Artemis program

NASA is looking for people who want to fly to the moon and help build a permanent lunar base.

The space agency is accepting applications for a new astronaut class that will help grow the Artemis program.

NASA last put out a call for new astronauts two years ago, and more than 8,000 people applied, but it was tough going with just 10 making the final cut.

The space agency only has 32 active astronauts, and it needs more recruits to expand its missions.

The VAB is the iconic giant rocket hangar that's been in use since the Apollo Moon program of the 1960s.

Engineers are stacking the Space Launch System rocket for next year's Artemis III mission to test lunar landers in low-Earth orbit.

The crew includes three Americans and one Italian.

Artemis III will pave the way for Artemis IV in 2028, which will attempt to return humans to the lunar surface.

And NASA is also hosting an air show and technology expo.

And in Florida, a chimpanzee sanctuary goes to extraordinary lengths to make sure that its animals are safe and fed, even delivering dinner by drone.

She's going to bring some information through about what's happening currently.

In particular, I would like to get into the Artemis 2 and that mission and what's going on there and some other stuff.

But welcome to the show.

Yeah.

You know, I was going over this this morning because I knew you were going to ask me that.

And I thought, honestly, it started when I was a kid.

Like when I was little, I loved face I grew up when Star Trek was on TV and you know this Artemis mission it's brought up the whole original moon landing information and I was thinking back that's when it was like most likely I was in in the summer like when it happened late summer I actually was in an area where it was just stars we were on holidays and I remember thinking most likely I saw ships And I just took for granted as a kid that everybody believed it, that everyone thought Star Trek was a documentary, that it was real, right? And obviously, there's so many of us on the planet who resonate with that belief.

those shows because star trek's huge star wars is huge and um we've received a lot of information then i had like another ufo experience around the age of 19 and it was before dating myself it was before the internet so i was actually driving home at like two in the morning and nobody had cell phones either and everybody was pulled over on the side of the road and there was a big ship and i equate it to the ship from uh encounters of close encounters of third kind which I didn't actually watch that movie until a few years ago.

America will establish a permanent presence on the moon.

Under NASA's Artemis program, American astronauts will soon return to establish a permanent American presence on the moon.

And then we will go to Mars.

And

And he wants to also try to do that before the end of his term.

So there's a very ambitious program for Artemis 3, and then Artemis, which is supposed to fly next year, and then Artemis 4, which is supposed to land on the moon.

before the end of his term in 2028.

There's all kinds of things that aren't there, like the launchers that Artemis III is going to need in a mere seven or eight months from now.

But the Chinese have laid out very clearly, and they have in a press conference two weeks ago, the four-part mission that they have to land on the moon and establish a base by 2030.

Just remind us the purpose of the establishment of a base, because we've now got rather consumed by the race itself and not the goal.

NASA's looking for some more folks with the right stuff.

The space agency announced that it's now accepting applications for a new astronaut class that will help grow the Artemis program.

With only 32 active astronauts, the space agency needs more recruits.

Interested? You'll need to be a U.S.

NASA's looking for some more folks with the right stuff.

The space agency announced that it's now accepting applications for a new astronaut class that will help grow the Artemis program.

With only 32 active astronauts, the space agency needs more recruits.

Interested? You'll need to be a U.S.

NASA's looking for some more folks with the right stuff.

The space agency announced that it's now accepting applications for a new astronaut class that will help grow the Artemis program.

With only 32 active astronauts, the space agency needs more recruits.

Interested? You'll need to be a U.S.