Back to the Moon with Charlie Blackwell-Thompson - Intrepid Museum Astro Live
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Published 2024-07-26
Moderated by Intrepid Museum's Elysia Segal. Hosted by NSF's John Galloway.
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Charlie Blackwell-Thompson serves as launch director for NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program, based at NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida. She oversees the countdown and liftoff of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft for the Artemis missions. On Nov. 16, 2022, Blackwell-Thompson led her team during the first launch of Artemis – and uncrewed flight test of SLS and the Orion spacecraft. She is now preparing for Artemis II, the first crewed Artemis mission. Named to the position in January 2016, Blackwell-Thompson is NASA’s first female launch director.
Her role includes leading and managing the launch operations planning and execution for the Exploration Ground Systems program and Exploration Systems Development Division, or ESD. She also serves as the cross-program lead to the Launch Integration team responsible for integration and coordination of launch operations across the three programs: SLS, Orion and EGS. In her role as launch director, she manages the development of all launch countdown plans, philosophy, and launch and scrub turnaround procedures and schedules, as well as training approaches.
Mike Massimino is a New York Times bestselling author who served as a NASA Astronaut from 1996 to 2014. He is a four-time spacewalker who completed two missions to the Hubble Space Telescope, including the final Hubble servicing mission which has been called the most dangerous and complex mission in space shuttle history. Mike set a team record with his crewmates for the most cumulative spacewalking time in a single space shuttle mission, and he was also the first person to tweet from space. Mike received his BS from Columbia University and his PhD from MIT. He currently lives in New York City where he is a professor at Columbia, Senior Space Advisor at the Intrepid Museum, an expert television commentator, and an in-demand keynote speaker. He also had a recurring role as himself on The Big Bang Theory television series.
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All Comments (12)
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OMG Charlie Blackwell-Thompson the best!! Thank you NSF, Elysia, Das, Mike, EJ, & Charlie!!!!
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I really enjoyed this interview, and Mike kept it running smoothly. I also appreciate Elysia asking extra questions just for us afterwards. Great work NSF team.
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Hoping to see exciting Atermis II!
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Thank you Elysia, Das, Mike, Charlie etc! Hope to see Artemis II in just over a year.
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Nice presentation! Alicia you are great host! Nothing like a theatre major rockin’ it about space!
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Easily the greatest NASA interview in history…well done Charlie, true soul.
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Great video. Can’t wait for Artemis II
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Nice of Charlie to do these public relations events every couple months. Wish Gwynn would follow that example more. it’d be great if Charlie got the question about how the Test & Launch Ops teams fill the 18+ month gap in between launches….esp if they are not involved in VAB stacking ops. Has to be more than just training and sims, right ? Maintenance mgmnt on GLS equipment?
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I remember Charlie's cameo on Space Cowboys..
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Artemis 2 was the moon mission in Superman 2 that ran into Zod and compantions. I can't be the first person to observe this.
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It is 2024, everyone watching online or TV or any digital way has the ability to turn on cc so why do they still show the sign language lady on screen?
