Dr. Susan Kelleher
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his helmet from a filter from his cooler had misfunctioned and therefore water filled up.
So he did, it's a great story if you're interested in that, how he got back.
So he's well used to being in a tight spot.
So he's going to be super here.
And the two mission specialists are Frank Rubio and Andre Douglas.
And Frank is an Army Black Hawk pilot and a flight surgeon.
And Andre is a systems engineer and this will be his first space flight.
Yeah, somebody got to go the first time.
No.
No, I don't think so.
I would hope that they're selected for what is needed on the flight.
And I think that's the same with anything, of course, with spaceflight.
So the difference is, originally Artemis 3 was to go to the moon and to land on the moon.
But the problem was that the landers weren't ready yet.
And so instead of sort of delaying everything, they said, well, let's just turn it into something where we can...
test them locally.
So they're testing them.
They're testing the two landers, one from Blue Origin and one from iSpace.
And they're going to test them in this low Earth orbit, which is around 400 kilometres up rather than 400,000 kilometres, which is the distance to the moon.
So it's a little bit easier.