Jim Bajan

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95 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 11 Apr

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki · Artemis II Splashdown ...Plus, Hapless Vance heads to Pakistan saddled with Trump's Iran folly · 11 Apr 2026 podcast

So you've seen before from the other missions, when people get off, they're a little unsteady on their feet, but usually they're fine, most of them.

But they want to check on that because you certainly hate to have somebody fall and get injured on a simple thing like that.

Well, the divers had put the flotation collar around and the front porch, I think they call it, in order to transition the crew out of there.

The other flotation you see on the top is just to keep the capsule, if it was rough seas, that it can't become inverted in a stable two position, they call it.

And they used to have a similar thing like that for Apollo.

You may recall they had three of those flotation vices.

There's five on this one.

so right now they're just trying to get everybody squared away and i'm sure the the crew's all smiling and i'm sure there's a lot of uh getting around with the uh the docs and the and the text about when they're going to get the show on the road and get out of there uh and they're just kind of just waiting now it's kind of like a hurry up and wait i think at this point to get to the next step because i'm sure they're all in in uh in good shape and they'll be heading over to get get in the ship and get their final exams and then

Go on from there and finish your debriefings and look forward to seeing their families and friends as soon as they get to shore.

Well, it was really, to me, heartening to see the attention that both the media and the public has had with this flight.

Since it's been so long, you know, it's been over 50 years since we've orbited the moon.

And to see how, I mean, let's face it, the majority of the people alive in the United States right now weren't alive when Apollo 8 circled the moon in December of 68.

so it had a new fascination i think that many of us lived before didn't look quite that way and i i think it's been disappointing to many of us that things have gone so slowly in recent years and maybe this will help reinvigorate uh the program how they're going to go forward now and you know they've looked at the schedule for next year you know they're planning to do some of the checkout flights in orbit before they go back to the moon

to actually, you know, go around the Moon and then finally land.

So this is like the stepping stone.

This is a stepping stone, you know, for exploration in general to the Moon.

So we learn how to operate there more on a more permanent basis and then with the thoughts, of course, to go to Mars.

So this is the first step.

And I think, as Mae said earlier,

it's good to see us finally get started and now to continue to support that because it's uh there are technical challenges but it's as much as anything it's also a financial challenge you know you know we can do this it's do we decide to make the commitment to do so and i think maybe this will help it be more real to the public and allow it to continue in this way because i think it also stimulates interest among kids in school as well you know a lot of the technical fields the uh

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