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Moon: Race to the South Pole. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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#Moon: Race to the South Pole. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/chandrayaan-3-reaches-final-lunar-orbit-for-landing/

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0:00.0

At TFL, we're making journeys safer for everyone, and that includes improving safety on London's roads.

0:07.4

That's why we and London boroughs are lowering more speed limits to 20 miles per hour,

0:12.3

because 20 miles per hour roads have already reduced collisions resulting in deaths or

0:16.8

serious injuries by 24%. That is how we're making journeys in London safer and brighter for everyone.

0:24.8

Such TFL improvement plan to the Mayor of London and TFL every journey matters.

0:35.0

This is CBS, I am the world. I'm John Bashler. I am the moon and the world. Bob Zimmerman is

0:41.2

here. He keeps the website behind the black. Mission to the moon. It is the ambition of many

0:47.3

big space companies to get back to the moon. But then again, ever since 1969,

0:53.6

we've had to deal with the dream of commercial space to the moon, and it's upon us. Bob,

0:58.4

a very good evening to you. Commercial space, big space headed to the moon. How many missions, Bob?

1:04.4

It's hard to count. We have two missions on the way to the moon right now,

1:09.3

and the new story that we'll start with is a private company that NASA gave a contract to the

1:16.8

provides NASA or Luna Landa. The company is called Intuitive Machines. Their land is called

1:21.9

Nova Sea. They have announced that they're now targeting a November 15th to 20th a launch window.

1:30.4

They'll use a Falcon 9 to take off. This mission, they're going to carry five instruments for

1:39.1

the NASA. It's intended to land in the very high southern latitudes of the moon,

1:46.4

not near the south, not at the south pole, but in the very high latitude. At a landing site,

1:53.1

a crater called Malapurk A, or at least the rim of it. They originally were going to launch two

2:01.1

years ago. They were a lot of delays in getting the land to finish. They've now announced the land

2:07.4

is ready and they're going to be delivering to the launch site to be assembled, stacked on the

2:11.5

rocket. They're now targeting that November 15th launch date. That date is dependent upon, of course,

2:19.6

the crowded launch schedule for time, including SpaceX, this crowded launch schedule. If they

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