00:00I think you should see it on those who are doing the interviews.
00:04They're all going to grow their hair.
00:08And that is working very good.
00:12Yeah, that's it.
00:30Okay, so they're going to be on this side of the lawn?
00:45They're going to be on either side, yep, on this side.
00:47Okay.
00:49Yeah, that's right.
01:15Okay.
01:45Okay.
02:14Okay.
02:19Ah, okay.
02:22Okay.
02:51Okay, so this is our Artemis II spaceship.
02:54This is Orion.
02:55The capsule is 5 meters, over 16 feet wide.
02:58Four crew, 21 days of capability on the spaceship.
03:03And, of course, you can see we've got the crew module,
03:05which is the module that houses the crew,
03:08but also returns the crew when they come into Earth's atmosphere.
03:12And then on the bottom is the service module.
03:14The service module houses a lot of our primary systems,
03:17so power, propulsions.
03:19Our main engine is in the service module.
03:21Yeah, we're doing very well on our time.
03:24Certainly we're targeting for that end of April time frame.
03:27You can see behind us we did one of the major activities,
03:30which is put the solar arrays on.
03:32And our European team did a terrific job of doing that.
03:34We got that completed a couple days ahead of schedule,
03:37and so we're very excited about that.
03:39Well, Artemis I was a test of the rocket and the spacecraft, the basic spacecraft.
03:44Artemis II is all about humans.
03:46That's the thing it's really about.
03:48So we'll have four people on board.
03:50Now all the systems that are required to keep humans alive,
03:53they like to breathe.
03:55That's really important.
03:56They like the carbon dioxide to be taken out of the air.
03:58Of course there's practical things like the toilet.
04:00They like to drink water.
04:01They like to eat.
04:02All those kinds of things.
04:03And then, of course, the interactions.
04:05So we have control panels for the crew to interact with the vehicle
04:08and ultimately to fly the vehicle manually.
04:11Artemis II is a nine-day mission,
04:13so launch will fly basically one day around the Earth.
04:16Everything works fine.
04:17We'll fire off the engines and we'll go around the moon,
04:21come back, and we'll land off the coast of San Diego.
04:24And by the time you count all that up, it's about a nine-day mission.
04:28Because it's hard.
04:31But it's not repetition of Apollo.
04:35What we do here is we go to the moon to go beyond the moon.
04:40The moon is the first step to foster and check out all our technology
04:47before we go to Mars.
05:10NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
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