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NASA Astronauts just revealed Something Weird Happened During Orion Firing Engines. What Happening?
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NASA Astronauts just revealed Something Weird Happened During Orion Firing Engines. What Happening?
It’s been over 48 hours since the Artemis II crew launched aboard the Orion spacecraft on their journey to the Moon.
And in that short window, a massive stream of data has already been sent back to Mission Control in Houston. Much of it points to serious issues the crew has encountered in this harsh space environment. Challenges that NASA never had to face during the Apollo era.
So, what exactly have these four brave astronauts been dealing with out there?
Let’s find out right now.
NASA Astronauts just revealed Something Weird Happened During Orion Firing Engines. What Happening?
While we were enjoying a good night's sleep, the team at Houston mission control for Artemis II stayed wide awake. They kept watching over the crew every single moment because if anything serious happened they would have time to react right away.
As the Orion spacecraft named Integrity was floating in its high Earth orbit after more than a day of flight, at the mission elapsed time of 24 hours and 46 minutes, Houston's voice came through loud and clear on the radio. "We have completed the poll for TLI. When the engine ignites, you embark on humanity’s Lunar homecoming arc and set the course to return Integrity and her crew safely home. Houston is go for TLI."
That message did not come from any of the astronauts. It was the official confirmation from mission control after the entire Artemis II management team had cast their votes in agreement. That was the moment when the four astronauts, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen, were sitting inside the spacecraft. They had just finished a series of system checks and had to return to their seats and tighten their harnesses because the main engine of Orion would ignite right at 7:49 p.m.
NASA Astronauts just revealed Something Weird Happened During Orion Firing Engines. What Happening?
Eastern time. It would burn for exactly five minutes and 49 seconds, pushing the spacecraft faster by about 1,274 feet per second, enough to take the whole crew out of Earth orbit and send them onto a free return trajectory toward the Moon, the same figure eight path that Apollo once followed, but this time the first time humans have done it again after more than half a century.
Because it was the first time, a few hours earlier, while Orion was speeding past the first apogee of the Artemis II mission at nearly 44,000 miles from Earth, Christina Koch spoke up over the radio to Houston. She described exactly the moment when sunset was falling over the Indian subcontinent, with coastlines and rivers sparkling under the last rays of sunlight. "Coastlines, rivers in sun glare, thunderclouds, just phenomenal," she said, her voice full of genuine wonder.
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NASA Astronauts just revealed Something Weird Happened During Orion Firing Engines. What Happening?
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#alphatech
#techalpha
#spacex
#elonmusk
===
0:00 intro
0:28 The Go Signal
3:23 On the Way
8:48 Deep Space Network
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NASA Astronauts just revealed Something Weird Happened During Orion Firing Engines. What Happening?
It’s been over 48 hours since the Artemis II crew launched aboard the Orion spacecraft on their journey to the Moon.
And in that short window, a massive stream of data has already been sent back to Mission Control in Houston. Much of it points to serious issues the crew has encountered in this harsh space environment. Challenges that NASA never had to face during the Apollo era.
So, what exactly have these four brave astronauts been dealing with out there?
Let’s find out right now.
NASA Astronauts just revealed Something Weird Happened During Orion Firing Engines. What Happening?
While we were enjoying a good night's sleep, the team at Houston mission control for Artemis II stayed wide awake. They kept watching over the crew every single moment because if anything serious happened they would have time to react right away.
As the Orion spacecraft named Integrity was floating in its high Earth orbit after more than a day of flight, at the mission elapsed time of 24 hours and 46 minutes, Houston's voice came through loud and clear on the radio. "We have completed the poll for TLI. When the engine ignites, you embark on humanity’s Lunar homecoming arc and set the course to return Integrity and her crew safely home. Houston is go for TLI."
That message did not come from any of the astronauts. It was the official confirmation from mission control after the entire Artemis II management team had cast their votes in agreement. That was the moment when the four astronauts, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen, were sitting inside the spacecraft. They had just finished a series of system checks and had to return to their seats and tighten their harnesses because the main engine of Orion would ignite right at 7:49 p.m.
NASA Astronauts just revealed Something Weird Happened During Orion Firing Engines. What Happening?
Eastern time. It would burn for exactly five minutes and 49 seconds, pushing the spacecraft faster by about 1,274 feet per second, enough to take the whole crew out of Earth orbit and send them onto a free return trajectory toward the Moon, the same figure eight path that Apollo once followed, but this time the first time humans have done it again after more than half a century.
Because it was the first time, a few hours earlier, while Orion was speeding past the first apogee of the Artemis II mission at nearly 44,000 miles from Earth, Christina Koch spoke up over the radio to Houston. She described exactly the moment when sunset was falling over the Indian subcontinent, with coastlines and rivers sparkling under the last rays of sunlight. "Coastlines, rivers in sun glare, thunderclouds, just phenomenal," she said, her voice full of genuine wonder.
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