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Reid Wiseman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
170 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and the Artemis II Crew: To the Moon and Back

And I believed, I think we all did, I was optimistic.

The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and the Artemis II Crew: To the Moon and Back

I believed we were going to come back, most likely.

The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and the Artemis II Crew: To the Moon and Back

I wasn't sure of it, but I was pretty confident we would most likely come back.

The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and the Artemis II Crew: To the Moon and Back

And so I was just trying to enjoy the experience.

The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and the Artemis II Crew: To the Moon and Back

And it's really quite an incredible experience, like all the things and feels of that.

The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and the Artemis II Crew: To the Moon and Back

Like the first thing you see is this red plasma building out the window, and then it became like this green and blue, and it was flashing like somebody was out there welding.

The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and the Artemis II Crew: To the Moon and Back

It was so bright, it hurt to look at.

The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and the Artemis II Crew: To the Moon and Back

I put my dark visor down.

The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and the Artemis II Crew: To the Moon and Back

The G-forces are just squeezing you into the seat.

The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and the Artemis II Crew: To the Moon and Back

You haven't been in gravity in a while.

The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and the Artemis II Crew: To the Moon and Back

And then eventually the drogues come out, and it's shaking you around.

The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and the Artemis II Crew: To the Moon and Back

It's all violence.

The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and the Artemis II Crew: To the Moon and Back

And then it drops you again as they detach.

The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and the Artemis II Crew: To the Moon and Back

And then the mains come out, and then Christine and I were sitting beside each other.

The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and the Artemis II Crew: To the Moon and Back

So when the mains came out, we were like, yes.

The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and the Artemis II Crew: To the Moon and Back

Really was, because from that moment on, there's still things that can happen.

The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and the Artemis II Crew: To the Moon and Back

You can still have, like, dangerous gases come in the vehicle and all these things we train for.

The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and the Artemis II Crew: To the Moon and Back

But we had a plan for all of them.

The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and the Artemis II Crew: To the Moon and Back

That was the first time where I felt like, whatever the capsule throws at us right now, I think we can survive it.

The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and the Artemis II Crew: To the Moon and Back

Yeah.