Jacob Pinter

This is an official NASA podcast.

You're listening to NASA's Curious Universe.

I'm Jacob Pinter.

And I'm Christian Elliott.

And we are all here today to celebrate Artemis II in a special bonus episode.

This mission had so many cool moments, and we've had more fascinating conversations that we just can't keep to ourselves.

So we're going to share them with you now.

First things first, the astronauts of Artemis II are home safe.

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen are readjusting to life on this planet.

NASA scientists are digging through observations and photos the crew collected as they flew around the moon, and engineers are evaluating data from this test flight to make future Artemis missions even better.

Patty, hi.

We got to start with you.

We've been sending each other lots of emails and texts and stuff.

It's good to catch up in person finally.

As the Artemis II astronauts flew around the moon, you were observing the science teams and you were right there.

You were in the back rooms, in mission control, in Houston, which I want to hear all about.

Yeah.

But before that, you watched Artemis II launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

So let's start there.

Just take me back to that day.