to celebrate its bicentennial, or at least, to celebrate its bicentennial, orat least, part to celebrate its bicentennial, or at least, part of him does! welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. a short time ago, nasa announced it s given the go ahead for the launch of the artemis mission test flight to take place on monday next week. it s being heralded as the return of human exploration of the moon you re watching the flight readiness briefing for nasa s artemis mission. it is to split is targeted for monday, august 29, with storage launch pad, 309b. and it s expected that it will lead eventually to the first woman and the first person of colour setting foot there. it is the apollo mission for a new generation as our science editor rebecca morelle explains. after a 50 year gap, we re heading back to the moon, see and it all starts here with the artemis mission and nasa s huge rocket. it s called the space launch system, or sls for short, and it s t
a short time ago, nasa announced it s given the go ahead for the launch of the artemis mission test flight to take place on monday next week. it s being heralded as the return of human exploration of the moon. you are watching the flight readiness review briefing for nasa s artemis i mission, this include flight test is currently targeted for august 29, at 8:33am eastern time, from historic launch pad, 39b. it s expected that the mission will lead eventually to the first woman and the first person of colour setting foot there. it is the apollo mission for a new generation as our science editor rebecca morelle explains. after a 50 year gap, we re heading back to the moon, and it all starts here with the artemis mission and nasa s huge rocket. it s called the space launch system, or sls for short, and it s the most powerful rocket ever built by the us space agency. it stands nearly 100 metres about 320 feet tall, roughly the same height as a 32 storey building. its coloss
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. a short time ago nasa announced it s given the go ahead for the launch of the artemis mission test flight to take place on monday next week. it s being heralded as the return of human exploration of the moon. you are watching the flight readiness review briefing for nasa s artemis i mission, this uncrewed flight test is currently targeted for august 29, at 8:33am eastern time, from historic launch pad, 39b. it s expected that the mission will lead eventually to the first woman and the first person of colour setting foot there. it is the apollo mission for a new generation as our science editor rebecca morelle explains. after a 50 year gap, we re heading back to the moon, and it all starts here with the artemis mission and nasa s huge rocket. it s called the space launch system, or sls for short, and it s the most powerful rocket ever built by the us space agency. it stands nearly 100 metres about 320 feet ta
so, its huge heat shield protects it while the temperature rises to nearly 3,000 degrees celsius. a series of parachutes open, massively slowing it down, before splash down in the pacific ocean. we can noew speak to keith cowing, who is a former nasa employee and now editor of website nasa watch. a lot of fuss, about this, a lot of celebrity appearances, can you in lemmens terms sum up why there is so much excitement around this? i why there is so much excitement around this? around this? i am a child of the apollo around this? i am a child of the apollo generation. - around this? i am a child of the apollo generation. i - around this? i am a child ofi the apollo generation. i am around this? i am a child of - the apollo generation. i am 67. i went the apollo generation. i am 67. i went through all of this as a kid, i went through all of this as a kid. i i went through all of this as a kid. i was i went through all of this as a kid, i was told that he would land kid, i was t
while the temperature rises to nearly 3,000 degrees celsius. a series of parachutes open, massively slowing it down, before splash down in the pacific ocean. keith cowing is a former nasa employee and now editor of the website, nasa watch. he explained why there was so much excitement surrounding nasa s artemis launch. i am a child of the apollo generation. lam 67. i went through all of this as a kid, i was told that we would land on the moon in nine years and we did. there was lots of excitement then but that was then and this is now, and we are talking about the artemis generation with, in many ways people harking back to this being their apollo moment, but right now, more than half of the world s population has never seen anybody walk on another world so it is going to be their first moonwalk. that was then with apollo and this is now, everything