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Really where the money shot is going to be, and we still don't have it yet, guys. we're waiting for it, but what you are going to see is an up-close view of the moon as the spacecraft flies over it. just 80 miles above the surface. victor and bianna, it also passed right over tranquility base which is where apollo 11 famously landed back in 1969, so we should be getting good images of that as well, but i think the big difference i should point out between apollo 11, the entire apollo program and this, the artemis program is that, you know, when those astronauts landed on tranquility base back ...

Small asteroid to be able to study resources there. so they are packing so much into this one mission. >> cubesats, literally, because they're tied to satellites, in the shape of a cube, almost like a microwave, if you will, or maybe not even that big -- >> yes, the size of a shoe box. >> but they are dropping them off. and they will conduct these experiments as orion heads are back to the moon on its own mission. >> yeah. and we already know there is a group of astronauts that have already been selected for this possible artemis two mission. we are sort of waiting in the wings, of course, and...

The final 30 minutes of “Good Night Oppy” is still the best portion of the movie.

>> martin savage back with us. i was worried about what we would be able to see because of the fog. you can see a fair amount. >> that's primarily ground fog. if you're anywhere down there by the launch site, it's a spectacular thing not just to see, but feel. you have nine merlin engines cranking away delivering 5 million pounds of thrust. a lot of people may say it's the most powerful rocket it is. not true. it's the most powerful rocket that's operational. it's a long way off from the old saturn 5 which was used to launch apollo 11 and all the apollo missions. that had about 7 million pound...