Do that i think is just absolutely so essential to be able to give us the capacities to make this next Essential Step that micchio was talking about. 11 minutes 10 seconds away from launch. Lets just quickly go to Poppy Harlow and jim sciutto. Guys . Good morning, everyone. What a morning. Im Poppy Harlow. And im jim sciutto. One small step for man, One Giant Leap for mankind. 52 years to the day after those words were uttered by Neil Armstrong on the surface of the moon. Moments from now we will witness a new leap for mankind. Poppy, two private launches to space in the span of nine days. I mean, a remarkable new normal. Still a pricey ticket to space, no question, but does this over time become even more normal, more accessible . Were witnessing a moment of history right now. We certainly are. As one expert put it, the dawning of the Public Space age. What youre watching if youre just joining our coverage live here on cnn is the final count down. Literally, we are ten minutes from la
hyperculture that is developing, it s almost a cult. we re no longer on the verge of the personal computer revolution. we re right in the midst of it, thank you. the average family home. cory practices her violin. christian plays with his cars, and mike and carol worry over the bills. we went into the 1980s in pretty much the same technology that s been in place for a couple of decades. typewriter. calculators, tv, oven. a car. you listen to music on a big old stereo system with a turntable. maybe you had a digital watch, and that was the only thing that was going to be digital that you actually owned. hello? i m not here now, but my faithful machine is. there was a handful of technology at that time. one was the telephone answering machine. you d be driving home and you d say, i can t wait to check my messages. you know, it had become part of the day. honey, i m checking my messages. from the noisy streets of new york to the laid-back tranquility of california,
who has traveled at warp speed and traveled the entire galactic universe. our team is preparing landing safety operations and recovery of our astronauts from the crew capsule. we ll be on the ground at the landing site to follow the action in just a bit. maybe even talk to the world s newest astronauts, some absolutely breathtaking stuff. i ll note that you re going to see the recovery team show up very shortly, we actually send them out before the capsule has landed. by now we re very, very good analyzing where the capsule is going to come down, where the winds are. we re going to see the recovery team come out there and, of course, they will also be joined by some of their friends and family to watch as they ve merge from the capsule. let s look at our four astronauts there in the texas desert after having gone up over the carmen line and back. hello everyone. i m kate bolduan. we re beginning with breaking news. just a beautiful sight to see. star trek actor william
minister about what is happening with the hostage negotiation and the gaza war as well as the latest attacks by iran-backed proxy groups. but, first, the world is awaiting president biden s response to the death of three american soldiers from a drone attack in jordan, blamed on iran proxy terrorists. the president says he has made a decision but is not saying what that is. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin starts us off tonight live from the pentagon. good evening, jennifer. good evening, bret. it s unclear if the iranian proxy group had knowledge an american drone was returning to the base at the same time it chose to attack or if it was coincidence. officials still don t know if the drone was launched from iraq or syria. president biden says he has made his decision on how to respond. i don t think we could be any more clear that we have called on the iranian proxy groups to stop their attacks. they have not. and so we will respond in a time and ma
boosters ignition. and lift off of artemis one. we rise together, back to the moon and beyond. roaring off launch pad 49 be at the kennedy space center, the next chapter in americas love affair with all things space. and is on the core stage into solid rocket boosters now prevailing the vehicle at 128 miles per hour. nasa s artemis rocket, the most powerful ebel built headed for a multi day crew orbit around the moon. a test flight before astronauts climb into the orion spaceship and head for a lunar landing, perhaps within 2 to 5 years. flanked with two booster rockets, artemis looks like apollo on steroids. 15% more powerful than the monster center five rockets that carried apollo astronauts to the moon. there is a lot out there to explore, and this is the next beginning. and this is the artemis generation. artemis is all about asserting america s leadership of space, building a lunar base, and orbiting lunar space station. then, in the late 2030 s, a mission to m