it s got manikins and research from dozens of countries on board. so, when this. it s part of a larger thing. there s something called the artemis accords, which has a star trek ring to it on purpose. 21 countries have all come together to work on this. the idea is we ve done this before, but for about two thirds of humanity, who weren t even alive, they haven t seen anyone work on another world. for them, this will be the first moon programme. i don t want to be a damper, but i have to ask and i m sure many might be wondering as well there are so many problems on earth. is this really where humanity s efforts are best place? really where humanity s efforts are best lace? ., really where humanity s efforts are best place? really where humanity s efforts are best lace? ., ., ., ., best place? you can ask that, and it has been put to space people for half a century or longer. but india, a country that has a lot of economic issues, is racing to send probes to
now it has become a cottage industry, new document using old newspapers and close donated by fellow villages and well wishers, ayano has created her own scarecrow community. it takes two days to prepare and make each scarecrow, and now it there are 350 of these manikins, where outnumbering the ten villages remaining here. it s brought unexpected celebrity tourists arrive in regular numbers from all over the world. and there s an annual scarecrow festival.
whereas if we go without testing the technology to mars we are nine months away. we can t really put it back and get a screwdriver or a part that we need to replace. have to get it right when he goes to mars. jon: there are dummies on this artemis mission. they are not dumb they are every kind of sensory imaginable to see what the stresses are like. what it would be like the real humans in that space capsule. exactly, exactly britt we have manikins that are censored with environmental sensors for temperature and pressure and geforce whispered we are really going to understand after this mission what it s going to be like for a human to take a ride in this rocket. we think we already know what it is like this is only going to verify it. when the process of certifying
nasa says they are troubleshooting the issue but no word on whether this will impact the launch. this is the first of several missions to the moon in the years ahead. eventually the mission is to send humans back to the moon for the first time since 72 and one day nasa hopes to land the first humans on mars. this is set up as a test flight. one risk is radiation exposure, one of the goals of this mission is to mitigate those risks in the future making space travel safer for astronauts. there are three manikins on board, two of them are just torsos with radiation sensors. the other one is named after the person who helped our crew get back to earth safely from the apollo mission.