Not a Moment too Moon
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
NASA’s mega-rocket lunar mission is go for launch!
The BBC's science editor Rebecca Morelle explains everything you need to know about the American space agency’s latest Moon mission.
Also, Newsnight’s UK Editor Sima Kotecha and BBC Kent political reporter Michael Keohan discuss why a new 24-hour record has been set for migrant crossings on the English Channel.
And Isabel Hilton from ChinaDialogue.net describes the repercussions of China’s most intense heat wave on record.
Today’s episode was made by Tim Walklate with Clare Williamson and Natalie Ktena. The technical producer was Hannah Montgomery. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, turns out we're having a bit of a space odyssey this week on newscast. |
| 0:18.1 | After yesterday's news that black holes have sound, I got an email at roughly the same |
| 0:24.6 | time from our science editor Becky Morale saying that she was going on Monday to the US for |
| 0:30.4 | an amazingly interesting rocket launch for NASA's new Artemis mission. |
| 0:36.9 | So let's continue our space odyssey with Becky now. |
| 0:39.7 | Hello. |
| 0:40.7 | Hello there. |
| 0:41.7 | How you doing? |
| 0:42.7 | Very well. |
| 0:43.7 | Thank you for emailing me yesterday to remind me that this was all happening, so it's |
| 0:46.5 | good to actually hear about it. |
| 0:48.0 | First of all, so what is the mission objective then of Artemis? |
| 0:51.4 | Well, this is very exciting. |
| 0:54.5 | I've been emailing all in sundry about it because after a 50-year gap, we're about to head |
| 1:01.2 | back to the moon. |
| 1:03.0 | And it all starts with the launch of NASA's new mega moon rocket called the Space Launch |
| 1:09.3 | System. |
| 1:10.6 | This thing is enormous. |
| 1:12.5 | It's currently sitting on launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. |
| 1:19.8 | And it's huge. |
| 1:20.8 | It's about 100 metres high. |
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