we are live in the Callisto operations
Suite Johnson Space Center Houston where
we are testing today a technology
demonstration between Lockheed Martin
Amazon Alexa WebEx by Cisco and
obviously NASA and the intent is to test
how this commercial technology might one
day benefit
astronauts on future crude missions so
the way that we're going to run this
experience is we're going to do a day in
the life and you as our virtual crew
member are going to go through the day
in the life of an astronaut okay on
board Orion all right okay do not worry
I got you and I one thing I learned
astronauts have some of the most highly
scheduled existences so it's like every
minute is accounted for so I will be
walking you through this entire timeline
Soup To Nuts okay all right uh so first
thing that we would do is wake up on
board the ship and uh probably want to
take a look outside so rich can you give
us the external views from Orion
oh this is how it looks right now
yeah no so these were taken Rich earlier
today they were taken
okay so what we had what our this is our
closest approach to the moon so far in
Mission that's right
that's right wow
80 miles 80 miles that's that's like
nothing I know very cool right yeah so
um
we normally as the spaceship is going
through or the craft is going through
Mission it is flying tail to Sun and the
reason is as you'll see on one of uh the
screens later actually you can see a
hint of it in that image over there see
that um that long panel that's what we
call a solar array wing and those
basically are solar panels that are
powering that spacecraft yes and so
they're playful they fly tail to Sun so
that they're capturing energy exactly
the light and things that needs to power
to power Orion and so what they did on
this closest approach was they actually
rotated the vehicle so that we could
capture these views earlier this morning
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it is always dark in space it's never
any light I actually the first time I
sat in the seat I was like how come I
can't see any stars and the engineers
looked at me like Kelly because the only
star in our system is the Sun and we're
pretty far away from it and these
cameras are not quite that strong so I
was like okay all right I don't feel so
bad now but yes you're seeing the uh the
the darkness of space yeah so what the
team is telling me is we're going to be
doing a burn event
90 90 seconds okay so we have a treat
evidently in 90 seconds they are going
to shift Orion and do a burn and switch
it back to tail to Sun now see I want to
see yeah so
rich I assume you will bring up the
views when we're ready
go for it yes the Taraji is ready okay
so let me tell you what we're looking at
right now yeah so on the left you
actually see these are internal Camp
cabin cameras
um on the left you see the Callisto
payload
and on the right this is a view of it's
a camera actually sitting in one of the
astronaut seats so when you were in the
Orion capsule this is the one behind yep
so this is the and this is him sitting
down and that's the panel that was above
the seat right it's from the back of the
crew cabin right
okay and so what we're seeing Guys these
are live right this is a live view so
you see the little Windows above the
payload yes
so we should see
is that the Sun that we're seeing out of
that that bright reflection in the right
window
okay
oh cool
oh okay so what they've just brought up
Taraji they've told me on the left here
they're actually uh this is a display of
the thrusters so we'll show it show them
firing for us in real time okay
so you guys will let us know when burn
sequence is when it when this rotation
has started
right hand side okay
I see I see sparkles over there
I guess it's hard to tell if it's moving
or shifting
uh huh (affirmative) obviously there is no resistance since there is no [inaudible]
So it’s a little push and their going to push and it’ll spin so they're going to do intermittent
little
and by the time how long will this
maneuver last this is a six minute
maneuver or a six minute window for this
maneuver
okay
wow
all right
okay
awesome
all right so let me go ahead and and
prepare you the first thing that we're
gonna do when you wake up is to do a
vehicle check right you need to make
sure everything is copacetic yes on the
vehicle yes so
um Brian could you bring up the battery
display okay it'll take a second and they'll switch it out mm-hmm (affirmative)
all right so if you looked at this
display could you tell me how much
charge was on the battery
I would need glasses first of all
because I can't it's all a blur look I
couldn't do it either you know what my
reaction was green is good yeah it's all
green there you go no you we wouldn't
expect you to be able to do this neither
you nor I have actually had the training
that is required of astronauts to be
able to read a a display off uh like
this from a data rich craft like
this is where I talked to Alexa no not
quite yet
okay they're telling me
oh all right we're going back to the
burn because we're I'm told they're
still now they're still adjusting yeah
I can't believe we're actually watching
a spaceship turn
so neat
my eyes are like peeled I know I'm just
waiting for anything
I meant to ask that they see any like
bugs or anything no no bugs no no no no
no air nothing can live right no no
that's probably so what's interesting is
if we look at the display on the left
right now Orion is 217 000 miles from
Earth
you see on the bottom left yeah I see it
so that's where this maneuver is
happening
and O'Brien is going 3 500 miles an hour
so for reference commercial airlines
about 500 miles an hour
can you imagine going that fast no I
can't either I can't I'm my guts are in
the seat
[laughter]
you have to have a strong mind and
stomach for this yeah and be able to
handle the closed spaces
close spaces hanging upside down the
spinning part looked fun maybe that
maybe that's it
are we still thrusting and maneuvering
ok thank you for bearing with me as we're
routing through like a little daisy
chain of combs
people I don't think people realize
people how many hands on it's like a lot
okay sorry Taraji we've got they're
telling me four more minutes in this
burn and then we can
okay okay so we'll go back and uh
yep
okay Brian are you gonna bring up
the optimized solar display
okay so part of your vehicle status
check your day in the life of an
astronaut you need to do a check of the
batteries so Brian is going to bring up
a new optimized display which is one of
the other things that we're testing on
board
um uh Artemis 1 and this Mission so as
soon as he gets it up we'll try that
again
got it. okay so now could you tell me
what the battery charge is
um is that the first line second
I can't see um i'm blind as a bat
I see that it's pretty we're charged
right and a lot easier than the screen
before yes we're definitely
right and so on this one could you also
tell me uh the next thing for our
vehicle chat um status check is the
mission elapsed time so in the bottom
right or is that two still too small
I needed glasses Mission elapsed that's
five days five days 13 hours 27 minutes
29 seconds yes ma'am okay very good so
now we're going to continue with our
vehicle status or uh report but instead
of reading optimized displays you are
going to use our intelligent voice
assistant Alexa Alexa
yes so I am going to
okay uh actually hold on
okay there you go so remember push to
talk okay
Alexa how far away from Earth are you
currently
17
362 miles away from Earth
your voice in space
for the second time today oh my God
amazing okay another one uh there you go
Alexa how fast is Orion going
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so on re-entry it'll hit a maximum speed
of 24 000 Miles because you have a
moment to get through that going over
great crazy right okay last question let
me just get there okay
Alexa how much oxygen do we have left
can I have her play the space on wait
Sean I can you tell me what we're just
seeing now out of this window
uh-huh
okay
ah okay
so they're telling me that we can see
the thrusters being updated here and are
you saying there's a blue dot we should
be seeing outside the window
oh well yeah because we're 217 000 miles
an hour so they're telling me that Earth
is out that window in a little tiny blue
dot I think my eyes are like yours I see
lots of dots very cool all right so you
have now in your day in the life you
finished your vehicle status check you
get some down time okay so now we are
going to call the spaceship
are you ready yeah
hit the blue button that says call Orion
now are you ready to
what I want to say
so the call has been initiated and is
going up to the vehicle
let's see
so let me just um while this is coming
up
you can imagine how challenging it is to
communicate large files like audio and
video up to the spaceship oh there we go
so we are using the Deep
there you are in space my friend
so there's a little bit of a delay I see
so as I was saying we're using the deep
space Network so this is a collection of
satellite dishes there are three
stations around the world and that is so
that as the Earth rotates during the day
we always have a way to communicate with
all spacecraft on deep space missions so
this is the same network that any deep
space mission is using to communicate
with Earth so your voice is now
traveling over the same network that
one small step for a man one giant leap
for mankind
so
how about this you want to get a selfie
in space yeah
wait if I turn my back then you won't
see myself I'm gonna get oh okay well
all right how about this
I'll get it this way first yes
and then I'll get this way
you're gonna spin oh yes yes yes and
then I'll get one just of you
oh that's me all right
wait I'm waiting for the day so that's
just you up there not
some now the recap I have to do for my
little cousin when I go around and then
I'm gonna get one just of you up there
okay as well
I figure out a way for me to be out of
the shot
yeah
and there we go
all right so if you were on Mission
who would you want to want to be calling
back on Earth I will call my 98 year old
grandmother
because she she'd just be her mind would
be blown
know why because I I remember when my
grandfather was still alive and um they
would they met they were married for 61
years he passed it like he was 80.
81 I believe and I remember the first
time he saw me on television he said I
never thought I'd live long enough to
see one of my own on TV so I would just
imagine calling my grandmother from
space so I actually watched your
acceptance speech on the Hollywood Walk
of Fame oh yeah and you talked about
your mom and your grandmother who was 94
at the time and the importance of Legacy
so why don't you give them a shout out
I can do it on here you don't need to do
that right now you're good I'm giving my
grandmother who is 98 years young a
shout out and my mom and my entire
family for keeping me grounded always
and and teaching me what love looks like
and feels like love it love it that's
Legacy yeah okay
all right so now you have finished your
vehicle status uh check Taraji you have
made a call to space you are literally I
can't even how surreal is that I know
right
um and now you have a little bit of free
time on on board so now we are actually
going to test some of the features of
Alexa that are really common here on
Earth and one of them is to play music
so why don't you ask Alexa there you go
Alexa play the space rap
okay
let's try again okay
Alexa play the space rap
okay
hmm
should I try okay how about we'll just
say Alexa play some music okay see if
Alexa play some music
so if you notice there's a different
delay
see she got it this is the space route
we got it
thank you
all right
she's flexing
that's awesome right yes she's gonna win
a Grammy there you go so the next thing
one of the most common use cases for
Alexa uh millions of customers are
giving billions of Commands to control
connected devices in their home so
things like thermostats vacuum Shades
right you were talking about that the
other day uh and so right now we are
going to actually have you
command Alexa to change the lights on
the cabin so you actually have choice
that says blue but you can pick blue
cyan magenta I think yellow or you can
do party mode
so you would say Alexa set the lights to
party mode
Alexa set the lights to party mode
[Laughter]
it would be like taraji's in the cabin
that's right
yep
very good okay so now we are going to go
over and and to the next part of our
technology demonstration the next thing
we're going to test is the Whiteboard
the white board yes
for no other reason just to write stuff
no one's there is going to read it it's
just me but you can be creative and have
fun exactly okay so actually let me just
give me a moment and let me clear
this
and share it
so we are going to be broadcasting up to
Orion and
remember you are going to just want to
pick a bright color and in the center of
the space
is this my message to the world this is
whatever you want it to be so yes
is it re is the writing neat it's not
chicken scratch no
it's good
Taraji take a look oh oh my goodness
foreign
I think that's selfie worthy what do you
think yes oh my God I cannot believe
this is crazy crazy let's get you and
your message
I'll just get one of you
this overhead light is not good but we
will fix it in post
[Laughter]
awesome okay so now what we're going to
do okay is actually um no you still need
your you're not done you're not done
okay so now what we're going to do is
actually test a more practical
application okay and this is the
scenario so uh
imagine on a future crude Mission they
have just touched down on the surface of
the Moon here actually let me
pick a better color
and the largest pen size so they have
touched down here and they need to go
over here and from Mission Control you
are going to chart the path
that you want the astronauts to take on
the surface of the Moon so pick a
different color and why don't you just
draw us how whatever way you want them
to go
well first we got to come over here and
see what's going over here in this
little crater here then we're gonna go
check out all the craters because things
are there we got rocks we need to
collect there and then there awesome and
because it's NASA and we're always like
about redundancy pick another color and
chart a different path okay just in case
and just in case you can't get into the
craters and you go around this way and
go check out this crater there you go
this one this one maybe here and then
there
and take a look
so that looks really official doesn't it
there you go so and you can let's do
pink and now pick some spots you'd like
them to collect samples from uh here
um here
oh we gotta get some samples here that
looks like sand there you go and there
you got you're keeping these people busy
yeah they have a lot of work you can see
what we're trying to demonstrate is just
what would be the power of being able to
use a collaborative tool like this so if
you want to do diagrams schematics
drawings notes back and forth you could
easily share those back and forth with
space because there are things that we
are able to see that they can't see
because they're just right there right
got it yep smart cool all right and
actually while I have you here the last
thing I'm going to have you do at this
board
is sign your name to our virtual crew
log
to commemorate your part of the Artemis
mission
so pick your color
this really helps my penmanship it's a
good practice yes and today is the 21st
21st 2022 who oh my goodness so you have
are now part of Artemis history
your signature in space we have to get a
picture all right I got you
I love it oh let me hold the pen
all right yay so let's head back over
you've had a very full day as your uh
time as a virtual crew member very busy
very busy up in space today
[Laughter]
oh we're not done I like it so now
you've helped us official it's awesome
right yeah you have helped us test all
these features hopefully you could see
uh how the power of a voice assistant
would help future crewed missions right
you may have as I mentioned very busy
they might have gloves they might be
doing an experiment and they can get the
information that they need with just the
power of their voice wow so uh you now
in your highly scheduled existence have
some personal time so being on Mission
maybe you need a little something to
keep your spirits up so why don't you
ask Alexa to tell you a joke
Alexa tell me a joke
you can do another one if you want she's
got more Alexa tell me another joke
that would be you my friend
I need to wear my seeing eyeglasses so
ready for the final command of the day
so um Alexa who is Taraji P Henson
that we that we can't do today
because we literally we programmed a set
things it was just to do the test
so the final command of the day for you
Alexa go to sleep mode
okay we're gonna try that one more time
Alexa go to sleep mode
about that
sequence
I didn't hear that noise
a little soothing
noise
if there were astronauts on board right
to help them rest rest so thank you this
was fun you have successfully done all
day that's what you guys do you have
successfully completed your day as a
virtual crew member what I would love to
do now is I'm actually going to take you
back just next door so this is the room
where all the engineers are who have
made all of this possible so yes so we
can say hi yeah thank you exactly
thanks for letting me feel important
guys
take care yes we'll just hang a left
outside this door okay
hi
you good yes I'm very