Hey Rob. Yeah, just such an honor to be able to be here on the ship to be able to share and experience this moment with everyone together. And of course, as you just said, Yes.here with NASA administrator Jared Isaacman. Administrator, how did you feel getting to witness this and seeing NASA at its best. >> Oh, I mean, I'm I'm honestly I'm still at a loss for words.I mean, you know, like the the childhood Jared right now can't believe what I just saw. I mean, almost been waiting my whole lifetime to see uh ...

In just over an hour from now, a real nailbiting moment for NASA and all of us here on Earth because the Artemis 2 astronauts are on track to splash down off the coast of California. It's going to happen right after 8:00 Eastern. Let's get another look now live inside the Orion spacecraft in its final stretch home.But as we said earlier, this is really the most dangerous part of the mission. The heat shield on the capsule has known design flaws. It will face temperatures nearly half as hot as the surface of ...

Growing up in the South Plains, I've always um had an interest in understanding how things work. I've always have been a huge fan of space. >> A little boy stargazing in Loveland is now a grown man leading the charge into outer space.Ronnie Bakus is a Levand High School and SPC alumnist who's now the chief engineer of the Orion spacecraft and Aremis 2 mission. Well, I I will say for me personally, it's just very satisfying to see this come to fruition. We have been working for quite a while in the developme ...

We're live here in Artemis mission control at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, just about 32 minutes away until the crew surpasses the record set by Apollo 13 as the farthest astronauts to ever leave Earth. Two views, both coming from Orion. There on the left, the inside of the spacecraft and on the right, a view of our moon, the destination for today.This view coming from a camera mounted on the tip of one of Orion's four solar arrays. Each array has a camera on its tip and so we anticipate getting ...

The Orion spacecraft is, at least for the next few days, the home away from home for the Artemis II astronauts. And in space, like on Earth, things around the house sometimes don’t work. https://t.co/E6cE7VIzQs ...

NASA's Artemis 2 mission successfully launched on April 1, 2026, sending four astronauts in the Orion spacecraft to orbit the moon in a landmark test flight. See photos from the launch here: https://t.co/lRGYx0wLRj (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images) https://t.co/RIKsBiy5UO ...

4 3 2 1 booster ignition and liftoff. >> This was the moment that NASA sent [music] humans back towards the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. Otmus 2 is a dress rehearsal, first of NASA's space launch system or SLS developed by Boeing, which at liftoff generated almost 9 million pounds [music] of thrust when it roared through the air from Kennedy Space Center.Inside the Orion spacecraft, the four astronauts will orbit Earth first for a couple of days, checking life support, navigation, and syst ...

But I do want to listen in because it sounds like we're getting an update here from NASA. Let's listen into their live stream. >> Excellent.>> This is mission control Houston. Though the the uh solutions that were applied to regain the communications from Integrity is not known which one worked. We do know that we are receiving data.Uh we're getting confirmation that is updating some of our telemetry uh that shows that the solar array wings uh have been reconfigured to the uh solar normal again drawing as m ...

And here they are, NASA's Artemis 2 crew. Commander Reed Weissman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialist Christina Cook and Jeremy Hansen taking their first steps outside for their historic test flight. >> I love I love the energy of this crowd.Let's go. And so now the crew walking over to each of their pens. um the first uh uh people closest to them of course their family members who got to quarantine with them.Correct. >> Yes. Yeah.So the the ones that are close and waving those are the immediate fa ...

AND HERE WE GO, TEN, NINE, EIGHT, BOUND FOR THE MOON, HUMANITY'S NEXT GREAT VOYAGE BEGINS. Good roll pitch. Roger, roll roll pitch.Houston now controlling the flight of Integrity on the Artemis 2 mission around the boat. The Integrity, AMT on time passing 30 seconds to the flights integrity passes the ultimate target milestone mission control houston see good performance engines space launch system core stage integrity three miles in altitude traveling more than 1200 miles per Mission to last time, passing ...