00:00And thank you to all participants. Integrity, we're now resuming Operational Audio Com.
00:10See the cab camera two light turn on. We are not streaming video, we're just getting a listen.
00:18And Integrity Houston for Christina and toilet troubleshooting.
00:21Artemis Mission Control in Houston.
00:26Mission Control is go. The crew is go. You're getting a live view from Orion now of Earth.
00:32Start of the translunar injection burn that will send the crew around the moon, the first humans to do this.
00:38You know, we just got done our translunar injection burn and it was pretty tense moments there.
00:43It was pretty tense moments there for a second.
00:46And when we got done that burn, we just kind of looked at each other as a crew.
00:50We have been to the moon before in 1969, 1968 through 1972.
00:54It's been a long time since we've been back.
00:56And I got to tell you, there is nothing normal about this.
00:59Sending four humans 250,000 miles away is a Herculean effort.
01:03And we are now just realizing the gravity of that.
01:06There was a moment about an hour ago where Mission Control Houston reoriented our spacecraft as the sun was setting
01:13behind the Earth.
01:14And I don't know what we all expected to see at that moment, but you could see the entire globe
01:19from pole to pole.
01:20You could see Africa, Europe.
01:23And if you looked really close, you could see the northern lights.
01:27It was the most spectacular moment and it paused all four of us in our tracks.
01:32One of the biggest surprises was how smooth riding those solids was.
01:36We all expected a really just dynamic ride, a lot of motion.
01:40We were prepared to potentially not being able to see telemetry, maybe even not being able to, you know, touch
01:46switches.
01:47And it was very smooth.
01:50It was a definite difference when they separated and we were just on the main engines.
01:54But just a steady rumble and a great ride.
01:59I'm the space plumber.
02:00I'm proud to call myself the space plumber.
02:03I like to say that it is probably the most important piece of equipment on board.
02:08So we were all breathing a sigh of relief when it turned out to be just fine.
02:11It was just an issue, I think, of sitting for a long time and needing a little time to warm
02:15up, a priming issue.
02:17But we did originally think that there could have been potentially something fouling up the motor.
02:23And luckily, we are all systems go.
02:28We started with some checkouts by the crew from both the water dispenser and the toilet.
02:36Those were successful.
02:38And ICPS then burned us with our perigee raise maneuver, got us in a stable orbit.
02:45We did have a brief comm outage.
02:47That was due to a ground issue that we have now rectified.
02:51And we understand that's not going to be a problem.
02:54Henceforth.
02:54With Artemis II's successful 5 minute and 50 second translunar injection burn this evening,
03:00our four crew members, NASA astronauts Reed Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Cook,
03:06and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, are now on their trajectory toward the moon.
03:12The burn was executed by our flight operations team here in Houston, and it was flawless.
03:18The burn was the last major firing of this mission.
03:22From this point forward, the laws of orbital mechanics are going to carry our crew to the moon,
03:28around the far side, and back to Earth.
03:32Our crew is healthy, and our spacecraft is performing really well.
03:36We had, I would say, really great opportunity to just understand our overall performance across all these subsystems,
03:48and making sure that we're ready to commit the crew to a safe journey to the moon and back.
03:53And we demonstrated that over the last 24 hours.
03:56We were able to, as Lori said, have a mission management team review of that,
04:01and determined that we would go for TLI.
04:04And I'm just really happy that we're headed to the moon.
04:07There was a little bit of online chatter about.
04:10There was a little bit of online chatter about.
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