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Artemis 2 astronaut Jeremy Hansen says it felt like he was 'falling out of the sky' as the spacecraft completed a translunar injection burn -- a maneuver that brought Orion within 200 kilometers of Earth before swinging around onto a new course for the Moon on April ____, 2026.

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Transcript
00:00Gosh, in our first day in space, we saw some extraordinary things.
00:04The Earth up close, and then by the time we had a bit of a nap and got up,
00:08the Earth was just so far away again.
00:10And then to come in for that transductor injection,
00:13we came all the way back to Earth again.
00:15We were out there at 60,000 kilometers.
00:18We came back to within 200 kilometers of the planet,
00:22and it just felt like we were falling out of the sky back to Earth.
00:26And I said to Reid, it feels like we're going to hit it.
00:30It's amazing that we're actually going to go around and miss this thing.
00:32It was just so close.
00:34And so to take all of that in was really phenomenal.
00:38Going from 38,000 miles above the Earth yesterday down to 100 miles above the Earth,
00:42and then Christina and Jeremy did our transductor injection
00:44just 100 miles off the surface of the planet.
00:47We were screaming right above the clouds,
00:49and now here we are well over 100,000 miles away from Earth
00:52and closer to the moon than we are to the Earth right now.
01:24We'll see you next time.
01:26We'll see you next time.
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