Astronaut Jessica Meir & Buzz Aldrin's "Moon Scoops" | Colbert Classic

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🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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To celebrate the 53rd anniversary of NASA's Apollo 11 mission this week, enjoy this special astronaut combo from The Late Show vault. First up, Stephen's talk with Astronaut Jessica Meir LIVE from The International Space Station: recorded in the early days of the coronavirus lockdown. Next, legendary Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin assures our audience that the moon landing was NOT faked, but dishes out some other spicy pieces of lunar gossip in "Moon Scoops." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's the late show's hot show with Stephen Colberg.
0:09.1	Welcome back, everybody.
0:11.1	I'm so excited right now, as you can tell, because my next guest is a NASA astronaut who
0:15.1	was currently in space speaking to us from the International Space Station.
0:19.3	Please welcome Jessica Meir.
0:21.9	Jessica, thanks so much for being here.
0:23.9	Hello.
0:24.9	You're very, very welcome.
0:26.1	Thank you.
0:27.1	I've always been on my goal, things to do is talk to you.
0:30.9	Well, then we're even, because my goal is to talk to you in the International Space
0:35.5	Station, or when you come back, either one would be great.
0:39.6	Jessica, everyone here on Earth has had their lives disrupted by the coronavirus, but you're
0:44.2	not on Earth.
0:45.6	What is it like to experience the global pandemic from orbit?
0:50.8	It has been very surreal to experience this, to watch this situation unfold on the ground
0:56.3	of this global pandemic, and it has felt really surreal because we're up here going
1:00.4	about our normal day.
1:02.0	The whole issue has been pretty transparent to us because our ground teams, although of
1:05.9	course, their lives are affected.
1:08.0	It is really a seamless transition and continuing to get our jobs done up here.
1:12.3	We're talking to our family and friends, and we're watching the news feed, so it's
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