Rebecca Murrell
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68 appearances
5 recordings
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 29 Jun
Rebecca Murrell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So they're not landing on the moon this time.
That's for Artemis 3, but they are flying around it.
And the rocket is going to be reaching incredible speeds eventually.
Today, we saw it moving really, really, really slowly.
So the rocket is nearly 100 metres tall.
It weighs about 5,000 tonnes.
It's carried on the back of this sort of monster machine called a crawler transporter.
So the entire journey takes up to 12 hours.
And the Apollo missions were all about a race with the Soviet Union.
This time around, it's with China, who've been pushing ahead to get to the moon.
They want to get astronauts there by 2030.
So it will be really interesting to see how the two continue and who gets there first, really.
I was stunned, actually.
You know, when these athletes, these sportsmen are wearing the kilt, it is so beautiful to look at and it is so powerful, the kilt is.
When you think of how it was received in the wars, when it was the active uniform of the Highland Regiments...
When I heard this news, I felt, gosh, going over to the USA, where there is a huge diaspora of Scots out there, and they are hugely passionate about the kilt and their heritage.
So to be stripping the team of that cultural representation of their homeland and the country they are representing, I don't think that's modernisation.
But it was in the 1970s that it really took off being driven by the rental market.
And so although it was still coming in for weddings, it has become hugely popular to be wearing the kilt and the tartan at the rugby games, at going up hills, becoming a practical, a very practical garment in which it has always been.
This was one of what I think is NASA's most audacious missions, where it flew a spacecraft to an asteroid called Bennu, this 500 metre sort of pile of rocks and rubble. And this spacecraft basically unfurled a robotic arm, grabbed a bit of asteroid, packed it into a capsule and sent it back to Earth. And it landed in the Utah desert in 2023.
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