the test of ages to that moment 80 years ago. 80 years ago today. [applause] president biden: on behalf of the american people as commander-in-chief, it is highest honor to be able to salute you here in normandy once more, all of you, god love you. [applause] winston churchill called what happened here the greatest, most complicated operation ever. after years of planning, operation overlord was ready to la launch, just as soon as weather turned. across the choppy english channel, the supreme commander, dwight eisenhower waited,
point, correct. you can t take any chances with this very important program. yeah. so it s a $4 billion rocket at least, if you include the development costs for this la launch. and the very next one we re going to put people on there, so this is a very important test flight. if something goes wrong we don t want to have to redo this. we re going to make sure that everything is absolutely perfect before the decision to launch is made. do you have a take on what your decision would be at this point? i would probably do exactly what the nasa leaders and management and engineers are deciding to do. they re the experts on this. i know that and i m confident that they re going to make the right decision, probably the same decision i would make. nasa has some big ambitious goals for this program, so you can understand the cautious. they re talking about building a