Rundown 1 — Artemis II “moon rehearsal”

26:53>> Which happened on December 20th in preparation for this is the sort of Artemis 2 final dress rehearsal. Uh NASA successfully completed a full launch day simulation for the first crude lunar mission in half a century. So if you don't think we went to the moon before, >> we at least might go to the moon now. Let's see. Uh this is a collaboration between both NASA and the Canadian Space Agency. >> Yep. >> Uh we have astronauts Christina Cotch, Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen, and Reed Weissman. Uh it's going to be a 10day mission, which is super exciting. And they're taking off, I believe it is February 5th, so it's coming soon. Yeah,

27:33it's going to be great. It's basically like Apollo 8. They're not landing on the moon. Um, but they're not landing on the moon, but they're actually going to be going around the moon. Yep. >> And then coming right back. And one of the coolest things about this is um it's it's going to be the farthest that humans have ever been from planet Earth. >> Really? >> Yes. Because even in even in the Apollo missions, you know, they went around the moon, but the the guy who stayed in the lunar capsule or sorry, in the command module rather than the two guys who went down in the lunar module, the guy who stayed in the command module, Michael Collins in Apollo 11, for example, was

28:15pretty close to the surface of the moon on the other side. He was on the far side on his own. um with these guys. These guys are actually overshooting and they're going to go really far out >> and then catch catch a wider orbit. >> Yeah. Yeah. So So they're going to be the farthest humans ever from Earth and it's going to be I I'm I'm really excited to see the photos that they get. It would be cool to see like are they going to be so far that they can get the moon and the Earth >> in the same shot? >> It's the the pale blue dot V2. >> That would be insane. That would be really really cool >> cuz we don't really have a photo like that of like >> you know our our family like earth and the moon together like that.

28:56>> Actually we do. That's not true. We do have that from um these there's this Japanese satellite that's quite far away right in between the sun and the and the earth. Okay. >> And every once in a while when the moon goes in front of the earth it gets a photo. >> Doesn't count. There's no people in there. >> Yeah. Exactly. This would be like a a photo taken by a human being. >> Us. That would be >> not our not the fruit of our loins, which is technology. >> Yeah. [laughter] >> Yeah. >> So, we we'll be on the lookout for Artemis 2. We actually have uh Artemis behind us >> uh over one of our shoulders. Oh, over the other shoulder. >> Oh, this it's [laughter] it's this camera now. We're still getting used to the three camera setup here, but it's