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And welcome back to coast to coast.

George Norrie with you.

Good to be with you on a Friday night.

Robert Zimmerman back with us.

Historian Robert Zimmer has been chronicizing and putting the history of space exploration for almost four decades

with books, articles, and webpages. His website is behind the black.com. He is an expert in

stories of astronauts and world events, and here he is back on coast to coast. Mr. Zimmerman,

how are you? I'm just fine, George. I'm very glad to be here. Thank you for having me. It's always a pleasure.

And the timing is right. We're just before that onus two mission, kind of exciting in some ways and exciting, not so good in other ways.

Yes, this delay because of weather, I guess they're wising up,

realizing you can't keep pushing things, but it'll get going, huh?

This, the delay on the, all right, so let me review what the mission's about,

just so for your audience.

I'm sure they know, but it's good to do a quick review.

This mission is going to be the first manned mission

in the Artemis program. It's going to be using the SLS rocket that NASA's been building

for about two decades, about a decade and a half, and its cost is about $60 billion. This is

only its second launch, and it's going to be using the Orion capsule, which Lockheed Martin has been building for about two decades.

Costs about $25 billion to build about a half a dozen capsules.

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