NASA officials say that the Artemis 1 mission teams are "giddy" after seeing how well their spaceship is doing.
The Space Launch System rocket blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Trans Lunar Injection burn was performed at 87 minutes after the launch to hurtle the spaceship toward the moon. A burn was performed on Monday to get the spacecraft close enough to leverage the moon's gravity to get around the moon.
NASA officials held a meeting Monday to discuss the data collected from the flyby of the moon. Judd Frieling, flight director at NASA's Johnson Space Center, said that members of the mission team are "giddy" with the current performance of the craft after it flew by the moon.
There is a close moon flyby by NASA's Artemis 1 capsule.
The Artemis 1 moon mission is live.
According to Frieling, flight controllers are so impressed by the performance they've seen that they're not even sure what to think. "As far as the flight controllers themselves, they're absolutely astounded, you know, at these great videos that they're able to get," Frieling said. "They're happy that all of the hard work and dedication that they've spent for many, many, many years is paying dividends."
Howard Hu said the team has seen good performance across the board on all subsystems and systems so far.
Hu said that today was a great day. It doesn't seem like work to us. It's just wonderful. I want to be excited about what we're doing, learn about the craft, and hear the information from it. It's been amazing. I have a big smile on my face.
The launch of the Space Launch System rocket was discussed in the briefing. The SLS rocket performed well during the launch, according to the Artemis 1 mission manager. The results were very impressive. The rocket did what it was supposed to do. The results mission managers expected were circumvented by the "kindler, gentler" fueling procedure that was used for the successful third launch attempt.
The Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39B was damaged during the launch. The 8.8 million pounds of thrust produced by the SLS vehicle's core stage and two solid rocket boosters blew doors in. The elevator system isn't working at the moment. The pressure blew the doors off of the elevators when we had the most powerful rocket.
The insulation around the base of the rocket was damaged by Tropical Storm Nicole. It's not clear if it was taken away by Nicole before or after launch. Mission managers decided that a damaged strip of caulking wouldn't be a problem.
During the 26 day journey to the moon, the craft will come within 80 miles of the lunar surface at its closest pass and some 40,000 miles away at its furthest pass. Ahead of the Artemis 2 and 3 missions, the mission is designed to be a flight test of the Space Launch System rocket.
After swinging far away from the moon, it will return to Earth in December.
"After splashdown and recovery is complete, as well as these gentlemen and their teams, I will rest well on December 11th."
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