Somewhere in the Skies - NASA Artemis II Launch - LIVE Coverage and Reactions

Episode Date: April 2, 2026

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fit for your ambition for citizens back. Hi. Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to our live coverage of the NASA Artemis II space launch. We started a lot earlier that we both anticipated. We're like, why not? Why not? And look at that.

There's 132 of you watching. That's crazy. That's crazy. So welcome, guys. Yeah, we're going to be broadcasting the entire launch tonight. Fingers crossed. Suzanne, that it happens. I know. It's sounding good. I literally am texting with a person at the launch who works for NASA and they're keeping me up to date on the percentage of the likelihood of

the launch. And last time we checked, we are at 85%. That's good. Looking pretty good. Looking Pretty good. Great. And how are you doing tonight? You would have someone at NASA that you can text. Yes. Of course I do. Are you kidding me? Of course I do. Look at who you're talking to. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I got an insider there who's the one who airbrushes all the UFOs

out of the footage and the photos, yeah. Well, someone's got to do that. Someone's got to do the dirty work. I know. Gotta be done. How are you doing today tonight? What time is it where you are? It's about what time is it? It is 3.41 right now. Okay. It's central time in America.

Got it, got it. Are you six hours ahead of me? Is it 9.40 something? It is 9.41 p.m. UK time right now. So hello to all of our European watchers, listeners. I know we have people from all over tonight. All over. Yeah. The U.S., the U.S., the U.K., where are you guys watching from?

I know we got people from. from Mexico. Yeah, Dalyan's here tonight. She's here. She's here from Germany. Germany, yes. Welcome, Dailen. Welcome.

She and Holly, the sour cat, are watching. Holly the sour cat. You can't have a sour crowd without a sour cat. It's true. Well, hey, we're going to be just hopping in here and there tonight sporadically until the launch. We'll keep it on the launch when it actually happens. But I thought, why not do some fun trivia instead? I am prepared to lose.

Yeah, it's fine. It's fine. I literally just pulled these out of my digital ass. Okay, good, good. We'll see how they go. And then you've got some info on like the launch itself, right? Okay, we'll go over that too. The astronauts and stuff that our listeners might find interesting about it.

Them. Oh, yeah. Okay, cool, cool. And just so everyone knows, the launch itself is scheduled for 6.24 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. So we'll be broadcasting up till then, during, and maybe a little after seeing how we're both feeling after that. Might be going into the midnight hour or so for us over here in the UK. But yeah, 624 p.m. is the scheduled time. We'll let you guys know if that changes, anything like that. We did cut. cover, you know, kind of the phases of this Artemis mission outline for the next few years. We covered that in our live stream this past Sunday. So for those who don't know, this first mission will be kind of a loop around the moon.

And basically what they're doing now is they're starting to see what it will take to get us to land on the moon again and start setting up shop. The plan is to literally build a moon base. in the next five to eight years, as it were. And then that will be our outpost to then start moving towards Mars with manned missions towards Mars. So it's exciting. It's really exciting. And this is just one in a series, as you mentioned.

I think the next one is scheduled tentatively for 2028, and I'm sure that that date depends largely on how things go tonight. Yeah. What they hope will happen happens, if not, but maybe back to the drawing board or maybe they already have a backup plan for 2028. But step one is tonight. This is kind of the test run. And, you know, we'll see what happens.

I mean, missions don't always succeed. Maybe something, anything can happen. Literally anything can happen when it comes to this. Yeah, exactly. I'm old enough to remember, regrettably, the Apollo missions and the anxiety that went along with those. and then, of course, the Challenger. Yes. Which resulted in calamity.

And so it's important to send good thoughts out there to these astronauts. They are incredibly special people. Reading about them to get ready for this afternoon, it was remarkable. We're so lucky to have them at the helm of this thing. Well, let's start there. Why do you tell us a little about them? I love the video. Can I start with the girl first?

I want to start with the girl first, okay. Do it, do it. So, well, let me make a broader statement first. So you're looking at a well-distributed group of race, color, creed, gender. You're looking at a wonderful mix of humans in this craft. And I think that that can be so important for all of our little ones who are watching what an astronaut looks like and who are watching how bright women and people of color along. with, you know, the stereotypic white male, you know, how that is going. And I think as someone who,

when she was little, really wanted to be a trial lawyer, I never saw a girl do that. You know, I never saw a female. And so when I look back with that eye, I think how important this might be for the little ones coming up behind us. Absolutely. I can, you know, again, being, a white male. Like I'm so used to this stuff being portrayed everywhere and seeing me represented in every way, shape, and form across everything.

So I can only imagine what it's like and what this will do. I mean, I always go back to the Dana Scully phenomenon when the X-Files came out, that when that show started airing and people saw this scientist, this, this, like, incredible character on television. It inspired so many women to get into STEM. And now it's like, exactly my point.

Oh, my God. She is literally the prime example. Exactly. And, you know, being of a certain generation myself, little girls like me heard, well, math's hard for girls, you know. Girls shouldn't be in a courtroom pregnant. So it is not without legs that we watch this today, right? It's on a different topic, of course, but I think it's really important. Well, all that being said, let's talk about Ms. Christina Cook.

And her last name is spelled K-O-C-H, but I think she pronounces it Cook. So she is 47 years old. She's from Grand Rapids, Michigan. She has a BS and a Masters in electrical engineering from North Carolina State, She has been on six space missions and get those guys and gals. She holds the record for the longest time and space of any female on the planet, 328 days. Oh, my God.

Most a year. Let's go. That's amazing. This is a special human. This is someone who's worked hard, who's obviously very bright and who has proved her stuff. Wow, that's so cool. Isn't that cool? And then the captain, Reed Wiseman, he's 50.

He's from Baltimore. He has a BS from, I'm going to mess this name, wrestling layer polytech in Troy, New York. You probably know what that is. It used to be Rensler or something. It used to be a stop on the Metro North train. when you're leaving New York City and going out to like Bronxville, upstate New York. I remember that stop all the time.

It was only like the halfway point. So once he got the Rensler or whatever, you're like, oh, thank God. I'm almost halfway there. Almost there. Well, your man, Reed Wiseman is educated. He got a master's from John Hopkins in systems engineering. He's a 27-year and Navy vet. It was a pilot.

and he was selected as an astronaut in 2009 by NASA. He was the flight engineer on the Space Station Expedition 41, and that was May to November of 2014. So he's had a lot of time in space as well. While they were on that particular mission, they accomplished 300 important experiments. And he'd get this, guys, he spent 13 hours on a CERN. single spacewalk.

Oh, my God. Outside of a craft in the middle of nowhere in space. So that's Reed Wiseman, the captain. Then Victor Glover is 49 years old. He's from Pomona, California. He was a USAF, a test pilot. We're seeing a little theme here. Yes, yes.

He has spent 167 days in space. This crew, this is an experienced crew. He has a BS and engineering from California. California Polytech State University and three masters. One in flight test engineering, one in systems engineering, and the last one is in military, operational art, and science. Hmm. Yeah.

That last one catches my attention. Yeah. Yeah. And Jeremy Hanson, I've lost my notes on him. Hold on one sec. Let me pull them up right here. Yeah. Take your time.

Wow. I just, I never, like, you don't think about these things that, like, it's not like they're going into space and just like hanging out being like, okay. Yeah, now what are we doing? Now they're doing things. You said over 300 experience. And the way that was phrased in the research was completed. So I have a feeling there were others that maybe they couldn't get to work or they couldn't have time to finish. I don't know what they didn't say.

So that was just what they accomplished. job done, check. All right. Our last astronaut is Jeremy Hanson, and he's Canadian. So shout out to all the Canadians. Hell. That's what it's a boot. And this is, by the way, a joint effort between North America, you know, USA and Canada.

So you're seeing a Canadian astronaut here. He was fighter pilot, a physicist, and a former aquanaut, which I think is interesting. I've never heard anybody talk about an aquanaut except in. comic books. Okay. And he joined the Canadian Space Agency in 2009, and he is 50 years old, born in London, Canada, and he was educated at the Royal Military College of Canada. Oh, Canada.

Okay. We've got some good folks on this capsule today. There they are. There's those beautiful faces. I had to, let's put some faces to those names. Well, I can't think of a better crew. I mean, they've been working three years on this initial mission. So, like, well, initial, this is Artemis 2.

What was Artemis 1, I wonder? I don't know, but it's been a series all connected to get to 2028 is what I understand from the research on it. Everything is connected to get to 2028. Okay, got it. This is a good point here. And I see a damn blue. Dan blue, what did he say? Johan Rosenberg.

Hey, Johan. Hello, Johan. Welcome, guys. A bunch of people. This is awesome. Angelica said the amount of people it takes to send people to space. Yeah, we need to keep that in mind, too. Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people make this happen from like, you know, from the ground crew to the people, you know, in that big room that you always see with all the big.

panels, computers, the launch director, so much. My contact at NASA right now, he's working like over time right now, you know, getting all the media stuff ready and all that. So I'll check in with him during our next. In the meantime, to make your point, all you have to do is watch a little bit of hidden figures, the movie. And you will see reams and reams of people, including all the African-American women computers, they called them, before a technical computer existed,

a hardware computer existed. And then it's a really good example of what it takes and how serious the work is. Absolutely. Oh, what a good movie. I forgot. I watched that on a plane. Did you see that one with, is it Tatum Channing or Channing Tatum? I always forget that guy's name. I think it's Chanon, Channing Tatum, the other one. Yeah, it was him and Scarlett Johansson. And it was about them, like, they're hired to do the fake moon landing, even though they're actually, they are going to the moon, but they hire them to do a backup just in case something goes wrong.

Clim me to the moon in 2024, Chansey Tatum and Scarlett Johanson. It's really good. People should watch it. I'll add that to my list of. of things, you know, my favorite, one of my favorite ever is contact with Jody Foster. And then Hidden Figures and then Project Hell Mary. I just love it. I just want to go see it again and watch it. I just watch the little reels and clips on Instagram half the night each night.

Amaze, amaze, amaze. We're not fisting anybody's bumps today. Fist my bump. Guys, it's a reference. It's a reference for Project Elmerry, trust me. And you can't forget the movie Apollo 13. That was one of the first spaced movies I ever saw. Yeah.

And I think that's the first time that I clued in with an adult brain on the level of stress that must go on for these people. I mean, it was always scary to me as a little kid when things were a young person. But I don't know. That movie kind of keyed in for me. Yep. Same. Yeah.

Especially the... or the astronaut who, like, days before, got sick and couldn't go. Like, that must have been heart-wrenching at the moment. I'm sure he's pretty happy. He didn't go. Right. No kidding. Yeah.

Of course, that's the birth of the phrase. Houston, we have a problem. We have a problem. Exactly. Well, I hope we have no problems tonight with Artemis. Yeah. That's for sure. All right.

Well, welcome to the party. Yes, we have a live stream. How are you? Yeah, buddy. Yep. 624 Eastern Standard Time is the projected time of the launch. We're going to be popping in and out throughout the night. We've got news clips for you guys.

We've got the Associated Press live stream. We will be broadcasting the actual launch if and when it happens. So stay tuned for that. But yeah, we're just going to have some fun. We're just chatting it up here. I did reach out to my NASA contact. They might pop in if they have a. few moments we shall see no promises.

Oh, excellent. Excellent. But I thought it'd be fun if I quizzed you. I did a little NASA trivia with you. Are we going to do like a top board and mark all my fails? Let's go. Let's get it. Yes.

If you get more than four out of the eight wrong, then I'm sorry, Susan. A big gong comes down. You're out of Artemis. All right. I'm prepared to lose. Let's go. Okay. You ready? Yeah, I'm ready. All right. I'm not going to, there's no graphics or anything for this.

So I'm just going to read them as I see them here. All right. Question number one, Suzanne. Which spacecraft was the first to successfully land on Mars and send back images to Earth? Oh, gosh. Don't put it in the chat, guys. Don't, yeah. I didn't think about this. They're going to do.

They're going to help me. They're on Team Suzanne. Which was the first spacecraft. I think that's the one that either left on something right around January 4 or, oh, gosh, it was June. It was one of the other. I'll give you a little bit of a hint here. Okay, give me a hint. It happened back in July of 1970.

Oh, then I was off. No, I don't know. I don't know. Any guesses? Okay. I'll give it to you. You ready? Give it to me. I'm just going to go ahead and give my first loss mark right here. It's okay. It's okay. The answer would be Viking One. Viking one, which landed on Mars and transmitted images in 1976. The Soviet Mars 3 landed earlier, but stopped transmitting after 110.10. seconds and sent back only one gray image with no details. Not helpful. That was not helpful. Yeah. Those,

those, uh, Ruskies. I know it. I know it. Great. Likeing one, people.

Okay. Here's your next question. This is going to be bad. Hey, if during our break, you want to find some and quiz me, I'll find some. Yeah.

We ain't space people, guys. We are not. That's not. Winging it. All right. What is the total number of astronauts who have landed on the moon? Okay, landed on the moon, but not necessarily spacewalk, right? Correct.

Is it six? Final answer? Let me think, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, higher? Really? Okay, nine. Ah, so close. Twelve. 12. Okay, so four sets of three, maybe? I don't know. Maybe? I don't know. I don't know how that works.

Cat's knocking it out. Look at her. She's got Viking one, and now she's gotten this one as well. Nice. Yeah, we got a smart chat. We got some space fans. I love it. I love it. I love it. Okay. Oh, these are hard. I might have to find some other ones, but... Okay.

Because these are super hard. Which spacecraft has been out as far as Jupiter's orbit without going near that planet? Yeah, it got the best photos. It did it fly by, didn't it? Is that... Does it start with an S? No. It starts with an R and think of a flower.

Gosh, I'm allowed. I don't know. I'm terrible at this. Rosetta. The rosetta. Okay, I wouldn't going to get that. I wouldn't get that. Oh, man.

I should have prepared this better. These are tough questions. Too hard. Okay. I literally just typed in space. What color underwear did Neil Armstrong have on when he landed on the moon? Wouldn't you like to know? This is fun.

Okay. These are a little better. All right. What is the hottest planet in our solar system? I think it's Mercury. Oh, so close. Venus. Okay.

Despite Mercury being closer to the sun. So I get your logic there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How many moons does Mars have? Okay. I can see three from my backyard.

That means there's got to be more than that. So four, five. This says two. Two. Oh, well, maybe I'm watching something else. Phobos and Demos. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Unless something changed. Unless not watching something else in orbit with it, right? Yeah. Jay Allen's knocking it down too. Look at this. Oh, nice, Jay Allen. Yeah. Should have known.

Well, that's the next set to the chat, but you can't Google. I know. That's the problem with digital stuff. Oh, I should mention to you guys, the super chat and super stickers are all night. If you want to help out the show. I have one job to do. Am I doing it? No.

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But yeah, that's it for begging. That's it for begging tonight. Eccentric. Oh, eccentric is here. Come on, Ryan. Is this NASA trivia or space trivia? It's space trivia. It's space trivia.

Let me, oh, okay, let's type in NASA trivia. Okay, see what you get. Let's just see what happens. I'm going to be particularly bad at this. I can hit the highlights. I know. The last one I went to it was like, which planet is red? Oh, this one you actually have to like, okay. Let's see. Quiz questions. Seven things. Come on. Acentric. Help me out. Throw us some NASA questions.

Ooh, NASA Artemis trivia. Let's read. Oh, good. Okay. I'm going to, how does this work? What? I don't get it. Where's the answer? Okay, I'm failing miserably. Let's go back to our space trivia. Okay. Oh, what is a supernova? Do you know what a supernova is? And you, it's when they blow up, they, um, the, which is, I think now related. to one of the string theories. I don't remember which, how many strings was related to that theory, but they twist and they boom.

And it might be the explanation of a big bang. But anyway, stars go supernova when they die. That is correct. The explosive death of a massive star. That's right. Don't really know what triggers it, but something.

So do you, this isn't the trivia question, but you know which galaxy we live in, right? Yes, I do. Okay. The Milky Way. Okay. What is the closest major galaxy to the Milky Way? That's Andromeda.

Correct. Good job. Good job. I'm getting some points. Yay. Good. What is the age range for this? Oh, 8 to 10. No, I'm kidding.

I'm kidding. I just hit 10. Yeah. Oh, this is one I didn't know. What? approximately how old is the earth? Well, I don't know. I don't know.

You know, you hear all the theories, but I don't know what's right. If you had to throw in the case. I would say, hmm. No waiting for the chat to chime in. 10 million years old. 10 million? Okay. Try 4.5 billion.

Yeah, I started to go with a billion, but then I decided, well, that's, I don't know. if I just remember reading that somewhere or I'm with you I never would have guessed that that's crazy um okay who was the first person to walk on the moon is it Neil Armstrong correct yeah July 20th 1969 yeah um we'll do a couple more couple more then you're out of the hot seat I probably okay um um What is the name of NASA's most famous Mars rover that landed in 2012? Landed in 2012. I don't know because we just called it the rover.

You might be this of what the name of it is. I don't know. Curiosity. The curiosity. There you get. Does it tell you there when that thing took off? What's that? Does your trivia question tell you when that,

thing left or oh um i was just curious it landed in 2012 that's a good question though i don't know how long it took to get there i'd have to look that one up hmm hmm oh here's an interesting one what what was the apollo 13 mission famous for like what was the disaster do you remember yeah yeah that was it was something about a tube and they had to create recreate a tube from whatever was on board. Was it related to the fuel line? The fuel thing? You are so close.

I'm giving it to you. A near disaster where an oxygen tank explodes. Yeah. Yeah. You got it. Like, come on. Wow. Tubes are tubes.

Oxygen. Yeah. Same thing. An explosive of some kind was going to get in the way. Yeah. Yeah. All right. last question we'll do one more okay uh what is the most famous comet

hayle's correct good job i was going to say halibob hell bob is probably the most recent but i think hailes is one around forever yeah i uh i've been following and we covered it a couple weeks ago now i think the where the meteor crashed through the woman's roof. Yes. Texas, I believe it was. Was it Texas? And did you see that after that live screen, there were like five more? I remember the exact number.

What's happening? What is going on? Austin, Texas, somewhere. It's green fireballs are being seen everywhere now. Yeah. I don't know. It's kind of freaky. Yeah. Freaking me out, man.

Look at acyentrics. Oops. Sorry, we're both clicking the same. We got. Which in remembrance? NASA administrator got the job with zero scientific knowledge and his only experience was being on reality TV. I don't know. You're going to have to tell us. Aysindrick, we don't know. Yeah, you tell us. That sounds like a little, a little tea spilling right there.

Are you holding a grudge on this issue? I love it. I love it. You do. Sean Duffy. Yeah, that guy was kind of a weirdo. Yeah. Luckily, that didn't last very long, as I recall. Yeah. What is this? Shelly says Mark Twain was born when Haley's comet was in the sky and died during it, too.

Oh, that's strange. That's a great trivia question. Yeah, it really is. Yeah. I feel like J. L. and Heineck, you know, the former astronomer that worked. with Project Bluebook. He has something to do with Haley's Comet too. Let's see. Let me Google it. Yeah, like he was born under it or like within days of it or something like that,

which kind of like his parents would say was like an omen of what he would eventually come to be an astronomer. Something like that. Oh, he had his life perfectly bookended by two 20th century appearances of Haley's Comet born just before the comet's 1910 appearance, he passed away in April, 1986, shortly after its return, making a rare symbolic lifespan. Whoa. So saving Mark Twain. Yeah.

That's weird. Yeah. I didn't know that either on Jay Allen. Shout out Jay Allen, Hynek. Yeah. Our UFO daddy, as it were. No kidding. No kidding.

Awesome. Well, hey, do we want to keep gabbing or should we take a little break and check in with the... Check in with their live stream and see what's happening. Okay, cool. Sounds good. So we're going to go to a little commercial here, guys, and then we're going to go back to the live stream over at the Artemis Launchpad. And we'll probably hop back in at some point. We're getting up to, what, little under two hours before launch. So yeah, go grab a drink. I know I'm going to be drinking soon. I'm going to be drinking soon. But yeah, grab a drink, grab some food, hang out.

Live chat's open, super chats open. We'll highlight your questions and comments. Yeah, if you want to ask us a question, space-related, UFO-related. We're throwing some more trivia questions in the chat. Yeah, we'll start starting them. Yeah, we'll do that. There it is. So yeah, we're going to say goodbye for now, but we'll be back at some point before the launch.

So thank you, Suzanne. And we'll see you guys in a little bit. Bye. Hang tight. Hey, guys. Ryan Sprague here, host of Somewhere in the Skies. Very soon, we're going to be celebrating two very special milestones. One being the 10-year anniversary of the podcast.

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I hope to hear from you soon, and as always, keep looking up. Welcome back to the AP's live stream of NASA's Artemis 2 launch back around the moon. I'm Kyle Marion Viterrabo here with you guys for what could be six to eight hours. We'll see. It is now just under an hour and 30 minutes to go until the launch window opens for two hours when the crew can safely lift off. A major milestone in the stretch if you guys are watching the closing, crew here will be when the pad is clear and the last of the close out crew leave this bridge.

And then the Artemis crew will be on their own inside Orion. In the meantime, let's talk about the incredible machine that is the Artemis 2 astronaut that the art, sorry, let me say that again. Let's talk about the incredible machine that the Artemis 2 astronauts are sitting on top of the SLS stack here. I was going to show you the Lego version that we're trying to build, but I'm not done yet. But we'll discuss the SLS stack here. These are the three big pieces that you need to know. The first one is the core stage here, the big orange tank in the middle.

It carries liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen to feed the four RS-25 engines at the base. Next, we have the solid rocket boosters or the SRBs. Those are the two white rockets that you'll see on the sides. They help shove the vehicle off the pad, then separate a little over two minutes after liftoff. And finally, the special part of the spacecraft, the Orion spacecraft, which the crew rides in, this is in the capsule here at the very top.

And just below it is the European service module, the section over here, which provides the main propulsion once the mission is on its way. I don't know if you guys remember, but the SLS first launched on Artemis 1 on November 22 without a crew. Artemis 2 is the rocket's second flight and the first with astronauts on board. So we're going to go back to keep watching. It looks like the last of the close-out crew will be leaving soon. Here's your next trivia question before the break. Here is a question, if lightning is seen within 10 nautical miles of the flight path for Artemis 2, how long does NASA wait before launching?

Now it looks like we've got some folks who've already answered in the YouTube chat. We're looking at over 2,000 votes now, and most people have answered hold for 30 minutes. The answer is yes. They will hold for at least 30 minutes unless very specific extra weather conditions are met. All right. We're going to keep watching the crew and hoping for the best that the weather holds up. And we'll see you soon. All right.

We are back. Hi. We're landing a craft back into the ocean. How you doing? I'm doing okay. I've been busy working on trivia questions. Oh, I'm ready. I'm in the hot seat this time. That's right. It is 1035 at night here. So I have to, Suzanne. I'm busting into the...

Go for it. The compo, okay. Campo, Villegro, Tenternio, Rio. Oh, Temptorino. That's so nice. So that's happening right now. I'm having a very delicious mug of coffee that I shouldn't be having at 4.30 in the afternoon. But here we are. I will probably be having coffee again.

point tonight. That's for sure. I got my nice Syracuse mug here. Ew. Very nice. There, now you see the good side. Very nice. Shout out to anyone watching from Syracuse, New York. That's our Orange Man there. Yeah. 2003 national champs, I believe it was. Carmel. Carmelo, Anthony. Yeah, yeah. Anyways, this is not college basketball trivia. This is space NASA. This is space trivia. That's right. Space trivia. Okay. Yeah. And Artemis trivia. Oh, God. Okay.

Yeah. Are you ready? Are you feeling right? No, I'm going to make a total ass in myself. Well, that will be two of us today, so we'll be even. All right. I'm going to give you a kind of easy one first. Okay. How many kilometers will the Artemis 2 crew have flown by the time they get back? How many? It's the most ever, I believe, for a mission, at least more than the last mission to the moon.

Oh, my God, I was looking this up earlier. Yeah. Yeah. Kilometers. What is this kilometer, BS? What is this the UK? Do you remember that fellow in a nomicon year before last that Americans will do absolutely anything to keep from using the metrics? system. Yeah, that thing was two trailers and half of a dog long.

I can't remember what. I know. Okay, kilometers. Jojo's saying millions, hundreds of thousands. I'm going to say 800,000 kilometers. Good guess, but 400,000 kilometers. It's still a huge amount of space. base. So how many trailers is that? How many trailers and half dogs? Let's see. Not, not carry the knot, as Jethro Lodin used to say. Countdown on April 1st. Oh, I forgot it was April Full State. Did you see the thing going around on UFO Twitter of the Australian? Yes. Oh my gosh. Parliamentary member saying they were disclosing aliens this week. What an ass. I can't talk about it, but we're disclosing aliens.

Like, okay, April 1st. Everybody's stop. I'm a gusbag. I saw a good buddy over there. Grant LeVoc giving him guff for it. But look at how many people fell for it. I know, including some in one of my groups. Like, oh, no.

Oh, you guys. Really not. No, no. Come on. All right. Are you ready for another question? 800,000 kilometers. Got it.

Okay. Yes. Next. What is the name of the massive rocket that's going to launch Artemis 2 into space? Oh, the rocket, not the capsule. Not the capsule. Because they're testing this. It's another piece, a little factoid, everybody needs to know.

The rocket booster system is one of the things they're testing to see if they can make this work. Okay. So. I know it's hard. It's hard. Oh, Ryan is the capsule, right? Right. That's right.

Okay. Okay. The SLS. I'll give you a little clue. You want to work. SLS. So long, Sali. Excellent.

Let's talk about the space launch system. Oh. Yeah, I don't understand this, but somebody in the chat might. They're testing something about using water for fuel to support a lunar expedition. And I don't know if that's related to this and I couldn't find a lot on it. Have a feeling maybe that's somewhat of a secret thing going on, not the concept, not the concept, but the details.

Yeah. So I couldn't really find what that explains, but I wonder if that's part of what's in these SLS things or if it's just totally different. I don't know. Oh my gosh. Can you, Matt? That would be so cool if they could use water as. fuel. Like, think of how much money that would save on gas and all, especially right now in the world

when it comes to gas. So crazy. Wow. Okay. Okay. SLOS. How long is the Artemis 2 going to be on its mission? Oh, you got it. You got it. Ten days? That's right. Yay. One place. Yeah. Yeah, packed in that tiny little craft, basically, you know, latched in. like that. Not for me. So I was reading earlier today that a lot of this mission is to test the boundaries of like these astronauts, physical stamina, they're psychological. There's a lot of physical and psychological experiments that they're doing.

That's terrifying. It is. And you know, for decades, they have worked on bone density and muscle mass. When these people go in space. They have dramatic drops in both of those things. And you'll see them in exercise stations, like on the space station. Obviously, you can't do that in one of these tiny little crafts like the Orion. But they're doing that, and they are also working on what is needed to get down and get back up off the moon in a permanent way, which makes sense.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So interesting. This also, like, is reminding me of, do you recall recently? I've got to look the guy's name, the astronaut that they had to send the crew back. Because there was an emergency on the ISS. Yes. And I heard they were about to release what was actually wrong. Yeah. We still don't know. We still don't know for sure. I don't think I heard. Except all they have told the public is they were like getting ready to eat dinner. that night. And he could not talk. He literally lost the capacity to speak. And that immediately put that in overdrive sort of situation. Let's see here. A stroke-like situation. I'm going to read this. Fink was his name.

Mike Fink aboard the International Space Station. In a medical evacuation on January 7, Out of the blue, he suddenly couldn't talk. It was just amazingly quick. Yes. Wow. Yeah. Wow. Craziness.

So I hope nothing like that happens to these guys. I hope not either. Yeah. Like what weird anomaly was that that happened to think? You know, let's hope it doesn't happen to these guys. We think about how hard it was to get that female scientist who had, I think it was breast cancer at one of the polls. She was at one of the stations at the polls, maybe the South Pole. and this was probably a year ago

and she ended up having to do her own biopsy with them basically instructing her and then they had to get her out of there and you think that how hard that was in space oh my gosh you know they that is so like they we have to keep in mind how many backup plans and contingency plans they have to have for every tiny thing

this is why they train for three years for a 10-day mission. It's like if one thing goes wrong, it could ruin everything. Well, you hit the nail on the head. So they put their team together for Artemis II in April of 2003. And they started working immediately on the design plans for the Orion Craft. And then by June of 2023, they're in full production. They're in full production.

So, I mean, boom, they're rolling. So I hope it all works. Seems like a really short period of time to me. I know. I know. But, you know, such is the new space race. Like, this is, we can't pretend that this is not without its problems and the reasons we're doing this. This is a show of power by the current administration in the United States.

this is a space race with China. It goes far beyond just the space race. This is a technological race, a, you know, a cold war again in so many respects. And there's a reason. There's a reason China is not involved with this. You know what I mean? Yeah, absolutely. So, you know, there's always ulterior motives behind these things.

Yeah, there's a great British comedian. and you may have heard of him, Eddie Azard. Of course. He's hilarious. I've been lucky enough to see him several times. And he does this whole stick on, do you have a flag? You know, when you're a conquering nation,

do you have a flag? And then, you know, flags are appearing. He's like, we've got a flag up there. I'm sure we're going to put some little flags up there as soon as we get there. Three or four more around, you know. I don't know who else has flags. Right. Right.

There's those like theory. too that when we first got to the moon, that they got out and they were like, oh my God, we were not the first ones here. And they never elaborated after that. And we never went back. Yeah, we didn't go back. Let me tell you a great personal story about an astronaut. If you want to hear it, John Glenn.

Please. So my oldest son is Will. And when Will was about seven or eight, we were in Colorado. and we were having, you know, like a winter vacation. And we got invited to some friends home, a really nice home. And the rules were no cameras, no talking. So no, don't tell, don't tell who you see. So, of course, the church mice, Bill and I go to this party,

and they were going to have child care. And we were to bring the children to this home. and then they were going to have this babysitter, this little set of sitters, take all the children over to a fun little play place, and they were going to play while the adults had this party. So I got John Glenn's permission to talk about this, but in walks, John Glenn. I know.

And Will, at that time, was absolutely obsessed with space, space factoids, all the astronauts. John Glenn was a huge hero to him, this little boy. And so we were introduced to Mr. Glenn, and I said, oh, my goodness, my oldest son, who's seven, is just going to have a come apart when he realizes his mom and dad got to meet you tonight. And he says, well, where is he? And I said, oh, he's with, you know, the children. over wherever the children were. He says to the hostess, please sin

for this child. And can someone getting a camera? And so here comes little Will Landers and he's got steam coming out of his ears because he's been called away from this kid's party and he's having a wonderful time. He's mad.

And so John Glenn is literally standing in between Bill and me. And he, little Will, walks in, Steve, and then that jaw, that moment of recognition. And I tell you, it's hard not to tear up about it. John Glenn squats down on Will's level and gives that kid a hug and says, I am so honored to meet you, Will. Let's go sit on this couch and talk a minute. Oh, my God. They're going to, we're going to take a picture and you can,

you can take this picture with you. And so all that happens, and he's having the sweetest conversation with Little Will. And up walks this big CEO of a major American corporation. And when I say we were the church mice, I promise you, we were the church mice at this party. And he, this gentleman says to John Glenn, I wanted to talk with you about blah, blah, blah, blah. And John Glenn gives him the look of death and says, I'll find you when I finish this conversation with this young man and turned to to Will and carried on, and then a few minutes later excused himself. So I have a wonderful photo of John Glenn and Little Will Landers, who's still looking, dazed and bewildered that this has happening to him.

Oh, my God, that is incredible. You have a great astronaut story? Yes, wow. These guys and women are just so, like, they just seem like good people. And you have to hope they are. They sure seem like, and I don't want to know if they're not, right? I don't want to know. Right.

Like, I'm sure there is some air of ego and confidence that has to go with being a freaking astronaut. Like, you're one of you human beings in the entire galaxy, as it were, that gets to leave the earth, which is just astounding. And, you know, they always say they're changed when they come back. So you do have to wonder if like, you know, he, he must have been a much different person. Yeah. After he came back. I think the enormity of it must hit them. Yeah.

For sure. Yeah. Cool. Should we go back to the trivia? Yeah. That was such a beautiful story. Thank you for sharing. Today's a good day to tell that story.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. All right. Let me go check. I'm going to check in on the live. Okay. Street two of the launch. See what we got going on.

We missed the launch. Yeah, right. I know the astronauts have arrived. They have arrived at the space center, but it's going to be a while before they get, like, prep and all that stuff. So I will let you guys know. Our insider said,

if I get any tidbits, I'll send them your way. Wonderful. So let me check. He said, I'll shoot you any details if I hear anything. Okay, cool, cool. Good. So, yeah, we've got a mole inside NASA.

We've always got one somewhere, don't we? Yeah, yeah. Okay, you ready for a question? Okay, make me look like a fool. What is the name of the zero-g indicator, which is a stuffed animal that's going along on the mission? There is a stuffed animal going on the mission? There's always a little something going on these missions. Yeah. Okay. And it's zero gravity? It's a little zero G indicator, a stuffed animal. I call them a zero G indicator. I don't know. Maybe a stuffed animal.

Okay. Shows them what's happening with G's. I don't know. Tessie for Tesla. That'd be great. No, but it's the word. It's RISE. His name is Rise. Okay. I got to look that up while you get the next one. I couldn't find a photo. I couldn't find a photo. I couldn't find a photo. photo quickly. Wise stuffed animal. And while you do that, Shelley,

you're right. It floats when you get zero G. And they just have an immediate and simple and non-harmful way to know that they're in zero gravity. Oh my God. This thing is adorable. Is it? Can you put it on the screen? Yes.

Give me one sec. One sec. I'm trying to find it. Okay. Hold on. No. I got it. Okay, there it is. Okay, you got it.

Okay. Here is the zero G stuffed animal that is going to space, guys. And rise. Mm-hmm. There it is. Looks like a little special tennis ball with a special hat. That is so cute. I wonder how big he is.

I don't know. Oh, you can buy these. You can buy these. I'm going to get one. You can have that one. Yeah. Yeah, if anyone wants to. Yeah, I definitely want this. I definitely, definitely want this. Yeah. Wow. Love it, love it.

Okay. What else you have for me? Let's see. I think I've got one more for you. Oh, okay, this is a hard one. So you're not expected to get this one. But this is the hardest. I saved the hardest for last. You ready? Feeling brave? How long will the international communications blackout last? when Orion is on the dark side of the moon. What?

They're going dark during that? Because there's no communication from the other side. Oh, okay. We don't have the tech where we need it to do that. They simply don't have the technology. And okay, can you repeat the question? Okay. How long will the international communication blackout on this mission be when it's behind the moon?

So it's a 10-day mission. I'm going to say 24 hours. 45 minutes. So I think they're thinking, well, what's 45 times 24 days? It has to be like a daily because you're going to go around and around, right? Oh, they're going around one time. I don't know. I have no idea.

Black out for 45 minutes, I would not like that. I would not like that in that craft. I would not like that on the ground at NASA. So that's not just like, that's between them and the control tower and everything. Oh, my God, that's so scary. It's so scary. Something goes wrong. You are literally in the dark on your own back there.

That's the time where they should like totally like, just go nuts. Like smoke a dovy. Do something. Wash the cameras. Start swearing. Like, F that person back in high school. Yeah, exactly. Wow.

Wow. That is. Kelly's right. She says they are so brave. They are, I'm not brave enough for that. Well, and it was in one of those clips we played at the beginning. Like one of the astronauts was saying, like, we are prepared to not return to Earth. And that, really.

I'm not sure I could, but I think they have to. That just kind of, that hit me. Like, the enormity of the possibility. I mean, the possibility is always there, honestly. You know, but yeah, anything could happen. The things that have gone wrong that we know about, who even knows what we don't know about. Exactly. Anything can happen.

Anything can happen. Wow, great, great last question there. Well, we were talking off air. I had the opportunity back when NASA did their UAP study. Yeah. They, you know, they brought in scientists from all different. fields, you know, whether it was, you know, astronomers, you know, Earth, what do you call them, like Earth scientists, there we go. Yeah.

And oceanographers, because a lot of the UAP that people had encountered were coming from the ocean and were around oceans and stuff. And they had a doctor, Dr. Paula Bent Tempe, he was the official oceanographer for the NASA UAP stuff. and I had the incredible opportunity to interview her just days after the UAP study press briefing happened. And, you know, say what you will about the press briefing. But I was just so blown away by the conversation she had with me, how open she was. And, you know, just the passion and curiosity behind what she does, not just when it came to UAP, but within our oceans, the most mysterious place, not only on our planet, but like we have mapped more of space than we have mapped our own oceans. Haven't we mapped something like 3% of the ocean?

It's some tiny number. Don't hold me to that exact number, but maybe I'll just Google that while you're. Please do. You know, and her big thing is like, yeah, our oceans have so many mysteries that have yet to show themselves. and that's what keeps me going. And I loved that. I absolutely loved that. So did you find it? I did. So we did a big jump in June of 2025 when we completed 27.3% of the mapping of the ocean floor.

Wow. That's huge, but still only a small percentage overall. Right. Right. Really interesting. Pat, our friend Pat, has joined the chat. I love, Pat. Good to see you here, my friend.

Very good to see you. There's, hi there. Hi, guys. Yeah, if you guys are just hopping in, we, we're, Suzanne and I are just hopping in and out as we prepare for the NASA Artemis 2 launch, which is slated to be within some window of 6.24 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. We'll see. We will see what happens. Fingers crossed.

Fingers crossed. But yeah, we're just going to, we're kind of just hanging out, talking space, talking UAP, showing some news clips and getting to know these astronauts. But before we do that, I thought maybe, Suzanne, we would watch a little clip of my interview with Dr. Paula Bontempi from NASA. Should we? Such a good idea. Let's do it.

Cool. So I think I have it pulled up here where I ask her, like, what are the mysteries of the ocean? What do you find most interesting and whatnot? So, yeah, I'm kind of just going to let it play. and I'll just kind of stop it at some point if I feel like it's dragging too much and then we'll check in with what's going on

over at NASA headquarters for the launch. So let me get the clip up here for you guys and we'll see you. We'll see you soon. We're going to go take another little break. I'm going to drink some tempernil and we'll get things going. The party has just started.

So here is my interview with Dr. Paula Bontempi NASA Ocean All right. here we go. The oceans are so mysterious. And I was actually having this conversation with a fellow UFO researcher recently about the oceans and how

undiscovered they are. So I guess my question would be in all of your time, you know, as an oceanographer, as working with Earth science, have you ever come across any sort of unexplained phenomenon?

when within our oceans or what are some of the more mysterious things you've you've encountered in our oceans? Yeah, so the ocean is a big place, right? And one of the most fascinating things to me is when someone says, oh, no one has seen ever gotten video footage of a giant squid, right, live. And then maybe 10 years ago or so, all of a sudden, a group of researchers were diving in a submersible and they appeared a giant squid, which were like these mythical things that wound up in stories and people were pretty sure they existed, but nobody had ever encountered one, right? And that kind of ties back to the earlier story about like, is it chance? You know, is it random? What were the conditions that brought them together?

But the bottom line is that there are always new discoveries to be made when we explore our oceans. is, you know, largely unexplored compared to, you know, mapping the surface of certain heavenly bodies like the moon. Certainly, I don't think we've gone drilled deep into the moon to explore what's on its interior, but the oceans itself, like exploring down deep is such a challenge. And I think the life, I think what's happening down there physically, I think the sea floor, there's a lot of discoveries waiting to be made. Plus, I think that from the moment we're born, we're touching things to see if they're hot or cold or smooth or rough. And we're just, it's in our nature to just reach out and want to see what's out there in the world.

And I don't think the ocean is any different. So people are really fascinated by this. I'd say the other piece of that is, you know, and I don't know whether this is okay to bring it up, but the world is changing. The climate is changing of our Earth system. everybody around me knows it, they see it, they knock on my door and say, you know, Paula, I don't see nearly as many honeybees or monarch butterflies or things I used to see in the neighborhood. You know, in the month of June, what do you think is happening? It's awfully warm too. It's never this warm in the state of Rhode Island, you know, and I'm like, well, you know, one data point doesn't point to anything in one particular day, but when you look at something over time, you can see how our earth is changing. And one of the key parts about the deep ocean is that it's very difficult to get to. So there could be lots of changes happening down there.

You know, what's normal, what's regular, what's something anomalous. We don't know enough about our home planet yet to really describe that or understand it. So there are a lot of discoveries waiting to be made here as well as abroad. Absolutely. You know, the Earth seems to be screaming to us that. Things need to change. So I'm definitely with you on that. And I think you're right, kind of zooming out and looking at the bigger picture. You know, I live, breathe, sleep, UFOs.

That's my entire life. But it's conversations like this speaking to you where I'm like, okay, we can talk UFOs, but we can also link that to the bigger picture, the bigger questions. What is this Earth? What is this planet that we've, you know, evolved on? And where did we come from? Where are we going? There's so many big profound questions that I think can come from something like this.

You know, the question of, are we alone or not? When we're still asking that same question on our own planet, are we even alone? Have we discovered all there is to discover on our own planet? And I think I would hope and assume you agree that, no, we have not. Yeah, no, we haven't. And that's the really fun part. Like, thinking about all the, like if everybody out there just sat down and listed all the places they wanted to travel to, right?

You know, what would be on your top three list where you're like, I've always wanted to go here? You have to ask yourself why. And when I talk to people, it's almost always like, oh, I would love to see, you know, K2. I would love to see Mount Everest. I would love to see the Great Wall of China. You know, something is always like this unknown. discovery, this unknown world that people just want to experience. And there's a lot of that under the ocean. You know, you go to a conference with 3,000 oceanographers and they're talking about

these unbelievable nuances that they've discovered in the ocean's chemistry, the ocean's biology, the ocean's ecology. We have things like marine heat waves occurring. What does that do, you know, to what's happening to all the living parts of the ocean? Sea level rise, whole government. are dedicating their lives to can we build sustainable structures that are natural? So the intersection of the natural and the built environment is not so stark and impactful in the sense of damage we're doing to the environment. That's even more or greater than we would have otherwise. And so it's an interesting question depending on whether you're an engineer, a scientist,

the health professional, you know, whether you're just a person who's like, I love living on the water, what can I do to protect my property? you know, how can I garden more efficiently so I don't have an impact on our planet? And these are the large numbers of questions I get all the time as people are like, what can I do? You know, this is what I'm interested in. Can you connect me with opportunity? You know, and finding someone's passion and matching them to something that they can do to sort of

explore new dimensions of their passion, that's very fun. Absolutely. I think kind of harnessing people's curiosity and interests can really benefit. I guess that's to kind of wrap things up. What can people do both in terms of when it comes to this UFO panel, you know, you stress that this is for the public. NASA is being transparent. This is an independent study.

This isn't going to be put in a file cabinet back in the Department of Defense's office. I hope not. Yeah, right? In the covenant at the end of Readers of the Lost Ark, yeah. No, I hope not. Yeah. So what role does the public play, I guess, in terms of that?

So to me, like, citizen science is a huge thing, especially when it comes to UAPs, right? You know, there was that tagline, if you see something, say something. And somehow the government has to normalize that, right? show people that there's a pathway for reporting where there isn't a stigma. Also, as I said, I think social media is one place where people can witness something collectively that they don't understand and start talking about it. So scientists out there, budding scientists, the public, students, you know, K through 12, all of them, you know, have a role to play.

If you can take a photo of something, if you can describe it, if you can think about it, If you can examine it with your telescope, if you're, you know, a budding astronomer, you know, I think that the one recommendation that the panel made was, you know, that there is a pathway somehow for reporting things like this. And people can start to normalize that. That will absolutely lead to some new discoveries, which is the other really cool part, right? How many times do we hear about amateur astronomers discovering new stars or new bodies that are orbiting out there in space? And I think that, you know, keep exploring is how I feel about it. And I think the public should feel like they have a real role in that. Absolutely.

You know, I was so invigorated when I think it was yesterday. We discovered that perseverance on Mars was going to be bringing back possible organic materials. So I guess kind of putting you on the spot here, Paula. What did you make of that news? I know there's still a lot to be discussed and deciphered. with all of that. But yeah, any thoughts on this kind of breaking news on Mars perseverance? I mean, for me, I just think that's awesome. That is awesome. Like, I hope, you know, I'm sure all the scientists have thought about, okay, if we really do bring back organic material, you know,

how do we make sure that we don't possibly contaminate, you know, the earth with organics that weren't meant to be here. And certainly transporting material back. I mean, this is, like, let's think about that. That is mind. blowing, that we are able to send technology to another planet, sample it, and bring it home. Like, talk about sliding pieces of the puzzle of what's out there, where we come from, what might be on another body, could we one day travel there, you know, that is like, talk about head exploding. that is the absolute frontier of exploring the unknown, you know, and that is the thing that, that is how we generate new scientists and engineers and our students.

They go, that, I want to do that. Like, I remember the first time I taught the astronaut training class, I was chatting with some of the junior astronauts and they, the core members, and they were like, I want to cross-country ski from one pole of Mars to the other. And I was like, awesome. You know, I was like, you're nuts. I love it. That's awesome.

So that kind of opportunity to sample organics, bring them home, study them, understand Mars, understand our solar system, our planets, potentially even our Earth. That's amazing. I'm muted. There we go. I totally forgot, like, how excited she got during this interview, which was so, so cool. Well, and I love that she's got this incredible science brain. but she can talk to you like a normal person.

She's not for deep in her own head and thoughts that she's not an excellent communicated. She is. She really was. Yeah, I got to catch up with her to see what's going on for sure. Let me check in with our NASA correspondence, see if he's got anything for us yet. About 15 or 15 minutes from launch. He literally just said that to me.

He said, looking good. He's like 85. 90%. Okay, cool. Okay. It's 1111 here in the UK. Make a wish, guys. My wish is that this launch happens on time. For many, many reasons. No, we were talking right before that clip about your incredible story about an astronaut and your son. And we have the picture. Do you mind if I pull it up? No, go ahead. All right, cool. Let's get that here. There we go. There they are. A little Will Landers, now almost 40. How can that be? And John Glenn. Wow. That is so good. He looked at your son looks so like. He was still not processing. Starstruck. Yeah. Like getting pulled from a birthday party,

of all things, to meet a man who freaking walked on the moon and went to space. And at that time, you know, his room was covered in pictures of John Glenn and other astronauts and all the little He would put Lego things together of spaceships and whatnot. So it was a big deal. I love it. I love it. Well, hey, I'm going to go check and see how we're doing over on the broadcast. And I'm going to play our clips again.

The incredible news coverage that this thing has been getting. We're going to get introduced once again to the astronauts, the four astronauts going to space, going to the moon. And we will check in one last. time before hopefully we get some news on the launch happening. Sound good? Sounds great. Fingers crossed. Fingers crossed for sure. Let me find those clips again. And yeah, we'll see you guys in just a little bit. Stick around here on Summer in the Sky's Live for the official Artemis II launch to the moon and we will see you soon. I didn't mean to rhyme there, I swear. The Artemis 2 mission is a

test mission of the Orion Space Capsule. Artemis II will be the first time we put humans on this rocket. We're going back to the moon because it's the next step in our journey to Mars. We were always going to the moon. Pushing ourselves to explore is just core to who we are. That's a part of being a human. And we'll return. Continuing to test out every bit of Orion.

Coming back to Earth, seven miles a second. Humanity sets big goals. We can bring together genius from around the world. You have the best people on planet Earth putting this vehicle together. That's what's up. To innovate for the benefit of humanity and to inspire the world through discovery. And here we go. I have an LCC violation of O-C-T-004, S-band Transbander anomaly.

This was a transient LCC violation, so transponder 1 had a demodulated SNR estimate. Looks like they're in the rocket. ...down to 2 dBM. When it should have been between 10 and 13, it is now back up to 12, but we did lose that for just a moment. It does not appear that we lost our BITSink or carrier lock, which would be indicative that we lost our lock with the vehicle. So at this point, recommendation would still be go. However, we do have a pre-planned contingency plan. Oh, that's, we're fracking.

I know. ...enomenal range. All right, let's see. LPEN-TD. An anomaly. Oh, no. Yeah, we're not seeing that hit. So I guess a question for COS.

They stopped the clock. Does that be low our persistence? They did stop the clock. Yeah, they did. At 10 minutes. Let me look. It did look like it did persist for several seconds online, but let me take a look at the number of samples. Could I get a repeat on the affected LCC, please?

Yes, ma'am. That's going to be O-C-T-T-LCC. 0.04. Thank you. Are you getting butterflies? Yes, I am. It doesn't even involve me and my stomach's in a nut. I know. Show them in the rocket again. They're in the rocket

guys. Not in the rocket in the capsule. Good Lord. Hopefully we didn't put them in the rocket. If we did, let's get them. That's the anomaly. Yeah. George, get out of the rocket. Get out of the rocket. Pat, will we get to see alien

babies on the moon? No. because they're going to have technical difficulties. Yeah, I've taken a look at the data right here. Looks like that was a single table. Maybe some tardig grades. Maybe some tardigrades. Yeah, copy that. RFDS does report that they also lost lock for about five seconds.

Okay, chaos, massive 777. Head it out. We also lost lock for any extended amount of period. Konichua, Darren. Kozamas. And COSC, while we're doing that, these are one-tenth hertz measurements, correct? So we would have had to lose it for over 10 seconds.

to get a second sample? Yes, sir, that's correct. It is 110th Hertz. Yeah, so from our perspective, the allowance is effectively up to, you know, 30 seconds, up to three samples based on the one-tenths Hertz. This is not an LCC violation, I believe.

Yes, sir. I would agree with that at this point. Copy that. We'll check in with KUS on 232. I don't think they have 212 access. We're trying to verify, but... This makes me so anxious. This is so cool.

It sounds like they have a loss of lock as well. I feel like I'm watching a movie. About two seconds. Okay. And I guess for both KUS and CUSE, do we have Locke now? That's a firm. We do have lock for COSE. I'm going to need more wine.

Yeah, so from the integration console perspective, we did have a temporary loss there within the allowable and per the requirement. Let's go. This is Houston flight. We have lock and we have good plummetry here in GSE. Woo! I'm glad I'm. And KUS is reported today of good walk now.

Unlocked. So with all of that OSCE, then are we in a go configuration per your LCC? Yes, sir. Recommendation would be go. Okay. Okay. L. L.P. you concur with that?

Yes, sir. LPS go. And launch director. And launch director concurs go. Yes, sir. Launch director concurs go. All right. And I'm going to go ahead and just verify everybody has everything else complete

launch director. And if we do, we'll be ready to pick up the poll at that time, unless there's something else that you're aware of. No, sir. Let's verify our work is complete, and I would like one last check of our constraints list. So we got a question about what this mission is. This mission is the initial mission to loop around the moon, to go around the moon in prep for the next mission. Phase three, I believe, Artemis 3, will be to land on the moon and start a permanent presence on moon base. And then fourth mission is to start branching out towards Mars after that.

I hope that kind of clarifies it for you. Thank you. Also, the next session of this, Artemis 3, is temporarily scheduled or tentatively scheduled for 2028. And those boosters that you're seeing on either side of the orbit craft, this is a test run for those things as well. There we go. Perfect. Thank you. I am go for the poll.

All right. And for all personnel, this is the NTD conducting the Artemis. Launch readiness test. Wait God, it's happening. Verify ready to resume count and go for launch. OTC. D.C. I'm going to take us up.

Do you want to stay on camera or should be? MCO. CRO. CRO is go. Safety console. We'll stay on. LPE. LPE's go.

RTD. R2D. R2D's go. Houston flight. Houston flight is go. Rock. Rock is go. And CDR.

Crew is go. Copy that, thank you, Reed. And launch director, NPD. Our launch team is ready to proceed at this time. All right, NPD, I copy all. At this time, I'll perform my poll. Attention on the net. This is the launch director performing the final poll for launch,

verify no constraints, and go for launch. EGF, EGS, program chief engineer. All of us chief engineers or go. Copy, thank you. EGS, Chief Safety Officer. She's the one in charge. The ROTOMB. Thank you, Range Weather.

Launch weather is go. Thank you, LWO. And Artemis, M.M.T. M.M.T. Go. Thank you, John. And Integrity, Launch Director. LPLT.

Thank you, Charlie. This is Victor. We are going for our family. This is Christina. We are going for our teammate. me. MF2. This is Jeremy.

We are going for all humanity. All right, Charlie, your Artemis 2 crew is go for launch. Full send. I copy that. Read, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy.

On this historic mission, you take with you the heart of this Artemis team, the daring spirit of the American people and our partners across the globe. and the hopes and dreams of a new generation. Good luck.

Godspeed, Artemis II. Let's go. Great time to send extra caring thoughts right now. And NPD and Wonstructure. Yep, yep. Go ahead, Launch director. Thinking, hoping, and praying. You have a go to proceed with countdown.

Copy that, I'll put it in work. CDR, NPD. Go. Big your advisors and initiation. Short purge, pre-reproc 10.1.1.1.1.1. Steps 8.9. Going to work. Copy. C.V.C. NTD. Start and verify recordings of our Orion cameras. Copy. Okay. Well, there you heard it. ArsR entity. They're getting ready to start terminal count.

Okay. RR. Motation enable at this time, please. It's currently a T-minus 10 minutes once we wrap up this last bit of work. Enable complete. We're going to start that clock. Copy that, thank you. Integrity crew, close and lock visors. Up and away. You heard an issue, worked in real time with telemetry lock on the Orion. It was transitory. It was very short.

They checked the data, confirmed that they had a good lock. This was with the S-band transmitter on the Orion, worked through that issue. looked at the data and cleared it, all with the world watching. That's for damn sure. This is like a dangerous basketball game. Start the clock. We have a two-hour window, which starts in just a few minutes at 6.24 p.m. Eastern time and goes until 8.24 p.m. Eastern Time.

We might be here a while. Today we'll be ready to the short purge. You see all copies. and for all personnel, once we get that short purge verification, we'll verify that we are clear to go, and then we'll proceed with the terminal count. I wonder what Elon's doing right now. I know.

Right? SpaceX is involved with this, right? I'm sure. Aren't they the boosters? I believe so. Only do that, but I think it's around the booster work. Yeah. PCL time estimate.

JPL as well. Copy. So we're going into the launch window, but not by my. much it looks like. I'm trying to explain the historical significance of this to my cap, but he doesn't seem interested. I'm so happy he's got this.

Yes, a test director, Jeff Spalding, asked for the ground launch sequencer operator to go ahead and start the clock. Here's a little info on SpaceX, which is, of course, Elon. He's a major contractor for the broader Artemis software, he runs on top of the Marship human landing system. HLS for future missions, particularly Artemis 3. Okay. That makes sense, yeah.

His big thing is the mission to Mars, I know. Yeah. Like, he wants to be, like, the head of that. Right. Is that Tesla still floating around out there in space? Probably. Probably. Oh, God.

The innocent days. Seriously. Oh, man. Was it, SpaceX? W, aren't they the ones that had to come get the stranded astronauts to? Oh, I think that's right. Yeah. And with that, we're going to resume the clock.

Okay, resuming the clock. Oh, thank you. You can resume the clock on your mark. GLS copies. Three, two, one mark. GLS mainline has been initiated. T-minus 10 minutes and counting. And that begins terminal count.

Our new T-0 is 635. 5 p.m. Eastern time. 6.35 p.m. mission's been aborted. Now counting down to lift off of Artemis 2. Uh-oh. From now on, you're going to hear two voices on the loops. If everything goes nominally, NASA test director, Jeff Spalding, who's

to pause the countdown outside of terminal count and during terminal count and submit a hold to the next holding point. So the clock won't stop right away if there's an issue. go to the next stable holding point. This is how GLS configures the rocket and ground systems to a stable point where they can stop the countdown if that's needed.

But right now, we are counting down. Yeah. Our next big milestone... I'm not looking as well. Don't be spamming us the essential. And there you see the crew access arm moving away. Oh, that's a good sign.

Oh, that is a good sign. Gosh, that is a good sign. That's the path that the astronauts took to ingress into the rocket. It's a brave, grave set of humans. Until this point, that was their way off the pad if they needed to evacuate. But now without arm retracting, the backup transitions to a launch abort system. And they'll begin arming that shortly. Wow.

It's such a launch abort system. Great shot there. Yeah, I was just going to say they have cameras everywhere. So cool. The launch abort system is the tower at the top, and that's what would pull Orion and its crew off the top of the rocket in case of an emergency, whether it's on the ground or in flight. This is critical safety hardware that protects the lives of the astronauts.

I wonder if there's any other humans in that structure. Not the T-minus six minutes. Obviously not the rocket. The GLS will start bringing all that and other high-agy systems online. Probably not. Starting with core stage pressurization. If there's any time for aliens to let the world know their presence, this would be it. Exactly.

Carous says. Whether is 90% go, the ranges go. Ryan, there is specialized close-out crew of humans present in the white room at the top of the launch tower to assist the R. LS is go for core stage test. Really? Okay. That's a dangerous job too. Thinking is the replenish valve for the liquid hydrogen tank is now closed and that tank has begun to pressurize to flight levels because that hydrogen is naturally boiling inside the tank.

We'll get the liquid oxygen tank a little later in the count. Now the team is waiting for verification that if needed, the Artemis 2 crew could use the launch abort system to pull Orion safely off the top of the rocket in an emergency. Let's listen in for that call. CLS verifies last capability available. And CDRD copy? CDR copies last available. That's great news and you heard the NTD verify that with the commander of the mission.

GLS is GOP for FTS ARM. Now work is being done to arm the flight termination system. This is so the range safety can send a flight termination command if the rocket flies to too far off track. There is a brief built-in delay so the launch abort system has time to pull the astronaut safety first. The H2 Highflow bleed check. All right, the high flow bleed check. That's so the cryo team gets verification that the RS 25 engines, all four of them, are in the proper temperature range for launch. Lots of places can expose you to identity theft. Oh no. That's why LifeLock monitors hundreds of millions of data points a second for threats to your identity, which is way more

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I know I keep making sure we're as live as possible. We are. Four stage APU start. Those are auxiliary power units. High speed turbines which provide pressure to hydraulic pumps. It steer the RS 25 engines. We're going to see a gimbal test a little later at T-minus two minutes.

in 30 seconds. This is what allows that to happen. So I was trying to understand what was wrong when they stopped the count. The battery... Coming up about 20 seconds. We're listening for Go for Perch Sequence 4. That's a helium purge of the four core stage engines downstream of the propellant valve. This gets all the air and moisture out of there.

I'm with Pat Gallagher. I admire their courage, he says. Oh, God. I wish they had cameras inside. right now and Cairo three are from the milestone one is a Canadian this is a joint looking good and the United States yep my two homes coming up they are two seconds we're gonna get all thrust vector control act two of

three this is a gimbling of the engines could you imagine a Scottish astronaut in there that'd be hilarious fun great there are the four ROS 25s three of them Shuttle Heritage, one of them built from shuttle parts. And there you see them moving. Now we're going to start moving the power from both the upper stage and the lower stage of the rocket to internal, taking ground power away and now going to battery power. GLS is go for upper state.

Our power is removed from the rocket's upper stage. The ICPS and it's been switched to battery. same milestone for the lower core stage coming up at T-minus 1 minute and 30 seconds. Right now, the four-person Artemis 2 crew is 248,000 miles away from the moon. And if all goes well, they will fly by it in six days. DLS is go for core stage to internal power. All right, there's a locket's core stage. Blackout communicates three flight computers, one hour on its own power.

45 minutes second. Okay, yep. Yep. There's no more hold time because there's no more margin on these batteries. So we'd have to recycle back to T-minus 10 to recharge if we had a hold. One minute, people. Oof. One minute.

Right now the rocket does not know what the T-0 is, but coming up at T-minus 33 seconds, control shifts from the ground launch sequencer to the rocket's onboard autonomous launch sequencer or ALS. Let's go. The rocket will count itself down. But honor any holds that could control. come from the ground. Now, shall we have to lift off the control of the rocket and my colleague

Gary Jordan will take over commentary. Yes, J.L.S. Go for you left. Yes, J. Allen, that's the capsule. They're at the top. Four brave explorers ready to ride the most powerful rocket NASA has ever launched.

Sound suppression water is flowing. And here we go. 10, 9, 8, 7. RS 25 engines. 8. 4, 3, 2, 1, booster ignition. And lift off. The crew of Artemis 2 now bound for the moon. Humanity's next great voyage begins.

Going the flight of integrity on the Artemis 2 mission around the phone. Looking at the air. AMT-5. On time passing 30 seconds into the lights. Integrity passes the altar to the ECO. Passes the alternate vehicle. Target milestone. Mission control Houston seen good performance and four of the attention. Space lunch system core stage. Integrity, three miles and altitude. Traveling more than 1,200 miles per hour.

Yes! Oh. Oh. Oh my gosh. Mission elapsed time. Passing one minute, approaching Max Q. Can you imagine? On, Ponce de Leon. Stan, we have you loud and clear on Ponce Leon.

Have you the same. Communication signal transfer confirmed as Integrity and its Krugos Supersonic. Approaching 90 seconds into the Artemis 2 mission. Integrity is 14 miles in altitude at 8 miles down range, traveling more than 2,600 miles per hour. Oh my God. Supersonic, baby. I wonder what little rise the G-Force guy's doing right now. Our poor little rise, yeah.

He needs his own cam. Rye scam. One minute, 50 seconds of mission elapsed time, standing by for main engine throttled down to 85%. Ahead of solid rocket booster separation expected at the two-minute nine-second mark. So crazy. It looks like it's going down. It does. I always want them to say, what you're seeing is normal. What you're seeing is supposed to happen.

You know, those really certain things like, it's on fire. Main engine is throttling up, guidance converged. Look at that. So that's the rocket being disengaged, right? Yeah. Yeah. Integrity, guidance converged, performance nominal, upper stage RCS ready. Copy all.

The SM priming complete. Prima complete. 2 minutes, 45 seconds of mission elapsed time into the Artemis 2 mission. Thrusters on integrity and upper stage confirmed in a ready state ahead of service module faring separation. Three minutes into the flight, integrity 49 miles in altitude, 78 miles down range. Wow. That is stunning.

There went some stop. I hope that was supposed to go. I hope so, too. I know it sheds things as time goes on. Standing by for launch board system, Jettison. Houston Integrity, good last, jettison, great Jew. Ha, ha, yeah. Great.

Great. Happy, Jettison. Team Eco 8 plus 02. Wow. CUSA on board. And Houston has you loud and clear. on Gators at the common line. Good for them.

What? Three minutes, 50 seconds into the flight of Artemis II, Wiseman, Glover, Cook, and Hansen crossed the boundary to space with good com checks. GPS signals acquired after Last Jettison now working on internal checks to verify accuracy. I wonder. I realize the time of main engine cutoff confirmed at eight minutes, two seconds. Time of Miko. I wonder what's going through their minds right now.

I know. At that speed. moly. Pat, they're going to be in space for 10 days. Yep. They should be at the moon in six days, orbit it, and come back. What do you think their like first words will be? Gosh, I don't know.

And those things are. GPS processing. Those things matter. I always think of one step for man. One jumping for a main time. We're headed right at it. I just wonder if they plan that or if he just made that up on the spot

I don't know someone knows terms he can test visuals of his destination GPS guidance navigation and control software finishes internal checks and sends to navigation channels you know what I would have said

what Integrity 3 engine press keep your feet on the ground never stop searching somebody's nice come on time now passing You know what I would have said. Somebody get me off this thing.

I'm an old main engine cutoff target. So at this time, we're saying four good engines here in Mission Control, Houston. Oh, was that guy crying? I do think he's very powerful. My oldest brother has watched many of these and actually does some work for the government in relationship to NASA. And he says, and he is very stoic fellow, very quiet. And he says repeatedly that they are quite emotional to watch. That it's really something to watch.

So I think unless you're there, it's really hard to understand that. But apparently that's the case. For sure. And like, Johan made a good point. Like the things we could do with the money being spent on these things, I understand that. I completely understand that. But it doesn't take away from like this is important. This is important too.

Yeah. I agree. I can't make an argument against that money could be used for other things, but there needs to be a space program. Exactly. Six minutes, 40 seconds of mission elapsed time. Shutdown plan is as expected. Again, the time of Mika was confirmed at eight minutes, two seconds into the flight. When did they get to the radiation belt?

The Van Allen belt? Is that what that's called? I'm looking at it right now. It's shortly after launching. Oh. Radiation belts within the first few hours of the mission as it maneuvers from Earth's orbit towards the moon. Traverse through these belts of trapped electrons and protons as a critical phase, but the crew will pass through relatively quickly compared to the total 10-day mission.

That's when they get their superpowers. I guess so. And when they clearly show up. Yeah, yeah. Nassus budget is tiny in comparison to. Others. Yeah. Yeah.

That's true. NASA is always underfunded, apparently. It's why SpaceX always swoops in. Right. You're so welcome, Danny Falls. So we're here for? That's what he's here for? I'm just like, rocket, space, moon.

Guy, girl, go moon. Well, it's good to have somebody a little more relaxed than I am on things I thought. I would have my nose in the book non-stop. Right? We weren't even going to do this. I was just like, should we live stream this thing? And I'm so happy we did.

Yeah, I'm too. 240 of you watching. Thank you, thank you. Yeah. Historic moment. What? There goes one of the thrusters. Yeah, no.

And no. Miko, core stage separated. Core stage. Core stage. Core stage. Wow. I know. That is gorgeous.

It's crazy to think that that's like the only thing that's going to be up there eventually. The rocket's going to disengage. Yeah. And it'll just be that white capsule. Maybe so. Pat says the aliens probably think this is hilarious. I'm sure our work is quite clunky compared to what they're able to do. Oh, there we go.

It's just the capsule now. Now we did it. There we go. Maybe that's a tone built-in thrusters. And see, right now I need them to say those red lights are normal. Right. They look volcanic. They do.

And Charity Houston, looking ahead to PRM numbers so far per the pad. Jay Allen, first words from the moon. We're not alone. Send help now. Send help. Wow. They did it. They did it. Look at that.

Now reminding the crew that the parodry's maneuver, time of ignition is as expected prior to booster ignition. Pretty much right on time, too. Yeah, absolutely. So I wonder how long it will take that to get to the moon. Did we discuss that yet? No, no. Let me see. I think it's on day six.

Oh, wow. Okay. It's a long ride. let's see what I can find I hope they brought a back lunch yeah fifth or six day okay Johan I think that Mars is a totally different conversation and trajectory complication than the moon is

yeah I mean that's this is the baby steps these are the first steps yeah NASA Artemis 2 launch back around the moon for the first time in 53 years. Wow, 53 years.

Oh, my God, I am emotional. This was insane. I don't know how you guys are feeling back home watching this, but the Artemis 2 astronauts are now in space. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. You know, they have launched on April 1st.

You know, there's also, because they've launched today, the astronauts will get a chance to see a solar eclipse from the Orion. Oh, cool. They'll also, potentially. break the record from Apollo 13 of the farthest distance humans have traveled away from Earth. So everything ramsmed, the sun came out at the right time. It's been incredible watching this historic moment. Just to let you know, the past few minutes,

the SLS delivered more than 8.8 million pounds of thrust and put Orion and its crew into space on the rocket's first flight with people aboard. Now, the mission is just getting started. Over the next several hours, NASA will keep raising Orion's orbit and checking systems before the trip around the moon. This is NASA's return to astronaut flights around the moon in more than 50 years. Chills, guys, chills. We are closing up shop here at AP headquarters, but our live stream will continue. And for ongoing coverage of the full 10-day Artemis 2 mission from Earth orbit through the lunar flyby,

and splash down in the Pacific, head over to APNews.com. We'll be tracking the big milestones all along the way. And, of course, you could tune in to NASA's livestream. They're going to be streaming the entire trip all the days. So you can keep watching. It's like watching Big Brother or something. That's right. We should have set up a watch list.

You know, everybody can take an hour of time, see what we see before things get cut and disappear. They're going to do those confessionals. where like one astronaut's like, oh, he's pissing me off. He keeps farting. He keeps farting all the time. Let's hope not, because that could be disastrous. All right.

Well, good for them. They did it, guys. Artemis 2 has successfully launched on its way to the moon. It will be a 10-day mission, the first in a long line of missions, to eventually get us to build a permanent moon base and then go to Mars from there. Bill Landers is in the chat and says it'll take months to get to Mars using current technology.

So that answers that question. But a historic moment today, guys, April 1st, 2026. I'm so happy. We did this. I'm so happy so many of you came and watched this with us live. A lot of fun to do it together. Yeah. It is.

You know, and there are a lot of people out. there who you know might think that this is so trivial compared to what's going on on our planet right now um and all i can say is uh we need dreamers in the world we need optimism right now and we need people who are willing to risk their lives to better humanity in the long run and explore the cosmos and uh i salute these yeah it's not a net song game we don't have to it can be everything We can do it all. Exactly. We can have all the things.

Cool. Yeah. I guess that's it. For anyone who wants to continue watching, go over to NASA's YouTube channel. We're streaming everything from now until the end of this mission when they touch back down to Earth. 400,000 kilometers. 400,000. There's trivia for you right there.

True trivia. Maybe we'll live stream when they get back to you. So that'd be fun. Make sure they get back safely. Yep. See what superpowers they got through the radiation belt. Yeah. See what aliens they bring back and see how much taller they got. That's a thing, right? They get taller. It is a thing. Yeah, it is a thing. That's what I thought. Muscle mass and bone density. Mm-hmm. Awesome, Suzanne. Well, before we go, I was, I'm so happy. It was on time. I thought we were going to be here for like another. I know. We could be in the days. Right. But before we go,

You got anything going on? You're not Micah, Hanks. Why's that on? I'm not Micah. It's all right. There we go. We're all for him when he's on, though. Yes, he'll be on the show very soon.

Hence, why I have a placard ready for him. Yeah. Yeah, what's going on in your world besides this historic moment for space exploration? You know, living the dream, walking on sunshine over here. You don't feel good. I love it. Yeah, yeah. Well, hey, well,

Well, I've got everyone here. Check out our latest episode of the Summer in the Sky's podcast where we interviewed Luigi Ventitelli, the director of the new documentary, S4, the Bob Lazar story, which will be releasing April 3rd, two more days. Oh, excited for it. It's going to be good. It's going to be good. No matter what you think of Bob Lazare, the film itself is going to knock your socks off for sure. So shout out to Luigi. Shout out to Bob Lazar.

I know he watches all our. streams, of course, of course. Of course you guys. So, yeah, yeah. Shout out to our, our correspondent over at NASA right now. I'm sure they're super busy at the moment. So there's that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But there you go, guys. The 2026 April 1st launch of Artemis 2 to the moon. We'll keep you posted on our social media about what's going on with that. And yeah, yeah, like, subscribe, do all those YouTubey things. here for us. We would really appreciate that. Rate and review the podcast on Apple and Spotify. And yeah, I think that's about it. Should we get out of here?

I think we should. Everyone have a wonderful night. Guys, thank you for joining us. Have a great, great night. And remember, as always, keep your feet on the ground, but never, ever stop going somewhere in the skies. Take care and good luck to the crew of Artemis II. There's nothing to hide it up. Enjoy more ways to save at Ralph's, like low prices in every aisle. And when you download the Ralph's app, you can clip and save more with digital coupons every week.

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