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

episode 398, Artemis 2, the Orion spacecraft. I'm Kenna Pell and I'll be your host 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. Built to take humans farther than they've ever gone before,

Orion is NASA's spacecraft capable of crude flight to deep space

and high-speed re-entry from the vicinity of the moon.

On the Artemis II mission, Orion will be tested for the first time in space with humans on board.

It'll send NASA astronauts Reed Wiseman, Victor Glover,

and Christina Cook, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hanson around the moon and

bring them home safely. This deep space capsule is built upon everything learned from NASA's past

50-plus years of human spaceflight missions and uses new and advanced technologies to enable it to travel

farther into space than any other crude spacecraft in history.

On this episode, we bring in Chris Edelan, the acting manager of the Orion Program's office

responsible for the spacecraft's systems integration and analysis.

He'll tell us all about the spacecraft and what we can expect

from humanity's return to the moon

aboard Orion.

Let's go.

T-minus five seconds,

and county.

Mark.

Mission starts.

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