rocket, put together with the capsule before launch. incredible piece of history here. brian: saturn s mission? to get to us the moon, put a man on the moon before the end was the decade what john f. kennedy gave the charge, the president at the time, that was the mission to get to the moon before the soviet union at the time could do it. kennedy preached the gospel of space, he became a space person, he got committed to it said we ll put a man on the moon by end of the decade, and bring him back alive. we choose to go to the moon. we choose to go to the moon. what came after apology. apo? the space shuttle program. brian: which is? right over here.
away it is different. are right, there is chaos at the launchpad, people are everywhere, have you nasa people preparing the rocket, and the press, they are buzzing with activity, that good. but we as astronauts don t need to be in the middle of that activity before you get ready to go into space. you need a quiet place to prepare yourself mentally and emotionally, this place gives that you seclusion. you can wrap your mind about what you are to do. rarely do people outside of nasa see this. this is rare, this is a hidden treasure, that most people in public don t see. you need something that is calming. to keep you a little bit grounded before you strap yourself to 7 1/2 million pounds of thrust. as we take after overhead
brian: congratulations on you re incredible career. thank you very much, brian. brian: i have to go now. they are kicking us both out. brian: insides one minute until falcon 9 rocket is supposed to launch. you are about to experience it with me, if all goes well, back with more right after this. don t you get the best price booking at
research, development and construction. there has been a lot of that. these are all bays, you have seen the shuttle bay, and one for the apollo. they are redoing and renovating this one here, this is a beast, the rocket is still being built, but they have to make sure hey have a place to put the rocket, they are working on it right now, renovating the fla platforr the. i ginormous rocket.
what is it like? it is incredible, it is a tough time, whenever you lose a spacecraft, it is hard on everyone. but space is hard. the business of getting into space and flying someone and supporting life in space, that is incredible risky, but what we do here, we try buy down that risk, check it out as are thoroughly as we can, test it as much as we can before we send any off th astronaut above. brian: you mentioned after the challenger, people to hear ronald reagan say? he said, we re going to continue, we re going to continue to explore the heavens, because this is what we need to do. we will continue our quest in space. it there will be more shuttle flights and more shuttle crews, and more volunteers and more civilians, more teachers in space. nothing ends here. brian: a new places you can few places that you can build a rocket, if i have spacex or