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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.

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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
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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

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held our flight readiness
review a couple 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 the crew arrive in Florida,

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where they'll be spending
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doing their final reviews
of their procedures, and spending

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some time with their families
while they, remain in quarantine.

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Tomorrow, tomorrow, our mission management
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will become the primary decision makers,
regarding our readiness for launch.

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

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To review the closure plan
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Work,

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open work items
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review,
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 who have put

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in thousands of work,
thousands of hours of work over the last

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few months, including nights, weekends,
holidays, to get us to this point.

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We help them and their incredible
dedication to this mission.

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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
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But not only to prepare the 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
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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 in 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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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,
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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 from the,
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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% go,
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So the last time we met,

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you know, we said, hey,
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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 to VAB to pad turnaround time
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It was, 21 days.

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Our previous, record
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In that time, we not only,

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changed the batteries out of their flight
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we also made two repairs, with the,
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and also a harness
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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 origin 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 the weather was not so good
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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,
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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,
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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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cooperate on Thursday,
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So with that, I'll turn it over to Cassie.

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All right. Sean. Thank you.

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We, too are incredibly excited to be here.

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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,
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SLS program.

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On behalf of manager
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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
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Everybody's excited.

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Now, we
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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
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to make sure that the connection email
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The vehicle is talking to the pad,
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and everything is coming along good.

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Sean said, everything seems to be going
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We have completed all our, ordnance
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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
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And we'll be working
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as we've done all along.

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Make sure this rocket is ready.

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Our number one goal
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That is our highest priority,
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And we will be there to support the crew
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back on the on the 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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All right. Thanks, Chris.

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I am also very excited to be here with you

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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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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,
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Read Victor,
Jeremy and Christina to the moon and back.

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processing that,
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We're going to have that loaded
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Last, last second to last minute.

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Set of hardware
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We'll I'll bring forward
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So nothing, unique.

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Very much standard, processing that
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tomorrow night at around 8:00, our,
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room team, that's the experts
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The flight control team will be,

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on station
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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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to make sure that, we tackle any, issues
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during the mission and support, the flight
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and understanding of anything
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So that team is ready to go
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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,
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We've got a lot of things that, we're
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We've got, paired reraise 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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And then, of course, along the way,
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to check out our first time systems

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with the life support systems and
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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, trans
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So that's going to be a very, important
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We're looking forward
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is telling us and operating
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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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and of course, final checks of the systems
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to ensure that we're ready to go.

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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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All right. It's time now for questions.

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We will start here in the room
and then go to the phone.

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A reminder for those on the phone.

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You can press Star
one to get into the question queue,

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if you don't mind limiting it
to one question apiece.

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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, and it seems to me that

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that puts extra pressure, extra attention,
so much extra on Artemis two to do.

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Well. 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? 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 is two,

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where we're really testing out
the capabilities of the Orion system.

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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 to
how can we work to achieve this amazing,

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launch cadence that allows us
to keep our learnings and turn them around

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quickly, 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 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 earned.

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Can you give us a sense of what gives
you confidence

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that that system's 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

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you've done on the ground and
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,
we do a lot of testing,

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uniquely for life support.

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We put actually humans with the life
support system, both,

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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,

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vacuum chamber 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 all varying, steps that we take

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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 ECUs, 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.

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Second row on 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, will

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

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Great question.

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Maybe I don't know how or do you know
the at the top of your head,

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but 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, you know, how

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those conversations are going and
and what you're prepared for if there is,

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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,
and that item was working

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with our medical teams,
with, chief medical officer, looking at,

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other

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countries around the world
where if we had an emergency abort

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and we landed in different seas,
and we needed to use medical facilities

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that were nearby
and some of those other countries,

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it was working with those countries
to make sure we had the right

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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 us are, 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,
we've done some retest,

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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,

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stop work order now
been issued for the mobile launcher, too.

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And, as far as SLS and Orion,
if you're able to each,

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just give a summary 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 began
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 as

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the last into the far right for us, less,

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the boosters,
the F segments are being loaded

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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.

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Ozone or both.

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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

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good progress on this three
so on the crew module side,

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we are wrapping up
the final big installation. So,

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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. Out of space news.

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Just out of 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

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ground processing perspective, we, reduce

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our processing time and the 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 float, 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
flows 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

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that's going to help us out
is with the new core stage process.

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And with 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 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.

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Right. So there's the vertical assembly

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and how they do
it has been a big enabler for us.

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Okay. 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,

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we increased in, the infrastructure there,

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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,

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look forward in terms of meeting
the ministry's challenge to get three,

473
00:25:13,828 --> 00:25:17,249
Orions out the door as quickly
as we can to support these missions.

474
00:25:17,582 --> 00:25:21,152
I think the other part that,
very similar to what Chris was talking

475
00:25:21,152 --> 00:25:24,389
about, you know, supply chain
and our supplier base is very important.

476
00:25:25,373 --> 00:25:28,376
Obviously,
we have, all the hardware for three,

477
00:25:28,793 --> 00:25:31,263
but four and five, we're
still getting delivery as a hardware.

478
00:25:31,263 --> 00:25:35,183
And we need to make sure that cadence, is,
is quickly,

479
00:25:35,417 --> 00:25:38,720
moving forward, providing the hardware
we need to build the spaceship.

480
00:25:39,087 --> 00:25:41,523
And, that's something
we're investing a lot of time in.

481
00:25:41,523 --> 00:25:44,543
Very similar to what Chris described
by being in with the,

482
00:25:44,759 --> 00:25:47,996
supply chain and,
helping them where we can.

483
00:25:48,179 --> 00:25:49,531
And just like the minister has said,

484
00:25:49,531 --> 00:25:53,785
I think it's really important for NASA
to engage actively, to enable this

485
00:25:53,785 --> 00:25:56,788
to happen, as quickly as possible
to support these missions.

486
00:25:58,189 --> 00:25:58,523
All right.

487
00:25:58,523 --> 00:26:00,292
We'll go to several
questions on the phone.

488
00:26:00,292 --> 00:26:03,328
The first one will be from Joey Roulet
with Reuters.

489
00:26:04,946 --> 00:26:05,964
Hey, thanks.

490
00:26:05,964 --> 00:26:08,333
Question for Howard or Lori.

491
00:26:08,333 --> 00:26:11,836
On the last call with the astronauts,
we were talking about the docking or not

492
00:26:11,836 --> 00:26:15,690
docking the,
manual control test with Orion.

493
00:26:15,690 --> 00:26:18,710
And I was wondering for Artemis three if,

494
00:26:19,277 --> 00:26:21,830
the prox ops is going to need to be

495
00:26:21,830 --> 00:26:25,500
manual or autonomous
or a little bit of both.

496
00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:28,436
How is that going to play out
for that mission? Thanks.

497
00:26:28,436 --> 00:26:29,571
So I'll take the first part

498
00:26:29,571 --> 00:26:32,657
and then we'll we'll kind of hand it over
to Howard if he has more detail.

499
00:26:33,425 --> 00:26:37,112
I will tell you that our teams
are actively working right now

500
00:26:37,112 --> 00:26:41,549
to, to really better understand
the mission profile, for Artemis three,

501
00:26:42,117 --> 00:26:46,671
we know, our primary goal is to rendezvous
and demonstrate rendezvous

502
00:26:46,671 --> 00:26:50,191
and docking with one or both of the human
landing system landers.

503
00:26:51,026 --> 00:26:54,980
I expect details
of exactly what those look like.

504
00:26:55,230 --> 00:26:58,917
Will be developed over the next, months
and maybe

505
00:26:58,917 --> 00:27:02,570
a little beyond that as we really refine
what those operations look like.

506
00:27:03,238 --> 00:27:07,258
But, you know, the, the key goal,
honestly, with Artemis is three.

507
00:27:07,859 --> 00:27:12,781
First off will be to coordinate,
the launches and rendezvous.

508
00:27:12,797 --> 00:27:15,800
That's going to be a big challenge
in and of itself.

509
00:27:15,917 --> 00:27:20,221
Then the the actual rendezvous operations
and the proximity operations,

510
00:27:20,221 --> 00:27:23,575
I imagine, will be fairly similar to what
we're trying to do with Artemis two.

511
00:27:23,958 --> 00:27:26,311
But we'll need to do that carefully.
And then the docking maneuver.

512
00:27:26,311 --> 00:27:27,679
So I'll, I'll hand it over to Howard.

513
00:27:27,679 --> 00:27:28,797
If you want to say more detail

514
00:27:28,797 --> 00:27:32,634
about what you anticipate
those docking procedures to look like.

515
00:27:33,018 --> 00:27:34,619
Yeah,
probably take up the rest of the time.

516
00:27:34,619 --> 00:27:37,622
Talking about my favorite topic
of rendezvous, Prox ops and docking.

517
00:27:38,340 --> 00:27:40,342
But, I'll say very shortly.

518
00:27:40,342 --> 00:27:43,495
Orion, we've always been, designed
and we developed

519
00:27:43,495 --> 00:27:46,498
for autonomous capability
all the way to docking.

520
00:27:46,831 --> 00:27:50,368
So the crew does not need to take over,
in a manual way.

521
00:27:51,169 --> 00:27:55,306
But in the, heritage of the shuttle
program where the crew members,

522
00:27:55,940 --> 00:28:01,379
would take the the stick and fly,
what we call being on the docking access.

523
00:28:01,379 --> 00:28:04,399
So that right aligned,
with where the docking mechanism

524
00:28:04,532 --> 00:28:06,601
and where the hatches are.

525
00:28:06,601 --> 00:28:07,952
And depends on the distance.

526
00:28:09,054 --> 00:28:09,387
I can't

527
00:28:09,387 --> 00:28:12,407
remember the shuttle time,
but for us, it will be something.

528
00:28:12,407 --> 00:28:14,426
We'll talk with the flight operations team
and the crew,

529
00:28:14,426 --> 00:28:17,762
whether they would take the stick
and finish the final approach

530
00:28:17,762 --> 00:28:20,749
and docking, the physical docking or not.

531
00:28:20,882 --> 00:28:23,485
So that's important. Discussion.

532
00:28:23,485 --> 00:28:24,903
But more importantly,

533
00:28:24,903 --> 00:28:26,237
just like anything else,

534
00:28:26,237 --> 00:28:29,240
you know, we want to make sure
we understand our manual capabilities.

535
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,427
And so the Artemis two demonstration
gives a crew an opportunity

536
00:28:32,427 --> 00:28:35,430
to really, I would say, test
drive the car.

537
00:28:35,630 --> 00:28:38,066
They get a chance
to really get a sense of,

538
00:28:38,066 --> 00:28:41,119
the feedback through the system
of how the spacecraft performs.

539
00:28:41,519 --> 00:28:43,371
And that's going to be really important.

540
00:28:43,371 --> 00:28:44,906
And whether they need to or not.

541
00:28:44,906 --> 00:28:47,909
For Artemis three,
that's, we can decide that later.

542
00:28:48,059 --> 00:28:51,479
But to characterize that,
to understand that, capability

543
00:28:51,479 --> 00:28:55,400
and what the spaceship, can do and perform
and the response that it would provide,

544
00:28:56,034 --> 00:28:57,152
is really important.

545
00:28:57,152 --> 00:29:00,138
And I think, demonstrating that arms, too,
will definitely give us,

546
00:29:00,772 --> 00:29:03,775
a great understanding and buy down risk
as we move forward to Artemis

547
00:29:03,808 --> 00:29:04,609
three and beyond.

548
00:29:06,327 --> 00:29:08,580
The next question is from Will Robinson.

549
00:29:08,580 --> 00:29:11,583
Smith with Spaceflight Now.

550
00:29:12,984 --> 00:29:15,987
One, thank you for taking the time
to speak with us today.

551
00:29:16,221 --> 00:29:17,539
Question for Howard.

552
00:29:17,539 --> 00:29:22,560
Hugh, if I may, we heard from Christina
earlier today during the crew briefing

553
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:28,533
about the, limitations of the suits
as it relates to abort scenarios.

554
00:29:29,067 --> 00:29:32,187
But can you go into some detail
and talk about

555
00:29:32,637 --> 00:29:35,640
once you get beyond the TLI burn?

556
00:29:35,757 --> 00:29:39,477
Specifically,
what are the abort options for Orion

557
00:29:39,811 --> 00:29:42,647
if you need to make a maneuver
that doesn't get you

558
00:29:42,647 --> 00:29:46,518
all the way out to the moon,
but is more of a you turn back before then

559
00:29:46,768 --> 00:29:49,771
and then just briefly, what is the abort?

560
00:29:50,305 --> 00:29:53,792
Region weather looking like right now
for a launch on the first.

561
00:29:53,992 --> 00:29:55,960
Thanks. Okay. I'll ask.

562
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:57,929
I guess I'll answer the first question.

563
00:29:57,929 --> 00:30:01,766
I don't know about the abort weather,
so maybe I'll turn to Sean to, to help me

564
00:30:01,766 --> 00:30:02,183
with that.

565
00:30:03,151 --> 00:30:06,137
We have, very capable abort coverage.

566
00:30:06,588 --> 00:30:08,373
You might hear a lot
about the ascent piece,

567
00:30:08,373 --> 00:30:11,876
but I think you're talking about TLI
or trans lunar injection.

568
00:30:12,110 --> 00:30:15,113
Burn that we would do, what we call
those is,

569
00:30:15,530 --> 00:30:18,333
I would say less aborts, but early return.

570
00:30:18,333 --> 00:30:20,935
And what you would do as we move out,

571
00:30:20,935 --> 00:30:24,472
post TLI, we have a capability return,

572
00:30:24,689 --> 00:30:27,892
back to Earth at any, along
any point of the trajectory.

573
00:30:28,259 --> 00:30:30,678
And it's different types of burns.

574
00:30:30,678 --> 00:30:33,982
Certainly early in the mission,
I think the first 36 hours or so,

575
00:30:34,499 --> 00:30:36,467
we'll probably do what I call
turn and burn,

576
00:30:36,467 --> 00:30:39,470
which is you would not go to the moon
if there was an emergency,

577
00:30:39,871 --> 00:30:43,308
a significant emergency, which we would
have to bring the crew home immediately.

578
00:30:43,858 --> 00:30:46,861
We would do that. Burn, execute that burn.

579
00:30:46,878 --> 00:30:49,831
And, we've always we've already done
all the calculations.

580
00:30:49,831 --> 00:30:51,182
We know what we need to do.

581
00:30:51,182 --> 00:30:54,168
And so the crew come home safely
after that.

582
00:30:54,352 --> 00:30:56,905
It's probably safer at times,
from a time perspective,

583
00:30:56,905 --> 00:31:00,475
to fly around the moon and come back
and take that free return trajectory.

584
00:31:01,259 --> 00:31:04,979
You're not getting any more time savings,
and you don't have to do another

585
00:31:04,979 --> 00:31:05,463
big burn.

586
00:31:05,463 --> 00:31:09,000
You're on that path forward
to hitting our entry corridor.

587
00:31:09,267 --> 00:31:12,670
And, so I think that's where
we will make a decision as a,

588
00:31:13,071 --> 00:31:16,708
as a mission management team to determine
how best to to move forward.

589
00:31:16,708 --> 00:31:20,361
But we do have a continuous,
early return capability

590
00:31:20,361 --> 00:31:23,665
that we've already run hundreds
of thousands of trajectories against,

591
00:31:24,332 --> 00:31:27,085
and ensure that we are able
to get the crew home safely.

592
00:31:28,102 --> 00:31:28,620
Yeah.

593
00:31:28,620 --> 00:31:31,623
As far as, launch abort weather
is concerned,

594
00:31:31,923 --> 00:31:34,909
it's currently forecast is go on Thursday,

595
00:31:35,126 --> 00:31:39,080
we have, three types of aborts
that we could do right after launch.

596
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:41,332
One is called a last aboard
a launch abort system.

597
00:31:41,332 --> 00:31:44,335
Abort where the, spacecraft would, land,

598
00:31:44,552 --> 00:31:47,455
you know, fairly close to the launch site

599
00:31:47,455 --> 00:31:51,809
and then a untargeted Atlantic abort,
which would land somewhere

600
00:31:51,809 --> 00:31:55,697
across the Atlantic near near Africa,
and then abort once around.

601
00:31:56,781 --> 00:32:00,051
Possibility if we went into a single orbit

602
00:32:00,051 --> 00:32:03,438
and then come back down near our
nominal landing site in San Diego,

603
00:32:03,771 --> 00:32:07,592
our recovery forces are gathering
as we speak out in San Diego.

604
00:32:07,592 --> 00:32:09,510
All the equipment
they we're going to use for,

605
00:32:09,510 --> 00:32:12,230
recovery is being loaded on the ship
as we speak.

606
00:32:12,230 --> 00:32:17,268
And, and we're we're ready to go as far
as our abort, scenarios are concerned.

607
00:32:19,020 --> 00:32:19,787
Our next

608
00:32:19,787 --> 00:32:23,458
question is from Christopher
Mack with the Hudson Star Observer.

609
00:32:25,226 --> 00:32:26,961
Thank you all for doing this today.

610
00:32:26,961 --> 00:32:29,964
I guess my question kind of follows up
under what was just mentioned.

611
00:32:30,198 --> 00:32:32,817
I know you don't have everything available
at this time,

612
00:32:32,817 --> 00:32:35,820
but if the launch were to happen
at the beginning of the,

613
00:32:36,054 --> 00:32:39,474
the two hour launch window on April 1st,
can you talk about what approximately

614
00:32:39,474 --> 00:32:42,477
the splashdown time would be off
San Diego?

615
00:32:43,194 --> 00:32:44,612
Oh, I don't have that.

616
00:32:44,612 --> 00:32:47,598
We can follow up with your follow up

617
00:32:47,849 --> 00:32:50,902
once we hit, once we do that TLI burn,

618
00:32:50,935 --> 00:32:53,938
it's it's set,
but we'll we'll find it for you.

619
00:32:54,956 --> 00:32:57,141
Okay, let's go back to several
more here in the room.

620
00:32:57,141 --> 00:32:59,610
We'll come on this
side here in the front row.

621
00:33:02,063 --> 00:33:03,948
Hi, Josh Jenner, Space.com.

622
00:33:03,948 --> 00:33:06,918
Are there any even minor technical issues

623
00:33:06,918 --> 00:33:11,873
or risk assessments that are still open
that may, pose the potential

624
00:33:11,873 --> 00:33:15,560
of pushing the launch into any,
you know, by a few days into this window?

625
00:33:16,611 --> 00:33:19,197
I mean, I'm going to jump in
looking at Sean, shake his head.

626
00:33:19,197 --> 00:33:20,098
No, there.

627
00:33:20,098 --> 00:33:23,184
There's, you know, little things
that we find as we go that we're working

628
00:33:23,184 --> 00:33:26,237
right there, but none of them are
threatening the first right now.

629
00:33:27,321 --> 00:33:28,189
Yeah, I would agree.

630
00:33:28,189 --> 00:33:31,459
I mean, we had a minor issue on our flare
stack where one of our pilot lights

631
00:33:32,126 --> 00:33:32,810
don't work.

632
00:33:32,810 --> 00:33:33,561
We have three of them.

633
00:33:33,561 --> 00:33:35,613
One of them doesn't work
to fix it tomorrow.

634
00:33:35,613 --> 00:33:37,615
But that's the kind of stuff
we're talking about right now.

635
00:33:37,615 --> 00:33:39,000
And I'll take that any day.

636
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,702
Yeah, yeah. In vehicles. Quiet.

637
00:33:40,702 --> 00:33:42,503
We're not working anything.

638
00:33:42,503 --> 00:33:44,939
Yeah, we're we're
we don't have any issues with working.

639
00:33:44,939 --> 00:33:45,440
Like I said.

640
00:33:47,241 --> 00:33:48,092
Okay.

641
00:33:48,092 --> 00:33:51,029
We'll come to Phillips last

642
00:33:51,029 --> 00:33:52,113
I Phillips last.

643
00:33:52,113 --> 00:33:54,482
I think this is for Chris.

644
00:33:54,482 --> 00:33:57,468
Just following up on questions
from Irene and earlier.

645
00:33:58,703 --> 00:34:01,172
It sounds like there's a lot of vessels
hardware for Artemis three

646
00:34:01,172 --> 00:34:04,759
that's going to be coming to the Cape here
this month or April.

647
00:34:06,077 --> 00:34:08,246
I had one follow up on that, which was

648
00:34:08,246 --> 00:34:11,482
when the when the 4/5 gets here,
is the engine section

649
00:34:11,482 --> 00:34:14,485
going to be ready to do that
final meet with it.

650
00:34:15,386 --> 00:34:18,806
It's there is some work still to be done
when it gets here.

651
00:34:18,823 --> 00:34:20,958
Doesn't it's not like it
rolls in and lifts up.

652
00:34:20,958 --> 00:34:23,961
So there's, there's a little bit of work
that has to be done,

653
00:34:24,112 --> 00:34:26,030
but it's, it's all part of the plan.

654
00:34:26,030 --> 00:34:29,550
And but it's ready. And based on

655
00:34:31,002 --> 00:34:33,020
our assessment last week.

656
00:34:33,020 --> 00:34:33,287
Right.

657
00:34:33,287 --> 00:34:37,141
We looked at where everything
was in the blockchain and the work that's

658
00:34:37,141 --> 00:34:40,828
being completed when Sean's going to need
it, we're going to have it ready for him.

659
00:34:40,828 --> 00:34:43,347
When it's time to
to hang it on the booster.

660
00:34:43,347 --> 00:34:45,500
We'll be ready to go.

661
00:34:45,500 --> 00:34:47,568
Okay. We'll stick here with the room.

662
00:34:47,568 --> 00:34:48,719
Thank you.

663
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:50,822
With all that,

664
00:34:50,822 --> 00:34:53,724
did anyone or did the CubeSats

665
00:34:53,724 --> 00:34:58,045
onboard the mission need anyone,
have any any kind of servicing or.

666
00:34:58,045 --> 00:35:00,565
They're fine. I'm ready to go.

667
00:35:00,565 --> 00:35:01,883
Yeah, I can tell you.

668
00:35:01,883 --> 00:35:06,737
We are carrying four CubeSats
for, payloads, secondary payloads,

669
00:35:06,921 --> 00:35:09,891
from our international partners
for different, international partners.

670
00:35:09,891 --> 00:35:13,010
We have, one from Argentina, Germany,
South

671
00:35:13,010 --> 00:35:16,247
Korea and Saudi Arabia.

672
00:35:16,347 --> 00:35:18,032
Thank you.

673
00:35:18,032 --> 00:35:21,536
And I think only one of them required
a top off on their battery.

674
00:35:22,019 --> 00:35:24,472
The others were fine.
They didn't need any work.

675
00:35:24,472 --> 00:35:27,141
The fourth one, the
the battery was topped off, and it's fine.

676
00:35:27,141 --> 00:35:29,427
So they're all in very
good shape. Ready for launch.

677
00:35:32,063 --> 00:35:35,066
Okay, we'll go here to chem.

678
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:37,318
I can't Kramer. Thank you.

679
00:35:37,318 --> 00:35:38,970
Thank thanks for this, update.

680
00:35:38,970 --> 00:35:41,539
And good luck with everything.

681
00:35:41,539 --> 00:35:45,543
Howard, let me let me ask you,
can you describe the parks

682
00:35:45,743 --> 00:35:51,232
prox ops in in a lot greater detail
than than what we've heard.

683
00:35:51,232 --> 00:35:54,802
And I want to know how close it will be
to, like,

684
00:35:54,802 --> 00:35:58,773
when you would do the human landing system
docking on Artemis three.

685
00:35:58,773 --> 00:36:00,708
I guess it's going to be informed there.

686
00:36:00,708 --> 00:36:04,562
But can you go into how much
and what are we going to see in real time?

687
00:36:04,562 --> 00:36:07,882
Are you going to have video
of this demonstration?

688
00:36:08,299 --> 00:36:09,267
Thanks.

689
00:36:09,267 --> 00:36:12,920
I don't know about the video part, but
I'll just give you some, quick highlights.

690
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:18,359
You know, we,
we separate from the upper stage and,

691
00:36:18,843 --> 00:36:21,829
and then we'll go out,
probably about 100m.

692
00:36:21,979 --> 00:36:25,499
So we'll flip over
and then we'll start doing that approach.

693
00:36:25,816 --> 00:36:28,803
And the approach
will be all the way to about ten meters.

694
00:36:28,803 --> 00:36:30,471
So about 30 some feet.

695
00:36:30,471 --> 00:36:33,057
And so the crew will be manually piloting
along the way.

696
00:36:33,057 --> 00:36:35,493
There's specific things, the tasks
that they're going to be doing.

697
00:36:36,627 --> 00:36:39,630
In and it's going to be very exciting,
I think, to just

698
00:36:40,014 --> 00:36:42,800
not only because a new spacecraft,
but something that we would play forward

699
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,086
in terms of what their ability,
like I said earlier.

700
00:36:45,086 --> 00:36:47,455
And so that demonstration,
then there's a second part,

701
00:36:47,455 --> 00:36:49,790
which we back away again and do a hold.

702
00:36:49,790 --> 00:36:53,995
And then actually, the
I would say the ICP slews over

703
00:36:53,995 --> 00:36:57,782
and then we do another process,
other, reflectors on the side,

704
00:36:57,782 --> 00:37:02,253
the ISPs that we're using, to dock
or to, to, reflect from

705
00:37:02,453 --> 00:37:05,389
and to get, get understanding
how that would, work

706
00:37:05,389 --> 00:37:08,092
in terms of visualization
from our docking camera.

707
00:37:08,092 --> 00:37:09,777
And so those things will be very important

708
00:37:09,777 --> 00:37:11,479
for us to understand the closer approach.

709
00:37:11,479 --> 00:37:15,783
Now, rendezvous and docking
is thousands of miles, right.

710
00:37:15,783 --> 00:37:17,118
Starting at very far away.

711
00:37:17,118 --> 00:37:21,656
So you're getting very close
in terms of what, what the final sets of,

712
00:37:22,039 --> 00:37:25,826
our ability to do prox ops
and demonstration, for final mission.

713
00:37:25,826 --> 00:37:27,929
But there's a lot of work prior to that.

714
00:37:27,929 --> 00:37:29,096
Obviously, we can't do that now.

715
00:37:29,096 --> 00:37:32,066
We will do some long range, bearing.

716
00:37:32,066 --> 00:37:34,852
We have a camera bearing camera
as we depart

717
00:37:34,852 --> 00:37:38,222
from ISPs and capture
all that data as we go forward.

718
00:37:38,222 --> 00:37:40,291
So the equipment that we need,

719
00:37:40,291 --> 00:37:43,044
to understand the environment
that we're going to be under,

720
00:37:43,044 --> 00:37:46,047
and what we would get is really important
to capture for this mission.

721
00:37:46,497 --> 00:37:50,601
But certainly there's still a good amount
of work remaining to do to enable

722
00:37:50,601 --> 00:37:54,055
for us to do the entire rendezvous
and docking scenario.

723
00:37:55,189 --> 00:37:55,890
And, Ken, to

724
00:37:55,890 --> 00:37:58,909
your question about what
you can expect to see, we do expect

725
00:37:58,909 --> 00:38:00,144
the public will be able to see

726
00:38:00,144 --> 00:38:03,481
the same view from the docking camera
that the crew is seeing.

727
00:38:04,248 --> 00:38:07,702
So we'll be able to show you that
if all is going well, that's not exciting.

728
00:38:09,236 --> 00:38:09,503
Okay.

729
00:38:09,503 --> 00:38:11,722
Our next question,
we're going to go back to the phone.

730
00:38:11,722 --> 00:38:14,992
This is from Claire Cameron
with Scientific American.

731
00:38:17,962 --> 00:38:18,512
Hi there.

732
00:38:18,512 --> 00:38:20,214
Thanks so much for doing this.

733
00:38:20,214 --> 00:38:24,418
I did want to ask again
about the potential for space weather

734
00:38:24,418 --> 00:38:28,673
and how you are sort of planning for that

735
00:38:28,673 --> 00:38:33,361
and whether that could have some impact on
launch date.

736
00:38:33,661 --> 00:38:35,429
Thanks.

737
00:38:35,429 --> 00:38:37,948
I believe I saw a note this morning

738
00:38:37,948 --> 00:38:40,951
that says, right now
we're not watching anything, in the, the,

739
00:38:41,118 --> 00:38:44,372
weather report we got today and said
the space weather risk was low.

740
00:38:45,139 --> 00:38:47,541
But we can look and see
if we can get you additional detail,

741
00:38:47,541 --> 00:38:50,695
but that's, right
now, we're not keeping an eye on anything.

742
00:38:53,447 --> 00:38:53,814
Okay.

743
00:38:53,814 --> 00:38:56,817
Our next question is from David Daniels
with About Space

744
00:38:56,817 --> 00:38:59,820
Today news.

745
00:39:00,237 --> 00:39:02,757
My question is for Ron Howard.

746
00:39:02,757 --> 00:39:04,675
This morning,

747
00:39:04,675 --> 00:39:07,044
there were two, comments made

748
00:39:07,044 --> 00:39:10,047
about how Orion might be performing.

749
00:39:10,831 --> 00:39:13,200
The first one, I believe it
was, commander Reed

750
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,887
who said something about having
the addition of the life support system

751
00:39:17,088 --> 00:39:20,424
might have an effect
on how the spacecraft might operate.

752
00:39:20,941 --> 00:39:23,477
And the second one, I thought interesting

753
00:39:23,477 --> 00:39:26,731
was about exercising inside the spacecraft

754
00:39:26,964 --> 00:39:30,000
and how that might affect the Orion
spacecraft.

755
00:39:30,651 --> 00:39:31,585
Operations.

756
00:39:31,585 --> 00:39:33,621
Could you comment on those two, please?

757
00:39:33,621 --> 00:39:34,789
Yeah. You bet.

758
00:39:34,789 --> 00:39:37,158
The first one, the way we get rid of a

759
00:39:37,158 --> 00:39:40,161
carbon dioxide
is we've ended up on the spaceship.

760
00:39:40,378 --> 00:39:43,381
So we have a, component,

761
00:39:43,547 --> 00:39:46,851
called this CO2 humidity control box.

762
00:39:47,184 --> 00:39:51,589
And that box absorbs
the CO2 that comes out of human beings,

763
00:39:51,956 --> 00:39:54,208
and then we dump it overboard,
and that's venting.

764
00:39:54,208 --> 00:39:57,211
And you can imagine
if you're anywhere a physics student,

765
00:39:57,678 --> 00:40:01,232
you can imagine that
when you and part of force on the vehicle,

766
00:40:01,232 --> 00:40:04,735
whether it's venting or anything else,
there's you got to counteract that force.

767
00:40:05,186 --> 00:40:08,873
And, so that's what we talk about
when we, talked

768
00:40:08,873 --> 00:40:11,876
about the ecosystem
imparting some things on the spaceship.

769
00:40:12,443 --> 00:40:13,561
So we have to correct that.

770
00:40:13,561 --> 00:40:17,731
We have, very robust
attitude control system, closed loop.

771
00:40:18,482 --> 00:40:21,652
And so it's not just
any of those, situations,

772
00:40:21,769 --> 00:40:27,508
and we could swing, this CHC or the CO2
human control system, 15 minutes,

773
00:40:27,508 --> 00:40:32,480
30 minutes, however we want, based on what
we need, how much CO2 we need to remove.

774
00:40:32,813 --> 00:40:36,617
And so this is going to be, important
understanding of how the spacecraft,

775
00:40:37,134 --> 00:40:39,870
controls our attitude of the vehicle.

776
00:40:39,870 --> 00:40:42,857
And make sure that it responds
to this venting environment.

777
00:40:42,923 --> 00:40:43,707
So that's one piece.

778
00:40:43,707 --> 00:40:46,127
And then the second thing
is very related as well.

779
00:40:46,127 --> 00:40:48,379
We have a flywheel.
That's our exercise device.

780
00:40:48,379 --> 00:40:50,898
Think about it's not exactly a rower.

781
00:40:50,898 --> 00:40:52,750
If you go to the gym.

782
00:40:52,750 --> 00:40:54,652
It's more than that.

783
00:40:54,652 --> 00:40:58,322
But you can see as, as,
in a rowing kind of motion,

784
00:40:58,522 --> 00:41:00,474
which is what
they're going to be doing in space.

785
00:41:00,474 --> 00:41:02,910
You can see that there's dynamics involved

786
00:41:02,910 --> 00:41:06,347
in terms of the forces
that are being applied from that, motion.

787
00:41:06,797 --> 00:41:11,152
And those forces have to be counteract,
from a spaceship perspective as well.

788
00:41:11,152 --> 00:41:14,238
So our jets,
our reaction control jets will be,

789
00:41:14,905 --> 00:41:18,142
augmenting
or dissipating any of those things.

790
00:41:18,142 --> 00:41:21,145
So that's going to be really interesting
test as well.

791
00:41:21,512 --> 00:41:23,814
We're going to try to,
I think, cycle through each

792
00:41:23,814 --> 00:41:28,652
crew member, 30 minutes of exercise,
a day is,

793
00:41:28,802 --> 00:41:32,339
I think our plan still and then we'll have
a lot of understanding of the dynamics.

794
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:36,744
And, it's really important that,
obviously, as we go into deep space, that,

795
00:41:37,127 --> 00:41:39,980
the human body gets to exercise
and we're learning a lot

796
00:41:39,980 --> 00:41:42,950
on this mission,
beyond what we have in space station.

797
00:41:42,950 --> 00:41:45,536
Space station has a lot
of, great exercise equipment.

798
00:41:46,554 --> 00:41:47,087
You can't

799
00:41:47,087 --> 00:41:50,307
put all the treadmills
and things like that on our spaceship.

800
00:41:51,091 --> 00:41:55,129
And so this, flywheel is a really great,
exercise tool that,

801
00:41:55,279 --> 00:41:58,349
we're learning from and,
utilizing as we go forward.

802
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:01,552
All right, we'll take one more question
from the phone,

803
00:42:01,552 --> 00:42:03,804
and then we'll come back into the room
here.

804
00:42:03,804 --> 00:42:07,258
Our next question is from TJ Mascaro
with the Epic Times.

805
00:42:10,110 --> 00:42:10,761
Good afternoon.

806
00:42:10,761 --> 00:42:12,513
Thank you all so much.

807
00:42:12,513 --> 00:42:15,516
Question for, Lori and Howard.

808
00:42:16,083 --> 00:42:19,470
When we were talking to the astronauts,
they mentioned, an eclipse event.

809
00:42:20,638 --> 00:42:23,641
If, they launched on April 1st and second.

810
00:42:23,791 --> 00:42:26,994
Can you talk a little bit more about that,
what you're expecting and preparing for

811
00:42:27,661 --> 00:42:27,978
sure.

812
00:42:27,978 --> 00:42:31,999
So, I'll speak to it from kind of
the exciting science part of it.

813
00:42:31,999 --> 00:42:36,437
And then, Howard can speak to it
from the Orion performance, side of it.

814
00:42:37,137 --> 00:42:39,323
Yeah,
I think it's going to be very interesting.

815
00:42:39,323 --> 00:42:42,142
In this flight,
if we are able to launch on the first,

816
00:42:42,142 --> 00:42:46,130
the crew are going to get to have some
pretty interesting eclipse opportunity,

817
00:42:46,497 --> 00:42:46,847
to be able

818
00:42:46,847 --> 00:42:51,685
to look back at the disc of the,
the moon, with, the sun being an eclipse.

819
00:42:51,685 --> 00:42:53,637
And I think from a science perspective,

820
00:42:53,637 --> 00:42:56,640
they'll be able to see the,
the sun's corona.

821
00:42:57,141 --> 00:43:01,111
And I think it'll be really fascinating
and an a great kind of observation.

822
00:43:01,378 --> 00:43:03,530
Opportunity for the crew there.

823
00:43:03,530 --> 00:43:06,317
It's kind of a, I think, going to be
a unique thing on this one.

824
00:43:06,317 --> 00:43:06,750
Go ahead.

825
00:43:06,750 --> 00:43:07,918
Howard, you want to speak to the.

826
00:43:07,918 --> 00:43:10,971
Yeah, I think, you know,
I get question a lot.

827
00:43:10,971 --> 00:43:12,473
When are we launching?

828
00:43:12,473 --> 00:43:14,491
Why is this day in? This day is out?

829
00:43:14,491 --> 00:43:17,011
There's a lot of several factors,
obviously, but.

830
00:43:17,011 --> 00:43:22,249
But, power is one of the analysis
that we do, to screen for eclipses.

831
00:43:22,249 --> 00:43:25,402
We we know where the eclipses are
happening, and,

832
00:43:25,619 --> 00:43:29,373
we want to make sure we're power
positive is what we use the word for.

833
00:43:29,523 --> 00:43:33,677
And so when we screen across multiple
trajectories, multiple days, every minute

834
00:43:33,677 --> 00:43:37,348
of the launch period, by the way,
to ensure that we have significant,

835
00:43:37,731 --> 00:43:43,537
power positive, margins
when we enter into, into a Lipps eclipse.

836
00:43:43,554 --> 00:43:44,872
I'm sorry, no lips eclipse.

837
00:43:46,140 --> 00:43:48,742
And then
making sure that, there's not other

838
00:43:48,742 --> 00:43:51,078
segmented, eclipses that could happen.

839
00:43:51,078 --> 00:43:53,213
So we have time to recharge our batteries.

840
00:43:53,213 --> 00:43:56,400
And so when we do that, we,
we run hundreds

841
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:59,403
of thousands of trajectories
per each launch period.

842
00:43:59,570 --> 00:44:02,389
And so I think many of you asked,
when can we launch?

843
00:44:02,389 --> 00:44:03,290
A lot of that work

844
00:44:03,290 --> 00:44:06,744
across multiple launch periods
or be done by a really great team.

845
00:44:07,077 --> 00:44:11,582
And we look at, all the power
and any aboard cases as well.

846
00:44:11,598 --> 00:44:14,601
Also, when we have abort trajectories,
we will also have eclipses.

847
00:44:14,785 --> 00:44:19,139
So for north nominal and abort,
for the April 1st to the six,

848
00:44:19,139 --> 00:44:22,826
we've, we've got power
positive margin and so, that's why

849
00:44:22,826 --> 00:44:25,829
we can say that we can fly these missions
with confidence.

850
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:28,832
All right. We'll come back into the room.

851
00:44:28,832 --> 00:44:33,237
Let's go over here to Marsha, and then
we'll come to Josh and Marsha Knapp again.

852
00:44:33,237 --> 00:44:36,957
Lori, you I've heard you say
for out of your figuring on

853
00:44:36,957 --> 00:44:41,395
for a real true attempts in six days,
how do you figure that

854
00:44:41,762 --> 00:44:45,499
and and a countdown question
if it's just the weather in the rockets

855
00:44:45,499 --> 00:44:49,370
sitting on the pad for two hours
and doesn't go if it's just weather,

856
00:44:49,370 --> 00:44:52,373
can you turn that around in 24 hours
and try the next day?

857
00:44:52,489 --> 00:44:55,676
So I'm going to talk to just a little bit,
and I'm going to hand it to Sean

858
00:44:55,676 --> 00:44:58,128
because he can
probably give you more detail.

859
00:44:58,128 --> 00:45:00,864
So we have six days that each of those six

860
00:45:00,864 --> 00:45:03,867
days,
the first 3 to 6 are viable launch days.

861
00:45:03,901 --> 00:45:07,554
But we do need to,
if we do a scrub at, there's,

862
00:45:07,771 --> 00:45:10,641
at least 24 hours to turn around.

863
00:45:10,641 --> 00:45:16,280
And in some cases, we need to replenish
some of the, the, the, the, the gases

864
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:19,817
and things that we need to, to fuel
the spacecraft and run the spacecraft.

865
00:45:19,817 --> 00:45:22,469
So those sometimes
we'll need to do a 48 hour scrub.

866
00:45:22,469 --> 00:45:23,003
So if you take

867
00:45:23,003 --> 00:45:26,757
the six days that we have available,
if some of those are 24 opportunities

868
00:45:26,757 --> 00:45:28,942
and some of them are 48 hours scrubs,
we think we can get up

869
00:45:28,942 --> 00:45:32,012
to four launch attempts
within that six day period.

870
00:45:32,246 --> 00:45:33,747
Sean can speak more to the

871
00:45:33,747 --> 00:45:37,367
the resources that are required
and what drive the 24 versus 48.

872
00:45:37,701 --> 00:45:40,687
As part of getting ready for Artemis two,
we actually,

873
00:45:40,738 --> 00:45:44,158
installed a new 1.4
million gallon hydrogen door.

874
00:45:44,608 --> 00:45:48,979
And so that enables us, the four
launch attempts that Laura referred to.

875
00:45:50,147 --> 00:45:50,748
Yeah, they're,

876
00:45:50,748 --> 00:45:53,867
you know, 20 whether it's a 24 hour scrub
or a 48 hour scrub

877
00:45:53,867 --> 00:45:57,654
really depends on the reason you know, it
depends on what the hardware problem was.

878
00:45:59,373 --> 00:46:03,477
Or, you know, or when we scrub
in, in the launch countdown.

879
00:46:03,477 --> 00:46:05,846
So for real late,
that means we're using more hydrogen.

880
00:46:05,846 --> 00:46:08,148
We're we're bleeding off more hydrogen.

881
00:46:08,148 --> 00:46:08,932
We scrub early.

882
00:46:08,932 --> 00:46:12,052
We're not bleeding off as much,
but we're prepared for a 24

883
00:46:12,052 --> 00:46:15,589
hour scrub turnaround,
for just about any case.

884
00:46:16,023 --> 00:46:17,791
So it's purely.

885
00:46:17,791 --> 00:46:20,778
Yeah, if it's purely weather,
we can hit a 24 hour.

886
00:46:22,646 --> 00:46:24,047
Okay, we'll come here.

887
00:46:24,047 --> 00:46:27,050
Let's wait for Mike to come around. Yep.

888
00:46:27,868 --> 00:46:28,318
Hi, Josh.

889
00:46:28,318 --> 00:46:30,053
Junior Space.com again.

890
00:46:30,053 --> 00:46:31,221
Are this one's for you?

891
00:46:31,221 --> 00:46:34,975
You mentioned Orion's attitude control
system, and I know there's a demonstration

892
00:46:34,975 --> 00:46:37,978
of the two different attitude
control modes during the mission.

893
00:46:38,162 --> 00:46:41,031
Can you talk about the differences
between the six degree and three

894
00:46:41,031 --> 00:46:44,668
degree of freedom, configurations
and which scenarios?

895
00:46:44,785 --> 00:46:48,438
Both of them are sort of advantageous
over the other to be used?

896
00:46:49,490 --> 00:46:50,040
Yeah.

897
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:53,060
You know,
Wow, that's a very good question.

898
00:46:53,060 --> 00:46:54,511
I yeah, it was expected.

899
00:46:54,511 --> 00:46:54,828
Okay.

900
00:46:54,828 --> 00:46:57,831
So going to back
to, guidance, navigation control.

901
00:46:57,831 --> 00:47:01,919
So six degrees of freedom
allows you to obviously do XY

902
00:47:01,919 --> 00:47:03,504
and Z and translate as well.

903
00:47:03,504 --> 00:47:07,558
So, for us we're always in the six
degree of freedom, configuration.

904
00:47:07,558 --> 00:47:08,909
That gives us a fine control.

905
00:47:08,909 --> 00:47:12,596
If we needed to, we'd go to a three off
to clean, three degrees of freedom

906
00:47:12,596 --> 00:47:15,949
to clean it up if necessary,
based on the RCS configuration.

907
00:47:16,233 --> 00:47:18,619
But in general.
And then we're going to do a test.

908
00:47:18,619 --> 00:47:19,203
Both. Right.

909
00:47:19,203 --> 00:47:22,623
Our our ability to control
the spacecraft is really important.

910
00:47:22,940 --> 00:47:25,642
And our ability to have a closed loop
control system that allows us to do

911
00:47:25,642 --> 00:47:28,645
both and, jet selection logic
along with that.

912
00:47:28,795 --> 00:47:31,465
So we have multiple jets that we can use
to fire together.

913
00:47:31,465 --> 00:47:33,834
And combination
is really important as well.

914
00:47:33,834 --> 00:47:37,254
So all those things are part of our
I guess that the answer is yes.

915
00:47:37,254 --> 00:47:39,022
We're going to do both. Yes,
they're very important.

916
00:47:39,022 --> 00:47:42,843
But in general, six degrees of freedom
is, is the control, mode

917
00:47:42,843 --> 00:47:44,244
that we would generally want to be in.

918
00:47:46,647 --> 00:47:46,947
Okay.

919
00:47:46,947 --> 00:47:50,217
We'll go to one on the phone
we have Micah made in Berg

920
00:47:50,217 --> 00:47:53,220
with the Wall Street Journal.

921
00:47:54,021 --> 00:47:55,322
Hey. Thanks, Rachel.

922
00:47:55,322 --> 00:47:56,240
Maybe for Lori.

923
00:47:56,240 --> 00:47:59,660
Could you remind me just about the role
of the prime contractors?

924
00:47:59,910 --> 00:48:02,813
At this point,

925
00:48:02,813 --> 00:48:06,149
specific to SLS and Orion, like,
our folks from the companies

926
00:48:06,183 --> 00:48:09,653
actively working with NASA teams
right into launch, or is it more.

927
00:48:09,686 --> 00:48:12,923
They're on standby if something comes up
some color, there would be great.

928
00:48:13,190 --> 00:48:15,809
Thanks so much. Yeah,
thank you for the question, mica.

929
00:48:15,809 --> 00:48:18,812
In fact,
I'm really excited to answer this one.

930
00:48:19,713 --> 00:48:21,982
You know, we are still working

931
00:48:21,982 --> 00:48:25,202
very, very closely with,
with all of our prime contractors.

932
00:48:25,202 --> 00:48:26,820
In fact,

933
00:48:26,820 --> 00:48:30,924
you know, the, the issue that we had
that required us to roll back to the VAB,

934
00:48:30,924 --> 00:48:36,530
the the helium, quick disconnect,
connection, there was a great example

935
00:48:36,530 --> 00:48:40,851
that showed our, our NASA teams
and our contractor teams from,

936
00:48:41,451 --> 00:48:45,989
from Boeing and ULA,
and from our, our, ground system

937
00:48:45,989 --> 00:48:50,611
contractor teams and our NASA teams,
all working together as one team.

938
00:48:51,361 --> 00:48:52,412
It was fantastic.

939
00:48:52,412 --> 00:48:54,681
And it's great to see we're,
you know, we're

940
00:48:54,681 --> 00:48:56,717
just trying to solve the problems
and get the work done.

941
00:48:56,717 --> 00:48:58,201
So we are working really closely

942
00:48:58,201 --> 00:49:01,405
with our contractors,
all the contractors and the NASA folks,

943
00:49:01,888 --> 00:49:07,110
including the folks from Boeing,
Lockheed, ULA, north of Grumman.

944
00:49:07,327 --> 00:49:08,545
We're all in there together.

945
00:49:08,545 --> 00:49:11,181
And there's more as well,
but we're all in there together.

946
00:49:11,181 --> 00:49:13,884
And when we get questions about
how are we going to turn around

947
00:49:13,884 --> 00:49:17,371
faster and be able to implement
the accelerated plan

948
00:49:17,371 --> 00:49:20,958
that the administrators rolled out
for Artemis three, 4 or 5 and beyond?

949
00:49:21,258 --> 00:49:22,192
I think this is the way

950
00:49:22,192 --> 00:49:26,063
we're going to work together in the future
much more closely and more integrated

951
00:49:26,313 --> 00:49:29,132
and more collaboratively
with these integrated teams.

952
00:49:29,132 --> 00:49:30,951
So it's been a great demonstration here.

953
00:49:32,452 --> 00:49:32,853
Okay.

954
00:49:32,853 --> 00:49:35,839
Let's go on this side to Lauren
Grush again.

955
00:49:37,157 --> 00:49:39,209
Hi. Thanks for taking a second question.

956
00:49:39,209 --> 00:49:41,578
I'm just curious, what,
if any, flexibility

957
00:49:41,578 --> 00:49:45,032
do you have with the biggest maneuvers
that you have planned in space?

958
00:49:45,032 --> 00:49:48,568
For instance, if a burn doesn't happen
exactly at the right time,

959
00:49:48,752 --> 00:49:51,388
is there any wiggle room
or are there just some maneuvers

960
00:49:51,388 --> 00:49:54,891
that have to go off as planned
and or else they can't happen?

961
00:49:55,158 --> 00:49:57,027
Thank you.

962
00:49:57,027 --> 00:49:58,045
Maybe you want me to take that?

963
00:49:58,045 --> 00:49:58,195
Yeah.

964
00:49:58,195 --> 00:50:01,231
Why don't you take,
So all our burns that are on Orion

965
00:50:01,231 --> 00:50:04,217
side, obviously,
including the trans lunar injection burn?

966
00:50:04,551 --> 00:50:06,019
We have a recovery plan.

967
00:50:06,019 --> 00:50:08,071
So, two things could happen.

968
00:50:08,071 --> 00:50:10,891
One, if your main engine, cuts out.

969
00:50:10,891 --> 00:50:13,276
So we have our auxiliary engines
that would go forward.

970
00:50:13,276 --> 00:50:16,279
We also could also do
a replan of that and,

971
00:50:16,413 --> 00:50:19,399
continue that, burn as well.

972
00:50:19,433 --> 00:50:23,120
So that that's there, we certainly have
covered, all the other burns.

973
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:25,639
There's one burn, that's we call critical.

974
00:50:25,639 --> 00:50:26,790
That must be done.

975
00:50:26,790 --> 00:50:28,909
It's, return trajectory correction.

976
00:50:28,909 --> 00:50:30,811
Burn three, RTC three.

977
00:50:30,811 --> 00:50:33,930
It's about five hours
before we hit entry interface.

978
00:50:33,930 --> 00:50:35,298
That really corrects

979
00:50:35,298 --> 00:50:38,335
and makes sure we hit that corridor,
which is really important.

980
00:50:38,752 --> 00:50:41,788
Obviously, for making sure
we can get the crew home safely,

981
00:50:42,422 --> 00:50:44,691
through, the Earth entry point.

982
00:50:44,691 --> 00:50:47,511
And so that's our only burn
that is, critical.

983
00:50:47,511 --> 00:50:49,463
The rest we can, replan,

984
00:50:49,463 --> 00:50:53,366
I would say, and clean up as necessary
if we do not get a full burn off.

985
00:50:54,568 --> 00:50:56,753
Okay, let's go to Bill Harwood next.

986
00:50:56,753 --> 00:50:59,423
And I, for for Mr.

987
00:50:59,423 --> 00:51:00,140
Quinn. You.

988
00:51:00,140 --> 00:51:01,975
I'm a little confused
on the recycle options.

989
00:51:01,975 --> 00:51:03,777
I thought if you guessed it up

990
00:51:03,777 --> 00:51:06,830
and got late in the window,
you couldn't do a 24 hour turnaround,

991
00:51:07,247 --> 00:51:11,118
that there's some limit that, you know,
if you put fuel on board, that affects

992
00:51:11,601 --> 00:51:12,452
when you can go again.

993
00:51:12,452 --> 00:51:15,439
I just wanted to clarify that
that was true for Argus one.

994
00:51:16,089 --> 00:51:18,241
It's not true for Artemis two.

995
00:51:18,241 --> 00:51:20,610
You know, we've got the 1.4
million gallons sphere.

996
00:51:20,610 --> 00:51:23,597
That gives us a much more significant,

997
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:26,967
hydrogen storage capability
at the launch site, the later the window.

998
00:51:26,967 --> 00:51:29,035
So, yeah, I believe so.

999
00:51:29,035 --> 00:51:31,071
I mean, I'll confirm, but I believe so.

1000
00:51:31,071 --> 00:51:32,239
Yeah.

1001
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:35,792
I mean, next on the side,
another, countdown question.

1002
00:51:35,792 --> 00:51:36,960
Is there a point,

1003
00:51:38,011 --> 00:51:39,212
in the count

1004
00:51:39,212 --> 00:51:44,067
where if you hold or for weather
or technical issue that you no longer

1005
00:51:44,067 --> 00:51:48,088
have the whole two hours,
like if you get into terminal count,

1006
00:51:49,072 --> 00:51:53,610
is it commit I mean, are you able to stop
and retarget later in the window,

1007
00:51:53,610 --> 00:51:56,997
or do you lose some options
at some point in the countdown,

1008
00:51:57,597 --> 00:52:03,120
we can recycle about T -five minutes
if we if we if we hold account before t

1009
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:06,473
-five minutes, we can recycle back
and try for another attempt.

1010
00:52:07,607 --> 00:52:07,891
Okay.

1011
00:52:07,891 --> 00:52:10,193
We'll take another one on the phone
from Will Robinson.

1012
00:52:10,193 --> 00:52:13,196
Smith with Spaceflight Now.

1013
00:52:13,847 --> 00:52:16,850
I thanks Rachel for allowing another one.

1014
00:52:17,417 --> 00:52:19,369
Question to

1015
00:52:19,369 --> 00:52:22,372
I suppose whoever wants to take it,
maybe Sean,

1016
00:52:22,405 --> 00:52:25,609
if the IC isn't able

1017
00:52:25,609 --> 00:52:31,231
to get Orion into the high Earth orbit,
but the Orion module,

1018
00:52:31,681 --> 00:52:34,251
both crew and service are working
just fine.

1019
00:52:34,251 --> 00:52:38,538
What would a low earth orbit
version of Artemis two look like?

1020
00:52:38,538 --> 00:52:40,340
About how long would that last?

1021
00:52:40,340 --> 00:52:43,710
And what operations
could you accomplish in that scenario?

1022
00:52:43,827 --> 00:52:46,763
Thanks. Sorry. Question for Howard again.

1023
00:52:46,763 --> 00:52:50,116
So we also have, what we call
alternate mission

1024
00:52:50,116 --> 00:52:54,387
scenarios by which we allow ourselves
to potentially do a circular orbit.

1025
00:52:54,387 --> 00:52:58,792
We have a couple options, to circuit lies
and execute

1026
00:52:58,792 --> 00:53:04,397
as much, of the objectives that we can,
if there's something that happens,

1027
00:53:04,648 --> 00:53:08,001
where we could not,
get the upper stage to get us a nice burn.

1028
00:53:08,151 --> 00:53:09,386
So there is various options.

1029
00:53:09,386 --> 00:53:12,088
We looked at,
we're able to do some of those mission,

1030
00:53:13,073 --> 00:53:14,808
completion things.

1031
00:53:14,808 --> 00:53:16,910
And it depends on where we get
dropped off.

1032
00:53:16,910 --> 00:53:17,611
What happens?

1033
00:53:17,611 --> 00:53:21,948
So, it depends on the scenario we're in,
but we're definitely ready for those types

1034
00:53:21,948 --> 00:53:22,399
of scenarios.

1035
00:53:22,399 --> 00:53:25,018
Well, and a flight control
team knows what to do.

1036
00:53:25,018 --> 00:53:27,354
We've already done, planning for that.

1037
00:53:27,354 --> 00:53:30,657
We've already assessed
a lot of those trajectories, to make sure

1038
00:53:30,657 --> 00:53:33,660
that we're ready to go
and have in my hand, if necessary.

1039
00:53:34,561 --> 00:53:35,328
Okay.

1040
00:53:35,328 --> 00:53:38,331
We'll go actually back there to Miles
Dorn.

1041
00:53:38,848 --> 00:53:40,967
Dorn, CBS news question for Howard.

1042
00:53:40,967 --> 00:53:43,970
I know the main
engine is used for the TLI burn.

1043
00:53:44,087 --> 00:53:46,172
Which engines are used
for the other burns?

1044
00:53:46,172 --> 00:53:48,508
The ATC burns, the RTC burns.

1045
00:53:48,508 --> 00:53:51,711
Is it all the auxiliary thrusters,
or can you use both?

1046
00:53:51,711 --> 00:53:53,163
What, what's the plan?

1047
00:53:53,163 --> 00:53:55,131
The OMS burn is too. Too much.

1048
00:53:55,131 --> 00:53:56,733
We don't expect to make that correction.

1049
00:53:56,733 --> 00:54:01,238
Our navigation state should be, very good
unless something happens along the way

1050
00:54:01,238 --> 00:54:02,422
and we can't,

1051
00:54:02,422 --> 00:54:06,693
so all of them are planned to be on the,
what you call auxiliary ox burns?

1052
00:54:07,310 --> 00:54:10,130
We. If they're small enough,
we might even do in the reaction

1053
00:54:10,130 --> 00:54:13,133
control system
on the service module as well.

1054
00:54:13,516 --> 00:54:15,719
So that'll depend on, you know what?

1055
00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:19,856
As we approach each ATC, each RTC,
which is outbound trajectory correction

1056
00:54:19,856 --> 00:54:21,875
and then, return trajectory corrections

1057
00:54:21,875 --> 00:54:23,910
will determine
how best to utilize our thrusters.

1058
00:54:23,910 --> 00:54:26,630
But yes, in general,
it'll be the auxiliary engines.

1059
00:54:27,781 --> 00:54:28,131
Okay.

1060
00:54:28,131 --> 00:54:31,134
Let's go to Ken here in the front.

1061
00:54:31,618 --> 00:54:32,068
Thank you.

1062
00:54:32,068 --> 00:54:35,071
Thanks for a second question,
Ken Kramer, SpaceX up close.

1063
00:54:35,155 --> 00:54:39,142
Howard, what
what is the width of the reentry corridor?

1064
00:54:39,843 --> 00:54:41,578
I don't know if I've heard a number.

1065
00:54:41,578 --> 00:54:44,848
And I would also like to get an update on
the Rs 25 engines.

1066
00:54:44,848 --> 00:54:47,300
You've got to build new ones
for Artemis five.

1067
00:54:47,300 --> 00:54:49,319
We haven't heard a lot about it.

1068
00:54:49,319 --> 00:54:50,787
So. So what is the status?

1069
00:54:50,787 --> 00:54:53,807
Because if you're going to launch Artemis
5 in 2 years, you

1070
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:56,876
you got to get them built and tested
pretty soon.

1071
00:54:57,510 --> 00:54:58,495
Thanks.

1072
00:54:58,495 --> 00:55:03,149
Yeah I when you say with I'll have to
get back with you on what you're asking.

1073
00:55:03,183 --> 00:55:07,187
You mean the width of the corridor
in terms of cross range, is that correct?

1074
00:55:07,370 --> 00:55:07,971
The cross range.

1075
00:55:07,971 --> 00:55:11,007
We got range downrange.
Track of up to 7075.

1076
00:55:11,541 --> 00:55:13,710
Even even as their approach.

1077
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:17,597
Yeah.

1078
00:55:17,597 --> 00:55:19,132
I'll have to get you that number.

1079
00:55:19,132 --> 00:55:22,135
Sorry, I don't remember
off the top of my head on that one.

1080
00:55:22,519 --> 00:55:23,219
Okay.

1081
00:55:23,219 --> 00:55:26,072
The astronauts are real
concerned about that.

1082
00:55:26,072 --> 00:55:27,023
Yeah, it's.

1083
00:55:27,023 --> 00:55:30,977
Yeah, I can probably delve into more
of it, but, we'll get you that number.

1084
00:55:31,561 --> 00:55:33,296
Okay?

1085
00:55:33,296 --> 00:55:33,630
Okay.

1086
00:55:33,630 --> 00:55:34,831
And on the Rs 25.

1087
00:55:34,831 --> 00:55:37,734
Right for arms five.

1088
00:55:37,734 --> 00:55:39,836
They are in production,

1089
00:55:39,836 --> 00:55:40,520
flights set.

1090
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:44,274
So we've all completed,
our acceptance hotbar.

1091
00:55:44,274 --> 00:55:46,826
And on two of those, the engines already.

1092
00:55:46,826 --> 00:55:50,280
So they are in the production phase,
and we're working through it.

1093
00:55:50,397 --> 00:55:53,400
You you'll go back, you can
you can pull some of the,

1094
00:55:54,351 --> 00:55:56,486
burns and the test from Stennis when we

1095
00:55:56,486 --> 00:55:59,489
we went through those,
test of those new engines.

1096
00:55:59,539 --> 00:56:02,542
So they're in play, and they do support.

1097
00:56:04,677 --> 00:56:05,161
All right.

1098
00:56:05,161 --> 00:56:07,047
And with that, we'll go ahead and wrap up.

1099
00:56:07,047 --> 00:56:10,166
I want to thank our participants
very much for being here today.

1100
00:56:10,350 --> 00:56:13,370
We will provide another status
update tomorrow

1101
00:56:13,436 --> 00:56:16,923
on how the countdown is going
as it gets underway.

1102
00:56:17,090 --> 00:56:19,042
That'll be at approximately 5 p.m.

1103
00:56:19,042 --> 00:56:20,627
eastern time tomorrow.

1104
00:56:20,627 --> 00:56:22,729
As always, you can follow the latest news

1105
00:56:22,729 --> 00:56:25,732
and mission events
and our progress on NASA.gov.

1106
00:56:25,982 --> 00:56:27,083
Thank you for joining us.