Kenneth Chang

Good to be here again.

Hopefully, it looks good.

The forecast says 80% chance death is going to go, but that means there's 20% chance that something doesn't quite clear up.

This is the first time that anyone's going close to the moon in more than 53 years.

Wow.

Four astronauts are going to be blasting off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

And they're going to head out to the moon.

They're not going to land.

They're just going to swing around the moon and then head straight back to Earth and splash down in the Pacific Ocean 10 days later.

So the goal this time in this program, which is called Artemis, is to get people back to the moon, but also stay there this time.

And so this program is broken up into pieces because it's really hard to land on the moon.

You don't want to do all the hard things all at once.

You want to break it up into pieces so you do step by step.

Right.

So Artemis 1, back in 2022, it sent this spacecraft to the moon and spent several weeks there without any people aboard.

So that sort of established that the basic machinery works.

Now we're on the next step, which is Artemis II.

This time they're including the four people aboard.

And that's critical because the main task of this mission is to test the life support systems.

And it's impossible to test it without actual people producing carbon dioxide, producing water and poop and everything else that you need to clean up.