when we think about the things that we can do moving forward, getting a new generation excited about all this, you see parents bringing their kids here, to witness this, history made today. and even now, tom, as we are watching it, we can still see that bright light made in the sky as orion continues its trajectory. has core stage dropped yet? no we believe the managing cut off will be about eight minutes and 30 seconds or so into the flight. that will be a key indicator we should keep listening to mission control as we go here. but so far, this is going absolutely perfectly on a beautiful, clear night here, which we can see the moon, perfectly clearly this morning. and it is exactly as nasa had hoped. we should make the point that each one of these launches cost the country four billion dollars. it s an awful lot of money to spend, to go back to the moon. the issue, of course, is it worth it? in the view of nasa, it is worth it, because it s setting the stage to go on to mars.
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