and can you see the countdown at the top of your screen. look at the vice president and her husband will be there to speak. this is the first time a woman and a person of color has gone to the moon. steve: that is ultimately the goal. this particular flight though will be unmanned. they will have three test mannequins strapped in to figure out what radiation effects and everything else. you will see it live if it goes off on our show. it s all about the heat shield, they say because it s a test flight. the idea is to make sure that the heat shield can protect the people inside and they really won t know that until it comes back. brian: yeah, i mean, you got to you are going to watch two rockets disengaged and then ultimately just be the orion craft that will go into the moon s orbit, whip around a few times and then come back octobe. so that s a 42-day mission. and we ll probably cover all 42 days. steve: you know what, brian, you are probably right. we will mention i
for the second time in a week, nasa has called off its attempt to launch a powerful rocket part of a mission aimed at eventually putting humans back on the moon. the artemis rocket was due to blast off in the past hour but technical problems forced the team to call for another postponement. here s nasa s administrator bill neilson. the mission management team is meeting this afternoon. they re going to look at it. they re going to see is there still a possibility now or are they going to have to roll back into the vehicle assembly building? if they decide that s the case, then it ll be an october launch. and october, i would say, although the window opens in early, i suspect it ll be more like the middle, because remember the first week of october, we ve got another crew. it s an international crew, two international participants on the crew of four that are going to the international space station. our science correspondentjonathan amos is at the kennedy space center. we
she will tell lawmakers whether their stories posed a risk to national security. bill has time off. good morning, trace. moon to mar-a-lago might be the scene of today s show. house oversight leaders welcoming the dni s decision saying officials must swiftly move to mitigate any potential risk. at the same time federal judge is siding with the former president saying she intends to appoint an independent special master to review how the f.b.i. handled the documents. dana: all this after the f.b.i. unsealed a heavily redacted affidavit showed the agency had probable cause to believe that the former president was keeping classified information at his resort. some of it apparently dealing with spies and secrets. bill: former congressman trey gowdy is making the case for more transparency. perhaps some people have already made up their minds. but many have not. they want more information. is this really about the return of documents or something else? what is at stake are