Luca Parmitano
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And I'm on my first spacewalk.
I haven't experienced this.
I don't have any frame of reference.
All I have is the training I had here on the ground.
But I had to rely on that training and be at peace that me and my spacewalking teammate, Mike Foreman, were ready to go execute.
And the whole team needed to rely on me to be able to compartmentalize
And turned that switch off until I got back inside.
I thought, you know, when I got back inside, we're repressurizing the airlock that when that helmet came off and the switch could be turned back on, they'd be saying, hey, Carmen, you're a father.
And unfortunately for my wife, she was still in labor.
That's a different story.
She did say top that.
That was really good.
There's only one story that could have topped that, and that was my wife's labor on the ground.
The most important Artemis mission is the next one.
Everything has to proceed with these steps.
You can't just go straight to the lunar surface without having done Artemis II, without having done Artemis III.
And so, as Luca has said, what a privilege to be a part of that.
And Orion, we've got one flight with crew on board.