Overview
- Flight controllers played Chappell Roan’s ‘Pink Pony Club’ as the wake-up on a mission livestream, then stopped it after about a minute.
- Commander Reid Wiseman joked that the crew had been “eagerly awaiting the chorus,” drawing laughs on the downlink.
- NASA says the crew is on track to view about 20% of the moon’s far side lit by the sun during a roughly six-hour window on April 6.
- The four-person Artemis II team—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canada’s Jeremy Hansen—launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 1.
- Recent coverage also recalls Roan’s Brazil hotel incident, which she said involved a guard who was not her security, with bodyguard Pascal Duvier later taking responsibility.