Jacob Pinter

Okay.

Tell me where you were.

What'd you see?

Well, Patty, in a few minutes, I want to hear all about the science work that you did and what you saw when you were in mission control.

I want to put a pin in that for a second.

Before Artemis 2 launched, we profiled some of the launch engineers who actually helped this rocket fly, and they had explained all the preparation that happens before launch.

I just want to mention that if you missed that episode or any other part of our Artemis 2 series, you can find every episode wherever you're listening right now or all together at nasa.gov slash Artemis podcast.

That's nasa.gov slash Artemis Podcast.

Christian, you had a chance to circle back to those launch engineers after Artemis II launched and hear what went down in the Launch Control Center.

Patty, you were at the launch of Artemis II, as we said.

After it started flying, I assume you booked it to Texas.

Okay, good for you.

And got there the day before the astronauts flew around the moon.

What was the vibe like in there?

I mean, as the day went on in the NASA TV broadcast, you know, we would get these little glimpses from a camera that was inside the science evaluation room.

And sometimes we could see the scientists reacting and there's fist pumps and there's like sometimes literally jumping for joy.

Absolutely.

It must have been so special to just be in the middle of all that.

Yeah.

So in our series leading up to launch, one of the scientists you heard from was Kelsey Young.