This week, were heading into space to find out how well live, work and eat on the moon. We have space homes and a spacewoman. All of a sudden, it clicked in my head. Wow, the International Space station is a submarine in space. Moon bots and moon dust. The surface is fine and powdery. I can pick it up loosely with my toe. You know, i think ive seen that chap somewhere before. Jfk we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, i not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Neil armstrong its One Small Step for man. One giant leap for mankind. 52 years ago, we laid our last footprint on the moon. As the crew of apollo 17 left the surface, they didnt know that gene cernan would be the last person to walk on Another World for quite a while. Were on our way, houston. But now, in this decade, finally. Were going back. And liftoff of artemis 1. Nasas Artemis Programme will, in the next year or two, return us to our neighbour. Part of its mission to land the first
Speculation itself, notjust online, but across newspapers and broadcast media, too. It was back at the top of bbc ones headlines throughout the following day. Last night, the first of five News Agencies issued dramatically worded kill notices withdrawing the photo due to what the agency said were inconsistencies in the image. Then this morning, a social media post from the princess of wales herself, where she admitted altering the image. She said. Since Kensington Palace announced in january that the princess had undergone Abdominal Surgery providing no further details and asking for privacy theres been a growing tide of online rumours and Conspiracy Theories about her. But did the bbc this week abide by that request for privacy, or did it fuel the fire of those rumours . Hundreds of people sent us their views on this, including julie northeast, who wrote. And john stokes asked. Well, another viewer who got in touch with us this week was david force, and he joins us now down the line.
To find out, its time for me to take One Small Step of my own. Oh, wow. I can instantly see the dust kind of kicking up. Yeah. Its really fine, isnt it . It leaves the footprints like youd expect. Oh, my gosh. Thats brilliant. And this is how moon dust behaves, itjust puffs up like that . It does, yeah. Its so fine. Welcome to swamp works. The dusty, dirty lab where they work with simulated moon dust. Now, the loose soil that covers the lunar surface is called regolith. Its extremely fine, very sharp on a microscopic scale, and it gets everywhere. So when we landed with apollo 11, we didnt know what the surface of the moon exactly was going to be like. Youll notice from some of the footage, the landing pads are quite huge on the landing legs and the ladder s far away from the surface. There was a lot of concern of, how much will this lander sink into the surface . How fluffy is this regolith . The surface is fine and powdery. I can. | can pick it up loosely with my toe. In fact, its be
Friends, Collaborating On Art Projects with other students. What i actually got. Was an online degree delivered in my bedroom. Hi, good evening. Tonight whod be a student in 2023 . Ahead of a level results, btecs and other exams in england, wales and Northern Ireland tomorrow, we devote our programme tonight to finding out whether the class of 2023 sixth formers and those doing degrees and graduating this summer are perhaps the unluckiest group of students for a generation. If you have a relevant experience, wherever you are in the country, then do whatsapp me on 07977 701980. If youre a student, youll know about the pretty tough time youve had over the last few years, with covid and teaching strikes disrupting your education, a Cost Of Living crisis, and when you graduate, leaving with about £45,000 of debt, which in many cases you will repay earlier and for longer. And yet despite all that, a record 320,00018 year olds appplied for uni last year, and most students will graduate as n
Back in a florida Courtroom Today For Another Showdown with special counsel jack smith. But the judge denying mr. Trumps bid to throw out the charges over the documents the fbi seized from maralago. And in new york, word that mr. Trumps Hush Money Trial could be delayed, but by how long . Also tonight, the massive tornadoes in the midwest. Millions under severe threats from texas to ohio. Plus, the major winter storm slamming the west. Up to four feet of snow in colorado. After five months of war in gaza, some of the sharpest criticism yet from a top u. S. Official. Senator Chuck Schumer urging israel to hold new elections and oust benjamin netanyahu. Americans stranded as chaos grips haiti, and could the u. S. House migrants fleeing the violence at guantanamo bay. Allout search for a missing 22yearold College Student. The last known videos of him. Was he overserved alcohol before disappearing . His family speaking out to us. The biggest rocket ever built, successfully launched by spac