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I mean, what kid doesn't dream about working for NASA and recovering astronauts that are going to space. You know what I mean? Like, it's it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience and to be a part of such a global event and something It's truly amazing. I'm at a loss for words for it. It's It's really an experience. I think it's incredible to be even, you know, remotely involved. The portion that we're doing is the recovery is, you know, the last step of this huge mission, Artemis.
It's truly incredible to be a part of it and be in the Navy to be able to do it. Use integrity splashdown, sending post-landing command now. And one of the ships you can see up close this week has been involved in some missions that you could say are out of this world. How early did the training begin for the mission? I would say several years ago with multiple underway training missions on LPDs as well as several trips to Houston as well as taking Naval. We practice for this all the time. We do this all the time. It's It's normal stuff for us. It's just um It's just going to be a little different with astronauts coming back to space. So, when the Integrity splashes down and lands on Earth, we will make
first contact. And the first faces they will see will be US Navy dive medical. As we walk through that hatch of that excitement, I see I to my left smiling, give him a big fist bump. I see Christina to my right, double fist bump, smile, you know, welcome home. Really, welcome home, brother. There it is. What's that? Welcome home, brother. I was thrilled to see that the older crew was in good health. It was very important for us. Our primary mission as Navy divers is to approach the capsule, deem it safe and clear. And then when the astronauts are being offloaded, they've been checked, they're good to go.
They will approach the front porch, which is pretty much just like a giant life raft. And yeah, and then get picked up by helicopters. My specific role, I will be the first rescue swimmer to rescue the first astronaut coming back from space. Okay, big deal, no pressure. Yeah, yeah, he's We're going to have the comms on the ship letting us know where the capsule is and everything like that.
They're on the front porch and then it's go time for us. When we get that call that they're ready and packaged for us, I'm already going to be dressed out. I'm sitting right here in this cabin. Hoist is coming down to me, I'm getting connected. Once we're on that approach to that front porch, I'm already going down the hoist. Once my feet are on deck on that front porch, it's connected, I'm connecting the astronaut to me and then we're bringing astronauts back into the aircraft. And then rinse and repeat for the second one and second aircraft.
We're now at the first helicopter carrying two of our Artemis two crew, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialist Christina Koch. And here we go, we're seeing Jeremy. Reed looking good as he takes his steps. And there you go, we now have all four Artemis two crew members on the USS John P. Murtha. So, the capsule will have to be towed back into the well deck. Uh the biggest thing is we want to make sure we have good solid connection points from the ship to the capsule. Uh NASA has, you know, a big winch on the boat that's going to be pulling the capsule back into.
Good evening to the crew of the John P. Murtha. We have the Artemis 2 crew here, the integrity crew here. Hey, Reed Wiseman. It's an honor to be on board your vessel. Christina Koch, thanks for catching us. This is Jeremy Hansen. My heartfelt appreciation for all you've done for us.
