Luca Parmitano

On these particular subjects, we're going to be able to train the crew in much less time, which is exactly what we need because our mission right now is on the books for in a year from now.

Well, we are fortunate to have some flight test experience with crew in Orion.

So that is massive for that foundation.

We'll be able to get those basics here pretty quick.

It's just in applying how that vehicle and the experience we gained on Artemis II with the operations demo and that close flying we had to the ICPS, doing that to actual landers, doing that to a blue lander and a SpaceX Starship.

Doing it in that proximity, doing actual rendezvous and docking, being able to undock, fly around, that is going to be amazing.

Instead of a spent second stage like the ICPS was with Artemis II, they're going to see actual lander spacecraft in that view and test these things out here in Earth orbit so that we can make sure that when we get to lunar orbit, it's not the first time we're doing it.

Well, it's called compartmentalization, and you have to be able to do it so that things that when you're in a high-stress, high-stakes, time-sensitive environment, that you're not distracted, and you're totally focused with all your capabilities, physical and mental, in that one spot.

And on launch day, we'll be getting up, having seen our spouses and kids for the last time in an intimate environment the day before.

And that day you'll get up, you might have a phone call with them, but then it's into the routine of the breakfast, the suit up and all of that.

and you're in your suit doing the leak check shit, you're like, it's game day.

But you walk out and you get that one little snippet back to reality because you walk out and your family's standing there as you get ready to go in the van and head to the launch pad.

You don't get to touch them, you don't get to hug them.

All you can do is stand across because you're in quarantine and wave at them, blow them a kiss, give them a heart sign.

And then you step on that bus and it's all business.

You know, Luca mentioned going on a spacewalk in the helmet.

I totally resonate with Brother Luca because on my first flight, on my first spacewalk, my wife was in labor here in Houston with our daughter in the hospital.

And once that helmet clicked down, there was going to be no more updates, no more anything.

It had to be.

focused completely on that spacewalk.