Latest / INSIGHT TODAY / Artemis II crew lifts off for the moon
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- 0:02Speaker 1: One minute.
- 0:04Speaker 2: Right now, the rocket does not know what the T
- 0:06Speaker 2: zero is, but coming up at T minus thirty three seconds,
- 0:09Speaker 2: control shifts from the ground launch sequencer to the rockets
- 0:12Speaker 2: on board autonomous launch Sequencer or ALS. The rocket will
- 0:16Speaker 2: count itself down, but honor any holds that could come
- 0:20Speaker 2: from the ground. Now. Shortly after liftoff, Houston will take
- 0:24Speaker 2: control of the rocket and my colleague Gary Jordan will
- 0:26Speaker 2: take over commentary. GLS go for alf great call out.
- 0:33Speaker 2: The rocket is on its own. Four brave explorers ready
- 0:36Speaker 2: to ride the most powerful rocket NASA has ever launched.
- 0:46Speaker 2: Sound suppression, water is flowing, and here we go. Ten
- 0:53Speaker 2: nine eight seven rs twenty five injuries late four two
- 1:01Speaker 2: one booster ignition and lift off. The crew of Artemis
- 1:07Speaker 2: two now bound for the Moon. Humanity's next great voyage begins.
- 1:16Speaker 3: Good roll, Bitch.
- 1:19Speaker 4: R.
- 1:23Speaker 5: Houston now controlling the flight of Integrity on the Artemis
- 1:26Speaker 5: two mission round.
- 1:31Speaker 6: Antegrity a m D high on time.
- 1:37Speaker 5: Passing thirty seconds.
- 1:38Speaker 2: To the US.
- 1:39Speaker 5: Integrity passes the Ultimate Eagle target Milestone. Mission control uston
- 1:43Speaker 5: seeing good performance and employing engines space punch system Core
- 1:46Speaker 5: stage Integrity three miles in altitude, traveling more than twelve
- 1:52Speaker 5: hundred miles.
- 1:52Speaker 7: Per hour, Humanity's next great voyage begins.
- 2:13Speaker 5: We've just heard it.
- 2:14Speaker 7: Here that Baton has been passing launch control in Florida
- 2:18Speaker 7: to mission control in Houston. Jill, give us a sense
- 2:22Speaker 7: of what you're seeing and feeling on the ground there.
- 2:26Speaker 4: Lindsay, I cannot look away. Quite frankly, I cannot look
- 2:29Speaker 4: away because.
- 2:30Speaker 2: This is just so spectacular.
- 2:32Speaker 4: You are talking about a spacecraft that has just made
- 2:35Speaker 4: the entire ground here. Just shake, it vibrates up your body.
- 2:40Speaker 4: I always tell people, make sure your feet are on
- 2:43Speaker 4: the ground, make sure that you are feeling it.
- 2:45Speaker 5: And we are.
- 2:46Speaker 4: Seeing a gorgeous, gorgeous lift off here. There is not
- 2:49Speaker 4: a cloud in the sky. All of Florida at this
- 2:52Speaker 4: point should have been able to see that launch and
- 2:55Speaker 4: still see this out in the sky, just as you're
- 2:58Speaker 4: seeing it right there on TV right now.
- 3:00Speaker 3: It's truly incredible.
- 3:02Speaker 4: The sounds you feel, the emotion you feel as that
- 3:06Speaker 4: vibration moves through your body. It's quite incredible.
- 3:09Speaker 7: Wmdsy a mission with so much promise. You see the
- 3:13Speaker 7: face is there, all eyes looking upward, capturing this moment.
- 3:18Speaker 7: The rocket boosters are about to separate. They have just separated.
- 3:24Speaker 7: What a day for humanity and space exploration. Doctor Alushe, Oh.
- 3:29Speaker 3: My goodness, I was holding by breath. I'm always both
- 3:34Speaker 3: excited and scared during a launch. This is spectacular. I
- 3:38Speaker 3: wish I was there.
- 3:39Speaker 7: No one really expects to be able to bear witness
- 3:42Speaker 7: to something like this. As I said earlier, if you're
- 3:45Speaker 7: under the age of fifty five, you haven't seen it.
- 3:48Speaker 7: What does it mean to you to see this?
- 3:49Speaker 3: Well, this is a new frontier. We are now going
- 3:53Speaker 3: back to that frontier of the Moon. We are a
- 3:56Speaker 3: new America, we are a new planet Earth. And now
- 3:59Speaker 3: this is a next step. This is the very beginning,
- 4:02Speaker 3: and hopefully this will become a common occurrence.
- 4:06Speaker 7: For two hundred and fifty thousand mile trips that they
- 4:09Speaker 7: are about to take to get to the Moon. Susan,
- 4:13Speaker 7: give us a sense of your reaction here.
- 4:17Speaker 1: I think it was picture perfect. It couldn't have been
- 4:20Speaker 1: any better. They've still got a few minutes before main
- 4:25Speaker 1: engine cut off when they get in, but so far
- 4:30Speaker 1: everything's looking perfect.
- 4:33Speaker 7: And doctor Arian Anderson, I want to bring you in
- 4:37Speaker 7: if you can hear me, give us a sense of
- 4:40Speaker 7: the physiological changes that the crew is going through in
- 4:43Speaker 7: this moment.
- 4:44Speaker 3: We need to stay on boards Dan.
- 4:47Speaker 6: And Houston has you loud and clear on theaters at
- 4:50Speaker 6: the common line back in their seats, which is part
- 4:52Speaker 6: of the reason that they lay down flat when they
- 4:55Speaker 6: load into the Brian capsule. And then once they reached
- 4:59Speaker 6: that Miko that engine cut off.
- 5:01Speaker 5: They'll be waiting cook and hands and crossed.
- 5:03Speaker 6: Their bodies will start adapting over the next few hours,
- 5:05Speaker 6: in a few days to be better prepared to live
- 5:08Speaker 6: in work in space.
- 5:10Speaker 7: It talked to us about the medical system that's on
- 5:13Speaker 7: board orian and the health medical research that they have. Well,
- 5:17Speaker 7: first I do want to take a listen in again.
- 5:27Speaker 7: The doctor want to bring you back in there. The
- 5:30Speaker 7: same question to you that the medical system on board
- 5:33Speaker 7: on Ariane and the health medical research that they have
- 5:35Speaker 7: access to as well.
- 5:38Speaker 2: Well.
- 5:38Speaker 6: At the cornerstone of this mission really is looking at
- 5:41Speaker 6: how the human being integrates into a larger engineering system
- 5:45Speaker 6: like a rocket ship. Really, so a lot of the
- 5:48Speaker 6: systems on the rockets they behave predictably, we can test
- 5:51Speaker 6: them to failure, but the human being they often are
- 5:55Speaker 6: prone to failure randomly. At night, I could go home
- 5:58Speaker 6: and have appendicitis, but then we also are resilient and
- 6:01Speaker 6: innovative and creative, and so the big point of this
- 6:06Speaker 6: mission is really how our human systems, how the life
- 6:08Speaker 6: supports systems help support our crew and make sure that
- 6:12Speaker 6: this vehicles the workforce we as we push further and
- 6:16Speaker 6: further to the Moon and further into space.
- 6:18Speaker 5: Integrity three engine.
- 6:20Speaker 7: CREP integrity, of course, the name that the crew actually
- 6:26Speaker 7: gave their spacecraft.
- 6:28Speaker 5: Five minutes twenty seconds of mission elapse time into the
- 6:31Speaker 5: Artemis two mission. At this point, three good main engines
- 6:34Speaker 5: are all that's needed to carry integrity to a nominal
- 6:36Speaker 5: main engine cut off target. So at this time we're
- 6:39Speaker 5: saying four good engines here in Mission control Houston integrity
- 6:42Speaker 5: seventy five miles in altitude, three hundred and thirty miles
- 6:45Speaker 5: down range, approaching ten thousand miles per hour.
- 6:50Speaker 7: Ten thousand miles per hour. We just saw a few
- 6:54Speaker 7: fist pumps and of course applause there on the ground.
- 6:57Speaker 7: And that capsule is the size of two minivans, So
- 7:02Speaker 7: you have four people who are going to be spending
- 7:04Speaker 7: the next ten days. Of course there's a little more
- 7:06Speaker 7: space actually, because no gravity in there, you can actually
- 7:11Speaker 7: kind of float around above,