00:00If you have them keeping super close tabs on the Artemis 2 mission, you've missed some pretty interesting stuff.
00:06Right out the gate, the team started having issues with their toilet, which sounds like it should be kind of
00:11a low-level issue,
00:12but on a 10-ish day mission where you cannot exit the capsule, it is absolutely mission critical.
00:20Luckily, they were able to get it back up and running relatively quickly.
00:24The prevailing theory is that there was something frozen in one of the lines.
00:28It's been a little touch-and-go, but overall it seems to be working all right.
00:31And worst-case scenario, the astronauts do have bags they could use, so they will figure it out.
00:37They also managed to capture a sequel to one of the most famous photographs of all time called Earthrise.
00:46Commander Reed Wiseman took a photograph that is being called Earthset.
00:51It's absolutely beautiful.
00:52It shows the Earth setting over the edge of the Moon as the Moon kind of sets over the edge
00:57of the Earth from Earth.
00:58It's kind of spectacular.
01:01And while the team was passing relatively closely over the lunar surface,
01:06they were looking down and naming some yet unnamed craters.
01:10One of them was proposed by the team to be named after Wiseman's late wife, Carol, who passed away in
01:182020.
01:19The team was very emotional during the proposed naming.
01:22Obviously, it still has to go through official channels to be able to solidify the name.
01:28But it was a really beautiful moment of humanity in what has already been a really, really powerful mission.
01:34That was helpful.
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