NASA Announces its Artemis II Backup Crew Member for Moon MissionQuoteNASA has selected astronaut Andre Douglas as its backup crew member for the agency’s Artemis II test flight, the first crewed mission under NASA’s Artemis campaign.Douglas will train alongside NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen.
NASA has selected astronaut Andre Douglas as its backup crew member for the agency’s Artemis II test flight, the first crewed mission under NASA’s Artemis campaign.Douglas will train alongside NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen.
From an Artemis II updates thread:Quote from: StraumliBlight on 07/03/2024 03:21 pmNASA Announces its Artemis II Backup Crew Member for Moon MissionQuoteNASA has selected astronaut Andre Douglas as its backup crew member for the agency’s Artemis II test flight, the first crewed mission under NASA’s Artemis campaign.Douglas will train alongside NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen.I'm surprised that one astronaut is serving as backup for three astronauts. Don't the three prime astronauts have different jobs to do and get different training? How can the backup be trained properly for three jobs?
Compilation Time-lapse of multiple retraction tests performed over 3 hours last weeks by NASA teams on the Crew Access Arm of the SLS MLT at LC-39B at KSC, as part of preparations for the Artemis II mission. As seen on @NASASpaceflight Space Cost Live nsf.live/spacecoast
Jul 28, 2024Even as the SLS Core Stage for Artemis II now waits at the launch site to be stacked for the mission, the changing makeup of Congress is leading to new questions about the future of NASA's launch vehicle. The agency's Pegasus barge delivered Core Stage-2 to Kennedy Space Center on July 23rd and the next day the SLS sustainer stage was rolled into the Vehicle Assembly Building.In this video, I'll cover the delivery events, some of the news reported by media after interviews at KSC, at take the latest look at the big picture for the Artemis II schedule.There's a couple of news and notes items to cover, and also this new watch item about the future of SLS, as the Senate appropriations bill signals maybe a different point of view. The report accompanying the bill refers to a NASA Inspector General report from last October again questioning SLS costs, and this time the Senate seems willing to pursue that line of questioning and maybe even an analysis by NASA of commercial heavy-lift options in the next decade.Imagery is courtesy of NASA, except where noted.00:00 Intro00:55 Artemis II Core Stage now in the VAB waiting for stacking05:02 The big picture for Artemis II after the latest SLS delivery09:34 Some other news and notes about ESM-3 and future Pegasus SLS deliveries11:16 Senate appropriations has questions for NASA about the future of SLS15:15 Thanks for watching!
In preparation for NASA’s Artemis II crewed mission, teams at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida practice getting out of the emergency escape, or egress, basket on Aug. 9, 2024. The baskets, similar to gondolas on ski lifts, are used in the case of a pad abort emergency to enable astronauts and other pad personnel a way to quickly escape from the mobile launcher to the base of the pad and where waiting emergency transport vehicles will then drive them away.
A good article.I'm surprised by this though: "it is why NASA has already delayed Artemis II from this year into September 2025." I thought the delay of Artemis I and the reuse of Orion components already pushed A2 out of 2024?
In connection with NASA's decision to return Starliner to Earth uncrewed, we've heard a great deal recently about how NASA has learned the lessons of Challenger and Columbia. But I'm wondering whether it's not so much that NASA has changed but rather that it's easier make rational decisions about a spacecraft built by an external party. In other words, NASA can blame Starliner's problems on Boeing. That's much more difficult with Orion.
