It's been an eventful few weeks, I today explained midterm elections, Twitter drama, big

tech layoffs, cryptocurrency, controversy, a global climate conference, the World Cup.

And finally, thanksgiving.

We were so busy, we didn't get to wrap our heads around the hottest new space news,

but thankfully our friends at Unexplainable did, so today we're bringing you their work.

Enjoy it, unexplainable, now available wherever you listen, except the radio.

I don't think they're quite there yet.

You are watching the flight readiness briefing for NASA's Artemis 1 mission.

The agency's ultimate mission is being heralded as the start of a new era of space exploration.

It will be one small step towards one giant leap.

NASA is closing in on a launch date for Artemis 1, the first in a series of missions that

will eventually take humans back to the moon for the first time in over 50 years.

With one big difference.

This time we're going back to stay.

NASA's hoping to land humans on the moon by 2025, but after that they've got bigger

plans.

They're hoping to build an orbiting lunar space station and a permanent base on the moon

itself.

And our goal is to apply what we've learned, living and operating on the moon and continue

then out into the solar system.

Our plan is for humans to walk on Mars by 2040.

A permanent moon base and a mission to Mars could be the first steps toward becoming a

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