strikes as they progress in the next couple of weeks. but now i want to talk about something more cheerful. last week we spoke to howard hugh of nasa, one of the scientists working on the artemis mission to get people back to the moon. not that we are obsessed with it in the studio. but the mission is up there somewhere, and it has been capturing some amazing pictures. look at this, the artemis mission s orion capsule has successfully done a flyby of the moon. look at the detail on the surface, at lot more than a block of cheese. it is day 11 of the mission now, and orion is in what is called distant retrograde orbit. i learned that this morning. it means flying at about 40,000 miles above the moon, and it will go halfway around before coming home, when it is due to splashdown in the atlantic on the 11th of december. as howard told us, they need to capsule back for the next mission. the pictures are amazing, but the project is a giant chemistry lab too. there are no
humans up there, but nasa is using the trip to see how some living things react to being in deep space. hannah, as a scientist and mathematician, give us a sense of the kind of complexities involved to get something like this off the ground? it is absolutely wild. the whole reason it is absolutely wild. the whole reason they it is absolutely wild. the whole reason they are it is absolutely wild. the whole reason they are putting - it is absolutely wild. the whole reason they are putting up - it is absolutely wild. the whole reason they are putting up in l it is absolutely wild. the whole i reason they are putting up in an crewed reason they are putting up in an crewed mission reason they are putting up in an crewed mission reason they are putting up in an crewed mission and - reason they are putting up in an . crewed mission and un crewed mission crewed mission and un crewed mission is crewed mission and un crewed mission is because crewed mission and
a permanent human presence on the moon. and tonight s launch is really the beginning of that. rosemary? of course, as you point out, this is unmanned. what s the timeline for when they have a crew on board? well, that is that s what everybody wants to know, right? if all goes according to plan, they are hoping to have artemis ii, the first crewed mission, some time in 2024. that would just take astronauts around the moon. and then artemis iii would be the first mission where you actually have astronaut boots on the surface of the moon that would likely happen some time in 2025. but one other little bit of exciting news that we learned tonight from nasa administrator bill nelson, or i should say wait, it s this morning. so that should be last night. i have to get any times straight here, rosemary. but nasa administrator bill nelson said last night that if this mission, artemis i is a success, that they would then
running up on the front end of hurricane season. so they ve got that to contend with as well. but, you know, fredericka, there is just so much excitement for this launch. you cannot find a hotel room anywhere near the kennedy space center right now. a launch is always so incredibly exciting. of course it will be unmanned, but there will be mannequins on board, right? reporter: yes, so the next this is a test flight, so it s going to be uncrewed. artemis ii, scheduled to launch in 2024, if all goes according to plan with this flight, that will be the first crewed mission. then artemis iii which hopefully will launch in 2025 is kind of the apollo 11 of the artemis mission, that s when they hope to land the first woman and first person of color on the moon. kristin fisher, thank you so much. coming up, another round of trigger laws going into effect in the wake of the u.s. supreme court overturning roe v. wade, making abortion out of reach for