The four astronauts of the Artemis II mission continue to share details about the unique experience of traveling to the moon and observing its dark side. However, in the last hours They admitted that they had experienced a terrible situation inside the Orion capsule it could have cost them their lives.
During the program CBS Morningastronauts Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen, Reid Wiseman and Christina Koch They were interviewed by boys and girls as part of the study. One of them asked them a question that surprised everyone in the room: What was the most difficult decision you had to make in space during a mission?
After exchanging a few looks, Captain Reid Wiseman took charge and decided to respond with a situation that alarmed the entire crew as they slept inside the spaceship. He explained that since this was the first mission carrying four people in a ship different from the ones known up until now, they had to do a series of checks on all the systems.
It became one of the most important tests caution and warning system. Reid said that in the middle of the night, while the four of us were floating in our sleeping bags, an extremely dramatic alarm went off. It was a “Runbox” warning.the primary indicator of a serious fuel leak on the ship.
“I looked at the screen and confirmed that it was an emergency alarm. Jeremy, who had been sleeping near the control panel, immediately woke up and signaled that we needed to perform a series of emergency procedures. “Based on the guidance, we had to adjust the propulsion system to shut down the fuel lines and preserve what we had left,” he said.
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In this sense, he added that something was wrong, “while we were looking at the data, we noticed something unusual: The warning was not permanent, but periodic. Usually, with a real leak, the alarm is always onThis caught the attention of the four crew members so much that they decided to wait and not follow the shutdown procedures.
“We quickly analyzed the situation and decided to wait and not follow these procedures, because then our entire fuel system would have shut down,” the astronaut said. If the order had been followed, the story would have been different for the astronauts, or at least they would have faced a new challenge without knowing the consequences.
