NASA Astronauts Discuss Surprise Moment on Artemis II Mission

We had a few cautions and warnings that came up from time to time. And those — always — they always get your attention. We had a smoke detector go off on the next to last day. I mean, you want to get somebody’s attention really quick, make the fire alarm go off in your spacecraft when you’re still about 80,000 miles from home. And that starts off an automated sequence of shutting down the ventilation and the power system. And that was — it was tense. It wasn’t scary, but it was tense for a few minutes until we got things reconfigured.