While designers and engineers develop new spacecraft, astronauts who will fly the missions and the specialists who support their spaceflights get themselves ready the old fashioned way: practice, practice, practice. NASA teams have used simulations to prepare for every human spaceflight America has ever flown; take a closer look at today’s Mission Control Houston training team as they prepare for the Artemis flights that will return Americans to the surface of the Moon. Follow the mission: Twitter: https://twitter.com/NASAArtemis Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nasaartemis Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NASAArtemis Get the latest from NASA weekly: www.nasa.gov/subscribe — NASA — Return to the Moon Source: NASA (https://images.nasa.gov/) Licence: Public domain (work of the U.S. federal government, 17 U.S.C. §105) Audio is served by the publisher; Budi does not host or modify it.
0:01Right now we're running an entry simulation for Artemis 1 mission. So, we're simulating the very end of that mission as the spacecraft is reentering the Earth's atmosphere and about to splash down off the coast of San Diego. And we have a team of instructors in this room. We have a team of flight controllers over in Building 30. We have simulator that is simulating the Orion spacecraft. The instructors here are putting in malfunctions and various failures into the model of that vehicle and the flight controllers over in building 30 are reacting to them the way they would if they really saw that failure during the reentry. We try to send as real as possible, like you know, real scenarios. There's malfunctions where you can affect a specific object in the vehicle, let's say
0:43like a pump, a valve or something like that. You can also affect telemetry coming down from the vehicle to MCC. In total we have about 140,000 malfunptions. This type of training was done, in fact that was one of the first things that we looked at that when we started designing this training was what was done with Apollo. Of course, the Orion vehicle's very different and our training and simulation capabilities are very different today. For Artemis I, we're focused exclusively on the flight control team for crewed missions, training the flight-control team and the crew as well, how to execute the mission both nominally and how to respond to off-nominal situations. We're gonna integrate the simulation that we have.
1:23We're going to integrate it with the crew station. That's where the astronauts are gonna be in. so everything inside the crew station is going to look as realistic as possible. All the displays, all the controls, all these switches, all the visuals out of the window, everything is going be as real as possible I'm probably most looking forward to the close passes by the Moon and that should be some really remarkable imagery That's going to be very exciting to see Orion out in orbit Be very proud and honored just to have got to participate in their training and help prepare them to fly those missions and hope that they're ready for whatever fate may hand them in the mission. Just being able to watch on TV
2:04when we actually do the flight and make it there, I think it's gonna be like a dream come true.
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