by winning in a lottery. and joining us now, gadi schwartz. also with us, adam frank, professor of astrophysics and author of the book the little book of aliens. we re looking at this, tell us what it is that is happening now. well, the mother ship is launching, flying basically, bringing the spacecraft up to high enough altitude where it will be released and then the second ship is actually a rocket. the rocket engines are going to turn on and blast up at mock 3 and then the engines will turn off and it will coast up to above what we call the von karman line, about 100 kilometers or there it goes. adam, check it out. there it goes. look at that turning on. is this like one structure that is holding this thing? it looks like two airplanes, but it is one, right? it is two airplanes and then the rocket ship is a separate
“This demonstration will be a crucial step in meeting our Moon to Mars objectives for crew transportation into deep space," said the deputy administrator of NASA.