SPACE — Astronaut Christina Koch reportedly played a pivotal role in the success of NASA’s Artemis II lunar mission on Monday when she helpfully screamed in the pilot’s ear as they were just 5,000 miles shy of colliding with the lunar surface.
“Look out!” Mission Specialist Koch cried out as she placed her hand on the Orion spacecraft’s dashboard. “Use the space brakes! The space brakes!”
The crew’s pilot, Victor Glover, reportedly jerked the ship awkwardly in response as he was startled by the female crew member’s reaction. “It’s OK, I’m looking at it,” he said.
According to NASA sources, it was impossible to say whether the Orion spacecraft the crew occupied would have made contact with the moon or not. But what was clear, Koch pointed out, is that they absolutely did not crash into the moon after her warning.
“As mission specialist, it’s not my job to be a backseat driver, but I didn’t expect Victor to fly so close to the moon either,” Koch said, who referred to her role as being exhausting. “I can’t exactly relax when he’s flying us around at over 1,000 miles per hour. That only gives us five hours to react. I just wanted to make sure he was paying attention.”
At publishing time, Koch had helpfully instructed Glover to turn left once they reached the moon.
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