Caroline Hyde

Their flyby of the moon was, as a scientist, it made my heart go pitter-patter.

And also all of the data and information that we've gained about Orion and how it works and whether there are things we'll need to tweak before future missions.

A lot of that data is resident on the capsule itself and in the brains of the astronauts.

All of that will get downloaded once they're back on Earth.

And then push us forward to Artemis 3 then.

Right.

So, and it's going to go fast now.

This is what I love.

You know, I was involved in this program back at the very beginning, back in 2011, when the very first Orion capsule came off the, you know, was being built and the SLS was born essentially.

And now it's taken us a long time to be flying humans back into deep space with these two fabulously

with the rocket and the spacecraft.

But now it's going to go faster.

So Artemis 3, we hope to launch in next year.

So I expect you're going to hear very soon an announcement of crew, more specifics about the mission, which we've changed the mission profile from what was expected previously, in order in part to accelerate this and hopefully accelerate getting boots on the moon, which we hope will happen in 2028 on Artemis 4.

You're back in academia.

What does these moments, I mean, I just think about my kids coming home from school every day at the moment with various art projects and things they've been doing around Artemis II.

What has it done in terms of inspiring those that are studying under you, those that are now going to study under you?

I think it's a great moment.

Apollo inspired a generation around the world to pursue innovation, to pursue technology, to ask hard questions and do things that we thought were impossible.

I really hope we're going to have the same impact on this generation, the Artemis generation, and we're really seeing massive amounts of excitement.