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0:09 Space System Processing Facility.

0:13 Harold You should break so we can see

0:52 and drive forward where we're trying that lever with technical.

1:05 So let's start and go back on technical and not make it perfect.

1:08 So we can go fast and incrementally

1:11 move towards that perfect because originally so all

1:23 the components of the space station were worked

1:25 out of this building and we got big doors.

1:30 So when you say space station processing facility,

1:35 the International Space Station that they built parts of it here,

1:39 they built and tested most of it here.

1:41 Everything that blew up on the space shuttle space systems process.

1:48 Oh wow.

1:51 Welcome into our Hi people.

2:14 I'm Trent Smith.

2:15 I I'm Julia sidekick and our research adviser for space travel production.

2:19 I'm Julia NASA.

2:20 I am the principal scientist for space crop production program.

2:24 So we grow crops in space for whole food nutrition.

2:28 They improve the variety to the package

2:30 diet and psychological well-being or behavior health.

2:35 And then plants by their very nature do photosynthesis.

2:37 So they're going to contribute to the life support,

2:40 the environmental control and life support of a habitat

2:44 because they're going to be recycling the atmosphere.

2:46 They're going to be cleaning water.

2:48 So that just happens while you're drawing for food and behavior at home.

2:51 Let's take a moment to show the Hopkins uh Thanksgiving dinner.

2:55 Well, that is a Thanksgiving dinner on space station just like you have at home.

3:00 I think two Thanksgivings they actually had uh harvest

3:03 and they had leafy greens to go with their Thanksgiving dinner.

3:06 And then here you can see a photo of Hopkins growing some uh radishes in a

3:13 plant habitat.

3:14 You see all the cables and the metal and the plastic, right?

3:17 So, it's a very artificial environment and an extreme environment.

3:21 No, this is just Yeah.

3:23 Don't The warning signs have to be posted for all of our systems.

3:27 This is monitoring plant health using scanning um

3:31 to to detect stress before it becomes growth limiting.

3:36 In here, we have strawberry plants just getting started in our veggie chamber.

4:16 the monster.

4:28 All right, we're going to walk underneath you all.

4:39 Some of you all are plenty tall to get hurt.

4:41 So, please do not hit anything with your head.

4:44 Uh, it will hurt.

4:45 You will not hurt our machine.

4:47 Um, plenty of things to slip on.

4:50 You're going to go up.

4:51 You're going to walk a loop around and come back down.

4:54 You can take pictures of anything you want except the driver's cabs.

4:57 There's a driver's cab here and one on the other end.

5:00 Do not take pictures of the driver's cabs.

5:02 Okay.

5:04 Okay.

5:05 Okay.

5:07 Okay.

5:06 Let's go.

5:28 You kind of get a peek in here.

5:29 See the engines.

5:44 plural.

5:57 Transport foreign.

6:20 Okay.

6:33 Hey, motor.

7:04 anti-jamming technology.

7:09 That's something we had a telescope.

7:20 Sorry.

7:42 construction.

7:44 So, we got a healthy SLS out there.

7:47 Or just spoke to the crew like an hour ago.

7:51 They're charged up.

7:52 I promised them they could go drive the M wrap

7:54 around the pad all they want tonight and weather's looking good.

8:01 Nice.

8:03 Yeah.

8:03 Well, anyway, I appreciate all of you being

8:05 here and uh and covering this uh historic mission,

8:10 the start of an incredible journey right now

8:12 as we undertake frequent missions to the moon

8:15 again uh and start building out our moon

8:19 base which we're all pretty charged up about.

8:21 In fact, yesterday uh reason I got

8:24 in late last evening because had an opportunity

8:26 to meet with the uh the Italian space agency and talk about their contributions,

8:31 their habitation modules for building the moon as well,

8:35 building the base on the moon as well.

8:36 So really really unbelievably exciting time right now.

8:39 Um and we're still doing some of the other fun things

8:42 right preparing for what comes even after the moon with SR1 freedom,

8:45 the nuclear power and propulsion demonstration.

8:48 those that are tracking in summer and fall of 2028.

8:52 You got three nuclear payloads making their way through Kenya Space Center.

8:55 Pretty wild.

8:56 So, you're gonna have the the big uh the big

8:58 R on uh Rosland Franklin's rover that's going to Mars.

9:01 You're going to have the uh plutonium RTG

9:04 that's going on Dragonfly to explore uh Titan.

9:08 And then you're going to have the first of its kind, you know,

9:10 inter interplanetary spaceship freedom that's going to have a actual nuclear

9:15 reactor on it uh to deliver the skyfall payload to Mars,

9:18 which is really really incredible because when you bring all this together,

9:21 right, returning to moon, building the moon base,

9:23 working on uh the South Pole with the water ice, getting uh you know,

9:27 start to master the techniques

9:30 for institute resource manufacturing and then power.

9:32 Now you've got all the ingredients to really embark on a mission someday where

9:36 we can send astronauts to Mars and bring it back safely to talk about.

9:39 So a lot going on these days and appreciate you covering

9:41 it all and getting getting the world fired up a long way.

9:44 So with that happy to answer any questions you all have.

9:48 And you mentioned the samples return mission from Mars.

9:51 Um is that canled definitely or do you have

9:55 any hopes that we're going to get them somehow?

9:57 Oh, we certainly want to do it.

9:58 I I the the other mission for sure is canceled.

10:00 I mean that was that was canceled on canceled under the previous administration.

10:04 it was just it was not going to work and we were being blow through

10:06 12 billion dollars um at that point and uh and look I think that that's

10:11 that's a part where like you know when you don't have competition I can tell

10:15 you there our our uh our rival

10:17 in China is looking to undertake that mission which

10:19 is which is great honestly you know I mean the breakthrough that can come

10:23 from that is very important I would have

10:25 loved for us to have been spearheading it

10:26 but I don't know if we establish that mission

10:29 to achieve an outcome or or to to bring

10:31 a lot of people along with us and and when you do do that.

10:34 Sometimes it's not truly outcome oriented.

10:36 Uh you know, budgets can get out of control,

10:39 schedules can be lost and unfortunately

10:41 missions canceled and and hundreds of millions of dollars along the way are lost

10:45 which could have gone to science and discovery.

10:46 So um in its form not workable.

10:49 Um we are absolutely open.

10:51 We receive funding as part of our 26

10:53 appropriations to evaluate the reformulation of a new mission.

10:57 We don't have the full budget for it,

10:58 but we've got the dollars to look around and see is there a better way?

11:01 And I and I sure hope there is.

11:03 So it's going to be only um it's better if

11:06 we send humans there and bring the samples back or

11:09 you know what um maybe that would have been the answer uh

11:11 when uh we were thinking about a a crude mission to Mars.

11:14 Right now we are laser focused on moon.

11:17 Uh that is the objective.

11:18 That's what uh you know uh Reed, Victor,

11:21 Christina and Jeremy are are are uh you know preparing for under Artemis 2.

11:26 They know they are part of a grander program to return astronauts with frequency

11:30 to the moon to build the moon base

11:32 to learn to prepare for future missions to Mars.

11:35 So that's great when we we will do that that like there

11:37 there is no doubt in my mind that you know next 10 20

11:41 years time crime you will have astronauts on Mars and they will be

11:44 able to come home safely because of what we learned on the moon.

11:47 But should we consider a sample return mission prior to that?

11:50 Absolutely.

11:50 But we we need to set one up that's you know achievable.

11:53 It's affordable and and we do have the resources to start formulating that.

11:56 Thank you.

12:24 instrument.

12:37 foreign.

13:06 for dude.

14:00 For the first time there is a science officer

14:02 on console and mission control which is really exciting.

14:05 So they will be communicating directly um throughout the mission.

14:09 Uh we also have um the science evaluation room

14:12 at Johnson Space Center and there is a team there.

14:15 They've been training with the astro they've been training the astronauts.

14:18 They they have you know these amazing screens with these maps.

14:21 They can see what the astronauts are seeing um

14:23 and and kind of talk them through in real time.

14:37 What will they test?

14:41 So yeah, so we have that de

14:43 developmental flight test objective that I mentioned.

14:47 So you got to think of this suit is built for long duration survival.

14:51 Um so there could be a situation where the cabin depressurizes or loses cabin.

14:57 So we do a lot of during that time.

14:59 They'll actually take this up to the full

15:01 pressure and live in their soup that nothing happens.

15:04 The environmental control life support system they would eat,

15:07 breathe and water while remaining in their soup for that entire up to six hours.

15:12 Eight and a half up to six days up to six days for example.

15:19 That's a fantastic question.

15:20 That is your pass through for the urine pass through.

15:22 So that's where your urine would go.

15:24 You have hardware that you would wear underneath the suit

15:26 that would direct the urine out through this pass

15:29 through and out out of the vehicle actually and it'll

15:31 spray out into the vacuum of space and create all about food and water.

15:36 So for there for like if you actually look

15:40 at the helmet here you can see this small black port.

15:44 This is called the drink portion through this.

15:46 We have essentially a bag with a straw connected to it where the crew

15:51 members could rotate their helmet on their neck ring and they could insert

15:55 that straw through the helmet and they would be able to drink have like

15:58 a nutrition shake for food and then they could take medication that way as well.

16:03 So that's how they would remain liquid diet.

16:06 Yes.

16:07 But that's how they would remain pressurized

16:08 in the steel and get the nutrition that they need.

16:12 That's a great question.

16:13 Oh, the connectors.

16:15 Yeah.

16:15 So, so, so the blue connector is the supply gas connector and so

16:21 through that the air would come from the E-class system into this connector,

16:27 flow up through a ventry and come out of here.

16:30 Then it would then be flowing that fresh air over their head and down

16:35 into the volume of the gas would return back to the vehicle through

16:39 an umbilical connected to the red connector and that would allow the gas

16:44 to circulate and constantly be recycled but also

16:47 conditioned to give them fresh air remaining.

16:51 Is there a special reason why those colors in particular are red?

16:55 The colors are actually inherited from the Apollo program.

16:58 So during the Apollo program these these were

17:01 how much designed to be blue and red

17:04 for blue is supply and red is return and we just kept consistent with that

17:07 because you know sometimes we have the idea that blue

17:10 is for cold and inner red is for hot

17:14 it's not that's not temperature however they do

17:17 have a way to control temperature in the suit

17:19 they actually wear a liquid cooling garment under the suit which is kind of like

17:23 a jacket with two zone in it and then that connects to this knob here where they

17:29 can control the amount of cold water flowing

17:32 through the tubes that are up against their skin.

17:35 That's how they control their temperature.

17:36 All right.

17:37 Thank you.

17:39 Yeah.

17:42 So, you're saying what is a very shiny tape?

17:47 Is that thing every day?

17:57 You can touch it.

17:57 You can hold it.

17:58 Is this a ceramic?

18:00 Um, this is ceramic.

18:01 Uh, this is more like it's kind of like

18:03 the texture of like a racer that got hard.

18:05 It starts off as like a powder.

18:07 So, this is part of the Artemis one mission.

18:09 That's correct.

18:10 This is a flown Artemis one tile.

18:12 So, you can see where it was on the spacecraft.

18:15 In this picture right here, uh,

18:17 you have Scio tape that covers all of the tiles on the back shells,

18:20 but there's certain sections of the spacecraft

18:22 that are not covered with this tape.

18:24 That's where the phased array antennas are.

18:25 you want you don't want any interference with the phase ray antennas.

18:28 So in this tile you can see where

18:29 the SCOX tape comes and then where it stops which

18:32 is right there uh in that picture and this is

18:34 the famous picture of Apogee of the Orion

18:36 spacecraft beyond the moon and so this is

18:39 the view that the astronauts will be able to get

18:41 on Artemis 2 be 4,000 mi beyond the surface

18:44 of the moon further than any human has gone before.

18:47 So, just part of the Orion capsule then?

18:49 Yes.

18:50 Yes.

18:50 This came right off of Artemis 1.

18:53 Uh the materials team wanted to do some additional uh test to a flown tile uh

18:58 just to see how it reacts compared

18:59 to what it reacted before the before the mission.

19:02 Do you have

19:03 Oh, do I have any souvenirs?

19:04 No, no, no, I don't.

19:05 Um in fact, they're all going to end up in museums.

19:07 Artemis one is going to be handed over to the Smithsonian

19:10 and they'll get to pick where they display it in the future.

19:13 Um yeah, we just used this one.

19:15 Uh we pulled this part off to be able to do that additional test.

19:19 Uh many parts did come off of Artemis one to fly on Artemis 2.

19:23 Uh 10 parts specifically.

19:24 Um but um let me get to what parts in just a minute.

19:29 But no, we don't get to keep any parts as souvenirs

19:33 because if you see that is going to be displayed in Smithsonian,

19:36 the Artemis one of the spacecraft.

19:37 This part is going to be missing.

19:38 And am I right?

19:39 Yes, this part will be missing.

19:40 You'll be able to see where this was and it'll be with me.

19:44 Um, yeah.

19:47 So, I'm here with Paul Anderson.

19:49 He is the deputy manager of the Orion capsule.

19:52 Yes, I'm the deputy program manager for Orion for Loheed Martin,

19:57 which really is multiple elements.

19:59 Everybody thinks of the crew module and if you look at it over here there,

20:03 this is of course is the part

20:04 that the the crew enters and flies throughout the mission.

20:07 But we also have got the European service module back

20:10 here provided by uh issa to NASA to lock Martin.

20:14 We integrate that piece and there's over

20:16 10 countries in Europe that help support that.

20:18 And we also build this ring which people are

20:20 maybe not as familiar with called the crew module adapter.

20:23 And what's not shown in the model is another I'll call it

20:27 the rocket on top of the rocket that's called the launch abort system.

20:30 So all of those components, the launchboard system,

20:33 the crew module, this crew module adapter, and the service module,

20:37 we Lockheed Martin uh get over at the ONC building here

20:42 across uh campus on Kennedy Space Center and do the integration.

20:46 And so right now, obviously,

20:48 we've got Artemis 2 ready to go and 3, four, and five in.

20:52 What are the key differences or main differences between the this capsule

20:56 and the previous ones from Apollo from the Apollo era?

21:00 Okay, the major difference if you would say

21:02 I mean there many they they kind of look

21:04 the same and a lot of people at face

21:05 value say oh gosh isn't that like an Apollo capsule.

21:08 This is actually uh almost 33% larger

21:11 in volume than what the Apollo astronauts flew.

21:14 And then when you go inside there's almost no comparison.

21:18 Everything in here is modern.

21:19 The crew displays, the life support systems, all of the safety aspects,

21:23 the seats, the way that the suits interface, all modern, brand new.

21:29 And when you go back to the Apollo capsule, it was a miracle at the time.

21:33 It's analog switches.

21:34 The crew had to um have codes that they decoded for.

21:39 They did not have flight computers.

21:40 We have five flight computers, for example, that are running at any given time.

21:44 And so I would say yeah, you know, physically it looks similar,

21:47 but there really isn't any comparison,

21:49 especially for uh the capability to keep uh the crew safe,

21:53 to keep the crew comfortable,

21:54 and uh I'll I'll say to do missions uh to the moon,

21:58 not only to the moon, but future uh all the way out to Mars.

22:01 So Orion is designed to be an interplanetary vehicle.

22:04 The solar panels also very good.

22:06 In the Apollo era, because the missions were up relatively short,

22:11 they actually had fuel cells.

22:12 Here we've added solar arrays,

22:14 lithium-ion batteries that are absolutely new to be

22:16 able to do these much longer missions in Paul.

22:19 I'm here with astronaut Steve Bowen.

22:22 Uh he's been part of the NASA for how long?

22:24 25 years.

22:26 25 years.

22:27 25 years.

22:27 And how many days have you spent in space?

22:29 I spent 220 something days in space and then missions.

22:33 Have you thought about what is the part that you enjoy the most?

22:36 What do I enjoy the most?

22:38 I enjoy being on a crew in space and when you're just having fun as a team.

22:43 Uh, floating never gets old.

22:45 Looking out the window never gets old.

22:47 Hanging out for months on end with really great people also never gets old.

22:52 Are you going to spend some time working in other missions

22:55 apart from the space space station maybe for Artemis or No.

22:59 Oh, I you know we are continuously working everything, right?

23:03 So that's part of our jobs.

23:04 who are supporting when you're not flying in space,

23:06 you're supporting people who are flying in space and making

23:09 sure the programs are are meeting the needs of the astronauts.

23:13 And so I've been a part of uh Artemis, commercial crews,

23:19 so many of the programs that we've had coming through.

23:22 It's just an honor and a pleasure to have the opportunity to work at NASA

23:26 and I'm really excited about what we get to work on ahead of time.

23:29 And that's the broader NASA, you know,

23:32 thousands and thousands of people working in the team.

23:34 It's incredible.

23:36 What would you say to uh child or somebody

23:39 who from Latin America that wants to be a astronaut?

23:44 Well, I as I said, you know, this the opportunity to become an astronaut

23:48 is going to is basically open to everybody.

23:50 The opportunity to be part of, you know,

23:53 Artemis or the future of men's exploration.

23:57 uh you know you know study those things that that'll get you science,

24:00 mathematics, engineering, uh medicine, all the sciences.

24:05 Those are probably the key things to to look at if you

24:07 want to be a part of exploration whether it be on Earth,

24:10 in the oceans, in space, those are the things that will carry you forward.

24:15 So study those.

24:16 It's incredibly exciting.

24:17 You know when you get the chance to challenge

24:19 yourself uh sometimes you do think we do

24:22 a poor job uh telling kids kids you'll feel

24:27 the you'll feel great when you solve a difficult problem

24:31 you know and when you do it as a team it

24:33 feels even better because they get to share it with somebody else.

24:36 So challenge yourself, you know, push yourself to to really do the best you can.

24:42 And going forward, we're going to the moon as a international community.

24:47 We're going to go to Mars, the larger international community.

24:50 You know, the opportunity is going to be there for everybody.

24:59 Oh my god.

25:07 Oh my god.

25:07 Oh my god.

25:08 This is real.

25:37 What?

25:49 there.

26:07 Okay.

26:18 Uhhuh.

26:34 Yeah.

26:46 for YouTubers.

27:47 No, the on there right now.

28:03 on those.

28:07 All right.

28:07 10.

28:11 Four.

28:11 Four.

28:13 Three.

28:12 All right.

28:12 Three.

28:14 Two.

28:15 Here we go.

28:15 We have liftoff.

28:16 Lift off.

28:18 Lift off.

28:19 There it goes.

28:26 Wow.

28:24 Oh my god.

28:26 Oh my god.

28:26 It's here.

28:29 Yes.

28:32 Oh, it's coming.

28:34 It's going.

28:34 It's going.

28:35 Lift off.

28:38 Go.

28:37 Go, baby.

28:38 Go.

28:46 Oh.

28:46 Woo.

29:04 That's go this.

29:18 Go SLS.

29:27 Oops.

29:31 Sorry about that.

29:36 It happened.

29:36 Finally happened.

29:40 All right, next up is going to be SRB Jettison.

29:45 At this point, they should have uh reached Super Sonet.

29:49 Oh my god.

29:52 So, we're now looking for the solid rocket.

29:59 What?

29:56 So, that is on its way to the mirror.

30:02 So, SRB solid rocket booster should be Godspeed.

30:07 Ram is to God speed.

30:15 He's heading down here shortly.

30:21 There's staging SRB jettison looks successful.

30:28 Happy 250 America on the sides of those SRVs.

30:35 Yes.

30:34 So stageful stage continuing the shadows.

30:51 Oh my god.

30:52 Wow.

30:54 Oh.

30:54 Wow.

30:57 See that the winds he's sitting now and Artemis.

31:07 is God speed.

31:22 Okay.

31:44 The smarter every day.

31:48 iso.

31:49 How do you say?

31:59 So, uh, to see C is bonita.

32:18 Lunch's lunch.

32:19 And the smoke.

32:20 The smoke is so engines.

32:41 Rocket engines.

32:44 Uh tienrois is RS25.

32:58 So see see without the platon wouldn't exist.

33:24 That's good.

33:24 No, not not true.

33:25 Not true.

33:25 It's it's a it's a tall tale.

33:27 You were inspiration and that's true.

33:28 But uh thank you very much.

33:30 Thank you very much and I'm glad that I

33:31 was I enjoyed watching the rocket with you.

33:34 Yeah, me too.

33:35 Have a look.

33:35 Look at the uh look at the vortex.

33:37 Ah the vortex.

33:38 Yeah, the vortex in the smoke.

33:39 You see it?

33:40 Yeah, he he knows a lot about rocket.

33:42 You can speak in English.

33:43 I can translate it.

33:44 Don't worry.

33:44 Oh, okay.

33:45 Yeah.

33:45 My my Spanish is bad, but I try.

33:47 I know a few technical words.

33:48 It's okay.

33:49 That was a good one.

33:50 That was a strong rocket.

33:52 Yeah, it was bright.

33:52 Did it burn your eyes?

33:53 Yes.

33:54 Yes, it did.

33:56 Yeah.

33:58 I was like looking Would you see Fore.

35:19 You