reinitiated this great launch capability that we gave up back in the early 70s, we now have it back and now we can go get back to exploring and help establish that space economy from low earth orbit out to the moon, and extend the human neighborhood. and of course, the one long term aim of this mission is to eventually see humans land on mars, how much closer do you think that goal is? that goal is achievable, but it s gonna take some time. we need to get to the moon, learn how to live and work on the moon learn how to live and work and operate these missions being so far away, you know a space station where an hour and a half away from home if there is an issue or some cases were nine or ten days away from the moon, and when we go to mars, you know, that s 35 million miles away compared to 240,000 so that s going to be a six month one way
millions of different parts that all have to work perfectly at just the right time and every new launch system always has these kinds of experiences to go through, we had these with apollo we, had these with gemini. we have them with shuttle. and so now we have the first one under our belts, and the mission is off to a great start, with the perigee race burn, i believe just getting completed so looking good. so what i ll will this move rocket achieve and how significant will this be do you think? this is extremely significant, we have now renegotiated the launch capability that we had back in the apollo days, so, eventually the artemis system, we will be able to take more payload, more hardware to the moon than we did with apollo, so we had
ever launch from british soil. it will deliver satellites into orbit and mark the start of a push to make the uk space flight central. for the maiden mission, newquay airport has been transformed into spaceport cornwall. we build, you know, the majority of the world s small satellites here in the uk, and every one at the minute is getting shipped overseas to launch. to build our own launch capability here in the uk, i think, is just crucially important going forward. this is a launch with a difference. instead of taking off vertically from the ground, the rocket is hitching a ride on a jumbojet for a midair blast off. this is the rocket. it s called launcher one, and final preparations for its launch are under way. after it detaches from the plane, it fires its own engines and begins its journey to space. release, release, release. the drop happens at 35,000 feet. until now, the company behind the rocket, virgin orbit, have been carrying out these launches from california. now, the tea
it will deliver satellites into orbit and mark the start of a push to make the uk space flight central. for the maiden mission, newquay airport has been transformed into spaceport cornwall. we build, you know, the majority of the world s small satellites here in the uk, and every one at the minute is getting shipped overseas to launch. to build our own launch capability here in the uk, i think, is just crucially important going forward. this is a launch with a difference. instead of taking off vertically from the ground, the rocket is hitching a ride on a jumbojet for a midair blast off. this is the rocket. it s called launcher 1, and final preparations for its launch are under way. after it detaches from the plane, it fires its own engines and begins itsjourney to space. release, release, release. the drop happens at 35,000 feet.
remember last year s was just part of an airfield. that just as a launch capability for chemical weapons. now we have a research and development facility and two other storage facilities, one of which included a command post. so they re really focusing on the chemical weapons themselves. automatic when you look at research and development, that is only one of those locations. although you heard officials tonight saying that could account for maybe years of research and data. they felt like it would damage the syrian regime. but there are other possible targets. they just didn t want to hit those at the risk of hitting either foreign forces or civilians. so long-term, you know, we heard what they said. this is obviously expanded from last year but still quite limited in scope. they chose that middle ground to walk a line between doing