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Artemis II To Take Off Tonight · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Jack and Christine, thank you so much for making us
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  Speaker 1: part of your morning. And to the Moon, Alice.
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  Speaker 2: Today, Yes, to the moon. Yeah. NASA's Artemus two mission
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  Speaker 2: is to take place this evening and they're saying the
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  Speaker 2: weather's looking good for their launch around six forty this evening.
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  Speaker 2: So this is historic because we are going to break
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  Speaker 2: a record here for the farthest distance humans have traveled
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  Speaker 2: from Earth ever, and it is the first crude or
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  Speaker 2: man woman flight in fifty years around the Moon. They're
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  Speaker 2: going to go around the Moon for ten days. It's
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  Speaker 2: a test of the Orion spacecraft and we haven't seen
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  Speaker 2: anything like this since Apollo seventeen and nineteen seventy two seventy.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think they're going to take some selfies?
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  Speaker 2: I should hope.
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  Speaker 1: So the Moon in the background, it was the other
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  Speaker 1: side of the moon. Those are I just remember seeing
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  Speaker 1: the first pictures of seeing the pictures of Earth from space,
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  Speaker 1: which is always it's a pretty planet.
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  Speaker 2: We've got the nicest one out there in the solar
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  Speaker 2: pretty planet.
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  Speaker 1: Would you ever go into space, Christine?
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  Speaker 2: I know, no, no, not even around the art I
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  Speaker 2: can't even go around a ferris wheel without getting dizzy.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my god, I was just going to say the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. Yeah, I get a little wheezy on top
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  Speaker 1: of the Yeah, Ferris whale, that's a little too far
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  Speaker 1: off the ground.
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  Speaker 2: I can't, but I am fascinated by it, and I
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  Speaker 2: do love to see the pictures, like you said, Jack,
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  Speaker 2: and people describing what it's like. I mean, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: this is really incredible.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to look. And I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: know either, but are they doing anything? Are they bringing
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  Speaker 1: things up there like tomato.
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  Speaker 2: Plants to see what happens because they're going around now. No,
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  Speaker 2: it's a ten day mission right where they're supposed to
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  Speaker 2: fly around the Moon, okay, and they're testing out the
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  Speaker 2: Orion spacecraft and then they're coming back. So hopefully everybody's
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  Speaker 2: able to take off today. Like I said, it looks
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  Speaker 2: like oh actually the current plan. Lift off is six
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  Speaker 2: twenty four PM six twenty four out of NASA's Kennedy
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  Speaker 2: Space Center in Florida,