Humans Head Back to the Moon - DTNS 5239
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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While on Earth, Microsoft realizes it needs more data centers, and ByteDance moves into the video generation space.
Starring Tom Merritt, Jenn Cutter, and Andy Beach.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Tech News. For Thursday, April 2, 2026, we tell you what you need to know, give you some important context and help each other understand. Today, Ad. Beach explains Bight Dance's very regional approach to replacing Sora and humans are headed back to the moon. |
| 0:24.0 | Yeah! Today, AD Beach explains Bight Dance's very regional approach to replacing Sora and humans are headed back to the moon. |
| 0:24.3 | Yeah, the moon. |
| 0:26.8 | Very excited about this personally. |
| 0:28.1 | I'm Tom Merritt. |
| 0:28.8 | I'm Jen Cutter. |
| 0:30.0 | Let's start with what you need to know with the moon. |
| 0:36.2 | Yeah, for the first time since December 7th, 1972, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, aka NASA, has launched humans on a rocket trip bound to orbit the moon. |
| 0:49.6 | The crew includes Commander Reid Wiseman, who is the oldest person to go to the moon. |
| 0:55.3 | Pilot Victor Glover, the first African American to go to the moon, mission specialist |
| 0:59.0 | Christina Koch, the first woman to go to the moon, and Canadian mission specialist |
| 1:02.9 | Jeremy Hanson, the first Canadian to go to the moon. |
| 1:05.7 | They launched on Tuesday evening at 6.35 p.m. Eastern Time from the Kennedy Space Center in |
| 1:09.9 | Florida. Thursday morning, |
| 1:11.7 | the crew conducted a Paraguay-Rays burn. That puts it in a stable high-earth orbit. You hear us talk |
| 1:19.3 | about low-Earth orbit or Leo a lot. They are in high-Earth orbit, about 40,000 miles off the surface. |
| 1:29.7 | They are the farthest from Earth that any human has been since 1972 right now, as we speak. The trans lunar injection burn is scheduled for |
| 1:35.8 | 7.49 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday evening, so if you're listening to this, that may have happened |
| 1:40.5 | already. And the total trip is scheduled to take 10 days. They'll pass behind the |
| 1:46.1 | moon on the dark side of the moon and then return to Earth. They will not be touching down this time. |
| 1:52.3 | They will come within 6,513 kilometers of the lunar surface, closest to anybody's been since 1972. |
| 1:59.2 | But the mission is meant to test the Orion model spacecraft integrity. |
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