of the,

1088
00:55:48,128 --> 00:55:50,430
burns and the test from Stennis when we,

1089
00:55:50,430 --> 00:55:53,433
we went through those, 
test of those new engines.

1090
00:55:53,483 --> 00:55:55,952
So they're in play and they do support.

1091
00:55:58,621 --> 00:55:59,089
All right.

1092
00:55:59,089 --> 00:56:00,990
And with that, we'll go ahead and wrap up.

1093
00:56:00,990 --> 00:56:04,127
I want to thank our participants
very much for being here today.

1094
00:56:04,277 --> 00:56:07,313
We will provide another status
update tomorrow

1095
00:56:07,397 --> 00:56:10,850
on how the countdown is going
as it gets underway.

1096
00:56:11,067 --> 00:56:12,986
That'll be at approximately 5 p.m.

1097
00:56:12,986 --> 00:56:14,571
eastern time tomorrow.

1098
00:56:14,571 --> 00:56:16,673
As always, you can follow the latest news

1099
00:56:16,673 --> 00:56:19,676
and mission events
and our progress on NASA.gov.

1100
00:56:19,909 --> 00:56:21,010
Thank you for joining us.