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Haritina Mogoșanu: Astrobiology Network Executive Director on NASA's first crewed lunar mission in 50 years · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: A very exciting because this morning at eleven twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: Artemis two will send four astronauts on their way around
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  Speaker 1: the Moon, NASA's first mancraft to go beyond a saw
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  Speaker 1: but since nineteen seventy two. Very excited about this is
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  Speaker 1: Hurry Tina MORGUSANYU Astrobiology Network with us this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: So why do we need to do a drive by first?
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  Speaker 1: Why can't we just land there and set up a
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  Speaker 1: base straight away.
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  Speaker 2: Hurrytina, because it is safer and this mission has proven
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  Speaker 2: the fact that you really have to check your equipment.
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  Speaker 2: See the very first moon landing was a military operation
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  Speaker 2: that was run as a race between the two countries
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  Speaker 2: that at the time, the United States and the USSR
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  Speaker 2: They were trying to prove each other who was winning
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  Speaker 2: more things, and the Russians were winning, and then the
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  Speaker 2: Americans thought, we have to go to the Moon, so
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  Speaker 2: they really ketted it as a military operation. Whereas now
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  Speaker 2: everything that is happening is taking into consideration the safety
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  Speaker 2: of the crew, the well being of the people who
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  Speaker 2: are on board, and it's phenomenal because they really care
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  Speaker 2: about the people who are there. For astronauts, we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be really.
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  Speaker 1: Well taken care of, Hurtina. Is this all about minerals
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  Speaker 1: and rare earths and business?
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  Speaker 2: Yes and no, Yes and hopefully no, Hopefully humankind as
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  Speaker 2: we are wonderful. I'm an optimist. I believe in us
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  Speaker 2: and humankind and our power to produce good from everything.
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  Speaker 2: We will take this forward, then we will also produce
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  Speaker 2: space beIN offs, which are all these technologies that are
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  Speaker 2: now improving life, like MRI scanners and all of the
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  Speaker 2: good things, even mobile phones that I am using right
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  Speaker 2: now to improve lives here on earths. So space travel,
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  Speaker 2: it's a phenomenal thing that is helping us, has helped
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  Speaker 2: us as human humans evolve beyond incredible conditions because spaceflight
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  Speaker 2: is so hard, and because it is so hard, we
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  Speaker 2: have to come up with so many ideas and things,
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  Speaker 2: and those ideas and things they're mostly used here on Earth.
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  Speaker 2: So that's why space space flight is so good. Not
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  Speaker 2: necessarily because some people go to the Moon. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's not going to be too many of them, and
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  Speaker 2: not everybody's going to be able to go there, though
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  Speaker 2: I do hope we will.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, would you hurrytan if I gave you a ticket
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  Speaker 1: that said you could live on the moon, would you go?
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  Speaker 2: I would time when Mary not live on the moon.
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  Speaker 2: I love, I love where I am in Whirarapa Dark
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  Speaker 2: Sky Reserve, but I bet the moon has an amazing,
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  Speaker 2: amazing night sky.
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  Speaker 1: Hurytanare nice to have you on the program, Hurtina Morgusanya,
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  Speaker 1: who is very excited for more from early edition with
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge. Listen live to News Talks it being from
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