Artemis II Moonbound
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What historic firsts does the Artemis II mission represent?
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Three Americans and one Canadian slapped on their swimming trunks. Sorry, spacesuits or launch suits and the Artemis rocket they boarded. Boom, we're going to the moon. And just like that, we're joined by astrobiologists and Professor Sarah Rugheimer from the University of Edinburgh. Sarah, welcome in. We're going to the moon. Are you excited?
Yeah, I am excited. It took me a while to get there, though.
We've never done it before. It was completely faked back in the 60s. I'm kidding, I don't believe that. But why are we excited? The average person might think, oh, we've been there, we've done that. Why are we going back to the moon? I am not the average person, mostly because I'm a weirdo, but also because I'm excited. What makes you so excited about this mission?
So I again had the same thoughts as you at the beginning or maybe other people. I was like, okay, we've already done this. I have a magical device that's in my phone, you know, my phone. Why is this so hard? And I really then started looking into it and got excited as I realized, look, A, landing on the moon is still really hard. And that's because there's no atmosphere. It's actually in some ways easier to land on Mars, right? Because we can break with Mars's atmosphere. Aber das, was mich am meisten aufregt, ist, dass das mehr Menschenbesuch in der Welt bedeutet. Und ich denke, das ist cool. Und ich will auf Mars gehen. Ich will in meinem Leben Menschen auf Mars sehen. Und wenn wir Menschen auf Mars bekommen werden, müssen wir zu unserem nahesten kleinen, kleinen Körper, dem Mond, gehen.
Someone was talking to me about this last night and they were saying like, okay, we've been to the moon before, we stepped foot, we left a bunch of garbage, I think there's an American flag up there somewhere, but now we're taking steps towards establishing a presence on the moon. Yes, a base. A base. Why is that so different from setting foot? What would this base even do if we built it?
Ja, so I think there's multiple stages to this. There's going to be this like a docking kind of orbiter station that we can have around the moon. And this can help launch things, say, to Mars and have people go down to the moon more easily from that. So there's a whole... System that the Artemis missions are trying to accomplish over the next dozen Artemis missions. And this is just one step in it. So these astronauts are not setting foot on the moon. They're just going further than humans have ever been in space. So they're going on the far side of the moon and even further than we'd gone before and coming back and testing all sorts of systems, testing this Orion capsule and testing Die Lebens-Support-Systeme, um sicherzustellen, dass all das gut ist, um hoffentlich die Menschen in Artemis IV zu landen.
Ich glaube, es ist es jetzt. Und es gibt also viele Komponenten, um die Menschen-Spaceflight sicher zu machen. Und es ist schon seit über 50 Jahren, seit wir die Menschen so weit gebracht haben.
Why are scientists excited about returning to the moon?
Und es gibt nur weitere Probleme damit. Sie sind weiter aus unserer Atmosphäre, was bedeutet, dass sie nicht geschützt sind. Radiation, all diese Sachen.
Das ist wild, dass es schon 50 Jahre ist. Ich schaue mir eine Fotografie an, eine offizielle Fotografie, die von NASA genommen wurde. Es gibt viele Erfolge mit dieser Mission. Ich schaue mir diese vier Astronauten an. Drei von ihnen tragen die US-Flagge. Ja, Jeremy Hansen. Ja.
Absolut. Und alle sehr talentiert, natürlich. Also es ist wirklich erstaunlich, wie du gesagt hast, den ersten Nicht-Amerikaner zu sehen, der auf den Mond geht.
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