After breaking distance record and completing lunar flyby, Artemis II crew points capsule toward home

Artemis 2 crew, we have *** very special guest who wanted to be the first person to greet you after your return from the far side of the moon, Reed, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy. It’s my honor to introduce the president of the United States of America, President Donald J. Trump. Over to you, sir. Well, thank you very much, Jared, and you are doing *** fantastic job and hello, very special hello to Artemis 2. Today you’ve made history and made all America really proud, incredibly proud. We have *** lot of things to be proud of lately, but this is, uh, there’s nothing like what you’re doing, circling around the moon for the first time in more than *** half *** century and breaking the all-time record for the farthest distance from planet Earth. Humans have really never seen anything quite like what you’re doing in *** manned spacecraft. It’s really special. I want to personally salute and congratulate Commander Reed Weissman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina ***, and Jeremy Hansen, and I also want to thank the entire amazing team at NASA headed by Jared, who’s *** very special guy, by the way, and. You all made this day possible and you’ve really inspired the entire world, really. Everybody’s watching. They find it incredible. I just watched you go to the back of the moon and people haven’t been there in *** long time, we can say, but it’s going to be more and more prevalent because we’re going to be doing *** lot of. *** lot of traveling and then you’re going to ultimately do the whole big trip to Mars, and that’s going to be very exciting. So you look at, we had no astronaut has been to the moon since the days of Apollo program. The Apollo program was also very special, but that was 50 years ago, and at long last, America is back, and America is back in many ways stronger than ever before. We’re the hottest country anywhere in the world. The Artemis crew flew in the most powerful rocket NASA has ever made, ever launched, traveled over *** quarter of *** million miles, broke the distance record set by the legendary Apollo 13, and America is *** frontier nation, and the four brave astronauts of Artemis 2 are *** modern day, you really are modern day pioneers, all of you, and one of them happens to be *** neighbor. You know who that is, right? You have *** special person over there, *** neighbor. And we like our neighbor. Your mission paves the way for America’s return to the lunar surface very soon. We’re going all out. We’re doing everything we can, and it’s headed up by Jarrett. We’ll plant our flag once again, and this time we won’t just leave footprints. We’ll establish *** permanent presence on the moon, and we’ll push on to Mars. That’ll be very exciting. I’m waiting for that so much. I’d love to be here, but maybe we won’t quite make it in terms of timing. But we will be up in the moon, and that’s going to happen soon, so America will be second to none in space and everything else that we’re doing, and we will continue to lead the whole thing into the stars, this incredible journey into the stars. So I just wanted, it’s an honor to speak to you, and I wanted to congratulate each and every one of you. And tell me what is the most unforgettable part of this really historic day. The whole world is watching and listening. Please tell me. Mr President, this call is certainly special to all of us, and we really have *** lot of faith in our administrator Jared Isaacman, who is with you. We appreciate his leadership in NASA and in the international community. We are doing great things and we are proud to be *** part of. I have to tell you, uh, as we came around the near side of the moon, seeing all the sights that we’ve seen from Earth for all of our lives, but we’re seeing them from *** different perspective, and then we started to get *** glimpse of the and we saw sights, Oriental, uh, sights that no human has ever seen before, not even in Apollo, and that was amazing for us. And then the surprise of the day, we just came out of an eclipse where the sun. moon and the entire dark moon about that big right out the window that we were watching. We could see the corona of the sun and then we could see the planet train line up and we at Mars and all of us commented how excited we are to watch this nation and this planet become *** two planet species. That is fantastic. You know, I had *** decision to make in my first term, and the decision is what are we going to do at NASA? Are we going to Have it be revived or are we going to close it down, and I had very little hesitation, and it’s really great to have somebody like Jared involved because he really makes it much easier for me, but it was not even *** question in my own mind. Uh, we just, we’ve, uh, we’ve spent what we had to do, and then of course we have Space Force, and Space Force is very much related to what you’re doing, and that was my baby. That was *** very important one, and It’s turning out, it’ll turn out to be truly one of the most important, I believe, decisions I’ve ever made. So we’re very proud of Space Force, and we’re very proud of all of you. Does anybody else have anything to say? *** lot of people listening. Mr. President, to be here with you speaking about our incredible day today. I think one of the biggest highlights was coming back from the far side of the moon and having the first glimpses of planet Earth again after being out of communication for about 45 minutes. It really just reminds you what *** special place we have and how important it is for our nation to forward to lead and not follow in exploring deep space. I’d like to ask, what was your feeling when you had no communication, zero communication, all of *** sudden it was cut off by obviously your very special location. What was your feeling when you had no communication, *** little bit different perhaps. Yes, Mr. President, it was. I said *** little prayer, but then I had to keep rolling. I was actually recording scientific observations of the far side of the moon, you know, that is actually the time when we were the farthest. And the closest to the moon and so we were really able to make some of our most detailed observations of the far side of the moon up close. And so we were busy up here working really hard and I must say it was actually quite nice. Did you see *** difference, *** big difference between the far side of the moon and the near side of the moon? Was there *** difference in feel or *** difference in look? What did you see? Well, Mr. President, we certainly did, and our team really set us up well to understand what they thought we might see. And the gravitational pull of the Earth has had *** profound effect on the near side of the moon, changing all those dark mares, those dark patches of the moon you see from Earth. It’s very different on the far side. While you see some small patches of those mari in deep craters, it’s very much absent on that side, so that’s really neat. And while I have the microphone, sir, I just want to thank you on behalf of Canada. The space leadership you spoke of from America is truly is extraordinary. I’ve said this many times before. *** nation that leads like that and creates and sets big goals for humanity that brings other countries along with it is truly incredible, and I know that’s *** very intentional, not *** necessary decision, intentional decision. To lead by example and to allow other countries like Canada to share our gifts and help you achieve these mutually beneficial goals like establishing *** presence on the moon and eventually going to Mars, and Canadians are so proud to be *** part of this program. Well, I have to say I spoke to *** very special person, Wayne Gretzky, who I think you know, the great one, and I spoke to your prime minister and many other friends I have in Canada. They are so proud of you, and you have *** lot of courage. I’m not sure if they’d want to do that. I’m not even sure if the great one would want to do that, to be honest with you, but you have *** lot of courage doing what you’re doing, *** lot of bravery and *** lot of, *** lot of genius, but they’re very, very proud of you. Administrator Isaacman, just get *** quick com check, make sure you guys are still on the line and we didn’t have *** handover. I am, yes, I am. And uh integrity and back over to you, Mr. President. Yeah, I think we might have gotten cut off. It is *** long distance. It’s *** long ways. The reception’s been great. There’s *** little bit of about *** 9 2nd delay, but no, I just had ***, *** statement for, I don’t know what you heard, but I was just saying they’re very proud of. You’re *** brilliant person from Canada on the ship, and Wayne Gretzky is *** great friend of mine, and he’s very proud of him, and the Prime Minister I spoke to, they’re very, very honored that you have *** courageous person from Canada. You have *** lot of courageous people from Canada, so it was very nice. I’m not sure if you heard me say that, but it was very nice. Yes, Mr. President, we heard that, and we do love our Jeremy Hansen, we love all our Canadian astronauts, uh, Jenny Gibbons, Josh Kutrick, uh, they’re just great people and they’re such *** welcome addition to our corps. Great, well, I do, I really look forward to. When we can, I look forward to seeing you in the Oval Office. I’ll ask Jared to bring you over and I’ll ask for your autograph because I don’t really ask for autographs much, but you deserve that. You really are something. Everybody’s talking about this, and uh I look forward to having you in the Oval Office at the White House, and we will celebrate your incredible achievements and triumphs. This is big. This is really big stuff. The whole world is talking about it and. If you have the time, I will certainly find the time. I’ve been pretty busy also, as you know, but I will absolutely find the time and we’ll get together and uh I’m gonna be giving you *** big salute on behalf of the American people and beyond that. Thank you for that, Mr. President, and when you want us, we will be there and thank you for your leadership. Thank you to Jared for his leadership. Really thank you for taking the time out today to visit NASA. It’s really special for us, but it’s really special for the team on the ground. *** whole team of people all around the world pulled this off, and we just want to say thank you to all of you for. It is the thrill and honor of *** lifetime to have been on this journey. Today was amazing, but this 3 year journey has been amazing, and it was made, made possible by the American people and the Canadian people, and we’re so grateful to you all. Thank you very much. Well, thank you very much, and Jared, congratulations, we’ll see you soon, and I know that you have Mars very much on your mind, so we’ll start thinking about that pretty soon, I think, and thank you, congratulations to everybody. I’ll see you at the Oval Office. Thank you for your time, Mr. President. It’s been an honor. Thank you very much. Bye. Integrity. This is Houston ACR. That concludes the event. Thank you. Thank you to all participants. Integrity, we are now resuming operational audio communications. Integrity Houston, great job on the event. Just *** heads up, we are on track to start the next event on time at 4:15. OK, sounds great, we’ll be ready. This is Artemis Mission Control in Houston, Texas. We just had that public affairs event with President Donald Trump and the crew on board the Orion spacecraft, and coming up in about 10 minutes, there will be another public affairs event, that event taking place at *** mission elapse time of 5 days, 4 hours and 15 minutes. Currently on your screen, you’re seeing *** look at the Artemis real-time orbit website, which provides updates on the velocity as well as the distance of the Orion spacecraft from both Earth and the moon. The Orion spacecraft and its crew, that crew, including Reed Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Cook, and Jeremy Hansen, are currently about 250,000 miles away from the Earth, and that distance is starting to become smaller as they are now on the return leg of their journey, and they are about 9300 miles away from the moon. They made their close approach to the moon. Integrity Houston with *** question about fan speed. Go ahead. Hey, Reed, we were wondering if this adjusted fan speed is something that you would like to keep going forward or if it was just *** specific change request for the events this evening. Uh, certainly for PAO events, this is an ideal fan speed. If you’re willing to give us this fan speed for routine habitability, I think we would take it and try it for *** while. And Reed, we are able to support keeping the fan speed in this config. Happy to keep it here to collect data. OK, you got 4 happy astronauts up here and we’ll take it obviously when we go to exercise, we’ll need to bump it up, but I think for quiet as *** living, this will be great. We copy and we love seeing those smiles. Houston Integrity for docking camera. Go ahead. Just wanna make sure we have the config you’re expecting. I have the dual camera bracket is installed, the window shade is closed, and the docking camera is stowed in its alpha 3 storage area. That’s *** good config. Thank you. And while I’ve got you, we are 3 minutes out from an on-time start of the next event. This is Artemis Mission Control in Houston, Texas. You can see *** live look of the Artemis 2 crew inside the O’Brien spacecraft cabin as they prepare for another public affairs downlink event. There on your screen is CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen along with NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and NASA astronaut Victor Glover popping up. Earlier today, the crew completed their lunar flyby observation period during which the Orion spacecraft and its crew passed approximately 4000 to 6000 miles from the moon and provided the astronauts with *** full disc view of the lunar surface. And from that higher vantage point, the astronauts were able to observe both poles and large scale geological features in *** single view. Towards the tail end of that observation period, they also were able to see an eclipse, and that eclipse period lasted about an hour and was when the sun was hidden from view behind the opposite side of the moon from the perspective of Orion. Since then, the crew has been working to clean up some of their observations and transfer some of the data and imagery down to the ground to begin processing, and the science team will take *** look at that imagery as it comes down ahead of *** post lunar flyby conference tomorrow with the crew following their sleep period. Now we are standing by for *** 2nd public affairs event taking place in about 1 minute. Integrity, this is Houston. Are you ready for the event? Houston Integrity is ready for the event. Administrator Isaacman, this is Mission Control Houston. Please call Integrity for *** voice check. Integrity, Jared Isaacman, Com check. Administrator Isaacman, we’ve got you loud and clear up here. I’ve got you loud and clear, and uh let’s see if we can top that last uh PO event. That was pretty special. So we are going to spend the next 20 minutes doing Q&A from uh *** number of questions that have been submitted and we’re going to start with one from me. You all have spent years preparing for this moment and imagining what it must be like when you look down at the moon, at the lunar surface. What has surprised you all that you did not anticipate. Go ahead. No, it’s on. Administrator, great to chat with you. Just something that just shocked me because Really using imagery and just the three dimensionality of it, you know, from your experience of seeing the Earth from space how it just seems different and you look out in Depth of things and when we were on the far side of the moon looking back at Earth, it was just so obvious you had this sphere out in front of you of the moon in this three dimensional. You really felt like you weren’t in *** capsule, you’d been transported to the far side of the moon, and it, it, it really just bent your mind. It was an extraordinary human experience. I’m so grateful for it. Integrity, uh, Jared, anyone else want to answer that one? You know, we had an amazing launch. The SLS is quite *** powerful rocket, and Got us into *** 1200 by, you know, eventually *** 100 mile orbit and Clearly power and speed and then we did our transluminar injection and we were going quite fast. And so with all of that speed though, it still took us days to get here and so the scope of all of the things to *** 321 ft tall rocket was amazing. It just puts the, you know, the, the power required to do this in perspective. But then even with all that power and to, to get to those velocities, it still took us days. and the breadth of the distance we had to cover, watching the distance from Earth count up and the distance from the moon countdown was one of the most surprising things I’ve enjoyed. Well, as I was trying to formulate an answer, at first I anything because there are so many things to choose from. I’ll try to just narrow it down, but I’m going to go with something we did yesterday, Emmanuel. *** flight test objective where we just basically got to sit at the vehicle. It was Jeremy and I this time and just drive, drive around using the rotational hand controller, basically just drive it with *** stick and how well it handled, how tight the control algorithms were, and watching it respond when we actually degraded it on purpose by going into 3 degrees of freedom control by actually inhibiting some of the jets, which, even though we have jet redundancy, of course. For each other in these complicated algorithms. So it was just amazing to be in *** deep space spacecraft and just be flying it around by hand. Um, the, the one other thing I’ll say. How fast it has gone by. I, I’m not ready to go home. This is, I can’t believe that something this cramped of quarters can fly by and still be fun every single minute. And I’ll just close out with, I think just scale. Jared is the thing that is just blowing my mind. You know, you flew Polaris on to some amazing apogee, uh, numbers, and on the International Space Station, we’re 250 nautical miles up, and, and that’s the most beautiful view I think *** human could ever experience. And we are dealing with numbers that are 250,000 miles, and every time Mission Control points this vehicle either at the moon or at Earth, And it reminds me every day that humans have to go. We’ve got to explore, we’ve got to go further to expand our knowledge, expand our horizons, and every time we take another step forward, it makes the world seem *** little bit smaller and *** little bit more manageable. And just putting these numbers in perspective, it is impossible as *** human to look at these displays and comprehend them, and, and, but here we are, and NASA is doing this. An international team is doing this, and they’re doing it very well. Excellent words, integrity. So certainly *** very wild insertion orbit. I can imagine the contrast between Perigee and apogee, the scale scale of it all, the 3D, seeing the moon come alive, and then certainly manual control, while every every dragon crew for the last 5 years is very jealous on that. OK, so we’re going to, uh, we’re going to questions here. Um, this one, you, you, uh, the Artemis 2 crew inspire all of us, but what inspires you? I think, I think as you get older your answer to that question changes *** lot. Certainly when I was *** young boy and *** young man, just And seeing an airplane flying overhead, to me that really lit *** fire in me. And then I think when you, you reach your middle age, it’s just, it is interesting to watch leadership throughout the world kind of change the course of humans. You can watch that unfold. And now, now that I’m, I’m just *** little bit over 50, you’ll be there soon. Um, now that I’m just *** little bit over 50, I mean, it all ties back to just family, and you, you understand just how much. You, the, the people that you surround yourself with, and that is really, uh, every, every night when you go to bed, that’s really what you end up thinking, at least that’s what I end up thinking. Uh, thank you. All right, so, uh, here’s *** question. It’s *** good one. So for the Artemis 3 crew, what is the first, uh, what is the advice you would pass along for the next astronauts that will go in Orion? That’s *** great question, Jared. We’ve actually been thinking about the Artemis 2, sorry, the Artemis 3 crew since we were assigned as the Artemis 2 crew. It was the beginning of how we came up with how we wanted to fly this mission, how we wanted to buy down risk for the program. Values as *** crew and so, uh, you know, over the, over the course of these three years we’ve taken *** lot of notes, so we’ve almost got *** book to hand them, but I think *** few practical things you know just sitting. We’ve been living for the past 6 days. How you pack is *** huge impact on how you will live on the journey. And so things like food and your hygiene products, and then, you know, you, you know what’s going on with our waste management system, the technology that we have, practicing that and being familiar with that and being being prepared mentally. I used it on the space station. I used it at home in training, but I’ll be honest, I wasn’t really prepared to have to use it for over half the mission, and, uh, but you know, we adapt and overcome, and so I can’t wait to talk to that crew. I’m glad you said it, or else I was. We we definitely have to fix some of the plumbing. OK, this question is from Merriam-Webster. It’s *** wordy one here. So you are going to be, well, you’ve already surpassed more than 250,000 miles from Earth, farther than any human has gone before. So what are some words that come to mind when you try to wrap your mind around this very unique experience? I’ll be honest with you, the main word because superlatives just don’t do it justice is humility. We would never be here if it weren’t for so many people that came before us, starting with Neil Armstrong, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, um, civil rights movement leaders. Everyone who worked on this spacecraft before we got here in our 3 years of training, we went all over the country and even to our European and Canadian partners to see the people who have put their hands on this hardware, the millions of parts from every valve from. Every valve to this entire thing, the people that put on harnesses every day to rig it up in the VAB, there is, they all passed the record. We definitely didn’t pass the record up here alone. So this is actually very similar to the question the President of the United States asked just *** brief bit ago, but during the quiet moments on your journey when you were out of contact with everyone here on Earth, what were some of the thoughts that tended to occupy your mind most? Yeah, as Victor said earlier, when we were on the far side of the moon and and out of contact with planet Earth, we all knew it, and it was *** milestone. We saw Earth disappear, the Earth set, um, but we were so busy with the science, and we have such faith in our, our vehicle integrity, such faith in mission control, that we were just at complete peace and just doing our job, um. And just trying to do *** good job to collect as much science data as we could while we were on the far side of the moon and we were just giddy in here like. Of our lives. He’s being *** bit humble, but as soon as we went out of calm with Planet Earth, we did have maple cookies as we just gathered together for about 30 seconds. Each one of us had *** maple cream cookie and then right back into the science, but we had to take *** moment to honor, to honor that time going behind Earth, and it was *** very, I’m sorry, going behind the moon and out of touch with Earth, and that was *** very surreal moment for this crew. Copy that copy good maple cookies on the far side. And how is this journey changed? How is this journey already changed the way you see our home planet and humanity’s future among the stars? OK. There, there’s so many directions I think we could go with that, and I just, you know, I. I think that there’s You know, But I think real impact is local, and I, I, is, is to see the earth as an entire thing and look out at this system and to see it all at once, but I’m, I. My daughters and just the, you know, the things that we can impact directly, the people that I can touch, that I can speak to, hug, and, and show love and gratitude toward, um. Is the, the thing that I think is going to change and last and but you also talked about the, the future that we’re going to have in the stars and you know this mission, I think we swung for the fence and launched on our first try after learning *** lot earlier this year, but I think it set the stage for us to go out and continue to swing for the fence. Hard in our Orion SLS and ground systems programs to go and get the next one teed up so that that crew can knock it off out of the park. And so I, I, I have huge expectations for what’s coming next. Uh, good words. Uh, are you feeling homesick for Earth? I, I will tell you last. In my eyes, I just, I did start thinking about getting home. It’s not homesickness at all, but I just, it, the first time probably in 3 years, I let my mind get past the moon and, and back towards home, and I had to catch myself right there. You’re an operator just like we are, and you know that. Place to be when you’re up here, we gotta look 11 step, one step ahead. What’s next? What’s our next burn? How are we setting up our trajectory to get home? And we are going to do that. We are locked in, and we are definitely excited for the second half of this mission, and we, we are on guard. We are the first crew to fly this vehicle. We are ready for any contingency in any, any scenario, and we are going to stay locked in every second until we are back on that navy ship and then home reunited with our families. And copy that astronauts like being in space. That checks out. OK, there’s *** lot of questions from the uh space photography community. How are the pictures going so far? Well, um, we all love getting our hands on cameras and our eyes behind the lens here because we’re just trying to share the incredible things that we’re seeing and that’s obviously the best way we can try to do that. I’ve been into night sky photography for *** long time and so. *** dream come true for me. I have, um, thought specifically to that community. The time lapses I’ve been trying to get, those are *** little tougher because we have *** very dynamic vehicle. It’s not like being on ISS where you can get the city lights below and the auroras and the, the spinning stars around the North Star. Uh, there’s *** lot going on. So, but what we got. Dark Matter is out of this world. Uh, when we viewed that eclipse, that was the one time we all said we literally cannot capture this with *** camera. Everything else, I think we’ve been able to, we’ve really put our hearts and minds into making sure we understand so that we can bring that home to everyone. But, um, having to set the low light features for earth shine on the moon while it’s an eclipse. That was *** new one. I had to dig deep in my book for that one. And thanks for the iPhones. They’ve been working great. Very glad to hear that, and there are *** couple 2 billion people back here on Earth that are extremely excited to look at the imagery you’ve captured up there. OK, well, uh, I wanna, I wanna thank you all integrity, uh, so Reed, Victor, Christina, Jeremy, on behalf of NASA and space loving people across the world, thank you for taking us with you to the moon. Thank you for, uh, thank you for your courage, all of your beautiful words that we’ve heard. Uh, you represent the absolute best of us. We are proud of you and we look forward to welcoming you, welcoming you back safely to the good earth very soon. God speed and go Artemis too. Thank you so much, Administrator. We are just proud to be *** part of this team, doing our work every day, and we are supported by *** huge world of humans and we are just honored to be *** part of that. Thank you. We’ll see you soon. Integrity, this is Houston ACR. That concludes the event. Thank you. Thank you to all participants. Integrity, we are now resuming operational Audio com. This is Artemis Mission Control in Houston, Texas. That 2nd public affairs event with NASA Administrator Isaac Man and the crew on board the Orion spacecraft named Integrity now complete, and there on your screen you’re seeing *** live view from the Orion spacecraft, specifically from the camera on its solar array wings, and you can see *** crescent Earth there. The crew is now officially on the return leg of their journey, and the Earth is now their target with that splashdown targeted for April 10th.
Artemis 2 crew, we have *** very special guest who wanted to be the first person to greet you after your return from the far side of the moon, Reed, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy. It’s my honor to introduce the president of the United States of America, President Donald J. Trump. Over to you, sir. Well, thank you very much, Jared, and you are doing *** fantastic job and hello, very special hello to Artemis 2. Today you’ve made history and made all America really proud, incredibly proud. We have *** lot of things to be proud of lately, but this is, uh, there’s nothing like what you’re doing, circling around the moon for the first time in more than *** half *** century and breaking the all-time record for the farthest distance from planet Earth. Humans have really never seen anything quite like what you’re doing in *** manned spacecraft. It’s really special. I want to personally salute and congratulate Commander Reed Weissman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina ***, and Jeremy Hansen, and I also want to thank the entire amazing team at NASA headed by Jared, who’s *** very special guy, by the way, and. You all made this day possible and you’ve really inspired the entire world, really. Everybody’s watching. They find it incredible. I just watched you go to the back of the moon and people haven’t been there in *** long time, we can say, but it’s going to be more and more prevalent because we’re going to be doing *** lot of. *** lot of traveling and then you’re going to ultimately do the whole big trip to Mars, and that’s going to be very exciting. So you look at, we had no astronaut has been to the moon since the days of Apollo program. The Apollo program was also very special, but that was 50 years ago, and at long last, America is back, and America is back in many ways stronger than ever before. We’re the hottest country anywhere in the world. The Artemis crew flew in the most powerful rocket NASA has ever made, ever launched, traveled over *** quarter of *** million miles, broke the distance record set by the legendary Apollo 13, and America is *** frontier nation, and the four brave astronauts of Artemis 2 are *** modern day, you really are modern day pioneers, all of you, and one of them happens to be *** neighbor. You know who that is, right? You have *** special person over there, *** neighbor. And we like our neighbor. Your mission paves the way for America’s return to the lunar surface very soon. We’re going all out. We’re doing everything we can, and it’s headed up by Jarrett. We’ll plant our flag once again, and this time we won’t just leave footprints. We’ll establish *** permanent presence on the moon, and we’ll push on to Mars. That’ll be very exciting. I’m waiting for that so much. I’d love to be here, but maybe we won’t quite make it in terms of timing. But we will be up in the moon, and that’s going to happen soon, so America will be second to none in space and everything else that we’re doing, and we will continue to lead the whole thing into the stars, this incredible journey into the stars. So I just wanted, it’s an honor to speak to you, and I wanted to congratulate each and every one of you. And tell me what is the most unforgettable part of this really historic day. The whole world is watching and listening. Please tell me. Mr President, this call is certainly special to all of us, and we really have *** lot of faith in our administrator Jared Isaacman, who is with you. We appreciate his leadership in NASA and in the international community. We are doing great things and we are proud to be *** part of. I have to tell you, uh, as we came around the near side of the moon, seeing all the sights that we’ve seen from Earth for all of our lives, but we’re seeing them from *** different perspective, and then we started to get *** glimpse of the and we saw sights, Oriental, uh, sights that no human has ever seen before, not even in Apollo, and that was amazing for us. And then the surprise of the day, we just came out of an eclipse where the sun. moon and the entire dark moon about that big right out the window that we were watching. We could see the corona of the sun and then we could see the planet train line up and we at Mars and all of us commented how excited we are to watch this nation and this planet become *** two planet species. That is fantastic. You know, I had *** decision to make in my first term, and the decision is what are we going to do at NASA? Are we going to Have it be revived or are we going to close it down, and I had very little hesitation, and it’s really great to have somebody like Jared involved because he really makes it much easier for me, but it was not even *** question in my own mind. Uh, we just, we’ve, uh, we’ve spent what we had to do, and then of course we have Space Force, and Space Force is very much related to what you’re doing, and that was my baby. That was *** very important one, and It’s turning out, it’ll turn out to be truly one of the most important, I believe, decisions I’ve ever made. So we’re very proud of Space Force, and we’re very proud of all of you. Does anybody else have anything to say? *** lot of people listening. Mr. President, to be here with you speaking about our incredible day today. I think one of the biggest highlights was coming back from the far side of the moon and having the first glimpses of planet Earth again after being out of communication for about 45 minutes. It really just reminds you what *** special place we have and how important it is for our nation to forward to lead and not follow in exploring deep space. I’d like to ask, what was your feeling when you had no communication, zero communication, all of *** sudden it was cut off by obviously your very special location. What was your feeling when you had no communication, *** little bit different perhaps. Yes, Mr. President, it was. I said *** little prayer, but then I had to keep rolling. I was actually recording scientific observations of the far side of the moon, you know, that is actually the time when we were the farthest. And the closest to the moon and so we were really able to make some of our most detailed observations of the far side of the moon up close. And so we were busy up here working really hard and I must say it was actually quite nice. Did you see *** difference, *** big difference between the far side of the moon and the near side of the moon? Was there *** difference in feel or *** difference in look? What did you see? Well, Mr. President, we certainly did, and our team really set us up well to understand what they thought we might see. And the gravitational pull of the Earth has had *** profound effect on the near side of the moon, changing all those dark mares, those dark patches of the moon you see from Earth. It’s very different on the far side. While you see some small patches of those mari in deep craters, it’s very much absent on that side, so that’s really neat. And while I have the microphone, sir, I just want to thank you on behalf of Canada. The space leadership you spoke of from America is truly is extraordinary. I’ve said this many times before. *** nation that leads like that and creates and sets big goals for humanity that brings other countries along with it is truly incredible, and I know that’s *** very intentional, not *** necessary decision, intentional decision. To lead by example and to allow other countries like Canada to share our gifts and help you achieve these mutually beneficial goals like establishing *** presence on the moon and eventually going to Mars, and Canadians are so proud to be *** part of this program. Well, I have to say I spoke to *** very special person, Wayne Gretzky, who I think you know, the great one, and I spoke to your prime minister and many other friends I have in Canada. They are so proud of you, and you have *** lot of courage. I’m not sure if they’d want to do that. I’m not even sure if the great one would want to do that, to be honest with you, but you have *** lot of courage doing what you’re doing, *** lot of bravery and *** lot of, *** lot of genius, but they’re very, very proud of you. Administrator Isaacman, just get *** quick com check, make sure you guys are still on the line and we didn’t have *** handover. I am, yes, I am. And uh integrity and back over to you, Mr. President. Yeah, I think we might have gotten cut off. It is *** long distance. It’s *** long ways. The reception’s been great. There’s *** little bit of about *** 9 2nd delay, but no, I just had ***, *** statement for, I don’t know what you heard, but I was just saying they’re very proud of. You’re *** brilliant person from Canada on the ship, and Wayne Gretzky is *** great friend of mine, and he’s very proud of him, and the Prime Minister I spoke to, they’re very, very honored that you have *** courageous person from Canada. You have *** lot of courageous people from Canada, so it was very nice. I’m not sure if you heard me say that, but it was very nice. Yes, Mr. President, we heard that, and we do love our Jeremy Hansen, we love all our Canadian astronauts, uh, Jenny Gibbons, Josh Kutrick, uh, they’re just great people and they’re such *** welcome addition to our corps. Great, well, I do, I really look forward to. When we can, I look forward to seeing you in the Oval Office. I’ll ask Jared to bring you over and I’ll ask for your autograph because I don’t really ask for autographs much, but you deserve that. You really are something. Everybody’s talking about this, and uh I look forward to having you in the Oval Office at the White House, and we will celebrate your incredible achievements and triumphs. This is big. This is really big stuff. The whole world is talking about it and. If you have the time, I will certainly find the time. I’ve been pretty busy also, as you know, but I will absolutely find the time and we’ll get together and uh I’m gonna be giving you *** big salute on behalf of the American people and beyond that. Thank you for that, Mr. President, and when you want us, we will be there and thank you for your leadership. Thank you to Jared for his leadership. Really thank you for taking the time out today to visit NASA. It’s really special for us, but it’s really special for the team on the ground. *** whole team of people all around the world pulled this off, and we just want to say thank you to all of you for. It is the thrill and honor of *** lifetime to have been on this journey. Today was amazing, but this 3 year journey has been amazing, and it was made, made possible by the American people and the Canadian people, and we’re so grateful to you all. Thank you very much. Well, thank you very much, and Jared, congratulations, we’ll see you soon, and I know that you have Mars very much on your mind, so we’ll start thinking about that pretty soon, I think, and thank you, congratulations to everybody. I’ll see you at the Oval Office. Thank you for your time, Mr. President. It’s been an honor. Thank you very much. Bye. Integrity. This is Houston ACR. That concludes the event. Thank you. Thank you to all participants. Integrity, we are now resuming operational audio communications. Integrity Houston, great job on the event. Just *** heads up, we are on track to start the next event on time at 4:15. OK, sounds great, we’ll be ready. This is Artemis Mission Control in Houston, Texas. We just had that public affairs event with President Donald Trump and the crew on board the Orion spacecraft, and coming up in about 10 minutes, there will be another public affairs event, that event taking place at *** mission elapse time of 5 days, 4 hours and 15 minutes. Currently on your screen, you’re seeing *** look at the Artemis real-time orbit website, which provides updates on the velocity as well as the distance of the Orion spacecraft from both Earth and the moon. The Orion spacecraft and its crew, that crew, including Reed Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Cook, and Jeremy Hansen, are currently about 250,000 miles away from the Earth, and that distance is starting to become smaller as they are now on the return leg of their journey, and they are about 9300 miles away from the moon. They made their close approach to the moon. Integrity Houston with *** question about fan speed. Go ahead. Hey, Reed, we were wondering if this adjusted fan speed is something that you would like to keep going forward or if it was just *** specific change request for the events this evening. Uh, certainly for PAO events, this is an ideal fan speed. If you’re willing to give us this fan speed for routine habitability, I think we would take it and try it for *** while. And Reed, we are able to support keeping the fan speed in this config. Happy to keep it here to collect data. OK, you got 4 happy astronauts up here and we’ll take it obviously when we go to exercise, we’ll need to bump it up, but I think for quiet as *** living, this will be great. We copy and we love seeing those smiles. Houston Integrity for docking camera. Go ahead. Just wanna make sure we have the config you’re expecting. I have the dual camera bracket is installed, the window shade is closed, and the docking camera is stowed in its alpha 3 storage area. That’s *** good config. Thank you. And while I’ve got you, we are 3 minutes out from an on-time start of the next event. This is Artemis Mission Control in Houston, Texas. You can see *** live look of the Artemis 2 crew inside the O’Brien spacecraft cabin as they prepare for another public affairs downlink event. There on your screen is CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen along with NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and NASA astronaut Victor Glover popping up. Earlier today, the crew completed their lunar flyby observation period during which the Orion spacecraft and its crew passed approximately 4000 to 6000 miles from the moon and provided the astronauts with *** full disc view of the lunar surface. And from that higher vantage point, the astronauts were able to observe both poles and large scale geological features in *** single view. Towards the tail end of that observation period, they also were able to see an eclipse, and that eclipse period lasted about an hour and was when the sun was hidden from view behind the opposite side of the moon from the perspective of Orion. Since then, the crew has been working to clean up some of their observations and transfer some of the data and imagery down to the ground to begin processing, and the science team will take *** look at that imagery as it comes down ahead of *** post lunar flyby conference tomorrow with the crew following their sleep period. Now we are standing by for *** 2nd public affairs event taking place in about 1 minute. Integrity, this is Houston. Are you ready for the event? Houston Integrity is ready for the event. Administrator Isaacman, this is Mission Control Houston. Please call Integrity for *** voice check. Integrity, Jared Isaacman, Com check. Administrator Isaacman, we’ve got you loud and clear up here. I’ve got you loud and clear, and uh let’s see if we can top that last uh PO event. That was pretty special. So we are going to spend the next 20 minutes doing Q&A from uh *** number of questions that have been submitted and we’re going to start with one from me. You all have spent years preparing for this moment and imagining what it must be like when you look down at the moon, at the lunar surface. What has surprised you all that you did not anticipate. Go ahead. No, it’s on. Administrator, great to chat with you. Just something that just shocked me because Really using imagery and just the three dimensionality of it, you know, from your experience of seeing the Earth from space how it just seems different and you look out in Depth of things and when we were on the far side of the moon looking back at Earth, it was just so obvious you had this sphere out in front of you of the moon in this three dimensional. You really felt like you weren’t in *** capsule, you’d been transported to the far side of the moon, and it, it, it really just bent your mind. It was an extraordinary human experience. I’m so grateful for it. Integrity, uh, Jared, anyone else want to answer that one? You know, we had an amazing launch. The SLS is quite *** powerful rocket, and Got us into *** 1200 by, you know, eventually *** 100 mile orbit and Clearly power and speed and then we did our transluminar injection and we were going quite fast. And so with all of that speed though, it still took us days to get here and so the scope of all of the things to *** 321 ft tall rocket was amazing. It just puts the, you know, the, the power required to do this in perspective. But then even with all that power and to, to get to those velocities, it still took us days. and the breadth of the distance we had to cover, watching the distance from Earth count up and the distance from the moon countdown was one of the most surprising things I’ve enjoyed. Well, as I was trying to formulate an answer, at first I anything because there are so many things to choose from. I’ll try to just narrow it down, but I’m going to go with something we did yesterday, Emmanuel. *** flight test objective where we just basically got to sit at the vehicle. It was Jeremy and I this time and just drive, drive around using the rotational hand controller, basically just drive it with *** stick and how well it handled, how tight the control algorithms were, and watching it respond when we actually degraded it on purpose by going into 3 degrees of freedom control by actually inhibiting some of the jets, which, even though we have jet redundancy, of course. For each other in these complicated algorithms. So it was just amazing to be in *** deep space spacecraft and just be flying it around by hand. Um, the, the one other thing I’ll say. How fast it has gone by. I, I’m not ready to go home. This is, I can’t believe that something this cramped of quarters can fly by and still be fun every single minute. And I’ll just close out with, I think just scale. Jared is the thing that is just blowing my mind. You know, you flew Polaris on to some amazing apogee, uh, numbers, and on the International Space Station, we’re 250 nautical miles up, and, and that’s the most beautiful view I think *** human could ever experience. And we are dealing with numbers that are 250,000 miles, and every time Mission Control points this vehicle either at the moon or at Earth, And it reminds me every day that humans have to go. We’ve got to explore, we’ve got to go further to expand our knowledge, expand our horizons, and every time we take another step forward, it makes the world seem *** little bit smaller and *** little bit more manageable. And just putting these numbers in perspective, it is impossible as *** human to look at these displays and comprehend them, and, and, but here we are, and NASA is doing this. An international team is doing this, and they’re doing it very well. Excellent words, integrity. So certainly *** very wild insertion orbit. I can imagine the contrast between Perigee and apogee, the scale scale of it all, the 3D, seeing the moon come alive, and then certainly manual control, while every every dragon crew for the last 5 years is very jealous on that. OK, so we’re going to, uh, we’re going to questions here. Um, this one, you, you, uh, the Artemis 2 crew inspire all of us, but what inspires you? I think, I think as you get older your answer to that question changes *** lot. Certainly when I was *** young boy and *** young man, just And seeing an airplane flying overhead, to me that really lit *** fire in me. And then I think when you, you reach your middle age, it’s just, it is interesting to watch leadership throughout the world kind of change the course of humans. You can watch that unfold. And now, now that I’m, I’m just *** little bit over 50, you’ll be there soon. Um, now that I’m just *** little bit over 50, I mean, it all ties back to just family, and you, you understand just how much. You, the, the people that you surround yourself with, and that is really, uh, every, every night when you go to bed, that’s really what you end up thinking, at least that’s what I end up thinking. Uh, thank you. All right, so, uh, here’s *** question. It’s *** good one. So for the Artemis 3 crew, what is the first, uh, what is the advice you would pass along for the next astronauts that will go in Orion? That’s *** great question, Jared. We’ve actually been thinking about the Artemis 2, sorry, the Artemis 3 crew since we were assigned as the Artemis 2 crew. It was the beginning of how we came up with how we wanted to fly this mission, how we wanted to buy down risk for the program. Values as *** crew and so, uh, you know, over the, over the course of these three years we’ve taken *** lot of notes, so we’ve almost got *** book to hand them, but I think *** few practical things you know just sitting. We’ve been living for the past 6 days. How you pack is *** huge impact on how you will live on the journey. And so things like food and your hygiene products, and then, you know, you, you know what’s going on with our waste management system, the technology that we have, practicing that and being familiar with that and being being prepared mentally. I used it on the space station. I used it at home in training, but I’ll be honest, I wasn’t really prepared to have to use it for over half the mission, and, uh, but you know, we adapt and overcome, and so I can’t wait to talk to that crew. I’m glad you said it, or else I was. We we definitely have to fix some of the plumbing. OK, this question is from Merriam-Webster. It’s *** wordy one here. So you are going to be, well, you’ve already surpassed more than 250,000 miles from Earth, farther than any human has gone before. So what are some words that come to mind when you try to wrap your mind around this very unique experience? I’ll be honest with you, the main word because superlatives just don’t do it justice is humility. We would never be here if it weren’t for so many people that came before us, starting with Neil Armstrong, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, um, civil rights movement leaders. Everyone who worked on this spacecraft before we got here in our 3 years of training, we went all over the country and even to our European and Canadian partners to see the people who have put their hands on this hardware, the millions of parts from every valve from. Every valve to this entire thing, the people that put on harnesses every day to rig it up in the VAB, there is, they all passed the record. We definitely didn’t pass the record up here alone. So this is actually very similar to the question the President of the United States asked just *** brief bit ago, but during the quiet moments on your journey when you were out of contact with everyone here on Earth, what were some of the thoughts that tended to occupy your mind most? Yeah, as Victor said earlier, when we were on the far side of the moon and and out of contact with planet Earth, we all knew it, and it was *** milestone. We saw Earth disappear, the Earth set, um, but we were so busy with the science, and we have such faith in our, our vehicle integrity, such faith in mission control, that we were just at complete peace and just doing our job, um. And just trying to do *** good job to collect as much science data as we could while we were on the far side of the moon and we were just giddy in here like. Of our lives. He’s being *** bit humble, but as soon as we went out of calm with Planet Earth, we did have maple cookies as we just gathered together for about 30 seconds. Each one of us had *** maple cream cookie and then right back into the science, but we had to take *** moment to honor, to honor that time going behind Earth, and it was *** very, I’m sorry, going behind the moon and out of touch with Earth, and that was *** very surreal moment for this crew. Copy that copy good maple cookies on the far side. And how is this journey changed? How is this journey already changed the way you see our home planet and humanity’s future among the stars? OK. There, there’s so many directions I think we could go with that, and I just, you know, I. I think that there’s You know, But I think real impact is local, and I, I, is, is to see the earth as an entire thing and look out at this system and to see it all at once, but I’m, I. My daughters and just the, you know, the things that we can impact directly, the people that I can touch, that I can speak to, hug, and, and show love and gratitude toward, um. Is the, the thing that I think is going to change and last and but you also talked about the, the future that we’re going to have in the stars and you know this mission, I think we swung for the fence and launched on our first try after learning *** lot earlier this year, but I think it set the stage for us to go out and continue to swing for the fence. Hard in our Orion SLS and ground systems programs to go and get the next one teed up so that that crew can knock it off out of the park. And so I, I, I have huge expectations for what’s coming next. Uh, good words. Uh, are you feeling homesick for Earth? I, I will tell you last. In my eyes, I just, I did start thinking about getting home. It’s not homesickness at all, but I just, it, the first time probably in 3 years, I let my mind get past the moon and, and back towards home, and I had to catch myself right there. You’re an operator just like we are, and you know that. Place to be when you’re up here, we gotta look 11 step, one step ahead. What’s next? What’s our next burn? How are we setting up our trajectory to get home? And we are going to do that. We are locked in, and we are definitely excited for the second half of this mission, and we, we are on guard. We are the first crew to fly this vehicle. We are ready for any contingency in any, any scenario, and we are going to stay locked in every second until we are back on that navy ship and then home reunited with our families. And copy that astronauts like being in space. That checks out. OK, there’s *** lot of questions from the uh space photography community. How are the pictures going so far? Well, um, we all love getting our hands on cameras and our eyes behind the lens here because we’re just trying to share the incredible things that we’re seeing and that’s obviously the best way we can try to do that. I’ve been into night sky photography for *** long time and so. *** dream come true for me. I have, um, thought specifically to that community. The time lapses I’ve been trying to get, those are *** little tougher because we have *** very dynamic vehicle. It’s not like being on ISS where you can get the city lights below and the auroras and the, the spinning stars around the North Star. Uh, there’s *** lot going on. So, but what we got. Dark Matter is out of this world. Uh, when we viewed that eclipse, that was the one time we all said we literally cannot capture this with *** camera. Everything else, I think we’ve been able to, we’ve really put our hearts and minds into making sure we understand so that we can bring that home to everyone. But, um, having to set the low light features for earth shine on the moon while it’s an eclipse. That was *** new one. I had to dig deep in my book for that one. And thanks for the iPhones. They’ve been working great. Very glad to hear that, and there are *** couple 2 billion people back here on Earth that are extremely excited to look at the imagery you’ve captured up there. OK, well, uh, I wanna, I wanna thank you all integrity, uh, so Reed, Victor, Christina, Jeremy, on behalf of NASA and space loving people across the world, thank you for taking us with you to the moon. Thank you for, uh, thank you for your courage, all of your beautiful words that we’ve heard. Uh, you represent the absolute best of us. We are proud of you and we look forward to welcoming you, welcoming you back safely to the good earth very soon. God speed and go Artemis too. Thank you so much, Administrator. We are just proud to be *** part of this team, doing our work every day, and we are supported by *** huge world of humans and we are just honored to be *** part of that. Thank you. We’ll see you soon. Integrity, this is Houston ACR. That concludes the event. Thank you. Thank you to all participants. Integrity, we are now resuming operational Audio com. This is Artemis Mission Control in Houston, Texas. That 2nd public affairs event with NASA Administrator Isaac Man and the crew on board the Orion spacecraft named Integrity now complete, and there on your screen you’re seeing *** live view from the Orion spacecraft, specifically from the camera on its solar array wings, and you can see *** crescent Earth there. The crew is now officially on the return leg of their journey, and the Earth is now their target with that splashdown targeted for April 10th.