High-powered flashlight.

We take shapeshifters seriously.

My console responsibilities are now done until we get to entry prep. I’m the MER lead for crew and vehicle recovery. I’ll review the cabin config for that when my brain is a little less mushy.

They had the day off for the most part.

As soon as our on-console Imagery console operator in the MER told us she had downlinked a dozen photos from the flyby, we were all like kids in a candy store. Lots of ooohs and aahs as we rushed to one the images.

The Orion spacecraft on the left, in a picture from a solar array cam, floating behind the Moon. The Moon is haloed by the light of the sun. At the edges of the -I turn you can see stars.

This shot just blows my mind.

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No, we’re talking about the window pane itself and yes, this is much more about long duration exposure and not the short time of re-entry. If we’ got that wrong, crew will be sealed in pressure suits during descent & will be protected against cabin depressurization.

Also, the water is infused with silver biocide which should help stave off lycanthropic infection.

Our expectation I that you would only become a werewolf only when in view of the full Moon. We use a combination of mitigations - limiting launch opportunities to days when we’ll approach from the side, window shades when & special sunglasses during transit.

The material could deform at sustained exposure (>10days) to a high temperature (>140 degrees). If it wasn’t mitigated, you could develop a leak. We’re being conservative and maintaining the temps lower than that for the duration of the mission.

Photo from the inside of the Artemis 2 of the Earth through a window. The text reads: It's window safety week. Luckily, your home windows are easier to keep safe than a space window. Keep furniture away from windows. Open windows from the top, instead of the bottom. Install window guards.

Basking in PSA production value only NASA can provide.

The song for tonight’s shift - Tom Patty’s Runnin’ Down a Dream.

It was a beautiful day…

I want to give just the biggest kudos to Kelsey Young, the Artemis II science officer. She did a phenomenal job today of communicating clearly and joyously and it was honestly orders of magnitude more distracting than I thought it would be to have on.

"Welcome to my old neighborhood."

Jim Lovell

Source: NASA TV.
#ArtemisII

Going to admit that when I first studied the timeline for a 4/1 launch that it took a few minutes to wrap my brain around us losing comm, but being in sunlight, then having comm & being in eclipse. It’s been a while since I;d thought about the orbital mechanics of how all this works.

Astronauts Dedicate Moon Crater to Carroll Wiseman, Wife of NASA Commander

"It’s a bright spot on the moon,” CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen said, his voice breaking up, “and we would like to call it Carroll.”

The crew all shared a hug after.

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I would like that very much.

The work is hard and it takes more people than you can credit. We didn’t do it to make someone rich. We didn’t do it to grant someone power. It’s the ultimate team challenge and took thousands working together to pull off.

The Artemis II mission seems good because it is.

People seem excited by it because they are.

It looks like a testament to the value of teamwork because it needs many people working together to succeed, and it’s succeeding.

One of the best things about this is how straightforward it is. Authentic.

This has been a worldwide test of object permanence.

It’s in development.

https://etd.gsfc.nasa.gov/our-work/lcrns/

Can’t really get a better depiction of losing line of sight for communications.

Put a little love in your heart, people.

Victor about to break out the Al Green.

Oh man, I love that view.

This would not be my preferred menu.

Crescent Moon on right with Orion Spacecraft on left.

Nice far side Crescent Moon forming now. 🔭 🧪 #astrophotography #Artemis

Unsure how much humidity* we’d have.

Then late in our review process, we uncovered the temperature concern with the windows. While we normally mitigate that concern by pointing the windows away from the sun, we knew it wouldn’t always be possible during these types of ops. Suddenly that hose we weren’t planning to have came in handy.

The original proposal was to have a hose go to each window. But that was a lot of stowage mass and volume for a problem we weren’t sure was real. So we compromised for Artemis II and agreed to fly one hose as a test. We’d then gather data during the mission on if it was even needed.