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4/2/2026, 12:35:49 AM
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All right, now let's bring in former NASA astronaut Clayton Anderson.
So
Clayton, you have been on two space missions.
Good to see you.
Can you give us a sense of what the astronauts are feeling as they orbit the Earth right now?
>> Well, first tell Mark that uh if he's on top of the rocket, it shakes a lot worse than the building did.
Um, but what they're doing now is, uh, you know, they've had a really long day, so I haven't seen their timeline, but I'm guessing that they're doing some things,
but getting ready to wind down a little bit.
Um, one of the first things they have to do is get into an elliptical orbit.
That's a period that takes 24 hours to go around the Earth.
And that will give them time, as Mark said, to do the testing that they need to do so desperately before they make that burn to go uh toward the moon.
So, uh, you know, they're now getting used to zero G.
Three of the four have been there before.
Uh, Jeremy from Canada, Jeremy Hansen, he's probably, uh, enjoying his first taste of microgravity.
Um, and I imagine they'll have a meal somewhere in there and then just some quiet time to relax.
You know, it's really hard to go to sleep after you've had such an invigorating day.
>> Absolutely. The adrenaline is pumping.
So, the mission commander called this a test flight.
So, what will the crew be testing while on board?
And is there a chance that they won't actually go all the way to the moon?
>> Well, let me answer the second part first.
I think there's a there's not a if they make that burn, they're going to go to the moon and they have a free return trajectory.
So, if nothing happens after that burn and it's successful, they will just go behind the moon.
They'll make a figure eight and they'll come back to Earth.
So during this time uh of the next 3 days or whatever it is uh after the burn happens, they're going to be testing everything they can test.
Is the oxygen system flowing?
Is carbon dioxide being removed appropriately?
Does the toilet work?
How about our food preparation system?
Can we heat our food?
Can we eat our food?
How does the trash work?
How's the exercise device that they designed just for this mission or these missions?
How does that work?
They want to know everything and they want to ring it out as much as they can because this is a test such that when they go back to Earth, everybody's going to be working on fixing anything that went wrong such that when Artemis 3 happens and then Artemis 4, uh, we have a much better confidence level, a higher confidence level that things are going to work for us.
>> Certainly a checklist to settle in.
So, there is a lot of history being made on this mission.
Certainly, it's traveling farther than the Apollo mission and the crew has the first black astronaut and female astronaut to go on lunar missions.
A lot of milestones.
So, your thoughts on these historic firsts for the space program?
>> Well, I think it's good.
You know, the the focus in the world today is is on uh diversity, inclusion, and those things.
And and that's all good.
Um but I think kids should just look and say, "Hey, I can do this.
It doesn't matter uh who I am, where I'm from, what I've done.
I mean, holy cow, I'm a small town kid from Nebraska who got to spend 167 days in space.
And and that's what we want.
We want this to be inspiring for every young person on the planet that they can do great things.
And hey, kids in America, man, look what we do here.
It's pretty awesome.
>> As you watch the countdown, what was going through your mind?
How are you feeling?
You've been through this before, but it still must be exciting.
>> It was.
I wanted to be on top of that rocket with them.
I'm very envious of of their opportunity today.
Uh I prayed.
I worry that everything goes safely and uh it needs to go safely.
This is a dangerous business we're in and no matter what you see on TV and no matter how easy NASA makes it look, it is dangerous and it is difficult.
And those are the things that we have to keep in mind that these crew members accepted the risk to go on this mission to understand it's a test mission, but they're building for the future.
And they've said it many times themselves that they're there only to start the ball rolling and they want the rest of America and the future people of America
and the world to carry on the torch. So, it's pretty exciting stuff, man.
I'm pumped and I wish I was there.
Clayton Anderson, thank you so much for your insight.
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