S8 Ep677: 13. HEADLINE: NASA’s Artemis 2 Mission and the New Lunar Frontier GUEST: Douglas Messier, David Livingston SUMMARY: Douglas Messier details the upcoming Artemis 2 mission, the first crewed flight to the moon since 1972. The 10-day mission will test the Or
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13. HEADLINE: NASA’s Artemis 2 Mission and the New Lunar Frontier GUEST:Douglas Messier, David Livingston SUMMARY:Douglas Messier details the upcoming Artemis 2 mission, the first crewed flight to the moon since 1972. The 10-day mission will test the Orion spacecraft’s life support and technical systems. (13)
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Bachelor. This is Hotel Mars Episode N, my colleague and co-host and co-pilot, David Livingston, |
| 0:23.0 | Dr. Space of the space show. Artemis 2 is in front of us. A successful Artemis 2 leads to |
| 0:30.4 | Artemis 3, 4, and 5. What is that? What is NASA presenting to the American people with the American |
| 0:37.4 | people's money? What's new here and what is NASA presenting to the American people with the American people's money? |
| 0:38.8 | What's new here and what is 20th century hanging on? |
| 0:44.0 | We welcome David and I. |
| 0:45.9 | We welcome our colleague, Douglas Messier. |
| 0:48.4 | He keeps the website at Substack, Douglas M. Messier. |
| 0:53.4 | Dot substack.com. |
| 0:55.8 | Doug, a very good evening to you. |
| 0:57.6 | Artemis 2, 3, 4, and 5, all to describe. |
| 1:00.3 | First of all, Artemis 2, right in front of us. |
| 1:02.8 | What is the mission? |
| 1:04.3 | What will establish success? |
| 1:08.1 | Good evening to you. |
| 1:09.7 | Good evening. |
| 1:10.6 | It's a pretty exciting day. First |
| 1:12.2 | launch to the moon since 1972. So the Artemis II mission is to test out the Orion spacecraft |
| 1:21.2 | that will take astronauts from the Earth to the moon and back. |
| 1:30.1 | And it's got a four-member crew on there. |
| 1:32.2 | Reed Reisman's the commander. |
| 1:34.4 | Victor Glover is the pilot. |
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