MIAMI (EFE). – Artemis II mission commander Reid Wiseman said the odor they used during the space expedition “was amazing” considering the reported problems, which he said were related to the ventilation system.
“I’m here to say it 100% straight up: it was an amazing smell. The smell worked great. Where we had a problem — and it was a real problem, no doubt — was our primary ventilation duct,” Wiseman said in a quote from NASA’s Houston facility.
“The smell was perfectly vented, but as the liquid rose through the bottom, it was plugged into our ventilation duct,” added the four-crew mission commander, who retraced the arrival on Earth after orbiting the moon.
The back of the Orion capsule from which the astronauts traveled was one of the unsuspecting protagonists of Artemis II, which began to fail shortly after launch, at an estimated cost of $23 million.
During the mission transition, NASA explained that the odorless system had difficulties with the residual water evacuation system, especially in the area related to urine, and recommended that the astronauts implement alternative methods, similar to those used for adults.
“We can only hold so much, nobody knows, this is less than urine; it holds so much and then we’re still abandoned,” explained Wiseman, who acknowledged that it seemed “funny to see how it blew in the first two days.”
“I’m like a thousand little pieces of heaven thrown into deep space,” he described.
However, he stated that the primary vent line was “clogged or blocked” for previously unknown reasons and asked the section’s engineers to “not affect the head”. “It was an excellent team. What are we learning? There are always things we need to improve,” he concluded.
Along with Wiseman, the remaining members of Artemis II — Christina Koch and Victor Glover of NASA and Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) — shared stories and memories of the final days of the mission that convinced the first humans to reach lunar orbit from el Apolo 17 in 1972.
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