PM Carney and Artemis II astronauts meet with students

Added: 2026-05-14

[00:00:08]That's a big part of the street.

[00:00:25]>> Yeah.

[00:00:41]I don't think we can take probably got the right of the scale.

[00:02:25]There's something 30 seconds.

[00:02:51]All right, we're going back to back up here. We'll go down this way.

[00:03:11]>> Okay.

[00:03:32]I'll move once they come down.

[00:03:35]>> We'll do just a shot with you under the movie if that's okay.

[00:03:39]>> Okay.

[00:03:40]>> Kind of cool.

[00:03:48]line up against >> right against the railing against the others.

[00:03:58]>> Yeah, we can look down for just about two seconds.

[00:04:01]>> Yeah, let's all look down first.

[00:04:04]>> All right.

[00:04:08]Or even look up if you want and then if we're ready. Okay, let's turn around. Yep, you got it. Let's turn around. Get a photo. Thank you.

[00:04:18]>> All right, guys. Good.

[00:04:25]>> Yep. All right. Okay, guys. Thank you.

[00:04:28]Let's go.

[00:04:35]>> Down.

[00:04:42]We need protective anybody. Are you guys okay with these pictures? Come on, guys.

[00:05:17]Oh, also when I mentioned we were going to have a lot of special guests in the room, let's give it up for our photographers, our videographers, our media.

[00:05:29]I told you folks, you were about to get very, very popular. Um, so these folks are going to be circulating a little bit. They're going to be capturing some photos of you folks touching cool rocks, touching moon rocks, chatting with the astronauts, chatting with the PM. Um, so, uh, yeah, prepare to put your best face forward. I can tell you all dressed up for the fantastic. It's great.

[00:06:02]I'm curious. Does anybody here have like the burning question that you want to ask?

[00:06:23]That's why I kind of Um, I actually had a uh mom group chat going with about 64 moms from my neighborhood. Uh, we call ourselves the Carington Mom Collective, but for a short period of time, we renamed ourselves the Carington Mom Moon mission collective. Uh, because we were sharing uh live updates about the mission. Um that 6-minute blackout as uh the astronauts were descending and getting ready for splashdown was one of the tensest moments that we've experienced and uh had a whole bunch of moms chatting um you know relaying live all the cool stuff that was going on. It was pretty cool. Um does anybody want to share their question for the astronaut before they arrive? Do a little practice run.

[00:07:36]Super fun. I think we um Yes. Round of applause. I think we were all following the updates about the space plumbing quite closely. Um but showers, yeah, was something that we didn't really hear too much about.

[00:07:52]>> Does somebody else want to share their question before they join?

[00:08:05]That was super fun.

[00:08:07]I definitely um I saw our our NASA astronauts a couple of times mentioning what it was like to share a space that was just about the size of I think two minivans uh with a six- foot tall comedian Journey Hansen. Uh it was pretty close quarters.

[00:08:24]Does somebody else want to share their question before our guests arrive?

[00:08:30]Okay. Well, that's probably a good thing because um I see a bustle of activity taking place in the hallway.

[00:08:38]So, what we're going to do, my goodness. All right, folks. We are going to welcome these astronauts in in style fabs and countdown um like what they would have seen as they were getting ready to go. Okay, so in just a few minutes, we're going to do our countdown. We're going to do it in French.

[00:09:02]We're going to go all the way down. Um, and at the end we're going to yell.

[00:09:09]Okay, is everybody ready?

[00:09:12]>> I know it's cringy, but just like meet me here, okay? Just meet me here on this. This is what we're going to do. Oh my gosh, I see some blue out in the hallway, folks. This is actually happening. Okay. So, I'm going to remind you all um at the end of this activity, it's going to be quite short. You're going to have a group pick.

[00:09:30]>> Okay. So, this >> F this s Did we get all our answers?

[00:10:26]We're doing some activities around geology here. We're sorting on some of our answers. We're also doing some mineral identification here.

[00:10:41]Jeremy.

[00:10:46]Okay.

[00:11:04]problem.

[00:11:08]They just car and bisque the cate.

[00:11:45]We know the sack port on the migro We not wait.

[00:12:32]No.

[00:12:35]Okay.

[00:12:36]>> Okay. So, Hello.

[00:13:19]Reality.

[00:13:23]Um the problem Spectac don't cook No, no, no.

[00:14:28]Test the capsule.

[00:14:52]>> Um, what's your name?

[00:14:55]>> Liam. So Liam was asking what we do if something hit our capsule and put a hole in it. And we we actually for a moment during our mission about 20 minutes before we left lunar orbit to do our trans lunar injection and accelerate to 39 times the speed of sound at like tminus 20 minutes of that we got a warning message that we were losing pressure in the cavern. So we actually thought we might have that problem. We had trained for it. We knew as we went through those dense satellite bands there's a lot of debris in space and that was a high risk time for us. So like it it it corresponded exactly with our high-risisk moment. And uh but luckily we didn't have a hole in our capsule. It was just uh it was just we had the limit set on the computers a little bit too tight when they changed some fan speeds. But if we had had a hole then we would have got in our space suits to survive and then we would have tried to get home as soon as we could.

[00:15:46]Probably about a day later.

[00:15:55]We're going to do a little uh orbit of the room. We're going to ask our VVIPs to move tables. Um so, uh let's do a clockwise direction. Why not? We'll ask our our astronauts, our VIP guests to uh switch tables so that you can um meet some additional students. Thank you.

[00:16:21]Go in there, Tony.

[00:16:30]>> Watch behind you.

[00:16:40]>> Okay, so we were just about to learn about the North. It's one of my most favorite rocks. Where would I go down?

[00:16:47]Yeah, go down.

[00:16:48]>> Great question. You would find a norasite. Um there's a lot of it on Earth um in a place called Labrador here in Canada. And what makes Labrador so special is there's a crater in Labrador called Kumasta. I don't know if you guys have ever heard of it before, but it's really, really special because it's a really beautifully preserved crater.

[00:17:11]It's a lake now, and you can go visit it. But the rock that the meteorite hit when it hit Earth is in North Pacific.

[00:17:18]So it's like very unique on Earth. One of the only places me.

[00:17:25]Now one place where there's a lot of the north. Does anyone know where there's a lot of north?

[00:17:33]>> It's a little otherworldly.

[00:17:35]that is >> there is a lot of anorasite in the highlands on the south pole of the moon where there's a ton of craters. It's one of the first things that you notice when you look at the moon. So when we think about where we want to train astronauts if we're on earth we want to go someplace that is similar to the moon and helps them train and learn how to pick up the best possible samples. And here in Canada, we have one of the only places there's an excellent analog photo because we have target rock that's in Northite and a crater that is beautifully preserved in that site. So, I don't know if you guys know it, but we have astronauts who come to train in Canada. They'll come every year to communicate and that is completely unique.

[00:18:20]>> Wow.

[00:18:20]>> It's incredible.

[00:18:21]>> I'm glad I came to class.

[00:18:24]>> How big is the crater?

[00:18:25]>> How big is the crater? No, I knew when I went I went there probably like 2 and a half years ago. Um I couldn't tell you now. Maybe I might guess like 24. It's not a super big especially compared to the scale of what we have really really big but when we go there we go with geologists and they teach us how to pick the best rocks.

[00:18:44]>> It's a good skill. It's a very good. Now does anyone know any something else aside from great astronauts that Canada contributes to the space program?

[00:18:58]That's my hint.

[00:19:03]>> There's a question. Uh no soon. Yes. Yeah, we do a very fine suit. There's a a canid arm.

[00:19:12]It's called the Canid arm. It's robotics that works in space because like everything in I mean I shouldn't say Jenny can say better than me but uh everything in space the the the stress that it's under being able to pick things up when you're flying at speeds of sound and being able ultimately to pick up rocks on on the lunar surface.

[00:19:32]You need very very specialized equipment and we make that and you go to don't you go to Mon where do you go to train?

[00:19:39]>> We go to Monkey all to train for that.

[00:19:40]So, it's another thing that's amazing about Canada. It's something that we really want. If you guys are interested in space, there are so many ways to get involved. We have some incredible geologists who want to study moon rocks or we have people who build robotics for the moon and space stations. We're really lucky to have that. How many other countries have the expertise that we have to build these robotic arms that are on the space station, the shuttle, and eventually opportunity to have.

[00:20:06]>> Okay. So Jenny is very modest, but Jenny was in charge. She was the capcom. So the the capsule commander uh and so she was the main interface, right? Why don't you tell them what the capsule?

[00:20:19]>> Yeah, absolutely. So Capcom, you're a communicator for the mission. So uh it's it's not quite like calling your friends, but it's not too dissimilar. So my four friends when they went around the room, really lucky to know these guys. Hopefully you'll get to spend more time with them in a second. Um, we need one voice that's streamed into the capsule. How they communicate with mission control, how they know what tasks they need to complete for the day, if they have any problems, any questions, and talked about how important it is to ask questions, and they ask a ton of questions. They need one voice answering them back. And usually that's someone who knows what crew is trained on, knows what questions they're going to ask, and knows what they're thinking about. And for us, that ends up being a backup crew. And I built that role. So since I was Jared as a backup, I had this wonderful assignment for two and a half years to know what he knows and follow him around basically for a couple of years of my life. And I was able to sit in mission control and be the voice to talk to them. And it was really wonderful moments like you can imagine seeing their friends achieve this dream that they had. Um it was really wonderful to be able to talk to them and also just just be with the team on the ground, the flight control team and represent Canada in that way. It's pretty special. But it's also good, I would think, Jenny, to have someone who knows what you're going through. I mean, someone who's an astronaut themselves.

[00:21:39]So, even just saying that there was one time pressure.

[00:21:48]Uh we are going to wrap up the conversations that are happening at the tables and then we are going to gather at the back of the room for a little pick with all of our students and all of our um so one to two minutes and we're going to wrap up and end.

[00:22:06]>> Okay guys, I'll take you up this way.

[00:22:22]Nice and easy.