So, if all goes according to plan, you are going to be the first astronauts to travel to the moon in more than half a century. What's going through your mind. Don't screw it up.I'm I'm joking, but partly not joking, you know. But I think the real thing today is what it took to get that rocket out to the pad. And so, I hope our team is is celebrating this because it's a big part of, you know, the next thing to come.The United States has been to the moon several times. Why is it important for us to go back. > ...

For a moon rocket this massive, this is what one small step looks like. About two weeks ago, we went to Kennedy Space Center in Florida to see the 3 and 12 million pound SLS rocket crowned by the Orion crew capsule roll out a top an Apollo era crawler, inching 4 miles from the assembly building to the launchpad. Top speed, less than 1 m an hour.Hundreds of employees who worked on this NASA's most powerful rocket brought their families to see their towering achievement. Also there, the four astronauts who wi ...

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As for the small matter of recruiting talent, Moscow and Rosenfeld went back to Chicago and made their pitch to two recent Northwestern grads, Meyers and Gross. >> What was your level of knowledge about the Netherlands. >> It was so bad that I think my first thought was I think Hamlet Pig's place is Hamlet.And then I the other thing I did was I remember just in my head I think I pictured just Sound of Music and I was like well first thing I got to do is get some hiking shoes and then the next thing I'll do ...

Are you ready. >> Improv is not standup. You're not performing a pre-written routine.You're working in real time. >> What's something you have at home that you care about. >> A watch.>> My shoes. I hear I hear a watch right here. >> You're relying on the audience for material and direction.>> I got a watch on my wrist. It looks so fine. >> Chicago has Second City.LA has the Groundlings and New York has Upright Citizens Brigade. In Amsterdam, there is Boom Chicago. Last summer, hundreds gathered outside a ch ...

The Bush days seem quite good now in retrospect. >> OH, I KNOW. WMD'S Colon Powell Condi Rice. What a >> comedy they say is hard. Improv comedy harder still. Then imagine doing it in a country not generally known as a barrel of laughs. >> Dutch people not the most giving laughers. I >> was going to ask you about that. >> Dutch people laugh like this. Haha. >> And they immediately get quiet. I think it's out of >> Seth Myers needs no introduction. He and Peter Gross, actor and Emmy-winning comedy writer, wer ...

What would it mean if China were to put humans back on the moon first. >> Of course, it'd be massively embarrassing. Scott Pace was executive secretary of the National Space Council during the first Trump administration and helped NASA develop the Aremis program.He says establishing a presence on the moon is important. Who gets there first this century is not. I don't downplay the embarrassment and bad headlines and everything else that would come from the Chinese, you know, returning to the moon before we' ...

On Friday, Jeff Bezos owned Blue Origin announced at least a two-year pause of its space tourism flights to focus on moon missions. >> Take motion. >> In November, Blue Origin sent its powerful New Glenn rocket into orbit and returned the booster to a platform in the Atlantic.A first for Blue Origin. to bring back that first stage was gamechanging because now like an airplane you're now able to reuse that vehicle. >> John Kolis is senior vice president of lunar permanence at Blue Origin.NASA tapped the comp ...

The Aremis 2 astronauts could fly deeper into space than any humans ever, about 250,000 miles from Earth. And once the spacecraft goes behind the moon, the astronauts will be out of all contact with Earth for about 40 minutes. Flight director Jeff Ratigan told us he'll be counting the seconds.If something should go ary, you've got the lives of four astronauts on your hands. >> I do. That's a heavy weight and I think about that every day.You know, my job is to bring Reed, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy home s ...

T-minus 60 seconds. >> Artemis may be Apollo's mythological twin, but upcoming missions with SpaceX bear little resemblance. For example, the massive SpaceX lander that will rendevous with the crew in lunar orbit has to be refueled in space, a complex process requiring the launch of 10 or more fuel tankers.Nothing like this has ever been done before. Elon Musk says it's needed to propel deep space exploration >> and we want to have epic futuristic spaceships with lots of people in them traveling to places w ...