Dr. Kelsey Young

very respectfully and politely duke it out to make sure that that down select of lunar targets covered the entirety of our science objectives, right?

We didn't want to go too heavy into one objective at the expense of a couple others.

So it really was about ensuring broad spread and covering all of our bases.

Well, I was actually out of that process.

That was our team that did that because I was on console, of course, in the front room.

So I have two deputies on the team and one of them, Jacob Richardson, was the sort of targeting lead.

So it was him.

And you'll have to ask him if he got any boxes of chocolates.

We were seeing what you guys saw watching at home, which was that live feed from the vehicle mounted GoPro cameras.

We also created these high resolution visualizations of what the crew would be seeing that is, of course, not reflective of reality.

the real moon that they were seeing, but we could at least say, okay, this is where they are in the flyby.

This is kind of the angle of the sun versus the spacecraft to put ourselves a little bit in the minds of what the crew were seeing.

And it helped us just kind of like stay in sync on which part of the flyby they were executing when.

I mean, you guys heard it.

How amazing are these four people and their ability to communicate what they were seeing?

They were really good at that.

I wish I could just watch a live stream 24-7 of them describing the moon because...

Yep, that was me.

That was what you saw was a genuine human moment.

And, you know, one of our 10 objectives that I keep talking about, it was impact flash investigations.