Transcript
A (0:02)
Wild, Wild weekend. Some really great White Pelling stuff. Some very disappointing news. We'll go through it all. I read a bunch of different pieces this weekend, tried to sort of tie them together into the newsletter today, but thought we could kind of go all over the place, starting with what we talked about a little bit on Friday was the Artemis 2 mission. It was scheduled to land at 5:07pm Pacific Time and it landed exactly at 5:07pm Pacific Time, like within the exact minute. Everyone was joking, like whoever's in charge of this should be in charge of Uber Eats delivery times or something like that, or doordash delivery times because it was remarkably accurate. I think they predicted it like days or maybe since the beginning of the mission. Like everything was timed out perfectly. Did you have a chance?
B (0:47)
Yeah, I mean you can like predict these things, right?
A (0:48)
Yeah, it is physics, but still, I
B (0:50)
mean we know, you know when the solar eclipse will be for the next 10,000 years.
A (0:54)
Yeah, yeah, 10,000 years. But I don't know, it still feels remarkable that there is no, that there's like no flexibility.
C (0:59)
But was that predicted pre takeoff?
A (1:01)
Yeah, right. I don't know.
C (1:03)
We should dig. Or was that like updated after they had exited?
A (1:08)
Yeah, because I think there'd be something about like, oh, like this engine fired a little bit too much or a little bit. So we had to make a small adjustment. I don't know, we'll have to figure it out. Anyway, the reactions were really, really positive. Elon Musk said, welcome home to the NASA astronauts. Welcome home Reed, Victor, Christina and Jeremy. The Artemis 2 astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET, bringing their historic 10 day mission around the moon to an end. I watch it live and it was, yeah, it was a remarkable moment. I mean we haven't done this in my lifetime. We haven't done this in a very long time. So Reid Wiseman says thank you. Elon Musk. The four of us glimpsed the red hues of Mars far in the distance as the sun slipped behind the moon. And there was zero doubt in our minds that the creative genius of our greatest minds will have us there very soon. Let's go. And so I really like this. It was great. No, no, no. It is remarkable. And this was inspiring for a few different reasons because I felt like people were not voicing skepticism publicly beforehand. You don't wanna jinx it and also you don't wanna be negative about anything. And it makes sense.
