The "Shake-Out/Trouble Shooting" Run, To The Moon... Is Revealing A Need To Boost The Output Of Internal Heaters, And Slow Down The Cooling Fans, Inside Orion/Artemis II...

This is a new ship -- one that has never carried a crewed mission to deep space / the Moon, before. So it is expected that a chunk of the mission will include fiddling with the nobs and twiddly bits -- to get all the creature comfort kinks worked out.

But live on YouTube streaming yesterday, the crew pointed out that they were working with Houston to slow the speed of fan/blower cycling. . . and boost the [presumably electric] heater coils' output -- to take into account that the skin of Orion gets chilled to below minus 220 degrees Fahrenheit. [Think of this like a jet's cold air flow, flying trans-Atlantic -- but vastly amplified; not negative 50 -- negative 220.] That would certainly make for a chilly night, in space.

In the mean time, everyone is definitely wearing their. . . woolies.

Even so, Astronaut Victor Glover went so far as to suggest, for the next crewed mission, that the sleeping bags be more like "Himalayan grade" down-fill, rather than the lighter poly-filled ones presently onboard.

This is what shake-out missions are for, indeed. Godspeed, Artemis!

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