Artemis II Splashdown ...Plus, Hapless Vance heads to Pakistan saddled with Trump's Iran folly
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What happened during the Artemis II splashdown?
Home to The Rachel Maddow Show, Morning Joe, The Briefing with Jen Psaki, and more voices you know and trust. MSNOW is your source for news, opinion, and the world. Learn more at ms.now. Ali Velshi, I always watch your show when you're before me, when you're after me. And I was just absolutely glued to the screen. You are for people who love you and watch you all the time. You are like the renaissance man of MS now who knows a lot of things about a lot of things. But you just gracefully led us through what was a really historic moment that I feel like brought the country hopefully together and watch something truly remarkable happen.
May we all just be space geeks tonight. You know, that's the beauty of it.
I'm an aspiring space geek. I think you're already a space geek. You've been watching this so closely. Tell us a little bit about over the next hour. We'll be watching it as well. What are we waiting for? What's next? And what are the things that could happen over the next hour here?
Well, it was, they called it a bullseye splashdown. They came down right where they were supposed to. The conditions were perfect. The conditions in the water, the waves were perfect. And then the funniest thing happened. The simple radio communications broke down. So it wasn't, the mission control could speak to the astronauts and mission control could speak to the naval rescuers, but the Navy rescuers couldn't speak to the astronauts. So they literally said things like, are you hitting your push to talk button? You know, kind of like in the old days when IT would tell you to reboot the computer. Right. And the mission controller, Reed Weissman, the commander, he's an Air Force test pilot. So that delayed them a little bit.
But what you're about to see now is something called the front porch. It'll be a raft that comes off of the module. You will see the astronauts emerge. They will then be taken to the John P. Murtha, which is about 3,000 yards away. It's a boat. They're going to spend the night there. then they're going to be taken back to the mainland and debrief and the future begins.
Reed Weissman, he's somebody you just mentioned. I think we've all kind of fallen for Reed Weissman and his story. He lost his wife to cancer just a few years ago. She encouraged him to stay living where he was living so he could continue to pursue his passion. He's been raising two daughters himself. It's an incredible story. And they dedicated a crater on the moon. Am I getting that right to him?
That's right.
During this mission.
To her, yeah. To her, I'm sorry, yes. His late wife, Carol, and the thing we'll all remember is his late wife, Carol, spelled it with two L's, C-A-R-O-L-L. He will, as is always the case on a military mission, you're familiar with this, as the commander of the vessel, he will be the last to emerge. So you will see the other two American astronauts and the Canadian astronaut emerge, and then you will see Reid Weissman emerge. And this is the first time in more than 50 years that Americans have watch the moon up close through their own eyes. This is the beginning of a big deal. And this was a big deal in the administration that you served in and administrations before that. This is one of those few moments that we can all look at and say, when we come together and we don't let politics lead everything, look at the great things that we can do.
For the people who are tuning in right now, as we're waiting for the astronauts to emerge, they're going to be adjusting, readjusting, I should say, to gravity, right? So they're not going to be, they're going to be, I think, put on stretchers, I believe, at some point. They have to readjust.
What challenges did the astronauts face after splashdown?
Tell us a little bit about what people may physically be seeing when we see the astronauts.
A couple of things happen. One is your body just doesn't work as hard in space. It ages faster, but it doesn't have to pump as much. It doesn't have to do as much. So you the fluids don't go through your body the same way your heart rate slows. So that's what they're trying to make sure that these folks can just operate on Earth normally.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What happened during the Artemis II splashdown?
0:00–3:31
2
What challenges did the astronauts face after splashdown?
3:31–6:49
3
How did communication issues affect the recovery process?
6:49–11:05
4
What is the significance of the Artemis II mission for NASA?
11:05–16:55
5
What are the immediate next steps for the astronauts after landing?
16:55–22:55
6
How does the public perceive the astronauts' return?
22:55–27:20
7
What are the geopolitical implications of Trump's Iran negotiations?
27:20–31:32
8
How does the episode conclude regarding future space missions?
31:32–52:43
Speakers
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