1 00:01:23,666 --> 00:01:24,617 Good afternoon. 2 00:01:24,617 --> 00:01:28,772 You're looking at a picture of the Artemis II crew just taken yesterday at Launch 3 00:01:28,772 --> 00:01:32,542 Pad 39 B with the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft. 4 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:37,163 Our first launch attempt for the Artemis II mission is tomorrow, April 1st. 5 00:01:37,397 --> 00:01:40,667 The 2 hour launch window opens at 6:24 p.m. 6 00:01:40,667 --> 00:01:41,818 eastern time. 7 00:01:41,818 --> 00:01:42,502 Welcome. 8 00:01:42,502 --> 00:01:43,770 I'm Antonia Jaramillo, 9 00:01:43,770 --> 00:01:46,773 and this is the prelaunch news conference for the Artemis II mission. 10 00:01:47,307 --> 00:01:50,276 Joining us today to speak about the launch countdown is Jeff 11 00:01:50,276 --> 00:01:53,279 Spaulding, senior NASA test director. 12 00:01:53,780 --> 00:01:55,165 Good afternoon. 13 00:01:55,165 --> 00:01:58,735 And Mark Burger, our 45th launch weather officer with the 14 00:01:59,752 --> 00:02:02,155 Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. 15 00:02:02,155 --> 00:02:04,190 Thank you. 16 00:02:04,190 --> 00:02:06,092 They're going to provide some brief opening remarks. 17 00:02:06,092 --> 00:02:08,027 And afterwards, we're going to take some questions 18 00:02:08,027 --> 00:02:10,763 from media here in the room as well as online. 19 00:02:10,763 --> 00:02:12,348 For those joining us over the phone, 20 00:02:12,348 --> 00:02:15,318 you can press Star One to ask your question. 21 00:02:15,318 --> 00:02:17,837 So without further ado, we'll kick it off with you, Jeff. 22 00:02:17,837 --> 00:02:19,072 Thank you. 23 00:02:19,072 --> 00:02:19,372 All right. 24 00:02:19,372 --> 00:02:21,191 And good afternoon, everyone, and welcome. 25 00:02:21,191 --> 00:02:22,859 And thanks for joining us today. 26 00:02:22,859 --> 00:02:28,314 We are a little over 29 hours from our, opening of the launch window tomorrow. 27 00:02:28,314 --> 00:02:31,351 And, I am very excited myself. 28 00:02:31,351 --> 00:02:35,605 And, just coming from the firing room, just a little bit ago, on my way over 29 00:02:35,605 --> 00:02:39,008 here, talked to, a bunch of members of the team, and I'll say, 30 00:02:39,542 --> 00:02:42,529 normally when we're in the firing room, working over there, 31 00:02:42,529 --> 00:02:44,364 folks have got their heads down and they're working, 32 00:02:44,364 --> 00:02:47,150 and they do doing all the business that we do over the space business. 33 00:02:47,150 --> 00:02:50,870 But I'll say there was a lot of smiles today, so, felt really good about that. 34 00:02:50,954 --> 00:02:54,023 As the team is preparing, I think everybody's pretty excited 35 00:02:54,023 --> 00:02:57,026 and understands, the significance of this launch. 36 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:59,612 We did talk to the, flight crew last night. 37 00:02:59,612 --> 00:03:00,480 We had a briefing with them. 38 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:03,349 We had another one, just a little bit before I went down in the firing room. 39 00:03:03,349 --> 00:03:05,134 We had another briefing with them. 40 00:03:05,134 --> 00:03:08,755 Last night was just to kind of go over the day, launch, routine with them 41 00:03:08,755 --> 00:03:10,740 and kind of a refresher for ourselves and for them. 42 00:03:10,740 --> 00:03:13,126 And, and that went really well. They were in great spirits. 43 00:03:13,126 --> 00:03:15,979 And then we had another briefing today just to talk about 44 00:03:15,979 --> 00:03:17,447 how the launch countdown was going. 45 00:03:17,447 --> 00:03:19,465 And as, we'll talk here in a little bit. 46 00:03:19,465 --> 00:03:20,516 It's been going really well. 47 00:03:21,517 --> 00:03:22,352 Let's see, since 48 00:03:22,352 --> 00:03:25,622 Charlie spoke to yesterday, we've, we've got quite a bit of work done. 49 00:03:25,622 --> 00:03:27,557 We started out, yesterday. 50 00:03:27,557 --> 00:03:30,560 The first thing we do usually is fill up the sound systems with water. 51 00:03:30,743 --> 00:03:33,980 And when we start working on getting the liquid oxygen liquid hydrogen systems 52 00:03:34,247 --> 00:03:37,317 ready for our, propellant loading that's coming up in the future. 53 00:03:38,251 --> 00:03:39,752 We did power up all of the vehicles. 54 00:03:39,752 --> 00:03:43,289 We powered up the Orion core stage as well as yesterday. 55 00:03:43,289 --> 00:03:47,577 We did, communication checks, RF checkouts, on the systems. 56 00:03:47,577 --> 00:03:50,697 And, and then after that, we got through all of that work. 57 00:03:50,730 --> 00:03:52,548 Then we went ahead and powered down 58 00:03:52,548 --> 00:03:55,919 because there was no more work for them until later tonight when we power 59 00:03:56,369 --> 00:03:56,753 back up. 60 00:03:56,753 --> 00:03:58,821 But of course, of course, Stage and Orion stay powered up 61 00:03:58,821 --> 00:04:00,506 through the remainder account. 62 00:04:00,506 --> 00:04:04,978 Today we got launch, pad, ground system configurations and work. 63 00:04:04,978 --> 00:04:06,713 We're doing close out in a number of areas. 64 00:04:06,713 --> 00:04:08,181 We're doing walk downs. 65 00:04:08,181 --> 00:04:12,418 As we, we work through the pad to make sure everything is configured for launch. 66 00:04:12,869 --> 00:04:14,487 We're also in work on the late. 67 00:04:14,487 --> 00:04:18,858 So right now, we should be getting the, avatar in the, 68 00:04:18,958 --> 00:04:21,077 bags that we're doing in the late soak. Going up. 69 00:04:21,077 --> 00:04:24,647 They were, prepping them in the, cr down in below the pad. 70 00:04:24,931 --> 00:04:28,668 The pad terminal change out room, which is, the area with to place the pad 71 00:04:28,668 --> 00:04:31,020 where we have some rooms and getting those ready to go up. 72 00:04:31,020 --> 00:04:33,172 And, they should be being installed as we speak. 73 00:04:34,357 --> 00:04:35,425 And then let's 74 00:04:35,425 --> 00:04:38,461 see, tonight we're going to be doing, a whole lot of other work. 75 00:04:38,461 --> 00:04:42,899 As we get ready, to clear the pad, we do have some work associated 76 00:04:42,899 --> 00:04:44,717 with the Orion, ground equipment 77 00:04:44,717 --> 00:04:48,321 and systems that we used to do the leak checks on the, crew suits. 78 00:04:48,538 --> 00:04:50,189 And so we'll be working those later tonight 79 00:04:50,189 --> 00:04:51,357 to configure those and check them out 80 00:04:51,357 --> 00:04:54,360 and make sure they're ready for when we, hook up to the crew on launch day. 81 00:04:54,827 --> 00:04:58,097 Preparing some of the Orion guidance systems later tonight as well. 82 00:04:58,798 --> 00:05:02,118 We do intend to clear personnel from the pad at about three in the morning. 83 00:05:02,552 --> 00:05:05,421 At that point, and then we'll get ready for our RTG 84 00:05:05,421 --> 00:05:07,940 and to changeover at about four in the morning. 85 00:05:07,940 --> 00:05:12,528 We, we do that, we purge the vehicle with air, routinely for the whole flow. 86 00:05:12,962 --> 00:05:14,480 Once we get to this point where we're, we're getting ready 87 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:18,151 to add, hazardous, propellants like hydrogen, for example, 88 00:05:18,351 --> 00:05:19,902 we change over to Gen2 to have 89 00:05:19,902 --> 00:05:23,873 an inert environment for, for safety purposes on the vehicle and all of the, 90 00:05:23,873 --> 00:05:28,227 the volumes that are on the, let's see later. 91 00:05:28,561 --> 00:05:31,831 Once we get through the energy into changeover and all the other work is done, 92 00:05:32,098 --> 00:05:36,302 our launch director will have a, final weather brief and once we get out of that, 93 00:05:36,619 --> 00:05:39,572 she'll signal the team that we are ready to start our propellant loading. 94 00:05:39,572 --> 00:05:43,409 And that's, scheduled to occur at about 734 tomorrow morning. 95 00:05:44,127 --> 00:05:46,229 That loading takes a little over 5.5 hours. 96 00:05:47,897 --> 00:05:48,898 We'll work through that. 97 00:05:48,898 --> 00:05:53,569 As mentioned yesterday, by the launch director, we have inserted, 98 00:05:54,537 --> 00:05:57,540 some time in front of that, 99 00:05:58,341 --> 00:06:01,310 propellant loading time frame so that if we are, in fact, done 100 00:06:01,310 --> 00:06:05,181 with all of the work and are ready to go and we can start a little bit early, 101 00:06:05,181 --> 00:06:06,232 like a few minutes, 102 00:06:06,232 --> 00:06:09,419 we will try to take that and take every bit of time that we can to get ready 103 00:06:09,419 --> 00:06:12,538 and prepared for the crew and be prepared for anything else that might happen. 104 00:06:12,538 --> 00:06:16,159 So, we did that purposefully to give ourselves a little bit of room 105 00:06:16,159 --> 00:06:16,943 in that time frame. 106 00:06:16,943 --> 00:06:19,796 Based on the launch director's guidance, 107 00:06:19,796 --> 00:06:22,532 let's say during the propellant loading, 108 00:06:22,532 --> 00:06:25,518 the flight crew will wake up at about 945 tomorrow morning. 109 00:06:26,018 --> 00:06:29,305 They'll have breakfast and, start working towards 110 00:06:29,305 --> 00:06:33,326 their, preparations for launch day, and getting their suits on and doing. 111 00:06:33,326 --> 00:06:36,412 There's all the other work that they have, to get ready to head out to the pad. 112 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:38,464 And then, 113 00:06:38,464 --> 00:06:42,351 once we get to all stages, replenish, which is a little after one, 114 00:06:42,351 --> 00:06:46,172 almost 115 in the afternoon tomorrow, we'll send a close our crew to the pad. 115 00:06:46,372 --> 00:06:49,342 I'll say just replenish is when we're done tanking. 116 00:06:49,342 --> 00:06:51,060 Essentially, we filled all the propellant, 117 00:06:51,060 --> 00:06:54,063 on to the core stage and the, the upper stage. 118 00:06:54,947 --> 00:06:58,017 And at that point, we're only just replenishing the 119 00:06:58,050 --> 00:07:00,603 the propellant that's boiling off at the same rate. 120 00:07:00,603 --> 00:07:01,737 So we keep it full. 121 00:07:01,737 --> 00:07:04,257 We do lose quite a bit of propellant during that time frame. 122 00:07:04,257 --> 00:07:07,260 And so we will continue to just, 123 00:07:07,527 --> 00:07:09,495 work that throughout. 124 00:07:09,495 --> 00:07:11,581 After that, 125 00:07:11,581 --> 00:07:12,832 we'll send the flight crew to the pad. 126 00:07:12,832 --> 00:07:15,835 They're going to head out a little before, 2:00 127 00:07:16,219 --> 00:07:18,287 and, to get into the spacecraft. 128 00:07:18,287 --> 00:07:20,690 As I mentioned at the close, our crew is going to go out before them. 129 00:07:20,690 --> 00:07:21,657 So they'll have 130 00:07:21,657 --> 00:07:24,927 been working that time to prepare the capsule for the flight crew arrival. 131 00:07:25,361 --> 00:07:28,014 And then the, the flight crew get out there, 132 00:07:28,014 --> 00:07:31,017 and then I'll work on the insertion portion in which we're going to strap the, 133 00:07:31,100 --> 00:07:34,620 flight crew members into the seats, of Orion. 134 00:07:34,620 --> 00:07:37,223 And then after that, we'll we'll do the final closeouts in the crew module. 135 00:07:37,223 --> 00:07:38,624 We'll close the hatches. 136 00:07:38,624 --> 00:07:41,277 There's some pressurization checks we do and some other things. 137 00:07:41,277 --> 00:07:44,397 And at the end, and then we'll clear the white room, 138 00:07:45,264 --> 00:07:48,167 and then get ready, to get into terminal count. 139 00:07:48,167 --> 00:07:48,534 Our close. 140 00:07:48,534 --> 00:07:52,221 Our crew clears the, white room at about 530 tomorrow night. 141 00:07:52,972 --> 00:07:55,258 It's almost an hour before launch. 142 00:07:55,258 --> 00:07:56,609 That's our plan time. 143 00:07:56,609 --> 00:07:59,962 After that point, we'll finish the rest of the work in configurations 144 00:07:59,962 --> 00:08:01,881 that we can do remotely. And then. 145 00:08:01,881 --> 00:08:06,118 Excuse me, we'll proceed into the, the launch team, Paul. 146 00:08:06,319 --> 00:08:09,322 And then after that, the launch director will perform her management pull, 147 00:08:09,739 --> 00:08:10,823 and then we'll get that terminal count 148 00:08:10,823 --> 00:08:12,925 for the last ten minutes of launch countdown. 149 00:08:12,925 --> 00:08:15,211 So that's essentially the the work ahead of us. 150 00:08:16,195 --> 00:08:16,562 And I would 151 00:08:16,562 --> 00:08:20,333 say that our team has been working amazingly hard through these, 152 00:08:20,333 --> 00:08:24,237 weeks and months, trying to get this vehicle ready to where it is. 153 00:08:24,237 --> 00:08:25,588 We've had some challenges. 154 00:08:25,588 --> 00:08:29,308 The team has done an outstanding job managing each and every one of those 155 00:08:29,308 --> 00:08:32,845 throughout all of this, through many different scenarios, 156 00:08:32,845 --> 00:08:35,848 through weather, through lots of different things that we've had to, to work 157 00:08:35,848 --> 00:08:38,901 through to try to get through all of this and get to where we are today. 158 00:08:39,619 --> 00:08:41,904 People are excited and ready to go on this, 159 00:08:41,904 --> 00:08:46,075 this first chapter on our way back to the moon, since the 1970s. 160 00:08:46,075 --> 00:08:47,460 So we're very excited. 161 00:08:47,460 --> 00:08:50,463 So Mark, over to you. Right. 162 00:08:50,479 --> 00:08:51,497 Thank you Jeff. 163 00:08:51,497 --> 00:08:52,848 Good afternoon everybody. 164 00:08:52,848 --> 00:08:54,767 So, amazing times. 165 00:08:54,767 --> 00:08:56,702 It's great to be here at this point. 166 00:08:56,702 --> 00:09:00,506 And of course, weather has been, a nuanced thing for us 167 00:09:00,506 --> 00:09:04,277 at times, here in the generation phase of, this mission. 168 00:09:04,277 --> 00:09:07,496 But again, look outside right now, great weather. 169 00:09:07,713 --> 00:09:11,300 Hopefully we will keep all of that, although the breezes continue 170 00:09:11,300 --> 00:09:15,805 to be an issue for us, but, a minor one for us in terms of weather. 171 00:09:16,138 --> 00:09:19,609 If we could pull up the satellite imagery here, you can see currently 172 00:09:19,609 --> 00:09:22,378 what we're looking at. Another beautiful day here in Florida. 173 00:09:22,378 --> 00:09:26,816 See a few cumulus clouds moving from the east side of the state towards the west. 174 00:09:27,049 --> 00:09:29,902 That is our onshore flow that we've had really the most, 175 00:09:29,902 --> 00:09:32,071 for the last two weeks or so. 176 00:09:32,071 --> 00:09:35,191 And a few of those, cumulus clouds could evolve later today 177 00:09:35,191 --> 00:09:38,361 into a few showers, much like what we saw yesterday evening. 178 00:09:38,628 --> 00:09:40,563 And again, that's going to be one of the watch items 179 00:09:40,563 --> 00:09:45,301 for weather as we go into, tomorrow and tomorrow afternoon as well. 180 00:09:45,651 --> 00:09:48,087 Let's take a look at some of the overview slides here. 181 00:09:48,087 --> 00:09:51,173 Just to kind of give you a synopsis of what we're looking at here. 182 00:09:51,807 --> 00:09:54,510 So the breezy weather does continue again. 183 00:09:54,510 --> 00:09:56,996 This is a very resilient vehicle. 184 00:09:56,996 --> 00:10:00,082 So despite the breezes, it looks like that that concern 185 00:10:00,082 --> 00:10:03,085 is a minimal concern for our day of launch. 186 00:10:03,336 --> 00:10:06,389 Lightning risk, with any sort of showers that we have 187 00:10:06,389 --> 00:10:09,542 is quite low, generally only on the order of 5 to 10%. 188 00:10:09,742 --> 00:10:13,462 And that would be, generally during the late afternoon. 189 00:10:13,462 --> 00:10:16,916 And any of that activity pushes towards Orlando after that. 190 00:10:16,916 --> 00:10:19,335 So again, that leaves us in a better spot here. 191 00:10:19,335 --> 00:10:22,672 For our launch opportunity, we take a little bit 192 00:10:22,672 --> 00:10:26,442 look at what else could potentially be of an impact. 193 00:10:26,592 --> 00:10:28,260 You may have heard about the sun. 194 00:10:28,260 --> 00:10:30,379 It's become a little bit more active. 195 00:10:30,379 --> 00:10:35,701 Here over the last day, we've had a of a solar flare erupt, but again, no. 196 00:10:35,868 --> 00:10:39,989 Or minimal impact for us out of that, as most of the energy is not 197 00:10:40,172 --> 00:10:41,240 earthward facing. 198 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:44,243 So again, we continue to look good in that department as well. 199 00:10:44,543 --> 00:10:46,979 We look at towards backup opportunities. 200 00:10:46,979 --> 00:10:49,982 So for whatever reason, if we can't utilize tomorrow, 201 00:10:49,982 --> 00:10:54,537 the weather of course is a changeable entity and we do have a tendency 202 00:10:54,537 --> 00:10:58,307 to move towards somewhat less favorable through the rest of the week. 203 00:10:58,491 --> 00:11:03,512 It isn't a huge drop off, but again, kind of a little bit more of a situation 204 00:11:03,512 --> 00:11:07,083 where we'll have to monitor those, feisty cumulus clouds 205 00:11:07,249 --> 00:11:10,469 and, potentially a few showers and breezes as well. 206 00:11:10,970 --> 00:11:12,688 So we go to the next slide, please. 207 00:11:14,357 --> 00:11:17,543 And again, I just wanted to bring this up real quickly with the sun. 208 00:11:17,543 --> 00:11:19,929 So this was an image here from this morning. 209 00:11:19,929 --> 00:11:22,431 Again, the area that's circled on the solar disk. 210 00:11:22,431 --> 00:11:27,303 That is the area that we were watching that produced a solar flare yesterday. 211 00:11:27,570 --> 00:11:32,491 Again, it's directed most of its energy, away from the Earth. 212 00:11:32,491 --> 00:11:36,145 And in fact, there's been no response in terms of the, 213 00:11:36,145 --> 00:11:40,399 particular particles that we look at that could influence the launch vehicle. 214 00:11:40,616 --> 00:11:43,736 And so by this point or within the next couple of hours, 215 00:11:43,736 --> 00:11:46,622 if we don't get a response at all from our satellite data, 216 00:11:46,622 --> 00:11:48,924 then, that threat will have waned as well. 217 00:11:48,924 --> 00:11:52,128 We'll still have to watch that sunspot group, however, because it is 218 00:11:52,128 --> 00:11:55,581 rotating off towards the center of the solar disc. 219 00:11:55,581 --> 00:11:57,917 So again, this flare not a concern. 220 00:11:57,917 --> 00:12:00,202 But should there be additional ones 221 00:12:00,202 --> 00:12:02,338 that will be something that we'll have to monitor a bit. 222 00:12:02,338 --> 00:12:03,956 But again, at the current time, 223 00:12:03,956 --> 00:12:07,643 I see no issues in terms of our launch capability for that. 224 00:12:08,060 --> 00:12:09,061 Next slide please. 225 00:12:11,147 --> 00:12:11,664 All right. 226 00:12:11,664 --> 00:12:13,983 And taking a look at our cross section. 227 00:12:13,983 --> 00:12:16,969 So we we meteorologists like to look at the atmosphere 228 00:12:16,969 --> 00:12:20,072 not only on maps, but we also like to look at 229 00:12:20,089 --> 00:12:23,342 what's happening through the depth of the atmosphere and with time. 230 00:12:23,426 --> 00:12:28,197 So here at Kennedy Space Center on this graph, you can see, the metrics 231 00:12:28,197 --> 00:12:31,617 there, altitude there, going up into the atmosphere 232 00:12:31,617 --> 00:12:34,437 basically to the level of what a jet aircraft would fly. 233 00:12:34,437 --> 00:12:35,988 And then in time we go from left 234 00:12:35,988 --> 00:12:39,625 to right from today through the weekend, including our launch opportunities. 235 00:12:40,009 --> 00:12:44,363 So the green on this map, which pops out here, it's just a moisture profile. 236 00:12:44,363 --> 00:12:46,348 It doesn't necessarily mean rain. 237 00:12:46,348 --> 00:12:47,433 It just means that there's 238 00:12:47,433 --> 00:12:51,086 a little bit more of a predisposition for more clouds and rain. 239 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:52,822 You also see the winds on there. 240 00:12:52,822 --> 00:12:56,125 Those are the black lines that are there with the little barbs on the end of them. 241 00:12:56,125 --> 00:12:58,110 So that gives us an indication of wind speeds. 242 00:12:58,110 --> 00:13:01,530 So right now we're out of the east southeast will generally remain 243 00:13:01,530 --> 00:13:02,631 in that direction. 244 00:13:02,631 --> 00:13:05,634 We might to back a little bit more to easterly winds as we go. 245 00:13:05,634 --> 00:13:08,971 But generally speeds in the 15 to 20 knot range, 246 00:13:08,971 --> 00:13:12,741 which again does not violate any of our liftoff weather constraints. 247 00:13:12,741 --> 00:13:13,409 There. 248 00:13:13,409 --> 00:13:16,579 You do see a superimposed on there the various launch opportunities 249 00:13:16,579 --> 00:13:20,282 including tomorrow is the primary window and then the next three days. 250 00:13:20,282 --> 00:13:24,954 So you do see a day to day fluctuation, with that moisture content 251 00:13:24,954 --> 00:13:29,058 on any given day will likely get a few showers to develop off of that. 252 00:13:29,341 --> 00:13:32,812 But again, with the onshore flow, most of those showers with the sea breeze 253 00:13:32,995 --> 00:13:33,829 each day, 254 00:13:33,829 --> 00:13:38,400 which tend to be the more vigorous showers, will move off towards Orlando. 255 00:13:38,634 --> 00:13:42,621 You do see towards the end of this chart, so going into the weekend and beyond, 256 00:13:42,621 --> 00:13:45,658 a much more massive amount of moisture. 257 00:13:45,658 --> 00:13:48,711 The green there and did want to point that out because this is 258 00:13:48,711 --> 00:13:52,398 just but one model at one time, and there has been 259 00:13:52,398 --> 00:13:55,701 a fair amount of inconsistency to how that moisture evolves. 260 00:13:55,701 --> 00:13:58,771 So it's just a pretty strong hints that we will see, 261 00:13:58,771 --> 00:14:01,757 an increasingly unfavorable environment as we get 262 00:14:02,208 --> 00:14:05,094 beyond this weekend or maybe late into the weekend. 263 00:14:05,094 --> 00:14:07,162 But again, I wanted to point that out because some of the charts 264 00:14:07,162 --> 00:14:09,331 I'm going to show you, utilizing another model 265 00:14:09,331 --> 00:14:12,318 gives you an idea of the battle that us meteorologists follow. 266 00:14:12,318 --> 00:14:16,105 Every day we're trying to assess the uncertainty component of the atmosphere. 267 00:14:16,555 --> 00:14:17,573 So next slide please. 268 00:14:18,691 --> 00:14:19,141 All right. 269 00:14:19,141 --> 00:14:20,943 So this is a for tomorrow. 270 00:14:20,943 --> 00:14:24,296 Again the green blotches here would indicate rain. 271 00:14:24,446 --> 00:14:26,365 You can see still an onshore flow. 272 00:14:26,365 --> 00:14:28,500 You do see a little bit of green 273 00:14:28,500 --> 00:14:31,770 to the west of us again that would be seabreeze driven activity 274 00:14:31,770 --> 00:14:35,841 that is moved off towards the west during the late day hours. 275 00:14:35,841 --> 00:14:37,610 But still, if you squint hard enough, 276 00:14:37,610 --> 00:14:40,613 you can see a few green blotches lurking in the Atlantic waters. 277 00:14:40,713 --> 00:14:43,849 Again, much like yesterday evening if you were out and about, 278 00:14:43,883 --> 00:14:45,267 the few showers rolled in. 279 00:14:45,267 --> 00:14:49,488 That is certainly a possibility for us again for tomorrow evening. 280 00:14:49,872 --> 00:14:52,608 Next slide please. 281 00:14:52,608 --> 00:14:56,845 We are now in range, though, of some of our more high resolution model guidance. 282 00:14:56,845 --> 00:15:02,451 So this, indicates two different models that we look at here for the opening 283 00:15:02,451 --> 00:15:05,938 of our launch window for tomorrow evening, you can see some of them, 284 00:15:05,938 --> 00:15:08,941 showing a few blotches of showers offshore. 285 00:15:09,558 --> 00:15:12,177 Particularly the model that's on the left there. 286 00:15:12,177 --> 00:15:16,432 The right is mostly clear for us and has more of the showers again 287 00:15:16,432 --> 00:15:19,518 to the west of us and again in this pattern with an onshore flow, 288 00:15:19,952 --> 00:15:23,789 any showers that we have will move from east to west there. 289 00:15:23,789 --> 00:15:25,140 So again, looks pretty good. 290 00:15:25,140 --> 00:15:27,810 Even if we have showers around we have a two hour launch window. 291 00:15:27,810 --> 00:15:31,163 We should be able to to shoot the gap between those showers. 292 00:15:31,163 --> 00:15:33,449 And none of these, look particularly vigorous. 293 00:15:33,449 --> 00:15:37,703 Again, as I mentioned, the risk for lightning, which would expand, our, 294 00:15:38,170 --> 00:15:41,423 standoff distances as far as, launching a vehicle 295 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:44,627 looks up pretty minimal for that threat for tomorrow. 296 00:15:45,027 --> 00:15:46,612 Next slide please. 297 00:15:46,612 --> 00:15:49,581 So putting, the graphics into numbers here. 298 00:15:49,581 --> 00:15:54,153 Still maintaining a 20% chance of a no go condition during the launch window. 299 00:15:54,153 --> 00:15:59,541 So the optimistic side of me says that means, 80% chance of go here again. 300 00:15:59,541 --> 00:16:01,760 Isolated showers, wandering around. 301 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:05,631 But again, a lot of real estate between those showers, in all likelihood. 302 00:16:05,631 --> 00:16:06,332 So again, 303 00:16:06,332 --> 00:16:10,285 we should be able to find some clear air to, launch Artemus to again there. 304 00:16:10,302 --> 00:16:14,606 Those winds out of the east southeast, 15 to 20 knots, mild temperatures there. 305 00:16:14,957 --> 00:16:19,645 And again, the order of concerns from the weather standpoint here, cumulus cloud. 306 00:16:19,862 --> 00:16:23,599 And then the winds would be a secondary threat and then a much more distant 307 00:16:23,599 --> 00:16:27,052 that threat would be, sold our weather again, the current flare. 308 00:16:27,052 --> 00:16:27,987 Not a concern. 309 00:16:27,987 --> 00:16:31,373 It would be if there were any additional ones that form on the sun. 310 00:16:31,373 --> 00:16:34,343 Potentially we would have to to watch those. 311 00:16:34,343 --> 00:16:37,346 So let's go into the next day for our Thursday. 312 00:16:37,796 --> 00:16:40,282 Again, pretty similar pattern still onshore flow. 313 00:16:40,282 --> 00:16:42,301 It does look a little windier again. 314 00:16:42,301 --> 00:16:45,020 So that is an additional concern. 315 00:16:45,020 --> 00:16:48,023 And you also see a little bit more green at least in the area. 316 00:16:48,207 --> 00:16:49,742 So again, I do suspect that 317 00:16:49,742 --> 00:16:53,962 a Thursday evening attempt would have, a little bit more weather to deal with. 318 00:16:53,962 --> 00:16:56,248 So a POF of roughly 40% is 319 00:16:56,248 --> 00:16:59,935 what I'd be advertising for a Thursday evening launch attempt. 320 00:17:00,052 --> 00:17:04,857 Again, very similar concerns with the cumulus clouds and the winds as well. 321 00:17:05,207 --> 00:17:08,127 And then the next day, going into our Friday 322 00:17:08,127 --> 00:17:10,429 to close out the workweek here again. 323 00:17:10,429 --> 00:17:13,682 Now, you see, very similar pattern, winds us still in that 324 00:17:13,682 --> 00:17:16,802 roughly 15 to 20 knot range and, 325 00:17:16,952 --> 00:17:20,873 easterly or southeasterly and still some green blotches out over the ocean. 326 00:17:20,873 --> 00:17:21,590 So again, 327 00:17:21,590 --> 00:17:25,010 that's a hint that they'll still be enough moisture to generate some showers. 328 00:17:25,010 --> 00:17:28,797 But there does again, look to be more breaks in that weather for Friday. 329 00:17:28,797 --> 00:17:32,000 So POF would go back down to 25%. 330 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:35,187 So roughly in the same ballpark as tomorrow for Friday. 331 00:17:35,187 --> 00:17:38,874 Tomorrow still looks to be probably the most optimum day of the lot. 332 00:17:39,091 --> 00:17:43,045 And then finally going into the weekend for Saturday again, 333 00:17:43,228 --> 00:17:46,765 this is what I pointed out on that cross section in my earlier slides. 334 00:17:46,765 --> 00:17:51,954 Is that that moisture fetch that was shown later in the weekend on that model? 335 00:17:52,037 --> 00:17:54,990 You can see it's a lot closer to home as we go into Saturday. 336 00:17:54,990 --> 00:17:58,310 It's actually spilling some of that moisture in towards us. 337 00:17:58,494 --> 00:18:02,064 Again, this is probably the most aggressive model at that. 338 00:18:02,214 --> 00:18:06,618 So again, just part of that uncertainty component that we deal with 339 00:18:06,618 --> 00:18:10,522 when we have limited forward visibility going out a number of days. 340 00:18:10,522 --> 00:18:14,042 So, all things considered, a Saturday evening launch attempt 341 00:18:14,042 --> 00:18:17,846 would definitely have to throttle the POF back up again to right now 342 00:18:17,846 --> 00:18:22,351 about 30% or close to 1 in 3 chance of a weather violation on that date. 343 00:18:22,351 --> 00:18:24,436 So tomorrow looks to be the best. 344 00:18:24,436 --> 00:18:27,389 Other days hit and miss, but still pretty good. 345 00:18:27,389 --> 00:18:30,142 There's nothing here that is screaming a no 346 00:18:30,142 --> 00:18:33,529 go for the entirety of the window for any one of these attempts. 347 00:18:35,481 --> 00:18:35,747 Thank you. 348 00:18:35,747 --> 00:18:37,382 Mark, we like to hear that. 349 00:18:37,382 --> 00:18:37,983 All right. 350 00:18:37,983 --> 00:18:39,151 We will now take it. 351 00:18:39,151 --> 00:18:41,453 Open up the floor to questions here in the room. 352 00:18:41,453 --> 00:18:42,721 And also online. 353 00:18:42,721 --> 00:18:44,790 Just as a reminder to those joining us 354 00:18:44,790 --> 00:18:48,293 over the phone, you can press Star one to submit a question. 355 00:18:48,827 --> 00:18:49,311 All right. 356 00:18:49,311 --> 00:18:52,164 We will start with Bill Harwood. 357 00:18:52,164 --> 00:18:53,665 Hey, Bill, with CBS news. 358 00:18:53,665 --> 00:18:56,451 Jeff, good to see you back here again from your shuttle days. 359 00:18:56,451 --> 00:18:57,469 It's been a while. 360 00:18:57,469 --> 00:19:00,205 I think for Artemis one, there was something like, 361 00:19:00,205 --> 00:19:03,659 42, 41 in Colas, collision avoidance cutouts. 362 00:19:04,042 --> 00:19:05,777 What's the what's the story for Artemis two? 363 00:19:05,777 --> 00:19:08,330 There's a lot more stuff up in low-Earth orbit than there used to be. 364 00:19:08,330 --> 00:19:09,198 Thanks. 365 00:19:09,198 --> 00:19:12,050 Yeah, there's there's quite a few more that we manage now, and 366 00:19:12,050 --> 00:19:17,422 and part of that is, how we're actually, laying out the Colas. 367 00:19:17,673 --> 00:19:21,243 We had combined a number of, Colas 368 00:19:21,243 --> 00:19:25,097 during Artemis one, where there was small gaps in between them. 369 00:19:25,397 --> 00:19:29,218 And now we're showing all of the Colas to give us more flexibility, if you will, 370 00:19:29,701 --> 00:19:32,120 because when you have, if you when you combine those, 371 00:19:32,120 --> 00:19:33,956 it takes out larger chunks of time when you potentially 372 00:19:33,956 --> 00:19:36,959 you could have launched in one of those, points between there. 373 00:19:36,959 --> 00:19:40,179 So if you had, say, three colas with a small at a time, whether 374 00:19:40,179 --> 00:19:43,182 and you combine them all, it takes out a larger chunk than leaving those gaps. 375 00:19:43,348 --> 00:19:44,216 And we're pretty good. 376 00:19:44,216 --> 00:19:49,021 Now, during our trainings at being able to pick up the clock quickly 377 00:19:49,021 --> 00:19:51,773 and on the fly and hit those very narrow gaps 378 00:19:51,773 --> 00:19:55,527 that are in between, all of these colors that we're dealing with now. 379 00:19:55,527 --> 00:20:00,449 So, I think that it's definitely in our best interest to, to keep it where it is. 380 00:20:02,568 --> 00:20:03,268 Right now we're at 381 00:20:03,268 --> 00:20:06,622 about 156, and they assess that on a daily basis. 382 00:20:06,622 --> 00:20:09,625 So it could change it by a couple. 383 00:20:09,892 --> 00:20:10,259 All right. 384 00:20:10,259 --> 00:20:13,262 We will go to Marsha Dunn. 385 00:20:13,645 --> 00:20:16,848 Marsha Dean, Associated Press how much wiggle room 386 00:20:16,848 --> 00:20:20,102 do you have to either halt the countdown or, 387 00:20:20,602 --> 00:20:23,188 deal with a solar flare? 388 00:20:23,188 --> 00:20:26,558 That is a big one and comes out at 389 00:20:26,575 --> 00:20:29,578 you like during the, you know, the 390 00:20:30,479 --> 00:20:32,748 you know, once tanking begins. 391 00:20:32,748 --> 00:20:34,233 I just didn't know how much 392 00:20:34,233 --> 00:20:38,303 heads up time you need and just sort of talk about that, please. 393 00:20:38,303 --> 00:20:41,306 So we have a launch commit criteria that that are outlined, 394 00:20:41,373 --> 00:20:46,428 for the solar weather and those go down to T -six minutes. 395 00:20:46,795 --> 00:20:49,348 And so we would be evaluating those throughout. 396 00:20:49,348 --> 00:20:51,833 Mark and their team would be looking at those. 397 00:20:51,833 --> 00:20:53,435 And and if there were analysis, 398 00:20:53,435 --> 00:20:55,070 the violation would call it back through the launch. 399 00:20:55,070 --> 00:20:57,356 Weather officer to the launch director. 400 00:20:57,356 --> 00:20:58,190 Mark, I don't know if there's anything 401 00:20:58,190 --> 00:21:00,475 you wanted to add there, but yeah, I'll add a little bit. 402 00:21:00,475 --> 00:21:01,410 That's exactly right. 403 00:21:01,410 --> 00:21:05,731 And just to give you kind of a background, currently our satellite data 404 00:21:05,731 --> 00:21:08,717 from this most recent event that erupted yesterday, 405 00:21:08,717 --> 00:21:13,405 as far as the actual particles or protons that would potentially impact 406 00:21:13,405 --> 00:21:15,023 a launch for the vehicle, 407 00:21:15,023 --> 00:21:18,827 we're running about two orders of magnitude below our constraint 408 00:21:18,827 --> 00:21:21,229 and that just barely above background level. 409 00:21:21,229 --> 00:21:24,499 So, again, we have a lot of time to to see the response. 410 00:21:24,499 --> 00:21:28,854 And in fact, these particular particles, the protons, they are laggards. 411 00:21:28,854 --> 00:21:32,090 So if there's an eruption we'll get the x rays first. 412 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:33,859 Those will be detected by satellite. 413 00:21:33,859 --> 00:21:35,811 And then the protons follow. 414 00:21:35,811 --> 00:21:40,832 And those are the ones that are a little bit more, nuanced in terms of the actual, 415 00:21:42,084 --> 00:21:43,285 ability to launch. 416 00:21:43,285 --> 00:21:45,137 You know, those were where the constraints are based. 417 00:21:45,137 --> 00:21:48,140 So we do have lead time for that. 418 00:21:48,807 --> 00:21:49,608 Thank you both. 419 00:21:49,608 --> 00:21:53,278 We'll go to Jackie right there in the last room. Hi. 420 00:21:53,278 --> 00:21:55,230 Thanks for doing this. Question for Jeff. 421 00:21:55,230 --> 00:21:58,967 So mean we've been learning over the past few days that because 422 00:21:58,967 --> 00:22:02,938 of this larger hydrogen tank, there's more flexibility with recycling. 423 00:22:03,305 --> 00:22:08,477 But we also were told that if you have to hold or abort for weather 424 00:22:08,477 --> 00:22:13,849 or a technical issue after t -five minutes that you can't do a same day recycle. 425 00:22:14,132 --> 00:22:15,801 I was wondering, can you walk us through that? 426 00:22:15,801 --> 00:22:18,537 Why is that T -five minute mark significant? 427 00:22:18,537 --> 00:22:22,257 I would just love to hear more about what is and isn't possible. 428 00:22:22,441 --> 00:22:23,458 During terminal count. 429 00:22:23,458 --> 00:22:27,379 So the the main driver in a recycle is the amount of time that you have. 430 00:22:27,379 --> 00:22:31,350 Because a recycle does take, a fair amount of time for us, 431 00:22:31,350 --> 00:22:35,520 it's about 75 minutes if we've gone all the way through, 432 00:22:35,771 --> 00:22:38,907 from six down to about ten and a half or even down to 33 seconds. 433 00:22:39,057 --> 00:22:43,045 And we've been in that time frame, it could take as much as 75 minutes. 434 00:22:43,311 --> 00:22:45,981 It takes less than that the closer we are to six minutes, 435 00:22:45,981 --> 00:22:48,600 because that's when we stop actually topping off the tanks 436 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:52,404 at that point, and we shut everything off and it's boiling off and so, 437 00:22:52,404 --> 00:22:56,241 but the five minute constraint, it's not really a constraint there for us as to 438 00:22:56,241 --> 00:22:57,592 whether we can or cannot. 439 00:22:57,592 --> 00:23:01,380 We can do a recycle as long as there's enough time in the launch window 440 00:23:01,380 --> 00:23:02,064 to perform it. 441 00:23:02,064 --> 00:23:05,817 We can do a recycle and all the way down, the only constraint we have is 442 00:23:05,817 --> 00:23:09,204 if we get inside of T -33 seconds and we have a cut off, 443 00:23:09,388 --> 00:23:10,856 then we're going to have to scrub for the day 444 00:23:10,856 --> 00:23:13,191 because we can't recycle from 30 after 33 seconds. 445 00:23:15,110 --> 00:23:15,827 All right. 446 00:23:15,827 --> 00:23:18,830 We'll go up front right here. 447 00:23:20,282 --> 00:23:20,732 Yes. 448 00:23:20,732 --> 00:23:25,103 Burt Dict from at Aster magazine, National Space Society, we often hear 449 00:23:25,103 --> 00:23:29,091 that about 400,000 people were involved with the Apollo program, 450 00:23:29,391 --> 00:23:32,677 and certainly tens of thousands have been involved with Artemus. 451 00:23:33,061 --> 00:23:35,363 As we get ready to the launch, 452 00:23:35,363 --> 00:23:39,234 I just want to recognize the workforce and see what's their mood. 453 00:23:39,234 --> 00:23:43,338 As we as I know they're focused in their jobs, but how are they all feeling? 454 00:23:44,639 --> 00:23:47,909 While the people that I get the pleasure to work with and talk with 455 00:23:48,176 --> 00:23:53,281 ours are extremely excited, we have, a large, mix of young and, 456 00:23:53,281 --> 00:23:59,304 and more seasoned people like myself and, and as such, everybody understands 457 00:23:59,304 --> 00:24:02,507 the significance of this mission and especially the flight crew. 458 00:24:02,808 --> 00:24:06,361 But the team that I get to work with, they come in every day, and they. 459 00:24:07,229 --> 00:24:09,948 You mean people are concerned sometimes that we are working 460 00:24:09,948 --> 00:24:13,118 so hard towards these milestones and things, but the really isn't. 461 00:24:13,135 --> 00:24:14,669 People love coming to work. 462 00:24:14,669 --> 00:24:17,038 They love doing this job, and that's why they're here. 463 00:24:17,038 --> 00:24:20,358 And they work through it every single day to get us to this point. 464 00:24:21,176 --> 00:24:23,462 I think everybody understands what our mission is, 465 00:24:23,462 --> 00:24:24,863 and that's to get back to the moon, 466 00:24:24,863 --> 00:24:27,866 and we're going to establish a presence there in the very near future. 467 00:24:27,933 --> 00:24:29,568 And the fact that we've changed direction 468 00:24:29,568 --> 00:24:31,620 and been able to get some additional launches 469 00:24:31,620 --> 00:24:35,273 that really change the calculus for a lot of people as to to their, to 470 00:24:35,273 --> 00:24:36,241 the what the we were doing 471 00:24:36,241 --> 00:24:38,243 and how we were going to get there and the things that we're going to do. 472 00:24:38,243 --> 00:24:39,895 So I think there's a lot of excitement 473 00:24:39,895 --> 00:24:41,930 and fervor within all of the groups that are out there, 474 00:24:41,930 --> 00:24:44,599 but especially here at Kennedy, the folks that I see 475 00:24:44,599 --> 00:24:48,637 are very, very excited to get on with this mission and and get on 476 00:24:48,653 --> 00:24:50,155 and get started with the next one. 477 00:24:50,155 --> 00:24:51,573 And we've got boosters coming in in a month. 478 00:24:51,573 --> 00:24:53,358 So, we're going to be looking for that. 479 00:24:54,843 --> 00:24:55,260 Thanks, Jeff. 480 00:24:55,260 --> 00:24:56,545 We are excited. All right. 481 00:24:56,545 --> 00:24:58,980 We're going to take some questions over the phone. 482 00:24:58,980 --> 00:25:01,967 We have Ken Chang with The New York Times. 483 00:25:03,952 --> 00:25:04,436 Thank you. 484 00:25:04,436 --> 00:25:05,637 This is for Mark. 485 00:25:05,637 --> 00:25:09,658 I was just wondering when you say there's a 20% probability of violation, 486 00:25:10,192 --> 00:25:13,828 is that 20% for the entire two hour window, 487 00:25:13,828 --> 00:25:17,399 or is it 20% that there will be a red during the window? 488 00:25:18,149 --> 00:25:21,386 And if the latter, you say what the chances are that 489 00:25:21,386 --> 00:25:23,838 there would be a launch opportunity? 490 00:25:23,838 --> 00:25:25,707 Thank you. 491 00:25:25,707 --> 00:25:26,908 Yeah. Good question. 492 00:25:26,908 --> 00:25:30,662 So again, the 20% just refers to the probability 493 00:25:30,662 --> 00:25:33,598 of having a violation during the launch window. 494 00:25:33,598 --> 00:25:35,634 That violation could last five minutes. 495 00:25:35,634 --> 00:25:37,252 It could last 30 minutes. 496 00:25:37,252 --> 00:25:38,753 It could last an hour. 497 00:25:38,753 --> 00:25:41,723 In this particular setup, I would imagine that if we get 498 00:25:41,723 --> 00:25:45,377 a violation, generally cumulus cloud would be the most likely candidate, 499 00:25:45,660 --> 00:25:48,647 probably in and out and inside of about 30 minutes. 500 00:25:48,647 --> 00:25:52,250 And then again, as kind of the high resolution models hinted to 501 00:25:52,517 --> 00:25:56,638 and what the pattern supports, likely we would have additional opportunities 502 00:25:56,638 --> 00:25:58,440 within a two hour duration window. 503 00:25:59,958 --> 00:26:00,842 Thank you. 504 00:26:00,842 --> 00:26:04,279 Next up we have Christopher MC with the Hudson Star Observer. 505 00:26:06,264 --> 00:26:08,867 Thank you for the information today and for holding this briefing. 506 00:26:08,867 --> 00:26:12,737 I just want to ask a follow up can on the weather hold question. 507 00:26:12,737 --> 00:26:16,558 I know you can't completely control that with where you are in the count, 508 00:26:16,558 --> 00:26:19,794 but I think you've mentioned Mark in the two hour window. 509 00:26:19,794 --> 00:26:23,131 There are some bands of green that potentially be coming through 510 00:26:23,431 --> 00:26:25,016 is an optimal situation. 511 00:26:25,016 --> 00:26:28,019 Could you kind of walk us through, is that like holding a ten minutes 512 00:26:28,286 --> 00:26:30,739 and then you're waiting for that band to move through? 513 00:26:30,739 --> 00:26:34,075 And proceeding on from the ten minute mark, is it a 20 minutes? 514 00:26:34,075 --> 00:26:36,061 Is there kind of a, 515 00:26:36,061 --> 00:26:38,546 what are the opportunities for kind of being the best to hold that 516 00:26:40,248 --> 00:26:41,433 as far as the holds go? 517 00:26:41,433 --> 00:26:44,669 We have, very prescribed holds as to where we can hold. 518 00:26:45,120 --> 00:26:47,422 Generally, if we have a weather concern, we're gonna hold it. 519 00:26:47,422 --> 00:26:48,206 T -ten minutes. 520 00:26:48,206 --> 00:26:49,341 We won't pick up the clock from there. 521 00:26:49,341 --> 00:26:52,043 Generally, if we have a weather constraint, 522 00:26:52,043 --> 00:26:56,781 if we are counting within between 10 and 6 minutes, we can hold it. Six. 523 00:26:57,132 --> 00:27:00,018 We can hold there for quite a while, actually, through the remainder of the, 524 00:27:00,018 --> 00:27:03,438 the launch window, if there is a violation that occurs between 10 and 6 of the 525 00:27:03,688 --> 00:27:06,758 of any of our weather L releases, so we can sit there for a while if we 526 00:27:06,891 --> 00:27:10,679 if we pick up a weather constraint inside of T minus six and counting, 527 00:27:10,979 --> 00:27:14,633 if it's something that's most likely, if we're gonna have a constraint, 528 00:27:14,633 --> 00:27:17,118 we're probably not going to get it in a very short period of time. 529 00:27:17,118 --> 00:27:18,987 So we'll have to do a recycle and then come back 530 00:27:18,987 --> 00:27:20,839 and see if the weather is going to be good on the other side of that. 531 00:27:20,839 --> 00:27:25,710 But, we have very prescribed whole points and where we can, you know, stop. 532 00:27:25,710 --> 00:27:27,746 And then, pick up the clock again as required. 533 00:27:29,998 --> 00:27:30,799 Thank you. 534 00:27:30,799 --> 00:27:33,051 We'll now take questions back here in the room. 535 00:27:33,051 --> 00:27:37,138 We have one here right up front with this gentleman over here. Hi. 536 00:27:37,138 --> 00:27:39,407 Good afternoon, Tom Costello with NBC news. 537 00:27:39,407 --> 00:27:42,077 As you are now back on the pad. 538 00:27:42,077 --> 00:27:43,495 And of course, in February, 539 00:27:43,495 --> 00:27:46,498 you dealt with the issues on the wet dress and the tanking issues. 540 00:27:46,681 --> 00:27:49,401 What will be the earliest concerning 541 00:27:49,401 --> 00:27:53,154 signs you'll be watching for as you begin tanking tomorrow morning? 542 00:27:53,154 --> 00:27:56,491 Assuming everything is going well, but you will clearly 543 00:27:56,491 --> 00:27:59,511 have your eyes very closely monitoring that tanking progress, 544 00:27:59,511 --> 00:28:03,148 what will you be closely watching for that there could be signs of trouble. 545 00:28:03,631 --> 00:28:07,285 The well, the first thing where we would probably be looking at 546 00:28:07,285 --> 00:28:11,039 is a recurrence of the, these events that happened previously. 547 00:28:11,039 --> 00:28:11,272 Right. 548 00:28:11,272 --> 00:28:14,275 So, once we get an a fast fill on hydrogen, 549 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:18,146 that is where we had the previous issue, where we had the leaks. 550 00:28:18,146 --> 00:28:21,349 We believe that we've solved those through, we've changed the Seals. 551 00:28:21,349 --> 00:28:25,220 We've done exhaustive testing, and, and so we feel pretty good about that. 552 00:28:25,220 --> 00:28:27,422 We went through a wet dress, with that seal. 553 00:28:27,422 --> 00:28:30,842 So all of that says that we feel pretty good, about all of that. 554 00:28:30,842 --> 00:28:32,911 But that's where we would generally be looking at. 555 00:28:32,911 --> 00:28:35,013 First of all is right there at the beginning 556 00:28:35,013 --> 00:28:38,850 when we transition from slow fill to fast fill on the hydrogen side. 557 00:28:40,351 --> 00:28:41,069 Thanks. 558 00:28:41,069 --> 00:28:42,620 We'll take some more questions over here in the room. 559 00:28:42,620 --> 00:28:43,888 Let's go over to this side. 560 00:28:43,888 --> 00:28:46,891 We'll go right here up front as well. 561 00:28:47,008 --> 00:28:48,626 Hi Sawyer Rosenstein with NSF. 562 00:28:48,626 --> 00:28:51,629 We talked obviously about the weather here at the Cape at around the area. 563 00:28:51,629 --> 00:28:53,782 But what about abort weather criteria. 564 00:28:53,782 --> 00:28:56,718 Can you go into, what that looks like for the coming days? 565 00:28:56,718 --> 00:28:59,037 And also how often are you measuring it? 566 00:28:59,037 --> 00:29:01,222 How are you measuring it as well? 567 00:29:01,222 --> 00:29:01,790 Okay. Yeah. 568 00:29:01,790 --> 00:29:04,642 Good question. And a complex one actually. 569 00:29:04,642 --> 00:29:07,645 So the winds are obviously coming from onshore. 570 00:29:07,862 --> 00:29:12,167 And the whole point of an in case of an aboard is if we have to, 571 00:29:12,767 --> 00:29:17,605 utilize that system, we do not want to have the Orion capsule land back on land. 572 00:29:17,605 --> 00:29:21,109 So there are particular thresholds are really the component 573 00:29:21,109 --> 00:29:24,262 of the onshore wind that's exactly perpendicular to the coast. 574 00:29:24,562 --> 00:29:28,199 And so just getting a wind out of the east southeast, 575 00:29:28,366 --> 00:29:31,886 the the actual coastline is more oriented northeast. 576 00:29:31,886 --> 00:29:37,075 So we, we take only a fraction of that onshore component, which helps us out. 577 00:29:37,258 --> 00:29:41,429 Now, if the winds were starting to back, if we saw that indication on 578 00:29:41,429 --> 00:29:45,116 maybe one of the backup days, that instead of them coming out of southeast, 579 00:29:45,116 --> 00:29:48,203 they were more north easterly, we would unfortunately be 580 00:29:48,203 --> 00:29:51,356 exposed to a higher percentage of that onshore component. 581 00:29:51,623 --> 00:29:53,057 So we do look at it at a layer 582 00:29:53,057 --> 00:29:56,311 not only at the ground, but all the way up through 40 800ft. 583 00:29:56,728 --> 00:30:00,181 And to make that assessment into an average speed through that layer. 584 00:30:00,415 --> 00:30:03,017 And we actually do have calculations to run that. 585 00:30:03,017 --> 00:30:05,153 But the decision point 586 00:30:05,153 --> 00:30:08,273 is actually from a balloon that is launched at L -three hours. 587 00:30:08,273 --> 00:30:09,541 And ten minutes. 588 00:30:09,541 --> 00:30:13,828 We'll be providing the launch director already with assessments of the forecast 589 00:30:13,912 --> 00:30:15,480 well before then. 590 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,182 By that L -three hour and ten minute 591 00:30:17,182 --> 00:30:20,368 balloon is really what we'll report the hard line data 592 00:30:20,368 --> 00:30:25,106 as to whether or not the, that component that is onshore, northeasterly, 593 00:30:25,540 --> 00:30:29,277 is actually in violation of the magnitude constraint of that. 594 00:30:29,511 --> 00:30:31,913 And then at that point, if that were to be the case, 595 00:30:31,913 --> 00:30:36,768 and we'd be continually advising the LD about what our expectations are, 596 00:30:37,018 --> 00:30:41,306 subsequent balloons will be launched and will also give us a read for that. 597 00:30:42,090 --> 00:30:44,542 In addition to balloons, we also have, 598 00:30:44,542 --> 00:30:48,863 the 915MHz sounders that we have, which also give us real 599 00:30:48,863 --> 00:30:52,050 time assessments of what the wind direction and magnitude is. 600 00:30:52,250 --> 00:30:54,269 So we have a number of ways to address us. 601 00:30:54,269 --> 00:30:59,424 So even if we were to proceed deeper into the countdown weather of course changes. 602 00:30:59,424 --> 00:31:03,628 And so the forecast component plus the actual hard core, 603 00:31:03,811 --> 00:31:07,348 balloon data and the sounding data gives us 604 00:31:07,348 --> 00:31:10,368 that ability to make a forecast and provide numbers. 605 00:31:10,368 --> 00:31:13,888 So it's possible at one point in the countdown, we could be technically 606 00:31:13,888 --> 00:31:17,792 unacceptable for that low level wind abort constraint, 607 00:31:17,909 --> 00:31:20,912 but then evolve to be acceptable or vice versa. 608 00:31:22,230 --> 00:31:22,547 Thank you. 609 00:31:22,547 --> 00:31:23,381 Mark. 610 00:31:23,381 --> 00:31:27,835 We'll go ahead and take then the person right behind him, Tim Dodd. 611 00:31:27,835 --> 00:31:28,803 Everybody astronaut. 612 00:31:28,803 --> 00:31:30,772 Can you give us a quick little refresher 613 00:31:30,772 --> 00:31:34,075 on if we do go through an entire launch window tomorrow? 614 00:31:34,859 --> 00:31:37,111 You know, and we might be holding for weather or whatever. 615 00:31:37,111 --> 00:31:41,482 We do have a 24 hour reset, a recycle capability for Thursday. 616 00:31:41,733 --> 00:31:42,467 Is that correct? 617 00:31:42,467 --> 00:31:46,037 And then and or if that's not correct, what is the return around look like? 618 00:31:46,037 --> 00:31:48,623 And if we do burn up a 24 hour recycle, what then? 619 00:31:48,623 --> 00:31:50,358 Are we at 48 hours for the next attempt? 620 00:31:50,358 --> 00:31:53,278 Can you just run me through the the full reset situation? Sure. 621 00:31:53,278 --> 00:31:58,549 And, and we, we generally would refer that as more of a scrub than a recycle 622 00:31:58,549 --> 00:32:00,768 because I recycle. Is that time that we have a second attempt? 623 00:32:00,768 --> 00:32:05,006 But for our scrub plan, we have, opportunities right now 624 00:32:05,006 --> 00:32:08,459 we're set up for 48 and 24 hour capabilities throughout. 625 00:32:09,210 --> 00:32:11,696 We have, four launch attempts available 626 00:32:11,696 --> 00:32:14,999 to us in six days, and we'll take and combination of that. 627 00:32:16,067 --> 00:32:17,185 As I mentioned yesterday, I 628 00:32:17,185 --> 00:32:21,723 want to mention, our sort of baseline, our preferred method is to do a 48. 629 00:32:21,723 --> 00:32:24,192 Then we're into 24 and then followed by 48. 630 00:32:24,192 --> 00:32:26,577 And that to set us up for LOX tankers. 631 00:32:26,577 --> 00:32:28,796 But there are a lot of other factors that come into that. 632 00:32:28,796 --> 00:32:32,550 If in fact, we have weather or other types of things that may say that. 633 00:32:32,550 --> 00:32:35,153 Second, if you wait 48 hours, those aren't good days. 634 00:32:35,153 --> 00:32:36,237 So there's a whole lot of factors 635 00:32:36,237 --> 00:32:39,240 that come in to that evaluation when we determine the date 636 00:32:39,257 --> 00:32:43,344 we set up for dates, and then we adjust as we need to based on a what happened 637 00:32:43,344 --> 00:32:46,531 during, they kicked us out for the scrub or any other types of things. 638 00:32:46,531 --> 00:32:50,335 So but we have capabilities for four times in six days, and, 639 00:32:50,335 --> 00:32:53,788 and I need to have 48, a couple of 48 hour scrubs in there 640 00:32:53,788 --> 00:32:56,391 so that I can take tankers for the liquid oxygen system. 641 00:32:57,809 --> 00:32:58,259 Thanks. 642 00:32:58,259 --> 00:32:59,877 We'll now go to the other side. 643 00:32:59,877 --> 00:33:02,747 We'll go right up there. 644 00:33:02,747 --> 00:33:05,266 Hi Robert Pearlman with collectSPACE.com. 645 00:33:05,266 --> 00:33:09,437 The you know, there's a long history, dating back to the Apollo era 646 00:33:09,437 --> 00:33:13,908 guys of pulling pranks on launch day with the with the launch team 647 00:33:13,908 --> 00:33:16,911 and with the launch team pulling pranks on the on the flight crew. 648 00:33:17,095 --> 00:33:20,098 And given that tomorrow is April 1st, 649 00:33:20,098 --> 00:33:22,950 I was wondering if maybe, without spoiling anything, 650 00:33:22,950 --> 00:33:24,869 if there's been any talk about that or whether there's 651 00:33:24,869 --> 00:33:27,872 actually been a decision to not do that 652 00:33:27,872 --> 00:33:30,858 and stay away from that. 653 00:33:31,759 --> 00:33:36,798 So, I am not aware of, any, any pranks that anybody intends 654 00:33:36,798 --> 00:33:39,917 to pull on on the flight crew or in the, the launch team itself. 655 00:33:40,585 --> 00:33:43,638 So, I think I'll just leave it at that, but I'm not aware of any. 656 00:33:43,638 --> 00:33:47,492 And, I'm hoping that we just, stay focused on the on the launch tomorrow. 657 00:33:47,492 --> 00:33:49,310 So that's our plan. 658 00:33:49,310 --> 00:33:50,128 Good plan. 659 00:33:50,128 --> 00:33:53,131 All right, we'll go, to Ken Kramer over here. 660 00:33:53,331 --> 00:33:55,950 Oh, or to that gentleman instead. 661 00:33:55,950 --> 00:33:57,535 We'll get you next. 662 00:33:57,535 --> 00:33:58,352 Hi, Jeff. Elsa. 663 00:33:58,352 --> 00:33:59,103 Space news. 664 00:33:59,103 --> 00:34:02,690 For Mark, if there is another CME solar event of some kind, 665 00:34:02,940 --> 00:34:06,027 how much time do you need between when it's detected to provide 666 00:34:06,027 --> 00:34:10,098 sort of the all clear or say that it is in fact in violation of conditions? 667 00:34:11,399 --> 00:34:15,086 I'll tell you that, you know, it really, 668 00:34:15,353 --> 00:34:20,041 you know, solar forecasting makes, terrestrial forecasting look easy. 669 00:34:20,575 --> 00:34:23,611 So, of course, the sun is, you know, an entity 670 00:34:23,611 --> 00:34:27,932 that has almost a mind of its own, but the, first initial indication 671 00:34:27,932 --> 00:34:32,370 is a surge in X rays that arrive, roughly eight minutes after the event. 672 00:34:32,754 --> 00:34:34,038 But the protons, 673 00:34:34,038 --> 00:34:38,493 which are one of the constraints, for launch, those lags some time, 674 00:34:38,509 --> 00:34:41,512 you know, it could be in the order of a number of minutes to hours 675 00:34:41,763 --> 00:34:46,050 and then, potentially, another any sort of additional flare. 676 00:34:46,050 --> 00:34:48,619 Of course, we'd be watching real time on satellite data. 677 00:34:48,619 --> 00:34:52,673 So sometimes those are pretty quick fuze or quick turnaround events. 678 00:34:52,673 --> 00:34:57,595 But, oftentimes in this kind of situation, the spike would happen. 679 00:34:57,595 --> 00:34:59,030 Pretty gradually. 680 00:34:59,030 --> 00:35:01,466 So you'd see an uptick in those protons. 681 00:35:01,466 --> 00:35:05,403 And then eventually that would be a precursor to a more concerning surge. 682 00:35:05,636 --> 00:35:08,840 But again, right now we're hovering right around background levels, 683 00:35:08,990 --> 00:35:11,876 and it takes actually quite a bit of energy, 684 00:35:11,876 --> 00:35:15,780 directed towards the Earth for us to even get close to those constraints. 685 00:35:15,780 --> 00:35:19,367 And right now, where that sunspot group is, it's still kind of out on the limb, 686 00:35:19,951 --> 00:35:24,355 talking, to the experts at NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center this morning. 687 00:35:24,622 --> 00:35:27,608 They're the ones who monitor this and forecast this, though 688 00:35:27,825 --> 00:35:30,611 they're definitely more, in that lane than I am. 689 00:35:30,611 --> 00:35:34,849 They also see kind of about a 55% chance 690 00:35:34,849 --> 00:35:38,402 that we would get an Im class flare over the next 48 hours. 691 00:35:38,402 --> 00:35:40,171 That's a lower level flare. 692 00:35:40,171 --> 00:35:42,356 Again, probably not a concern at all. 693 00:35:42,356 --> 00:35:46,260 And then a 10% chance over the next 48 hours of an additional X-Class. 694 00:35:46,260 --> 00:35:49,647 But again, that doesn't say anything of how that energy is directed, 695 00:35:49,647 --> 00:35:53,217 which at this point that energy will have a preference 696 00:35:53,217 --> 00:35:57,889 to not be directed towards Earth in a few days time from now. 697 00:35:57,889 --> 00:36:00,024 If we were to get another flare from that sun 698 00:36:00,024 --> 00:36:03,711 group, sunspot group, as it rotates towards the center of the solar disk, 699 00:36:03,961 --> 00:36:04,979 that would be something that would 700 00:36:04,979 --> 00:36:08,149 predispose us to a getting a little bit more of that energy. 701 00:36:08,249 --> 00:36:10,651 But as far as whether or not that's actually enough to 702 00:36:10,651 --> 00:36:13,938 to trigger a constraint, that's still a pretty high bar to reach. 703 00:36:15,206 --> 00:36:16,007 Thank you. 704 00:36:16,007 --> 00:36:19,010 Well, now go up front right over here. 705 00:36:21,679 --> 00:36:21,979 All right. 706 00:36:21,979 --> 00:36:24,415 Thank you for doing this, Ken Kramer, space up close. 707 00:36:24,415 --> 00:36:26,033 For Jeff. 708 00:36:26,033 --> 00:36:29,420 Tell me, I'm very interested to know about the locks 709 00:36:30,021 --> 00:36:32,506 and the hydrogen testing that you're doing. 710 00:36:32,506 --> 00:36:34,342 You mentioned you're doing a little bit. 711 00:36:34,342 --> 00:36:36,861 I think. Can you go to some detail? 712 00:36:36,861 --> 00:36:39,864 What are you doing to ensure the best possible outcome 713 00:36:39,931 --> 00:36:43,217 so that we don't have any leaks, especially of hydrogen? 714 00:36:44,552 --> 00:36:47,738 Well, that was essentially the purpose of excuse me, WDR 715 00:36:47,838 --> 00:36:51,092 to as we went through that and then likewise, we had done it. 716 00:36:51,709 --> 00:36:52,143 Yeah. 717 00:36:52,143 --> 00:36:55,196 The pad when when we're back we do 718 00:36:55,196 --> 00:37:00,151 a number of different leak tests and pressurization 719 00:37:00,151 --> 00:37:03,738 tests and decay checks and those types of things throughout the system. 720 00:37:03,905 --> 00:37:07,825 We do more of those when we get to the pad, as after we hook up the systems 721 00:37:07,825 --> 00:37:11,395 at the pad, we test the system from end to end for the same types of things. 722 00:37:12,113 --> 00:37:15,633 As far as on, the liquid oxygen or system and, and electrolyte, 723 00:37:15,633 --> 00:37:19,620 the hydrogen system, both we, we do what we call dew points, meaning 724 00:37:19,620 --> 00:37:21,505 we purge those to the point where 725 00:37:21,505 --> 00:37:24,091 we want to make sure that we have no moisture in the lines 726 00:37:24,091 --> 00:37:28,729 or to extremely low level, so that you don't have potential icing in the system. 727 00:37:28,729 --> 00:37:31,349 So we do all of these different things to make sure 728 00:37:31,349 --> 00:37:34,318 that the system is going to behave in the way we expect it to. 729 00:37:34,318 --> 00:37:36,504 On launch day, and we've accomplished all of that to date. 730 00:37:36,504 --> 00:37:38,389 So we should be good. 731 00:37:38,389 --> 00:37:39,206 Thank you. 732 00:37:39,206 --> 00:37:41,309 We'll now take some questions over the phone. 733 00:37:41,309 --> 00:37:44,328 We have TJ Mascaro with The Epoch Times. 734 00:37:47,248 --> 00:37:47,431 Good. 735 00:37:47,431 --> 00:37:48,950 And good afternoon. 736 00:37:48,950 --> 00:37:50,635 Thank you so much for taking the time. 737 00:37:50,635 --> 00:37:52,320 My questions for Mark. 738 00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:56,157 Can you please give, bit of a refresh about, 739 00:37:56,340 --> 00:37:59,961 the, cloud violations and, the concerns behind them? 740 00:38:01,829 --> 00:38:02,780 Yeah, indeed. 741 00:38:02,780 --> 00:38:04,799 So, cumulus cloud. 742 00:38:04,799 --> 00:38:07,068 What is what, the one that we're talking about here. 743 00:38:07,068 --> 00:38:09,503 And that's one of the lightning launch criteria. 744 00:38:09,503 --> 00:38:13,357 That's actually the most commonly violated here on the east coast of Florida. 745 00:38:13,374 --> 00:38:14,608 Any time of year. 746 00:38:14,608 --> 00:38:17,995 The again, you walk outside, most days, you'll see a puffy 747 00:38:18,179 --> 00:38:20,298 what looks like a cotton ball out there. 748 00:38:20,298 --> 00:38:23,934 If that cotton ball gets more agitated and it grows 749 00:38:23,934 --> 00:38:25,319 throughout the depth of the atmosphere, 750 00:38:25,319 --> 00:38:29,307 that's when it starts triggering our so-called stand off distances. 751 00:38:29,307 --> 00:38:30,992 That could cause an issue for launch. 752 00:38:30,992 --> 00:38:33,978 So as long as they're shallow and flat, not an issue to fly 753 00:38:33,978 --> 00:38:37,531 right through them, but they get up to certain levels of altitude. 754 00:38:37,531 --> 00:38:42,236 It could be as much as a ten mile standoff distance between the rocket 755 00:38:42,236 --> 00:38:46,707 on its flight path, or the launch pad and the edge of that cloud. 756 00:38:46,707 --> 00:38:49,493 And so, again, they have to get quite vigorous. 757 00:38:49,493 --> 00:38:52,613 They don't even have to produce the lightning to get necessarily 758 00:38:52,613 --> 00:38:56,183 at that ten mile standoff distance for the launch. 759 00:38:56,634 --> 00:39:00,137 Date coming up, I don't foresee, any of the cumulus 760 00:39:00,137 --> 00:39:03,474 getting that high into the atmosphere or that cold, which would trigger 761 00:39:03,691 --> 00:39:06,527 that much real estate being blocked off for us. 762 00:39:06,527 --> 00:39:09,797 But we could certainly have a fly through considerations, which means 763 00:39:09,797 --> 00:39:13,050 we can't launch the rocket directly into the cumulus cloud, 764 00:39:13,284 --> 00:39:16,287 or possibly even as far as five miles from it. 765 00:39:16,670 --> 00:39:19,507 Just given how the atmosphere profile looks like, the depth of moisture, 766 00:39:19,507 --> 00:39:22,460 it's pretty shallow, even though it feels really humid out there. 767 00:39:22,460 --> 00:39:25,279 So again, that helps us, in that consideration. 768 00:39:25,279 --> 00:39:28,499 But I'll also point out that just looking at our overall, 769 00:39:29,216 --> 00:39:31,202 climatology here on the Eastern Range. 770 00:39:31,202 --> 00:39:35,239 So almost one out of four launches over the course of the year 771 00:39:35,389 --> 00:39:37,308 would have one or more. 772 00:39:37,308 --> 00:39:40,311 No go like lightning launch commit criteria 773 00:39:40,344 --> 00:39:43,848 doesn't mean the launch scrubbed, but again it's a pretty common occurrence. 774 00:39:43,848 --> 00:39:46,467 Scrub would be a lot lower percentage than that. 775 00:39:46,467 --> 00:39:50,221 So again that kind of speaks to the transitory nature of these clouds. 776 00:39:50,221 --> 00:39:51,655 They get a two hour launch window. 777 00:39:51,655 --> 00:39:55,042 They could be in the flight path and then just as soon be right out of it. 778 00:39:56,544 --> 00:39:57,411 Thank you. 779 00:39:57,411 --> 00:40:00,297 Well now go back to the room and we'll take it. 780 00:40:00,297 --> 00:40:03,300 And the second row here to, this lady right there. 781 00:40:03,417 --> 00:40:07,972 Nicole material, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation going back to the, x flares. 782 00:40:08,272 --> 00:40:11,041 I know that there is a radiation shielding test 783 00:40:11,041 --> 00:40:12,743 that will be done on this mission. 784 00:40:12,743 --> 00:40:17,581 Can you talk about what that radiation shielding is and how it works? 785 00:40:17,581 --> 00:40:22,820 And, if you needed to do it, let's say day after tomorrow after launch, 786 00:40:23,237 --> 00:40:26,240 would they be able to do that quick enough? 787 00:40:26,357 --> 00:40:26,607 Go ahead. 788 00:40:26,607 --> 00:40:29,360 And to prove that to Jeff, for. 789 00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:31,829 Yeah, the the crew has the ability and 790 00:40:31,829 --> 00:40:34,849 and we anticipate that if there are in fact, any need 791 00:40:34,849 --> 00:40:39,804 for shielding from radiation on orbit, they have contingency plans for that. 792 00:40:39,804 --> 00:40:42,039 They're going to practice some of that during the mission 793 00:40:42,039 --> 00:40:45,292 as far as, where they go into the vehicle and, 794 00:40:45,509 --> 00:40:48,295 and those types of things, there's there's some space in there 795 00:40:48,295 --> 00:40:51,298 that they can actually, move into in the vehicle 796 00:40:51,565 --> 00:40:54,568 that will, provide an additional shielding of the, 797 00:40:54,618 --> 00:40:57,688 the, components of the ship itself, which provide, 798 00:40:57,688 --> 00:41:01,492 the shielding inside of the the areas on which they would be able to, to get to, 799 00:41:01,792 --> 00:41:04,778 they also, would potentially move some of the equipment near, 800 00:41:04,945 --> 00:41:08,599 to some of the, to by the windows and some of the other things as they do that. 801 00:41:08,599 --> 00:41:09,834 But it's, 802 00:41:09,834 --> 00:41:11,519 there's a protocol that they have for that, 803 00:41:11,519 --> 00:41:12,153 and I'm not 804 00:41:12,153 --> 00:41:15,739 probably the most versed person on it, but that's, the part that I can tell you, 805 00:41:15,990 --> 00:41:17,057 some of the things that they have 806 00:41:17,057 --> 00:41:20,728 that are capability wise, that they can do on orbit, when they have 807 00:41:21,078 --> 00:41:22,880 any of these types of events. 808 00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:23,297 Thanks, Jeff. 809 00:41:23,297 --> 00:41:26,300 And we can get you some more info if you have additional follow ups. 810 00:41:26,333 --> 00:41:29,153 We'll go to, the gentleman right next to her. 811 00:41:31,772 --> 00:41:32,423 Thank you very much. 812 00:41:32,423 --> 00:41:34,291 Tariq Malik for Space.com. 813 00:41:34,291 --> 00:41:38,696 I think for Jeff, you just mentioned the need for focus and whatnot. 814 00:41:38,846 --> 00:41:40,965 Of course, because it's April Fool's Day coming up. 815 00:41:40,965 --> 00:41:43,968 But by all accounts, it sounds like this has been a very smooth 816 00:41:44,218 --> 00:41:47,338 and, continual run up to the launch. 817 00:41:47,338 --> 00:41:51,775 And I'm just curious how you are ensuring that the team continues that vigilance 818 00:41:51,775 --> 00:41:54,812 and and what has been a very, 819 00:41:54,812 --> 00:41:57,798 staid and quiet countdown. 820 00:41:57,948 --> 00:42:01,502 I would say that I wouldn't necessarily, 821 00:42:01,502 --> 00:42:05,756 characterize that because it's quiet, 822 00:42:05,756 --> 00:42:09,393 that we're not still doing the same amount of rigor out in the field. 823 00:42:09,660 --> 00:42:12,897 We're just finding less things now than we had previously. 824 00:42:13,247 --> 00:42:16,734 I think at times you get to a point where you have found 825 00:42:16,734 --> 00:42:20,337 and corrected, as many things as maybe are available to you. 826 00:42:20,337 --> 00:42:23,340 And so the things that we find now are quite small and, 827 00:42:23,340 --> 00:42:25,492 and much less significant than we had in the past. 828 00:42:25,492 --> 00:42:27,561 So I hope that's a really good sign. 829 00:42:27,561 --> 00:42:30,264 But we still have the same amount of, vigilance. 830 00:42:30,264 --> 00:42:32,132 We have the same procedures, the same people 831 00:42:32,132 --> 00:42:36,804 doing the same type of events, throughout 24 hours a day, seven days a week. 832 00:42:36,804 --> 00:42:38,672 And we've been working up to this. 833 00:42:38,672 --> 00:42:41,759 And so we are still in the same posture, regardless 834 00:42:41,942 --> 00:42:45,829 of whether maybe the it looks like it's, it's quiet. 835 00:42:45,829 --> 00:42:47,848 People are still putting in the same amount of effort 836 00:42:47,848 --> 00:42:50,851 and working towards because, again, they know the significance of the mission 837 00:42:51,001 --> 00:42:53,070 and, and the people that were flying on it 838 00:42:53,070 --> 00:42:55,789 and that they're going to do the right thing to make sure that we're safe to do so. 839 00:42:57,107 --> 00:42:58,075 Thank you. 840 00:42:58,075 --> 00:43:00,027 We'll go over to then the third row. 841 00:43:00,027 --> 00:43:03,030 We'll go to the gentleman there in the middle. 842 00:43:03,330 --> 00:43:03,948 Thanks so much. 843 00:43:03,948 --> 00:43:07,067 Mike Martin broke Wall Street Journal Jeff, kind of related what Terry just 844 00:43:07,101 --> 00:43:07,468 asked. 845 00:43:07,468 --> 00:43:10,471 It's been more than three years since Artemis one. 846 00:43:10,888 --> 00:43:14,642 Have you observed kind of in this process, any any jitters on, you know, different 847 00:43:14,642 --> 00:43:18,262 teams, any rustiness getting out there as the real thing unfolds? 848 00:43:19,163 --> 00:43:20,264 Yeah. Thank you. 849 00:43:20,264 --> 00:43:26,370 We've been training since Artemis one for this time. 850 00:43:26,370 --> 00:43:26,887 Right. 851 00:43:26,887 --> 00:43:30,741 But we've also had to modify a lot of our procedures, hardware, 852 00:43:30,741 --> 00:43:34,011 equipment, training and other things to get to where we are. 853 00:43:34,428 --> 00:43:37,431 So, as we've worked through that, 854 00:43:37,848 --> 00:43:40,150 it has been a building process for sure. 855 00:43:40,150 --> 00:43:43,671 We've seen that just in working through the orders 856 00:43:43,671 --> 00:43:48,242 and a number of items that we've picked up each time has as continuously gone down. 857 00:43:48,509 --> 00:43:51,512 When we got through the countdown demonstration test and the WDR two. 858 00:43:51,745 --> 00:43:54,331 And so I again, I would say if, 859 00:43:55,616 --> 00:43:58,319 if anything, we're learning, we're getting better. 860 00:43:58,319 --> 00:44:04,224 We're in, the ability for us to improve our procedures is at a point where 861 00:44:04,441 --> 00:44:08,028 I think we're at a really good state now, and almost at a steady state to where, 862 00:44:08,245 --> 00:44:11,548 we're where we need to be for certainly for this mission. 863 00:44:11,849 --> 00:44:13,550 And, we'll continue to improve that. 864 00:44:13,550 --> 00:44:16,637 Artemis three is going to be a slightly different mission, but, 865 00:44:16,637 --> 00:44:18,422 we're already working towards that. 866 00:44:18,422 --> 00:44:20,791 We've got a lot of folks that are engaged in Artemis three, 867 00:44:20,791 --> 00:44:23,477 and we're taking what we've learned from Artemis two and going to be applying it. 868 00:44:23,477 --> 00:44:26,480 And that'll be another challenge too, as we work towards that. 869 00:44:26,930 --> 00:44:27,798 Thank you. 870 00:44:27,798 --> 00:44:30,834 We'll go then to the gentleman in that same row at the far end. 871 00:44:31,702 --> 00:44:34,621 Charles, let's just having that just, 872 00:44:36,123 --> 00:44:38,125 I remember the Apollo 12 launch very well. 873 00:44:38,125 --> 00:44:42,246 And what happened, is there a, a concern that the, 874 00:44:42,713 --> 00:44:46,583 booster might lose its guidance if there's a similar lightning strike 875 00:44:46,583 --> 00:44:50,421 or the spacecraft might lose its platform, like what happened in Apollo 12? 876 00:44:50,421 --> 00:44:53,457 And if so, what are some, accommodations for that? 877 00:44:55,259 --> 00:44:58,228 So, I would say for the 878 00:44:58,228 --> 00:45:01,231 what we try to do, 879 00:45:01,281 --> 00:45:04,268 before we would launch, because, again, 880 00:45:04,268 --> 00:45:08,789 we create a lot of launch commit criteria to avoid that very circumstance. 881 00:45:08,789 --> 00:45:09,289 Right? 882 00:45:09,289 --> 00:45:13,010 A lot of things came out of that event which have led us to where we are today 883 00:45:13,010 --> 00:45:16,313 for all of these requirements that we have, both on the range 884 00:45:16,313 --> 00:45:19,383 and for vehicle requirements and those other types of things that Mark 885 00:45:19,383 --> 00:45:22,369 can speak to, I'm sure, very, very eloquently. 886 00:45:22,653 --> 00:45:26,423 But, our, our systems and our vehicles are very robust. 887 00:45:26,707 --> 00:45:29,727 We have redundancy and capability throughout. 888 00:45:29,777 --> 00:45:32,963 If there were, any type of event that we needed 889 00:45:32,963 --> 00:45:36,533 to, to work through, it's it's really hard to gauge exactly what that would mean. 890 00:45:36,817 --> 00:45:41,088 But all of our systems are, are hardened against various events. 891 00:45:41,088 --> 00:45:42,573 They have to fly in space. 892 00:45:42,573 --> 00:45:43,524 Many of these right, 893 00:45:43,524 --> 00:45:47,211 where we have to worry about solar events and other types of, high energy events. 894 00:45:47,461 --> 00:45:50,581 So, the vehicle is as robust, I think, as it needs to be. 895 00:45:50,581 --> 00:45:54,301 And we have the, the number of systems, and robustness in it 896 00:45:54,351 --> 00:45:58,789 by having, redundancy to allow us to, to weather many types of different things. 897 00:45:58,789 --> 00:46:00,691 And I don't know if you want to talk about the criteria 898 00:46:00,691 --> 00:46:04,077 on what's changed or not, but nothing to add, really. 899 00:46:04,461 --> 00:46:07,097 Well, okay. Thank you both. 900 00:46:07,097 --> 00:46:07,397 All right. 901 00:46:07,397 --> 00:46:08,182 We'll take then. 902 00:46:08,182 --> 00:46:10,818 The one question there all the way in the back. 903 00:46:13,070 --> 00:46:14,872 Hey, Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR. 904 00:46:14,872 --> 00:46:15,889 This is for Jeff. 905 00:46:15,889 --> 00:46:16,824 So you've been involved 906 00:46:16,824 --> 00:46:19,910 in a lot of shuttle launches, but this one could go to the moon, 907 00:46:19,910 --> 00:46:22,796 and I'm just wondering, like, does it feel different for you? 908 00:46:22,796 --> 00:46:26,133 I mean, you look like you were probably a kid during the days of Apollo. 909 00:46:26,450 --> 00:46:27,985 Like, would, you know, ten year old? 910 00:46:27,985 --> 00:46:32,039 You have thought that you'd be involved in a in a moon launch like this. 911 00:46:32,039 --> 00:46:35,042 Do you think about that at all or how does it actually feel? 912 00:46:35,042 --> 00:46:37,828 I mean, there's all the things you got to check off and do, but are 913 00:46:37,828 --> 00:46:39,229 are you guys thinking about the moon? 914 00:46:39,229 --> 00:46:42,232 Have you been looking at the moon at night and thinking about that at all? 915 00:46:43,884 --> 00:46:46,403 I'll just say from my personal experience, I have. 916 00:46:46,403 --> 00:46:47,688 Right. 917 00:46:47,688 --> 00:46:51,108 I try to walk every day in the morning and, and I look up at the moon 918 00:46:51,258 --> 00:46:52,442 quite regularly, 919 00:46:52,442 --> 00:46:55,279 thinking about this mission and the upcoming missions 920 00:46:55,279 --> 00:46:57,347 that are going to be, coming right down stream. 921 00:46:57,347 --> 00:46:59,900 So, I'm really excited about this. 922 00:46:59,900 --> 00:47:01,435 I'm excited going to the moon. 923 00:47:01,435 --> 00:47:04,404 I'm excited about establishing a presence there. 924 00:47:04,404 --> 00:47:07,708 It's something that I have had a desire for, for for a great many years. 925 00:47:07,958 --> 00:47:10,911 And then not to get, humans back out to Mars as well. 926 00:47:10,911 --> 00:47:12,513 That's another thing that I had. 927 00:47:12,513 --> 00:47:16,283 I fortunately, I had the ability to work, on some of the studies 928 00:47:16,283 --> 00:47:18,685 that we did in the 90s on the, on the Mars missions and things. 929 00:47:18,685 --> 00:47:19,319 And so 930 00:47:19,319 --> 00:47:22,673 I have been looking for human exploration of the solar system for a very long time. 931 00:47:22,940 --> 00:47:25,075 And it's part of the reason that I'm actually still here 932 00:47:25,075 --> 00:47:28,679 is to to continue to put humans into space and to get us back into this 933 00:47:28,679 --> 00:47:32,216 launch mode that we are, so that we can continue to explore and establish, 934 00:47:32,666 --> 00:47:35,552 a moon base and then, continue to work towards getting to Mars. 935 00:47:36,837 --> 00:47:37,738 Thank you. 936 00:47:37,738 --> 00:47:39,139 We'll go to the other side. 937 00:47:39,139 --> 00:47:42,059 We'll go right here in the second row to the lady right there. 938 00:47:42,059 --> 00:47:44,244 Hi. Brandy Campbell with Fox Weather. 939 00:47:44,244 --> 00:47:47,397 I have a question about whether, of course, from Mark. 940 00:47:47,447 --> 00:47:50,701 Just with your past experience with issuing these forecasts, 941 00:47:50,701 --> 00:47:52,069 when you have a similar forecast, 942 00:47:52,069 --> 00:47:55,439 what we are dealing with that 20% chance of a weather violation, 943 00:47:55,822 --> 00:47:57,558 do y'all normally get through that 944 00:47:57,558 --> 00:48:01,428 two hour window or just the window and have a successful launch? 945 00:48:01,428 --> 00:48:03,797 What have you experienced in the past? 946 00:48:03,797 --> 00:48:06,199 Well, of course the forecast is perfect, so it's a 1 947 00:48:06,199 --> 00:48:09,202 in 5 chance of us getting a weather violation. 948 00:48:10,220 --> 00:48:11,722 If we look at all the data, 949 00:48:11,722 --> 00:48:14,791 over time it comes out to being pretty close. 950 00:48:14,992 --> 00:48:17,694 But again, each countdown is different. 951 00:48:17,694 --> 00:48:23,400 So sometimes there's 20% that end up being no go the entirety of the launch window 952 00:48:23,717 --> 00:48:27,020 and there's others, and most of them don't have a violation. 953 00:48:27,020 --> 00:48:28,071 So pretty close to that. 954 00:48:28,071 --> 00:48:30,390 Four and five times, you know, and and again 955 00:48:30,390 --> 00:48:33,377 in a pattern like this where we have a moist onshore flow, 956 00:48:33,410 --> 00:48:37,948 I would be definitely, thinking that will probably, have showers around 957 00:48:37,948 --> 00:48:42,469 whether or not they get into the flight through path of the rocket. 958 00:48:42,469 --> 00:48:44,388 That's a whole other story. 959 00:48:44,388 --> 00:48:46,373 We're good because this time of year 960 00:48:46,373 --> 00:48:50,243 and this pattern doesn't lead to a lot of robust thunderstorms. 961 00:48:50,243 --> 00:48:51,211 So that does help us. 962 00:48:51,211 --> 00:48:54,781 It also eliminates a lot of lightning launch commit criteria. 963 00:48:54,781 --> 00:48:57,351 So that works in our favor as well. 964 00:48:58,919 --> 00:48:59,870 Thank you. 965 00:48:59,870 --> 00:49:00,988 We'll go over there 966 00:49:00,988 --> 00:49:03,991 to the gentleman in the, blue shirt and the blue collar shirt. 967 00:49:04,524 --> 00:49:06,510 Hi. Pedro, pull out the phone. SpaceX. 968 00:49:06,510 --> 00:49:07,511 For which? Brazil. 969 00:49:07,511 --> 00:49:10,464 You'll talk a lot about the weather for launch, 970 00:49:10,464 --> 00:49:13,917 but I would like to know about the weather for splashdown. 971 00:49:14,184 --> 00:49:17,154 And if it's their chance to move the launch day, 972 00:49:17,154 --> 00:49:20,791 due to a bad weather or for the, the splashdown. 973 00:49:20,907 --> 00:49:23,910 I know we are a lot of days for splashdown, but. 974 00:49:24,478 --> 00:49:29,433 And the weather can improve or get worse, so I wouldn't understand. 975 00:49:29,433 --> 00:49:32,419 Well, what is the backup scenario for that? 976 00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:34,521 Do you want to check the weather first? 977 00:49:34,521 --> 00:49:36,657 Okay. Yeah, I can speak a little bit to the weather. 978 00:49:36,657 --> 00:49:39,409 So we're not at the 45th Weather Squadron. 979 00:49:39,409 --> 00:49:41,628 We're not specifically issuing a forecast 980 00:49:41,628 --> 00:49:45,265 for the ascent corridor or the Pacific here. 981 00:49:45,382 --> 00:49:48,385 We do have a team of of forecasters 982 00:49:48,435 --> 00:49:52,289 that will be deployed out to the Pacific for the recovery. 983 00:49:52,289 --> 00:49:56,727 So they'll be watching that as well and assisting in all of that. 984 00:49:56,727 --> 00:50:02,432 But really for us here on day a launch, like the only thing, downrange 985 00:50:02,432 --> 00:50:04,434 that we're really looking at other than thunderstorms 986 00:50:04,434 --> 00:50:06,053 and the associated clouds and, 987 00:50:06,053 --> 00:50:08,822 and the lightning launch commit criteria would be what, those, 988 00:50:08,822 --> 00:50:13,043 low level Orion abort winds would be on that that corridor there. 989 00:50:13,143 --> 00:50:17,514 We have colleagues, out in Houston, space flight meteorology group 990 00:50:17,514 --> 00:50:20,784 that are assessing risk profiles going out 991 00:50:21,001 --> 00:50:24,921 across the Atlantic on ascent far beyond the cape of. 992 00:50:24,955 --> 00:50:26,940 Jeff, I'll let you speak to the rest of it. 993 00:50:26,940 --> 00:50:27,174 Yeah. 994 00:50:27,174 --> 00:50:31,311 And the, and the flight team, is part of that, assessment 995 00:50:31,311 --> 00:50:33,430 that would be done on day of launch, 996 00:50:33,430 --> 00:50:36,199 about the capabilities that we would have for, 997 00:50:36,199 --> 00:50:40,037 any kind of contingency landing and abort one surround or any type of other event, 998 00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:43,907 and that falls into the launch day decision process as to whether, 999 00:50:44,207 --> 00:50:45,692 you know, we're going to make an attempt or not. 1000 00:50:45,692 --> 00:50:47,427 We do have quite a bit of flexibility, 1001 00:50:47,427 --> 00:50:51,381 on based on weather in the Pacific, for those various scenarios. 1002 00:50:51,381 --> 00:50:55,469 So, but that is, essentially, a launch date decision 1003 00:50:55,469 --> 00:50:59,089 and would be part of the overall decision on whether we tank or whether we launch, 1004 00:50:59,339 --> 00:51:02,209 based on those, those that weather criteria that, 1005 00:51:02,209 --> 00:51:03,326 coming out of the flight control team. 1006 00:51:04,428 --> 00:51:05,395 Thank you. 1007 00:51:05,395 --> 00:51:08,398 We'll go to the gentleman there in the back is Steven Clarke. 1008 00:51:09,199 --> 00:51:10,016 The Steven Clarke. 1009 00:51:10,016 --> 00:51:10,250 Yeah. 1010 00:51:10,250 --> 00:51:13,403 So, I am Steven Clarke with Ars Technica. 1011 00:51:13,453 --> 00:51:17,190 Following up on that last question, have you heard anything from SMG 1012 00:51:17,190 --> 00:51:18,859 about how the ascent corridor is looking? 1013 00:51:18,859 --> 00:51:20,877 You know, that's not within your responsibility, 1014 00:51:20,877 --> 00:51:24,648 but what are you hearing, about the downrange weather in the Atlantic 1015 00:51:24,948 --> 00:51:27,384 and also for for Jeff? 1016 00:51:27,384 --> 00:51:30,270 Just want to make sure I know the trajectory and the azimuth changes day 1017 00:51:30,270 --> 00:51:33,390 to day is actually change, like minute to minute within the launch window. 1018 00:51:33,390 --> 00:51:35,492 And how do you manage that? 1019 00:51:35,492 --> 00:51:38,662 If so, with with, you know, different conditions of different azimuth snakes 1020 00:51:40,313 --> 00:51:41,031 and. Yeah. 1021 00:51:41,031 --> 00:51:45,218 So yeah the the azimuth does change, you know, minute by minute. 1022 00:51:45,452 --> 00:51:47,187 Luckily it's a fairly small slice. 1023 00:51:47,187 --> 00:51:49,973 So that was something we dealt with with Artemis one as well. 1024 00:51:49,973 --> 00:51:54,144 That impacts us because of course, from a radar and 1025 00:51:54,144 --> 00:51:58,915 launch lightning commit criteria, that sort of thing, where we have to use 1026 00:51:58,915 --> 00:52:03,153 those trajectories to decide whether or not a cloud would actually pose 1027 00:52:03,153 --> 00:52:06,206 a threat wherever it is during the actual countdown. 1028 00:52:06,573 --> 00:52:08,308 What was the first part of your question, please? Again? 1029 00:52:09,860 --> 00:52:12,596 Sorry, just what do you what are you hearing from SMG about the ascent? 1030 00:52:12,596 --> 00:52:13,113 Yeah. Sorry. 1031 00:52:13,113 --> 00:52:16,700 Right now, a weather appears to be very much go. 1032 00:52:16,700 --> 00:52:20,720 The threat that I saw in the last was, under 9%, 1033 00:52:20,720 --> 00:52:24,257 total along the total ascent corridor, so that's really good. 1034 00:52:24,508 --> 00:52:27,811 And in fact, you know, the other aspects show 1035 00:52:28,078 --> 00:52:31,047 decent weather continuing through a lot of the launch period. 1036 00:52:31,047 --> 00:52:32,332 So having high pressure 1037 00:52:32,332 --> 00:52:35,719 set up across the North Atlantic this time of year works in our favor. 1038 00:52:36,953 --> 00:52:37,704 Thank you. 1039 00:52:37,704 --> 00:52:41,158 We'll go over to Ida right there. Hi. 1040 00:52:41,191 --> 00:52:45,679 Is there a defining moment in the countdown when the reality sets 1041 00:52:46,112 --> 00:52:49,282 that humans are returning to deep space? 1042 00:52:49,282 --> 00:52:52,135 And how do you experience that as a leader in this mission? 1043 00:52:53,670 --> 00:52:55,789 So for me, 1044 00:52:55,789 --> 00:52:58,792 once we get inside of ten minutes and counting, 1045 00:52:58,842 --> 00:53:03,780 that's where it starts, because we all, on the launch team 1046 00:53:04,247 --> 00:53:09,319 at that particular point know that it's become real, for all of us. 1047 00:53:10,020 --> 00:53:13,139 We also know that we all need to be prepared to do everything we can 1048 00:53:13,139 --> 00:53:16,743 to continue through that or to take any action that would be required. 1049 00:53:17,244 --> 00:53:20,580 But it really starts to get real for me when we're inside of one minute 1050 00:53:21,114 --> 00:53:23,366 and when we're inside of one minute. 1051 00:53:23,366 --> 00:53:27,721 To me, I feel very confident and very, very hopeful that we're going to go, 1052 00:53:28,288 --> 00:53:32,392 but that's when the first time I think I ever actually think to myself 1053 00:53:32,392 --> 00:53:34,277 that we really are going to make it that day, 1054 00:53:34,277 --> 00:53:37,881 because I'm always thinking about what's going to not let us go. 1055 00:53:37,881 --> 00:53:38,131 Right. 1056 00:53:38,131 --> 00:53:41,551 Because that's part of my job is to, stop the clock if we need to. 1057 00:53:41,785 --> 00:53:44,004 So when I get inside of one, it doesn't mean that we're free, 1058 00:53:44,004 --> 00:53:46,189 because that's really a dangerous time as well. 1059 00:53:46,189 --> 00:53:49,492 But, but that's when it's really starts to hit home that, 1060 00:53:49,793 --> 00:53:52,162 you know, we're really got a shot at making it today. 1061 00:53:52,162 --> 00:53:53,747 And, and I know a lot of people 1062 00:53:53,747 --> 00:53:55,532 are thinking the same thing because you can hear a pin 1063 00:53:55,532 --> 00:53:58,518 drop in that firing room as you count from ten down to zero. 1064 00:53:58,735 --> 00:54:02,872 And then, after that, though, it may get a little bit noisier at some point, but. 1065 00:54:05,008 --> 00:54:05,942 Thank you. 1066 00:54:05,942 --> 00:54:07,344 All right. We'll go back to the phone. 1067 00:54:07,344 --> 00:54:10,347 We have Kenneth Chang with The New York Times again. 1068 00:54:14,401 --> 00:54:17,220 And Ken had hung up at this time. 1069 00:54:17,220 --> 00:54:18,021 All right. 1070 00:54:18,021 --> 00:54:21,107 We will then take one more question here in the room. 1071 00:54:21,107 --> 00:54:24,110 I see I don't believe in your question yet, sir. 1072 00:54:24,511 --> 00:54:26,463 Hi, there. I'm Alec with the Globe and Mail. 1073 00:54:26,463 --> 00:54:30,116 I wonder if you could just say something about the close out of the capsule 1074 00:54:30,267 --> 00:54:33,386 where backup crew members are going to be in the capsule? 1075 00:54:33,570 --> 00:54:34,888 I think that's this evening. 1076 00:54:34,888 --> 00:54:37,891 But could you clarify that part of the operation? 1077 00:54:38,241 --> 00:54:42,062 We have two time frames when the backup crew members, 1078 00:54:42,062 --> 00:54:44,047 and we'll have one at each of the intervals, 1079 00:54:44,047 --> 00:54:46,800 when we're doing the final closeouts, 1080 00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:50,103 of the, the, the capsule before tanking, 1081 00:54:50,370 --> 00:54:54,841 we'll have one of our astronaut support personnel in there, working, 1082 00:54:54,841 --> 00:54:58,645 final configurations for the crew switch list and a few other things. 1083 00:54:59,245 --> 00:55:02,782 At that point, and then on our actual closeout crew team, 1084 00:55:02,782 --> 00:55:04,284 it's a five person team. 1085 00:55:04,284 --> 00:55:06,619 We do have another backup crew member. 1086 00:55:06,619 --> 00:55:09,923 Andre is on that one, and, Jenny's on the first one, but, 1087 00:55:09,923 --> 00:55:12,208 he'll be on that team, and he is responsible. 1088 00:55:12,208 --> 00:55:13,560 He's one of the two people. 1089 00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:16,279 We also have an insertion technician. Bales. 1090 00:55:16,279 --> 00:55:17,247 Does that work? 1091 00:55:17,247 --> 00:55:21,751 That is responsible for strapping the flight crew in, during that time 1092 00:55:21,751 --> 00:55:24,888 frame and getting the crew module all set up at the very, very end. 1093 00:55:25,221 --> 00:55:28,008 And then, when they're done, they, they come outside. 1094 00:55:28,008 --> 00:55:30,660 But, he'll be inside of the capsule in that time. 1095 00:55:30,660 --> 00:55:33,780 The flight crew insertion at the end takes about 30 minutes or so. 1096 00:55:33,780 --> 00:55:36,182 Once the flight crews there, they do a little work before that. 1097 00:55:36,182 --> 00:55:38,668 So he'll be in there before that time frame as well. 1098 00:55:38,668 --> 00:55:41,671 And at the very end, yeah, it's, it's pretty 1099 00:55:41,788 --> 00:55:44,791 it's pretty good to watch what those guys are doing. 1100 00:55:44,841 --> 00:55:45,291 Thank you. 1101 00:55:46,493 --> 00:55:49,562 I don't see any other hands in the room. 1102 00:55:50,013 --> 00:55:54,234 All right, well, then, with that, we will wrap up today's briefing. 1103 00:55:54,267 --> 00:55:57,387 Thank you to our panelists for taking the time to answer 1104 00:55:57,387 --> 00:56:01,674 all of our questions and to the media here in the room for asking your questions. 1105 00:56:02,242 --> 00:56:06,229 Artemis two is scheduled to launch at 6:24 p.m. 1106 00:56:06,229 --> 00:56:09,299 Eastern Time tomorrow from Launch Pad 39 B 1107 00:56:09,299 --> 00:56:12,302 that's the opening of a two hour launch window. 1108 00:56:12,385 --> 00:56:15,088 You can watch our 24 over seven live 1109 00:56:15,088 --> 00:56:18,174 coverage beginning at 7:45 a.m. 1110 00:56:18,408 --> 00:56:21,378 and you can, I think, see on your screen below 1111 00:56:21,378 --> 00:56:25,131 how to watch nasa.gov/ways to watch. 1112 00:56:25,648 --> 00:56:28,218 Thanks and go Artemis.