EP 16 - To The Moon and Back: Artemis II

This week I am joined with frequent flyer Alex as we discuss the Artemis II Space Mission,  NASA’s next big leap toward the Moon. We unpack the mission, meet the astronauts, and explore why this launch could redefine the future of space travel. 

In this Episode I also mention a new book that is publishing on 4/17. What If It Was Us by Anna Lynn. You can get this debut novel on Kindle Unlimited and also in a paperback version!! 

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SPEAKER_02 0:00

Hello and welcome back to another episode of I've Got Something to Say. I'm your host, Courtney, and today I am joined again by my good pal Alex, as we are going to be discussing the most recent history event that has just happened. We're gonna be talking all about Artemis 2. Yay! Yay! As always, before we get started, let's talk about our current obsessions. Besides Artemis 2, Alex, do you have any current obsessions? NFL draft coming up in Pittsburgh. Nice. Yeah. I'm surprised you're not going. Do you know how expensive those tickets are? Okay, listen. Actually, that's false. Actually, that's false because I went to the NFL draft. Okay, well, I didn't know I wasn't that invested. That's fair. But you can go to the NFL draft without actually going into like the actual like draft part. I want to go into it. I know, but it's still fun because you can see it.

SPEAKER_00 0:54

I don't care. I want to be in it.

SPEAKER_02 0:56

All right. Well, I had a hell of a time when I went to the NFL draft in Cleveland.

SPEAKER_00 0:59

But I get into like the players and like doing mock drafts and seeing where everyone's gonna go.

SPEAKER_02 1:05

True, true, true.

SPEAKER_00 1:06

I'm a Steelers fan, so I'm not sure exactly where I want them to go as far as draft pick, like with the first round. I don't want to waste first round draft pick on a wide receiver because we recently acquired Michael Pittman Jr. from the Indianapolis Colts. So he makes a really good wide receiver too. You don't need a first round pick for a wide receiver three. I'm hoping I'm I'm kind of torn because I would like to see Will Howard be our quarterback. He was drafted last year in the fifth round, former Ohio State Buckeye, national champion, just built like a brick shit house. I love that guy. This is wild. It's true though. I mean, he's got all the capabilities. He's, you know, six something, six, six, six, seven, two thirty, I want to say. I can't remember exactly his statistics. He's got a cannon of an arm. He'd be great. He's a great pocket passer, and Pittsburgh Steelers notoriously love pocket passers.

SPEAKER_02 2:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:07

But they didn't play him at all last year. Granted, he was injured at the start, but there were plenty of times when he could have gone in and he didn't, and it annoyed me. So I guess they don't want him to be a quarterback, and if not, then this is the year.

SPEAKER_02 2:19

I mean, this is a pretty So you're what you're saying is you want them to draft a quarterback first.

SPEAKER_00 2:24

No, I want them to play Will Howard. But they don't listen to me. I try to call them. They don't listen to me. I tried to call them. Well, you need to try harder. Left me on red. Fuck. I know. So I don't know. Maybe an offensive lineman. Pretty good offensive lineman this year.

SPEAKER_02 2:41

I and you know what? You're telling me these these positions.

SPEAKER_00 2:44

I the other I the quarterback. That's all I know. Offensive linemen guard the quarterback. They're the ones on the line, the big boys.

SPEAKER_02 2:52

Big boys. Big boys. What's Jason Kelsey? Or what was that?

SPEAKER_00 2:55

Jason Kelsey was a center, which would be an offensive lineman. He's the one who snaps the ball.

SPEAKER_02 2:59

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:00

Yeah. Yeah. He, you know, the tush-push.

SPEAKER_02 3:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:04

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_02 3:05

He was getting I love Jason Kelsey.

SPEAKER_00 3:07

He's a treasure. Yeah. Have you seen him at the Masters?

SPEAKER_02 3:10

No, but I wish and I I need to look, I need to look into that. Yeah, there's some there's some. Okay. This is being recorded on Sunday. So we're gonna have a tight turnaround. Probably not gonna go up on Tuesday. So if you don't see this on Tuesday, huh? Sorry. Okay, but I was also I was not expecting you to bring up football right now. This is actually a hate crime.

SPEAKER_00 3:29

Okay, if we go into the WNBA though, like there's some crazy stuff going on, and I'm still trying to like keep track.

SPEAKER_02 3:37

It's crazy, but literally the vibes have completely changed for every single team.

SPEAKER_00 3:41

Dallas. Look at Dallas. Dallas is gonna be making moves with Jess Shepard and Alana Smith and Paige and possibly AZ. More than likely it's gonna be AZ. Let's be real here. And they have a chance to win some games this year. And Lee Yaru is expected to re-sign with them as well. So you have your center, you have your two forwards, obviously your guards, and you still have that veteran leadership with Arique re-signing.

SPEAKER_02 4:06

There's just a there's just so much. Like I didn't realize that Lee, I I don't know what I was expecting. I've never really been like, well, first of all, this is like the first time ever that everybody's been a free agent. Right. But also, like I've like last year, I was just like, okay, like I don't know. I I just like wasn't there's just so much going on.

SPEAKER_00 4:25

So I mean, look at Atlanta. Atlanta's gonna be a real Chicago. Oh, I did not expect Chicago to be making moves like they are. Chicago completely flipped the script, but let's talk about two crash outs being on the same team with Skylar Diggins and JC Sheldon.

SPEAKER_02 4:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:41

I feel like there's gonna be a fight between the two of them. No, I literally was thinking that I feel like their team is gonna fight each other.

SPEAKER_02 4:48

It's gonna be a disaster and it's gonna be beautiful. Kristen looked at me this morning and she goes, I feel like I'm gonna be a Toronto Tempo fan fan this year. Honestly, just because of Marina. I was like, Yeah, honestly same.

SPEAKER_00 4:59

I love Marina and they have um Sandy Brontello as their coach now. Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. Yeah, which okay, so who the hell is on Liberty at this point? Um, nope, a lot of them re-signed, Junkwell Jones re-signed, Brianna Stewart re-signed, and Sabrina Ionescu re-signed. I thought she was gonna go to Portland. And Anna and I thought the same thing, and our draws were on the floor when we saw the report come through. That is crazy. So it'll be interesting to see how they play without Sandy.

SPEAKER_02 5:27

Yeah, I'm I'm really interested. I do plan on it next week.

SPEAKER_00 5:31

And Satu. Satu Sopoli signed with Liberty.

SPEAKER_02 5:35

I did see that. Yeah. What team was she was originally on?

SPEAKER_00 5:39

Last year she was on Phoenix. Okay, that's she got traded from Dallas to Phoenix.

SPEAKER_02 5:44

Okay, that's what I thought. Yes. Okay, yeah. So and then I also just saw that Sophie's back in fever. I know. A little bit of an eye roll.

SPEAKER_00 5:53

Uh yes, not my favorite player. Not my favorite player, beautiful player, but not my favorite player. Right. Honestly, I don't see a lot of value in her as a as a player specifically. Ah, okay.

SPEAKER_02 6:04

See, I kind of disagree. I think that she's she's she's acting, I feel like she's pretty good.

SPEAKER_00 6:10

I I really I don't see that. I I like how aggressive she is, down low on the block, you know, grabbing rebounds and stuff. She's aggressive. That we saw.

SPEAKER_02 6:19

She's aggressive. That we saw. I okay, and honestly, still forever. I will never forget seeing that in real time. In real time. Her slamming JC Sheldon to the ground. In real time. The fact that we were literally at your house, all we were all sitting on the couch. Well, obviously, you were in your recliner, and we all jumped up and started screaming. I texted my dad immediately and was like, there's a fight. No, and it was like the most epic fight there's ever been. I don't I don't know if there's been a better fight in the in the WNBA. It's all I could ask for, really. And to see it in real time, honestly, that meant more to me than watching Caitlin Clark pass the shooting record of all time of like college.

SPEAKER_01 7:04

I was like, yeah. But you know, can you do that? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:11

Um, me and Anna next week are going to have a full lowdown after the draft because that's gonna really change perspectives on a lot of teams. Because I I know that you guys are like, Azy's going to Dallas. Azy's going to Dallas. I uh something in me is telling me that she's not.

SPEAKER_00 7:30

She is. Minnesota will take Minnesota has the number two pick. Manna and I discussed this last night. Minnesota has the number two pick due to there was like a four-team trade last year between it was like Phoenix, Dallas, Chicago, and some or no. I know, but I It was like when Kelsey Plum, so it had to be Sparks and Aces. It was at the same time that Kelsey Plum went to the Sparks from Las Vegas, somewhere in there, they were able, Minnesota got the number two pick. Number two is going to be Lauren Betts. And with the with them letting Alana Smith and Jess Shepard, their forwards, move on, it literally makes sense that they would need another big. And Lauren Betts is a great big.

SPEAKER_02 8:16

And I get that. I'm more saying that I don't think AZ is gonna go first. You're wild for that. I know, I know, but I've seen a lot of mock draps, and very little people have her first. People are morons. I get that. Because you have to remember there's a lot of new fans out there who just no. Listen, I love AZ. I love AZ. Don't get me wrong. Literally foot around and find out. I I love AZ. I'm just afraid that we're just too eager to see some paisy content.

SPEAKER_00 8:43

Listen, this is that's literally like saying like Fernando Mendoza isn't gonna go number one overall to the Raiders. Like it's a surefire.

SPEAKER_02 8:52

Um, and I don't even know what the hell that means.

SPEAKER_00 8:54

He's the quarterback, he was the quarterback for the Indiana Hoosiers.

SPEAKER_02 8:58

I do have one other thing that I wanted to talk about before we get started because I was just blessed on Friday. I picked I got a copy of a new novel that is going to be come going to be coming out. It's called What If It Was Us. It's by Anna Lynn, and it is a romance novel, and I am only on chapter three. I'm about wait, what chapter am I on? Oh no, I'm not. I'm on chapter six, guys. I just started reading it last night. I literally traveled down to Louisville and back. It was like a six-hour round trip. Spent more time in the car than I did at the actual event that I was going to. And so I got home at like 10 o'clock, 10:30 last night, and I was like, I have to start this book. It is so good already. I am hooked. I am hooked, hooked, line, and sinker editing Courtney here. And I just wanted to pop in and say, Well, I definitely did not get this podcast edited and up by Tuesday. In fact, it is now Thursday at 6 o'clock in the evening, and I am just now getting around to it. So apologies on that. Also, you just heard me reference the book What If It Was Us by Anna Lynn. I just wanted to pop back in and say that I did finish this book and it did, in fact, absolutely wreck me, but put me back together in a very beautiful way. So I just wanted to let you guys know that this book, as of today, April 17th, which is Friday, this book is now available both on Kindle Unlimited and also in a paperbook paperback version. Ten years after fleeing her Michigan hometown, Addison finally returns after inheriting her older brother's house. After spending the past decade as a nanny in North Carolina, she is certain she's only staying in Michigan long enough to fix up the house and return to the new life she created for herself. A life that doesn't include any of the people she left behind. When she returns to town, the one person she doesn't expect to run into is Jackson, the boy who was once her best friend, the boy who broke her heart, and now the man running his family's beloved restaurant where they spent all of their high school years working together. Jackson is different now, no longer the angsty teenager Addison once knew. He's patient, smiles, and impossible to avoid, especially when he insists on helping Addison with the house renovations. Addison tries to keep her distance, but peeling back the layers of her old life forces her to confront the truth about what tore them apart and what still flickers between them. As history threatens to repeat itself, Jackson inches closer to admitting his feelings while Addison does everything she can to run from hers. As the house transforms, so does everything Addison thought she understood about home forgiveness and love. After two weeks with Jackson, and the final touch is nearly complete, she's left with two choices return to her life in North Carolina or risk her heart by staying in the one place she swore she'd never come back to. What if it was us is a slow burned story of second chances told in a dual timeline between Addison's high school years and the present, following her journey as she discovers the meaning of love, family, and forgiveness. I cannot say it enough. This book is amazing. I have the pleasure of getting to know Anna, the author, and she's a beautiful, beautiful human, and this book needs the recognition that it deserves. So, like I said, this is on Kindle Unlimited and in paperback form. Go pick up your copy of What If It Was Us by Anna Lynn. So we are talking about Artemis 2.

SPEAKER_00 12:31

Yes, we are.

SPEAKER_02 12:32

Okay. I did my research and I have a lot of research. This is gonna be lengthy, and and you know what? Buckle up, guys. But I feel like we can condense it a little bit. We can definitely do that. But if you guys don't know, on Friday, Artemis 2 returned back to Earth with a very successful splashdown. Down to the minute. Down to the minute. They were so they were so on time. We love a punctual queen. Honestly. Christina Cook. Punctual queen.

SPEAKER_00 13:07

Yes. Even though she wasn't the pilot, but uh Victor Glover was the pilot.

SPEAKER_02 13:12

Victor Glover, which Okay, yes, yes. Reed Wiseman is the one that had is the commander, and he's the one that his wife died.

SPEAKER_00 13:22

Yes, in 2020 due to cancer. She'd been battling it for quite a few years.

SPEAKER_02 13:26

And then Jeremy is the one that was from Canada. Yes. Okay. Yep. Because I do have like blurbs about all of them. But Artemis 2 is NASA's first mission with crew aboard our foundational deep space rocket. The SLS Space Launch System, an Orion spacecraft, will confirm all the spacecraft systems operate as designed with crew aboard in the actual environment of deep space. The mission will pave the way for lunar surface missions, establishing long-term lunar science and exploration capabilities, and inspire the next generation of explorers.

SPEAKER_00 14:02

No, it really did. Do you remember like growing up, everyone wanted to be, you know, an astronaut or just real like creative things? I feel like kids have lost that. Now it's just, I'm gonna be a teacher. Nothing wrong with that. We love teachers and they deserve to be paid more.

SPEAKER_02 14:19

But it's all it's not creative. It's like I grew up being like, I'm gonna be the next president.

SPEAKER_00 14:24

Yes. The fuck I'm not. The ambition, though, I feel like has been lost. And obviously, I saw a ton on this, like videos and stuff, and every time I cried, but it was parents like filming their kids of them in spacesuits, watching it take off and having a successful takeoff, making it into orbit, and then coming back down. And all these kids are like, I'm ready to be the next generation of astronauts. You know, we've really we're back in the the age of creativity, and like I said before, that ambition is back.

SPEAKER_02 14:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:59

I would agree.

SPEAKER_02 15:00

I would agree. I would definitely agree. The crew of four astronauts will lift off the approximately 10-day mission from launch complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Over the course of the first two days, they will check out the Orion system and perform a targeting demonstration test relatively close to the Earth. After this part of the mission, they will then begin the trek towards the moon, circling around the far side of the moon and then making the trek back to Earth. This expedition will take them more than 230,000 miles from Earth at their max distance. The crew will fly 4,600 miles beyond the moon. Instead of requiring propulsion on the return, the this fuel-efficient trajectory harnessed the Earth-Moon gravity field, ensuring that after its trip around the far side of the moon, Orion will be pulled back naturally by the Earth's gravity for the free return portion of the mission. The crew will endure the high-speed, high temperature re-entry through Earth's atmosphere before splashing down into the Pacific Ocean off of the coast of San Diego, where they will be met by a recovery team of NASA and Department of Defense personnel who will bring them back to the shore. And that was all per the NASA.gov.

SPEAKER_00 16:20

Yeah, and it was actually incredible. I looked last night, and in total they traveled about 700,000 miles. That was their total trip.

SPEAKER_02 16:30

Because they did like, okay, when I like watch the like trajectory, like little things, like I don't know, it's like it was it was on the NASA website or whatever. They like circle the moon and it goes. Yeah. And then it goes, okay, so if you didn't see my finger because this is not recorded with a video, it's like you they circle the earth and then they like did a really fast loop around. But no, they like did like a loop around the earth and then they like sped off towards the moon. Like it was like a really fast thing. Was that a gravitational pull? Or what what what caused that?

SPEAKER_00 17:02

Go going up? Yeah. No, they would have had thrusters helping.

SPEAKER_02 17:07

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 17:07

Like little rockets.

SPEAKER_02 17:09

Because they like circled the earth like at a was like a not a slow pace, but like a normal pace, and then they like sped up. Shut up. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:16

Yeah. Well, because they would have had to use the thrusters in order to basically fight the gravity.

SPEAKER_02 17:21

Oh, because they were still in the gravitational pole when they circled the earth the first time.

SPEAKER_00 17:25

Technically, they're still within gravitational pull, like up by the moon, because there's still gravity around the moon. It's just not as powerful or as much weight as the earth.

SPEAKER_02 17:34

Oh, right, because we keep the moon and sp in attached to each other. I don't understand space. I really don't. It it's too it's too complex for me to understand.

SPEAKER_00 17:46

It's not, I mean, it can be simplified down for you. It's so vast. Yes, and that's why this mission was so important.

SPEAKER_02 17:53

It was so important. Oh my god, it makes me sick. It makes me sick.

SPEAKER_00 17:56

Did you see the picture of the moon I sent in our group chat? There's colors. Like in all my life, I literally thought the moon was just like gray.

SPEAKER_02 18:05

No, well, because we never went the first time. I'm only saying that to piss you off.

SPEAKER_00 18:11

This is a special statement specifically for our friend Mindy. This is directly at you. You're gonna tell me that every country lied together and said we didn't go to the that we went to the moon. They just lied about it. Every single country? Yeah, every even the Ruskies. You think the Ruskies are gonna lie? Russia? Yes. Oh you think Russia's not a very trustworthy country. You think they would lie to benefit us, though? Oh, the US notoriously haven't had a great relationship. China was in there. China is gonna lie to benefit us because that's what it was. Well, it benefited us. So I don't know. Note that down, Mindy.

SPEAKER_02 18:54

No, we literally were rage baiting Alex all night on Friday.

SPEAKER_00 18:58

It was so funny. Anna did say something on I think it was Saturday morning. She was like, you know what? Like I didn't actually mean it. Like I just wanted to. No, we were just rage baiting. Yes. We were just very easy to do though when I'm very passionate about things. And that's why it's the most fun to do because you like with like sharks and space, those are so easy to rage bait me on.

SPEAKER_02 19:20

The crew consisted of four consisted of four astronauts that have been selected by NASA's Artemis II mission. Commander Reed Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Cook from NASA, and mission specialist Jam Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency. Artemis II will be NASA's first crewed flight test of space launch system rocket and Orion spacecraft around the moon to verify today's capabilities for humans to explore deep space and pave the way for long-term exploration and science on the lunar surface. So a little about a little bit about each crew member. Reed Wiseman was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2009 and is currently assigned as commander of NASA's Artemis II mission to the moon. Reed is a Baltimore native. Did you know that? I did. Okay. Reed is a Baltimore native who earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Drenzler in systems engineering from the from the Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. He is also a 27-year Native Navy veteran, a pilot and father. Reed's first spaceflight was in 2014 aboard International Space Station for Expedition 41 that lasted 165 days from May through November. Reed also fostered a strong social media presence through his mission by sharing the raw emotions of spaceflight as seen through the eyes of a rookie flyer. His late wife, Carol, dedicated to her dedicated her life to helping others as a newborn intensive care unit registered nurse. She is survived by their two children. Despite a long list of professional accolades, Reed considers his time as an only parent his greatest challenge and the most rewarding phase of his life. Also, there will be more on his wife later.

SPEAKER_00 21:08

Yes, okay.

SPEAKER_02 21:09

Um, because she does play a very special part of this mission.

SPEAKER_00 21:12

If I remember right, they met in college. Oh, really? Yeah, they were together for like 17 years.

SPEAKER_02 21:19

Damn.

SPEAKER_00 21:20

Yeah. Before. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:23

All right. Victor Glover was selected as an astronaut in 2013 while serving as a legislative fellow in the United States Senate. He most recently served as a pilot of the Crew 1 Dragon spacecraft named Resilience, which flew to the International Space Station, where he also served as a flight engineer for Expedition 64 65. Glover has been assigned as pilot of NASA's Artemis II mission around the moon. The California native earned an under undergraduate engineering degree as a two sport athlete while serving his country. Nope. While serving his community. While serving his community.

SPEAKER_00 22:06

He also did serve.

SPEAKER_02 22:08

Yes. Glover is a naval aviator and was a test pilot in the F slash A eighteen Hornet, Super Hornet, and EA eighteen G Growler. He and his family have been stationed in many locations in the United States and Japan, and he has deployed in combat and peacetime. What does that mean?

SPEAKER_00 22:32

It's like when we're not an act of war.

SPEAKER_02 22:34

Oh, gotcha.

SPEAKER_00 22:34

Yeah. Like the Middle East, like when the US was in the quote unquote war on terrorism. Once that ended, we were officially in peacetime.

SPEAKER_02 22:43

Oh, interesting.

SPEAKER_00 22:44

So basically for 20 years we were in a useless war.

SPEAKER_02 22:47

Born in Pomona, California, married to the former Diana Odom of Berkeley, California. They have four children. My fanfave.

SPEAKER_00 22:57

Everyone's fanfave. Let's be so for real.

SPEAKER_02 22:59

Christina Cook. A Queen. Yeah. Christina Cook is an explorer and engineer who became an astronaut in 2013. She has been assigned as mission specialist of NASA's Artemis II mission. Her previous experience in spaceflight was living and working on the International Space Station for almost all of 2019 in Expeditions 59, 60, and 61. For this mission, she flew on the Russian Russian Soyuz, the Russian Soyuz rocket, and trained extensively in Russia. Christina spent a total of 328 consecutive days in space and participated in the first all-female spacewalks.

SPEAKER_00 23:40

Hell yeah, brother. She also holds the record for the longest amount of time a woman's been in space.

SPEAKER_02 23:47

Okay. Pop off. Period says. Yes. After this space flight and before being assigned to Artemis II, she served as branch chief of the assigned crew branch in the astronaut office and did a rotation as assistant for technical integration for the center director at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Prior to becoming an astronaut, Christina's experience spanned both space science and mission instrument development and remote scientific field engineering in the Antarctic and Arctic.

SPEAKER_00 24:19

I didn't realize those were different. Wait, say that again.

SPEAKER_02 24:22

Antarctic and Arctic.

SPEAKER_00 24:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:24

What? Am I dumb?

SPEAKER_00 24:25

You're not dumb, just oblivious.

SPEAKER_02 24:28

Okay, so where's Antarctic? The Southern Hemisphere. Antarctic is the Northern hemisphere. Which one is Santa at?

SPEAKER_00 24:34

The North Pole.

SPEAKER_02 24:35

So the Arctic.

SPEAKER_00 24:36

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 24:36

I okay, hold on. Let me pull out my globe for reference.

SPEAKER_00 24:40

Antarctica, brother. Okay, but then what's up here? The North Pole. Where Santa is.

SPEAKER_02 24:47

And this is Antarctica. Yeah. And this is Arctica.

SPEAKER_00 24:50

Yeah. It's called Artica. I think it's like Arctic. But there should be the Arctic Sea up there. By like Alaska.

SPEAKER_02 24:58

The Arctic Ocean. Oh my gosh. Okay, so there is nothing up here. Well, there's still there's Russia. There's Russia and there's Greenland. And then there's parts of Canada. I don't know what that is. And then this is Antarctica.

SPEAKER_00 25:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:17

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 25:19

I'm glad that every time we have a podcast when we do a podcast episode together, we learn something. You learn something, I should say.

SPEAKER_02 25:29

Okay, so s my my wife is really gonna hate that one.

SPEAKER_00 25:35

Oh, real bad, dude.

SPEAKER_02 25:37

Oh my god. I never knew that the art. I just thought that, like oh my god, I thought they were the same thing.

SPEAKER_00 25:46

I just like snow crabs and king crabs.

SPEAKER_02 25:49

I just thought like when people were like, oh, like the Arctic.

SPEAKER_00 25:52

Did you not watch Deadlies Catch?

SPEAKER_02 25:54

No. Oh what a show. Like when people like I've heard of the Arctic Ocean. I thought that was next to Antarctica. What's this? What's the Antarctica Ocean?

SPEAKER_00 26:04

That's a good question, actually. I don't know that.

SPEAKER_02 26:07

Weddles Sea? Wow. I think it's the Pacific. No. Well, it kind of touches all of it.

SPEAKER_00 26:14

I guess that makes sense. I mean it's a pretty large landmass.

SPEAKER_02 26:18

Wow. Do people live on Antarctica?

SPEAKER_00 26:20

No, but we do have researchers.

unknown 26:22

Christmas.

SPEAKER_00 26:23

So I guess they kind of. But like there's not a native like colony or anything like that. Just a lot of penguins. Hell yeah. And leopard seals. You ever see those suckers? They're kind of scary. Yeah, they are very aggressive. Yeah. And those teeth will rip you up.

SPEAKER_02 26:39

Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 26:41

Now that we know that I'm a fing idiot. You're not an idiot, just oblivious. Okay. We don't talk negatively about ourselves. Okay, fine.

SPEAKER_02 26:48

Okay. Her hobbies included surfing, rock, and ice climbing, programming, community service, triathlons, yoga, backpacking, woodworking, photography, and travel. She is a well-versed lady. Cook is a native of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Okay, close to home. Grew up in Jacksonville, North Carolina, and resided in Livingston, Montana when she was selected to join the Astronaut Corp. Growing up, growing up, spending summers on her family's farm in Michigan, she was instilled with a passion for hard work and challenges.

SPEAKER_00 27:30

Yeah. I love that. Very passionate about her Philly sports. Kind of like Dawn Staley.

SPEAKER_02 27:34

I love that. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 27:36

And the same. Imagine one, you're an astronaut. But two, you're just as passionate as the Dawn Staley about Philadelphia sports. I love it. An icon.

SPEAKER_02 27:47

Cook attended North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

SPEAKER_00 27:52

You know who also attended NC State?

SPEAKER_02 27:54

What? Oh, yeah, I did know that. I didn't know where you were going. I was like, I don't know a lot about scientists and astronauts. So just tell me. I was staying in the sports realm. Okay, okay. Yeah, she attended North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she earned Bachelor of Science degrees in electrical engineering and physics, and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering, and studied abroad at the University of Ghana. She attended high school at the North Carolina School of Science. Wow. And you and math in Durham, North Carolina, and White Oak High School in Jacksonville. She went to a lot of high schools, man. She later received an honorary PhD from North Carolina State University. Nice. What an icon. What an icon. What an icon. All right. So now we have Jeremy Hansen, is a Canadian space agency astronaut. He will become the first Canadian to ever venture to the moon. Hansen holds a Bachelor of Science in Space Science, first class honors from the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. He earned a Master of Science in Physics from the same institution in 2000 with research focused on wide field of view satellite tracking. Now, I didn't get a whole lot of info on him because when I would click the link for his bio, it would send me to Canada's website. And it was a just a full timeline of things that he's done throughout his his career, which was like literally all the way back to like when he was like in high school or went to college, participates in the European Space Agency Caves program. Oh, yeah, yeah. So he not only has explored, he explored the vast space. He's also explored underground. That's pretty rad. Did you know that? I did not know that. That's a fun fact for me. And so, like he Jeremy Hansen is a crew member of Nemo 19, where he lives and works on the ocean floor of the Aquarius habitat off Key Largo, Florida, for seven days, simulating deep space exploration. Makes sense. Right. So yeah, he's he's just been really low and really high. Yeah. Well he's done it all. All right, so now we're gonna get into the actual mission day by day. Day one, the launch. The crew arrived at Kennedy Space Center on March 27th, and the launch countdown began on March 30th. The mission launched aboard an SLS rocket on April 1st from Kennedy Space Center's launch complex 39B at do you know the time?

unknown 30:44

No.

SPEAKER_02 30:45

2235 local time at the launch site. So that's what p.m.

SPEAKER_00 30:50

They launched at in at night? I didn't think so. They launched they launched at like 6 30. Okay, well. That's what they that's what was on maybe that's when they like left the atmosphere? Maybe. Because it was during the day. It was like 6 30.

SPEAKER_02 31:07

I don't well, I don't know. I it's just research I did.

SPEAKER_00 31:14

I would assume it's probably like maybe when they left atmosphere. Because it was definitely like 1830 when they took off, when they officially launched off the pad. Because it was very nerve-wracking for me.

SPEAKER_02 31:27

Yeah. I was honestly, I'm not gonna lie, I was kind of tweaking when they were coming back. I was a little nervous. Oh, I was very nervous. Again, as we've talked about. Well, because I also like was really looking forward to like playing games and hanging out with our friends, and I was like, damn, this is gonna really be a mood killer. Yes. Oh, that was bad wording, but sorry. Well, thankfully they came back safe, so they did. They did, they did, they did. The four RS-25 main engines on the core stage ignited approximately seven seconds before lift off, after their performance was confirmed at full power. The solid rocket boosters, whose ignition cannot be reversed, ignited T minus zero, providing the majority of thrust during the first two minutes. Booster separation occurred roughly at 30 or I'm sorry, 3100 miles per hour and an altitude of 30 miles.

SPEAKER_00 32:13

You know what's crazy? 3100 mile an hour sounds fast as fuck. Fast as fuck, boy. Do you know what their top speed was? Wasn't it like 700,000? That was m miles that they went. But the miles per hour that they went was approximately the top speed was approximately 24,600 mile an hour.

SPEAKER_02 32:35

Wouldn't that just look quite literally blow your face off?

SPEAKER_00 32:38

That's why they have heat shields. I mean they still feel the heat, don't get me wrong, but the heat shields stop them from burning up.

SPEAKER_02 32:44

No, I mean, but like wouldn't your face feel like it's just getting separated from your body?

SPEAKER_00 32:49

A little bit, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:50

Okay, you again, I'm gonna say this one more time. You have got to read Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reed. It's literally all about, like, it's so it's all it's basically this, but like it's so good. I'm not kidding.

SPEAKER_00 33:04

But it's fiction. I like non-fiction.

SPEAKER_02 33:07

Okay, that's fair, but whatever. Okay, so they went so they went hella fast. The the boosters sub subsequently splashed down and uh in the Atlantic Ocean about six minutes after launch and were not recovered. Wiseman monitored the launch from the seat of Orion at the primary controls. The flight was fully automated and no crew intervention was required. Though Wiseman would have been able to issue an abort command if necessary, which was not correct. So to continue on with day one, their high earth orbit and system checkout. So this is when they basically looped around to the earth. And and what was the premise of doing that?

SPEAKER_00 33:49

I don't know 100% for fact on that question, but my assumption would probably be just to ensure that everything was good as far as systems and the ship itself. We kind of talked about it the other night, but there was a lot of things we've learned through Challenger in Columbia. And the thing that always sticks out with my mind for Columbia, which was the one in 2003, that one always sticks with me because I do remember it. And so I've done a lot of deep diving into it just because I I remember watching it, it's ingrained in my head. You know, the thing with that one, it was kind of screwed from the start because the damage to the heat shield happened upon launch. Oh, so when they came back, they were gonna be screwed regardless because that heat shield, it was literally a piece of foam.

SPEAKER_02 34:42

Okay, so did they did they know?

SPEAKER_00 34:46

They had a clue. I don't think they knew how bad the actual damage was.

SPEAKER_02 34:50

Because like that would have been awful to be up in space knowing that I would have said we'll just live up here.

SPEAKER_00 34:57

Might as well until fuel runs out.

SPEAKER_02 35:01

What would happen if fuel runs out?

SPEAKER_00 35:03

You come crashing down, you don't have any boosters or rockets to keep you hauled up.

SPEAKER_02 35:08

But you can't come crashing down from where? Space. How are you gonna come crashing down from space?

SPEAKER_00 35:17

Because there's still a set of gravity.

SPEAKER_02 35:20

Okay, yeah, we talked about this because of the moon. They weren't past the moon. So how far would you have to go past the moon to I mean, every planet still has gravity. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 35:29

I just thought that you're gonna be.

SPEAKER_02 35:43

Yeah, what they all are. I just thought I thought just I just thought when you were in space, you were just floating. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 35:53

Well, I mean, kind of like in a sense, right? If you think about like with the moon, obviously they have a pretty light gravity pull, so you kind of like bounce, but you always come back down, just not as fast as if you jump on Earth.

SPEAKER_02 36:06

Wow. Again, science is not my forte. And I get that, and that's okay. And I like talking about things that I don't know. Okay, so they did their high orbit and system checkout, and then on flight day two, after completing the high Earth orbit operations and system verification, the crew with the crew was authorized to perform a five-minute 49-second TLI burn using the main AJ-10 engine out of the ESM. The maneuver consumed about 1,000 pounds of hypergolic propellants.

SPEAKER_00 36:45

I don't know what that means, if you're gonna ask me. Nope.

SPEAKER_02 36:48

And placed the spacecraft on a free return trajectory, allowing it to loop around the moon and return to Earth without further propulsion, aside from minor course corrections. On flight day three, the first of three planned outbound trajectory correction burns were deemed unnecessary after the mission control determined the spacecraft was already on a favorite, a favorable trajectory. The crew was also in the crew also encountered a space toilet issue when urine froze in the vent lines, preventing it from being dumped into space. It was resolved using vent heaters and by rotating the spacecraft to expose the vent to sunlight. They're damn pee froze.

SPEAKER_00 37:37

They're damn pee froze. But the funniest part about it is they also, for those that use Microsoft products, you will all find this hilarious and appreciate it. Outlook was not working. Microsoft Outlook was not working. Reed Wiseman chimed down and was like, Yeah, I've got two different Outlooks open and neither of them are working. It's the most Microsoft thing of all time ever. Literally ever.

SPEAKER_02 38:07

On flight day four, Cook and Hansen took turns manually controlling the spacecraft to evaluate its performance in deep space. Over 41 minutes, they tested two thruster control modes to provide engines with further data and perspectives on the spacecraft's handling qualities. On flight day five, Orion performed a 17.5 second outbound trajectory correction to burn correction burn to refine its path to the moon. Of the three planned outbound correction burns, this was the only one executed. The crew also tested their Orion crew survival system units, conducting leak checks, simulating seat ingress, and assessing mobility, as well as their ability to eat, while eat and drink while suited. The suits are designed to protect astronauts during dynamic phases of flight to provide life support in the event of cabin depressurization and support post-splown survival operations. Mission control also transmitted the final list of lunar surface features selected for observation and photography during the flyby. Their crew completed final preparations and held a conference with controllers to review targets and finalize observation techniques. Now, on to the best part. Six and sever. Oopsie again. Oh my god, you can't make this shit up.

SPEAKER_00 39:51

The emotions are overtaking us.

SPEAKER_02 39:54

Day six and seven, lunar. I think that's why I was getting stuck was because I knew lunar was coming up. Day six and seven, lunar flyby and return flight. On flight day six, Orion entered the moon sphere of influence where lunar gravity became the dominant force shaping its trajectory. Orion flew around the moon at a at a closest approach of about 4,067 miles from the far side lunar surface at 2300 UTC on April 6th. Its furthest distance from the Earth was 252,756 miles. And it surpassed Apollo 13's 248,655 miles record as the farthest crewed mission from the Earth. As the crew passed behind the moon, Orion experienced loss of signal for 40 minutes.

SPEAKER_00 40:52

It was technically 48.

SPEAKER_02 40:54

Okay, thank you for correcting.

SPEAKER_00 40:56

Was that planned? Yes, they knew that was gonna happen. Gotcha. It was very nerve-wracking though, regardless, because there was we had nothing for 48 minutes. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:09

During their flyby, the crew observed two unnamed craters, which they proposed to be named Integrity after the after their spacecraft, and Carol. The crater was designated to honor Anne Carol Taylor Wiseman, the deceased wife of Artemis II commander Reed Wiseman. Wiseman was married to Anne Carroll until her death from cancer in 2020. You gonna be okay? I haven't stopped crying about this.

SPEAKER_00 41:36

It's just so sweet. And well, and the really cool like thing about obviously these astronauts have trained together for years. Like they really are like a family. And before they took off, Christine Victor and Jeremy went to Reed and said, Hey, we want to do this for you. We, you know, like I said, they were a family. They knew Carol, they knew all the just struggles that he has gone through, obviously raising two girls without the love of his life. And that's always a hard thing, right? And they wanted to dedicate this because he Reed really struggled. Like, should I do this? I still have my two girls. Is this the right decision? And he ultimately knew if Carol were still here, it's what she would want. And so that's why he still decided to go through it. And they said, We want to dedicate something to her. And he said, I would love that, but I can't make the call. And that's why Jeremy Hansen was the one calling down, saying, Hey, we found this crater, crater on the moon. It's a bright spot on the moon. And he even made sure to spell it out because she spells her name as C-A-R-R-O-L, not just like C-A-R-O-L, which is you know the more common spelling of it. And he wanted to make sure that he would get it right. And you can hear his voice breaking as he's saying it because he has so much love for these astronauts, and he recognizes the challenges that Reed has had to face, being a literal astronaut who has now seen the backside of the moon losing his wife, yeah, raising his two girls. Right. There's so many things with it. It's so emotional because you can just feel the warmth. And after he finishes saying it, you know, Reed's sitting to the side and he immediately just floats right to Jeremy, and they all get in this group hug, and their tears are just floating through space. Their tears were literally floating. I mean, how can you not be remote, just romantic about space? I'm scared of it. Very two different people here.

SPEAKER_02 43:48

Yeah, but no, it was it was a very, very sweet moment, and I thought it was a truly, truly beautiful. And I love that the the fact that they were like, it's a bright spot, and like yes, it was like truly. What got me?

SPEAKER_00 44:00

It's a bright spot on the moon. If you need to find it, look for the bright spot. He carried his love for her to the moon and back.

SPEAKER_02 44:10

That's so sweet. Literally, when someone says, I love you to the moon and back, he can literally mean it now.

SPEAKER_00 44:16

Yes. Wow. And you know, I saw like a few things, and he was like, He's gonna go home to his girls and be like, if you look at the moon, there's your mom. Okay, that's romantic as hell. Yeah, yeah. Like he loved her so much, he brought her to the moon. He loved his kid's mother so much that he brought her to the moon.

SPEAKER_02 44:44

That's beautiful.

SPEAKER_00 44:45

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 44:45

And that was probably but not the end of the emotions with this. No. I've seen you shed some tears in regards to this space, the space mission.

SPEAKER_00 44:56

I haven't cried like this in years. My anti-anxiety meds, they don't let me cry. But even this, I was able to cry through.

SPEAKER_02 45:06

Because I feel like it was just like I like happy tears, like well, and it was everybody rooting for the same cause, right? It's it's truly like a really, really cool experience, though, to like know that you're witnessing an a historical event.

SPEAKER_00 45:21

Like that was the first time in 55 years. If you are 55 years or younger, you have not seen an event like this occur.

SPEAKER_02 45:28

Right.

SPEAKER_00 45:29

A successful event like this occur. So it is very emotional. It's again, it's the ambition coming back. You know, it's not just a capitalistic nightmare. It's seeing what's out there. What are we capable of as what are we capable as human beings?

SPEAKER_02 45:49

Yeah, yeah, no, it's really beautiful.

SPEAKER_00 45:51

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 45:51

And it was hence why it was. It was honestly like, okay, so for us, because we watched it at your house and we had our pretty much our whole group of friends together. And that in itself was kind of a beautiful moment. Like me and Platty were over there just like hugging each other, and like nerding out, and like Kristen was crying, and then then you have like me and Mindy just like rage baiting everybody on the couch.

SPEAKER_00 46:14

And Anna, don't forget my own lovely, lovely wife. I love you so much, honey. Rage baiting me as well.

SPEAKER_02 46:21

Yeah. But like, I don't know, it was just like like you'll like we'll always remember, like, you know, that moment, like 50 years from now, when I'm we'll be like, well, we were all like together, brother.

SPEAKER_00 46:33

50 years, you think I'm still gonna be alive? That's 80 years old.

SPEAKER_02 46:36

Okay, so like in 30 years from now. You're still pushing it there, but still, in any length of time, we're gonna look back and like like talk about it, and I'm gonna be like, Wow, like I was with like my group of friends, like my our family, yeah, like our chosen family. Yes, very much it was yeah, I don't know, it's just like really cool. It's like the same thing like that I experienced when we watched the the solar eclipse because like obviously with Kristen being like a space nerd, science nerd.

SPEAKER_00 47:07

It's why Kristen and I are such good friends because we can tism over the same things, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:11

Yes, but like it was just like so like thrilling, like truly, like I got so much more enjoyment watching Kristen's face during the solar eclipse than like actually watching the solar eclipse itself. It was just like the passion, pure pure happiness and giddiness, and just like like it's like watching a kid again. Yeah, it yes, it was like it was like her inner childhood coming out, yeah. Like truly her inner her little Kristen was like fully out and like it was just it was just really after the blackout, Orion experienced a solar eclipse. It lasted for 57 minutes. The crew donned eclipse glasses until the sun was fully obscured, after which they observed both the solar corona as well as impact flashes from meteoroids impacting the dark portion of the moon. Stars and planets, including Venus, Mars, Saturn, and Mercury, were visible alongside the corona, as was Earthshine illuminating the moon. On April 7th, 2026, Orion and its crew exited the lunar sphere of influence, journeying back to Earth. And that kind of concludes the notes that I have because when I did this research, we did not before they came back.

SPEAKER_00 48:32

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 48:33

I gotcha. Yes. So Friday, which what was Friday's date? 410? Yeah, 410, because it was Derek's birthday. Yeah. So on April 10th, 2026, they did make it back to Earth with a very successful splashdown. It was a very nerve-wracking experience because I was so afraid that we were going to witness something very tragic. Obviously, because like the only thing that we have is like in our lifetime is Columbia. And that was tragic, beyond tragic. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 49:04

Did I tell you that when it blew up, they were still alive?

SPEAKER_02 49:08

You did say that, and that's even horrifying. So, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 49:12

I would still get in a spaceship though, in a heartbeat. If if anyone ever gave me the chance to go to the moon, I don't even like going on airplanes, but I would go on a spaceship so fast.

SPEAKER_02 49:24

I love space. You know what's so crazy is you won't get on a boat.

SPEAKER_00 49:29

No. Well, I'll get on a boat, I just won't go on a cruise ship. And why? Because it's just one, it's too many people, first and foremost. Okay. In my older years, I've become more cranky.

SPEAKER_02 49:41

Speaking of a lot of people, guess where I went last night on my way home?

SPEAKER_00 49:45

Where?

SPEAKER_02 49:46

Bucky's? We stopped at Bucky's.

SPEAKER_00 49:47

We almost we went over to my in-laws last night, and we were just sitting there chilling out or whatever. We're like, oh my god, we should go to Bussies.

SPEAKER_02 49:56

Bussies.

SPEAKER_00 49:57

Bussies.

SPEAKER_02 49:57

Yeah, no, we were on our way home, and my sister asked the girls, like, should we stop at Bucky's? And they're like, Yeah. How was it? Chaotic. I have never seen so many people at a gas station. It's literally a gas station. That's what Quinn kept saying. She was like, I don't understand why there's so many people here. It's literally a gas station. Right. And people are like, That would send me into a panic. No, okay, so every single pump was taken. And if you know anything about Bucky's, they have like 50 plus pumps. Yeah. Every single pump was taken.

SPEAKER_00 50:31

It's like a what TA. You know what I'm talking about? It's usually off the highway. Yes. It's like that. Like there's just a shit ton of pumps.

SPEAKER_02 50:39

Yes. And every like literally we had to park in the back. Mind you, this was like 9 30, 10 o'clock at night.

SPEAKER_00 50:47

Was this the one in Hubert Heights?

SPEAKER_02 50:49

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 50:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 50:49

Yes. Well, it's new. It's new. It literally opened last weekend, but still that's crazy. Yeah, it opened over Easter.

SPEAKER_00 50:55

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 50:56

I didn't realize that. Uh-huh. And a couple got engaged there. Oh, at the opening. I said that's that's very telling.

SPEAKER_00 51:04

Listen, there was like when I proposed to Anna, it was down in the harbor in Baltimore. It's literally like my favorite story to tell. I was nervous as hell. And like shaking. And thankfully our friends were there to like keep me calm. But there, we went into the harbor in Baltimore, and there were some people out on the pier. There was like six people. It wasn't even that many. Six people was enough. I was dripping sweat. I could not imagine being at a Bucky's with like probably hundreds of people or like a hundred people watching me propose. No thanks.

SPEAKER_02 51:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 51:40

No thanks.

SPEAKER_02 51:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 51:43

I would do our proposal over again because it was so pretty. And then we went to Rockwell. Rest in peace. It's closing down. What? Yeah. Well, it became too mainstream. Oh. The last time we went, they played Justin Bieber. Yeah. Like new Justin Bieber. And I said, yeah, this place ain't it. So unfortunately, the peers kind of becoming lame.

SPEAKER_02 52:03

They're splashdown.

SPEAKER_00 52:04

Right. Yeah, before Bucky's. Yes. I got a little distracted.

SPEAKER_02 52:07

Oh yeah, we went to Bucky's. It was fucking crazy.

SPEAKER_00 52:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 52:09

But yeah. So on Friday they sp they were going to be completing their re-entry. And they did. And they did. And they splashed down in the Pacific Ocean by San Diego. San Diego.

SPEAKER_00 52:25

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 52:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 52:26

And then US Navy ship picked them up.

SPEAKER_02 52:28

It took them so long to get out of the spaceship.

SPEAKER_00 52:30

Well, they also had to make sure that they were all okay within and let their bodies adjust to like normal atmosphere again.

SPEAKER_02 52:37

Okay, that was dude. My freaking vertigo could never. My vertigo could never.

SPEAKER_00 52:45

I literally would be vomiting. Vomiting. Dead from dehydration because you'd vomit so much.

SPEAKER_02 52:52

No, literally. I would be like, I would be dead. I would be dead. I literally yesterday going to Quinn's cheer competition and climbing up and down the bleachers and going like high and low and high and low. I was getting dizzy from that. I could not go to and from space. Absolutely not. I would literally vomit.

SPEAKER_00 53:14

But I also I think very, very thankful I don't get car sick though.

SPEAKER_02 53:19

Oh yeah, I can't even I yeah, I don't have to worry about that.

SPEAKER_00 53:22

So like I feel like I would be fine.

SPEAKER_02 53:24

I did notice, I did notice last night though that I don't get as car sick at night when I can't see anything.

SPEAKER_00 53:30

Kind of makes sense, right? Because your body can't like realize as well that you're moving without moving. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 53:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 53:39

Like in the daylight, it's easier for your brain to comprehend that you're yeah, I'm sitting in the house.

SPEAKER_02 53:44

Yeah, yeah. Because like I totally like was reading a book on the way home.

SPEAKER_00 53:47

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_02 53:48

Yeah. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 53:49

It does make sense, though. I can see or I can see why that would make sense.

SPEAKER_02 53:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 53:53

As far as a splash down goes, they it was a successful re-entry. The heat shields did withstand it. I'm trying to remember I can't remember the exact temperature. Well, you said it earlier. What was the exact temperature?

SPEAKER_02 54:09

Oh, I don't remember.

SPEAKER_00 54:10

You said something about it earlier. Did I? I thought so. It might have been before we started recording. Regardless, it got up to thousands and thousands of degree. And the heat shield did withstand it. They landed exactly on time, exactly where they were supposed to. And then a U.S. Navy ship based out of San Diego. There's a Navy and Marine Corps base in San Diego. So there's a lot of military personnel there. Once they landed, they did have to wait just to make sure one, that their everyone was uninjured. The capsule itself was stable so that they can move within it. And to make sure that their bodies correctly adjusted to the pressure change, because obviously that's a huge pressure change between between space and earth alone is huge in itself, but then you add in all that heat. Uh you just have to make sure that everything is stable between the astronauts' bodies and the capsule itself so that they could be around it and move around it. Truly it was emotional. It was such an emotional and thrilling scene to watch. Because them emerging was anticlimatic for me. Yeah, well, they again they took a while.

SPEAKER_02 55:21

They did.

SPEAKER_00 55:22

I know a lot of people were mad about that, but I mean they do have to make sure they're okay.

SPEAKER_02 55:26

I because I don't have the attention span, was like, does anyone want to play Euchre?

SPEAKER_00 55:30

Literally, and I was like, Are you kidding me? Euchre of all things.

SPEAKER_02 55:34

Yeah, so I didn't even watch them come out, but I watched them land. And it was actually, actually, actually, I did not watch them enter the water. I turned my head to look at Kristen right as they hit the water, and that's when she was like, she like burst into tears. And I like turned around and I said, Bam, I missed it. It's like me when I watch football and I miss every single kickoff. It's a every single tip off. It's like I turned my head right at the wrong fucking moment, man. I can't.

SPEAKER_00 56:04

You're too busy trying to look at your life.

SPEAKER_02 56:07

So, so annoying.

SPEAKER_00 56:08

Yeah. But that's okay. I mean, it was still incredible. It was. I watched it, it'll forever be ingrained.

SPEAKER_02 56:14

I'm sure that there's clips on TikTok that I can rewatch.

SPEAKER_00 56:17

And on YouTube, the full clips on YouTube.

SPEAKER_02 56:19

Oh. They were flashing back in between the infrared and the regular camera, and we're like, why is it in black and white?

SPEAKER_00 56:26

Yeah. Well, and why is it like three miles away?

SPEAKER_02 56:29

Yeah. It literally was so confusing.

SPEAKER_00 56:31

I think Anna said she found a clip of it like from a plane, so that it was like closer or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 56:37

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 56:38

But I don't know where she found that. Maybe Tic Tac. Tiki tacky. Ticki-Tacky. Yeah. It was but I I think the main point of it is how monumental this is. We didn't we haven't mentioned it before, but the goal is for 2027. I don't know if it's going to be an Artemis as well, but they do plan on landing on the moon and walking it. So this was monumental in ensuring that our spacecraft is ready, our astronauts are ready.

SPEAKER_02 57:09

How are they going to land on the moon?

SPEAKER_00 57:11

They'll probably use thrusters to slow down their landing. And then they'll also have the help of the fact that the moon doesn't have a stronger gravity pull as Earth. They'll have to use a mix of both. There's a lot of science and math behind it, and I'm not good at science. Well, I'm good at science, but not math.

SPEAKER_02 57:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 57:29

Math is not my strong suit. And also I don't have a degree in aerospace engineering.

SPEAKER_02 57:34

Okay. I have a thought. Okay. And it's gonna make you mad. Go ahead. Okay. So if it takes so much force to lift off of Earth, I just don't see how they're going to be able to land on the moon and then retake off.

SPEAKER_00 57:51

They'll they'll have a different like fuel lodges. I don't know. They'll still have to build it, they'll still have to build it different because they'll have to have that extra fuel, but it's plenty doable. Okay. I mean, we'll see literally like next year.

SPEAKER_02 58:07

Yeah, that's true.

unknown 58:09

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 58:10

And if anyone tries to say next year is fake, I will personally fight you out back with a socker locks.

SPEAKER_02 58:17

A socker locks. Yes. Yeah, I don't know. It just like seems crazy.

SPEAKER_00 58:20

It's just I mean, you also have to remember they've been kind of like researching and perfecting this for decades. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 58:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 58:29

No, I get that. I get that. Like I know it's hard to like comprehend or like understand, but I mean it's not some new project that they're working on. This has been in the making for five, six decades.

SPEAKER_02 58:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 58:44

So they I mean, there they'll there's gonna be hiccups, obviously. This is not a quick and easy project or anything like that, but they know what they're doing. They have a pretty good hold.

SPEAKER_02 58:56

I'm excited to see it. I really am. I'm excited to see it. Me too. Crazy. Crazy talk, though. Do you have any final thoughts on this mission that you have not said thus far?

SPEAKER_00 59:10

I mean, it really was just an incredible view of human ambition, human capabilities. It was a mission of love, really. It was a mission of four strangers who came together and I mean kind of it changed lives. I mean, it changed my life in a better way. I uh I think it's easier to see it's easier to see the earth and the people on earth as a team when you see these four strangers come together and complete something like this. Yeah. So I think for the greater good of humanity, this is kind of what we needed. Bring us it gave everyone something to cheer for, a common thing to cheer for.

SPEAKER_02 59:54

Like good news for once.

SPEAKER_00 59:55

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And again, it was strangers getting along.

SPEAKER_02 59:59

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:00

Because I can't get along with strangers, so it was good to see.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:02

I don't like people.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:03

Yeah, no, me neither. Bucky's was hard last night, okay? Before you know it, I'm gonna be telling kids to get off my lawn.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:09

Probably, because you you are the epitome of a grandfather.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:14

Yes, I do like my recliner. I like to be in my recliner by 8 30.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:19

Yeah. But yeah, I I am I was suggested this topic, and I was like, I don't know if I could really do it because I didn't know too much. And it was so fun to research because I because I didn't know, and y'all know me, I love to learn things that I don't know. And so sometimes I say things that I is you know, didn't realize that Arctic and Antarctica were two different things, but you know, we move on from our day.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:44

Was that your favorite thing to learn?

SPEAKER_02 1:00:47

No, honestly, I still am gonna have to circle back to learning that Japan was part of World War II.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:51

Oh boy. I have actually forgotten about that. I think I did that on purpose.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:57

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm learning things every day, and it's making me a better person.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:03

That's a great thing about having a podcast. You're constantly learning, and that's what we need to do. We need to be curious, we need to be ambitious, we need to try to change the world and all the small things that we do.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:14

Yes, yes, I agree.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:15

I agree, I agree. This is a great podcast. I had a great time.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:19

Thank you. Thank you again for joining me. Yes. Anything that is like completely nerdified is going to probably be Alex joining me because it just happens to be topics of interest for him. Touch of the Tism. Touch of the Tism. But, anyways, as always, thank you so much for listening to my podcast. Please subscribe wherever you listen to this and follow me on all of my social medias. I have a Facebook page, an Instagram page, a TikTok page. You can also email me at I've Got SomethingToSAypod. If you have any comments, oh sorry, I've got something to say pod at gmail.com. If you have any comments on today's episode or suggestions for future episodes or just anything that you want to tell me, any feedback, I'm totally open for it. And I hope you guys all have a great rest of your week. And once again, please don't forget to look into buying the book What If It Was Us by Annelyn. Okay, have a great day. Bye.