Lots of landmark events, and always a danger when humans are involved. how nervous will the teams be about that? they have not done this in a while with a rocket like this and the last time we sent humans up was quite some time ago on a nasa spacecraft. we have been launching on spacex rockets recently but every time people climb into one of those things there is a lot of nail biting. it goes with the whole thing. the key is the landing sites. explain why that is so crucial. during apollo, they went to the easier sites on the equator of the moon and they were interested in the lighting and being able to see it directly but this time they will go to the south pole of the moon, for reasons that we have never been there, and because the way the moon orbits around the earth and the sun lights it up, the poles of the moon stay in perpetual sunshine and right next to them is almost perpetual darkness so there
This is bbc news the latest headlines. three, two, one. mission to the moon. nasa gives the go ahead for its latest test flight artemis will launch next monday. lawyers for donald trump take legal action following the raid on his florida home claiming it was an attempt to stop him running for office. the man who led the us response to the covid pandemic, anthony fauci, has announced he ll step down as the president s chief medical advisor in december. he s served under seven us presidents, beginning with republican ronald reagan in the 1980s. in a statement president biden said. i know the american people and the entire world will continue to benefit from dr fauci s expertise in whatever he does next. whether you ve met him personally or not, he has touched all americans lives with his work. let s go live to washington dc now to speak to dan diamond, the washington post s national health reporter.
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
Giving it the big push it needs to escape our planet s gravity. it takes several days to reach the moon, with the spacecraft making small adjustments along the way. at first, the spacecraft flies in close, 100 kilometres, that s 62 miles, above the lunar surface. then it enters a much larger orbit, swinging more than 65,000 kilometres, about 40,000 miles, beyond the moon. that s further than any spacecraft built for humans has ever flown. during the several weeks 0rion is in orbit, nasa will collect important data and check how the spacecraft is performing. finally, after another close fly by, it s ready to head for home. now things get hazardous. as the spacecraft nears earth, it has to enter our atmosphere at exactly the right angle. if it gets this wrong, it will burn up. so, its huge heat shield protects it
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