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How the state is preparing and why this will be the second round of flooding for some. plus, we are on the eve of history. one day away from the launch of artemis i, nasa s next mission to the moon. how the forecast is shaping up and some of the more interesting things that are heading up to space in that rocket. plus, how extreme weather is uncovering some of the world s ancient treasures. thanks so much for waking up with us this sunday, august 28th. we hope you re having a great weekend. the start of a new week. good morning. i have a confession to make, i just gorged myself with a cupcake for breakfast, so i m beating you out on the prosciutto, much healthier. ....
Over launchpad 39b after lightning strikes nearby. a little too close for comfort, i would say. nasa says rain and thunderstorms are over the area of saturday and three lightning strikes hit the protection system towers. nasa says the lightning protection system towers are 6600 feet tall and are there to protect the rockets by steering lightning currents away. let s get a look at the forecast for the launch now. allison chinchar is back with us. allison, florida, summertime, you re going to get rain, you re going to get lightning, what are you seeing? any day, any given day in the summer over florida you run the risk of thunderstorms. monday is no different than that. yes, we have a 60% chance of rain showers in the forecast around the cape canaveral area on monday morning. the real key is going to be that exact two-hour window, though. here you can see to the radar, you got some of those pop-up showers and thunderstorms in ....
Cube sets looking for ice and mapping hydrogen on the south pole of the moon to make sure we can use resources. it is going to test out, and nasa said everything to its fullest. when the orion command module returns and enters earth s atmosphere, it is coming in 25,000 miles an hour. friction will be like 5,000 degrees as that spacecraft re-enters the earth s atmosphere. and those astronauts inside that capsule will eventually experience 9 gs. astronauts returning from the international space station only ever experience 3 gs. so they re going to test out all those systems, mannequins are on board, tons of other experiments there, but we re going to figure out how we can go up there, it is going to land there for 42 i mean, not land on the moon this time, but be out there for 42 days, testing all the ....
Out of 132 cardinals who will eventually choose his successor. five decades, it has been that long after the last apollo mission. we re now 24 hours from what could be the next era of space exploration. nasa hopes to launch artemis i on monday, its orion capsule won t touch down on the lunar surface, but nasa is hoping that future artemis missions will put astronauts back on the moon. we re going back to the moon in preparation to go to mars. that s the difference. 50 years ago we went to the moon for a day, a few hours, three days max. now we re going back to the moon, to stay, to live, to learn, to build. all right, joining us now is janet ivy, president of explore mars and ceo and founder of janet s planet incorporated. ....
There will be 31 women in mission control and so it is historic on so many levels. and i think it is going to prompt an entire generation, like the apollo program did, and in the words of gene cernan, i would love to leave with this, when he was leaving the moon, he really kind of urges all of us to think about that, god willing we shall return, and we will do so with peace and hope for mankind. and that s my hope for the artemis mission as it launches tomorrow, that we do so with the idea of peace and hope for all mankind. such meaningful words. yes. that is everyone s goal, right? thank you so much, janet ivey, for being with us. and, yes, fingers crossed for a good weather window between 8:33 and 10:33. thank you so much. thank you so much, janet. nasa engineers are looking ....