Houston, we have a podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center,

Episode 417, Artemis II, The Crew. I'm Nilfer Ramji, and I'll be one of your hosts today.

On this podcast, we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers, and astronauts, all to let you know

what's going on in the world of human spaceflight and more.

I mentioned that I'm only one of your hosts, because for the first time in the eight years

that Houston we have a podcast has been running, we are teaming up with our sister show,

Curious Universe. Joining me as my co-host, is Jacob Pinter. Jacob, welcome.

Hey, Nilifur, it's great to be here.

I work on NASA's podcast, Curious Universe.

On Curious Universe, we explore the cosmos with NASA experts from our home planet all the way across this wild and wonderful universe that we all share.

Well, thanks so much for being here, Jacob.

In November 2020, the Space Launch System rocket launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida with the Orion Capsule atop for a 25-day uncrewed test flight around the moon.

It was a great success.

And just months after its return, NASA announced the crew of the next mission going to the moon, Artemis II.

Artemis 2 will take four astronauts on a 10-day mission around the moon.

They are NASA astronauts, Commander Reed Wiseman, pilot, Victor Glover, and mission specialist Christina Cook,

and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hanson.

They'll test the Orion spacecraft in all of its systems in preparation for later

Artemis missions where crew members will be landing on the moon. Jacob and I got to speak to the crew

last fall ahead of their mission to talk about how they got to where they are and what going to the

moon means to them. Ready for lifttoff.

T-minus five, second, Fent County.

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