Fighter Pilot Podcast listeners with today's exciting and successful launch of Artemis 2, we thought it was the perfect time to re-release episode 189 from 2024.

A fascinating conversation between the Artemis 2 Mission Commander, Reed Wiseman, and our very own flounder.

This is absolutely worth another listen. Please enjoy.

Welcome to the Fighter Pilot Podcast. On this episode, we're here at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

And we've got a very special guest today, Reed Wiseman. Reed, thanks for joining us.

This is awesome. And it's going to get even more awesome today.

So first of all, I wanted to thank all the folks here at Johnson Space Center. They've been really

amazing, helping us out. And just like we're going to talk about with flying F-14s or flying Orion spacecraft,

it's not just the people in the cockpit or in the capsule. It's everybody else on this team who makes it happen. So really want to express gratitude right off the start. That's awesome. We got to know each other a little bit back in the Tomcat flying days, which we're going to talk about here. But life is good here at NASA for you, huh? Life is great. I mean, as you mentioned in the lead-in, it is really all about the people.

One of the things I love most about flying the F-14 was how hard it was to fly that aircraft and how hard it was to maintain that aircraft.

I actually got a note on Facebook Messenger this weekend from one of my old maintainers in VF-31.

And just the way I still connect to those folks that kept that machine flying, it feels a lot similar here where it is this team.

Mission Control is right across the street from us and they're operating the International Space Station right now.

And then on Orion spacecraft and space launch system, just the team of people that are putting this thing together and then are going to help us fly it.

That when you get to work every day, you just smile because these are the greatest of

Americans and international partners.

Yeah, that's a really great point.

You know, a lot of people think about, like, the fighter pilot community and how close we are

as aviators, but also that closeness with the maintenance folks, because we worked with them all the time

in the Tomcat, trying to get the Tomcat off the deck sometimes and all that kind of stuff.

So speaking of flying Tomcats, so quick, how did you get from...

How much time do we have?

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