5/19/2023 0 Comments Moon secrets revealed![]() The icon is for Mark Geyer, former Orion program manager and Johnson Space Center director - and a fan of the St. For the Orion program, it commemorates Charlie Lundquist, Orion's deputy program manager who died in 2020," said Humphries.Ī similar tribute is represented by the bird on the right side of the Orion cabin. "As you can see, 'CHARLIE' can mean many things. But who is Charlie? Was it a nod to Artemis I launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, the first woman to lead NASA's launch control center? Was it a reference to Apollo 16 moonwalker Charlie Duke? Or maybe it was Charlie Brown, Snoopy's owner in the Charles Schulz comic strip "Peanuts"? (An astronaut Snoopy doll was flown aboard the Orion as the Artemis I zero-g indicator.) Read from the bottom up, the "dashes" and "dots" spell out "Charlie". The bars are Morse code - a method of encoding letters as signals that was used with the telegraph and with ham radio. "They deciphered all the puzzles and were sworn to secrecy," Humphries wrote.īased on social media posts, the first of the "eggs" to be deciphered by the public was the first in Humphries' list, the black and white bars located between Orion's windows. The Exploration Ground Systems team, which prepared the ship for its launch, was the first to see the Easter eggs while installing them. The NASA and Lockheed Martin team that designed and built the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission came up with each of the coded notes. "The black and white bars between the windows, the red cardinal on the right side, the yellow sticker to the right of the hatch with 'CBAGF,' the black and white bars next to the NASA worm on the mass simulator (bottom right) and the numbers seen on the forward bulkhead to the right of the docking tunnel." "We have five Easter eggs," Kelly Humphries, news chief at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, confirmed in an email to collectSPACE. Spoiler warning: If you want more time to find the "eggs" yourself, pause reading here until you are ready to check what you found. 10), when the agency revealed the locations and meanings behind the stealthy missives. By "Easter eggs" he was using the term generally associated with software or films to describe a hidden feature. 18, the third day of the 25.5-day mission. So when you do get that view, happy hunting folks!" said Mike Sarafin, NASA's Artemis mission manager, on Dec. "We do have some Easter eggs in the view of the cockpit. What's more, the hidden notes were in plain sight the entire time. It can now be revealed that NASA's Orion spacecraft, which is just a day away from returning to Earth, carried secret messages to the moon.
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