are going to resend as many of the credits as possible. and the program is now closed to new applications. the full damage has yet to emerge. one thing, however, is already abundantly clear. it didn't take a lot to defraud a system that was supposed to make a dirty industry, a little cleaner with the right paperwork and the right people in the right places in germany. one chinese company was able to make hundreds of millions of years out of thin air, the the show a ride to

guide know the way around the is strictly scientific trip to some pretty cheap places. curiosity is we try it tomorrow today. next on dw i, she's got issues with a lot say what the lots of people dream of becoming an astronaut. but does everyone really have the same opportunities in the profession? from gemini, 12 name humphreys, since broken the bonds of it. but until now, not

a single german woman making the trip into a hole because a crew member on a privately find those slides. but they are real good, will be discussed more on that mission and others that have choices more about the news coming up on tomorrow today to these that 10 killer images from a mission run by space ex caused quite a stir. they showed the 1st stage of the giant star ship rocket being re captured at the launch pad just a few weeks earlier. another qu from the us space space company also provided iconic footage when the future head of nasa billionaire, jared isaac men, looked out into the universe from on board the privately financed polaris dawn mission. the next space next mission involving non professional astronauts is

already in planning. like when we were to pressure, i think it's crew will include german scientist, rev b o. hawkeye picture on the left launch is slated for spring of 2025 bitcoin millionaire. turn one on the right is paying for the mission blog. i met him on an expedition to norway's arctic island spits beg. and the polar research here was training for her mission in the u. s. during this interview on the future of commercial space travel, the kinds of put the whole point of commercial space travel or new space on is that you want to open it up to as many people as possible is that you'd be more inclusive, not just screening people out because they have this or that medical condition space x is really working on taking as many people as possible. i'd like to put the stuff on the to the american students and it's such space tourism is picking up speeds attached to us entrepreneur dennis tito is considered the 1st space tourist

the fluid to the international space station with the russians back in 2001 when space travel was still in entirely state run enterprise, when the space shuttle era ended in 2011 with the last launch of the atlantis, nasa brought private companies like space ex and boeing on board to cut costs. as the technology improved, 1000000000 air space enthusiasts like you know on musk, jeff base, those and richard branson started developing ideas for the ultimate tourism experience. making waves and drawing criticism with emissions like a flight involving 90 year old actor william shop or a k a captain kirk. so is space travel turning into an adventure for the super rich or flights that don't do any science next? does that make sense? the positive of funds occur in the positive consequence of tourism would be that the space travel gets cheaper. so more people can see how fragile are or is,

is put on the negative side. there's that with every to launch using today's technologies. we destroy a bit of the, i honest fear, we may have better technologies tomorrow, but right now we're just joining a piece of the atmosphere. and you have to assess whether it's worth that it's worth it for scientific research and for advances in technology. but for tourism, you have to ask that question barguss's to astronauts regularly talk about how beautiful earth is from space and how seeing it from there has much to teach us. but does that justify space tourism a tricky question that receives a cautious answer from astronaut alexander. guest is up. let me see if i've heard myself say that it would be good if everyone had this view from up there. i might even click on hold and that's true. the simple this. it was a spontaneous feeling i had in space my looking down i wanted,

and i think there's something through the i believe many people would treat our planet differently. would see it differently if they could do it from up there. and if you say, hey, then d is a logical consequence, which is ultimately means you have to welcome the idea of giving more people access to space. and that's how i see it to guest also says however that space travel has to become more sustainable in terms of fuel and space debris. but back to space, texas star ship roggette test. in the long term, the loan mosque isn't really interested in short trips into space. he wants to take humanity to mars and colonize it. to do so, he needs re usable rockets and materials and track like that used in special space suits tested by the amateur astronauts on the polaris dawn mission on his social media platform. ex mosque said not long ago that the coming multi planetary is

critical to ensuring the long term survival of humanity and all life. as we know it statements like the strive, the former eastern director general up the wall. it's not an absolute that's an absolutely critical quote. one made even worse by british scientist, stephen hawking, to put things even more drastically. he said that in view of pandemic and nuclear disasters here on earth, we'll have to look out for another planet and they are in prep us polls. and he also explicitly mentioned climate change or female i say if that's all true, then we should actually stop flying and do what we're saying then is that we can pull the image and destroy the earth because we can just slide to another one. i think that's terrible reasoning. you see the guns limit, the criminal. it remains to be seen how much interest people in general will have in visiting space at the moment. the cost of trips remains astronomical,

which isn't stopping elan musk from planning missions to mars in the next 2 years. first on crude. then later with astronauts on board before heading to mas, however, missions are scheduled to fly back to the main. both private companies on national space agencies. i'm making plans to go on the koreans to do it. of us from egypt got in touch to aust, how hard it is to get on board. hello. how do you become an astronaut? what skills the say that this and they made it every 4 years now. so selects new astronauts from among thousands of applicants east does. so even more rarely to apply, you have to have a degree in medicine, the natural sciences or engineering. you also need years of experience in the field

or a lot of flight hours as a pilot. you don't have to be a top athlete to apply, but you do have to be fully mobile. glasses or contacts lenses are ok as long as you're correct and vision is considered perfect. you also have to be able to cope well with stress. the astronaut, it's on board the international space station, the i ss, supervisor experiments and keep the systems running good hand eye coordination abroad knowledge base and the level of learning are all important. workdays in space are packed to keep up. thank you. have to be both organized and focused. perspective astronaut, have to complete core training that includes parabolic flights, at least provide a taste of what it's like to work in a weightless environment. in more advanced sessions,

trainees learn everything that they'll need to know on board the i ss which includes practicing to take space logs. the training for this takes place in huge water tanks. the final phase involves training for a specific mission. both a selected crew and replacement crew complete programs. astronauts train all over the world and work together in international teams. so applicants should also have an aptitude for languages. and background in geology now plays a bigger role that will be important when exploring the moon and its resources. all of the major space faring nations are making plans to visit our closest celeste. you'll neighbor someone to build stations in lunar orbit and on its surface. and more astronauts will be needed to realize these ambitious plans. so if your dream is to one day live and work in space,

your chances today are better than they were 20 or 30 years ago. the plans chinese moonbase could look like this. construction is slated to stop, so i'm one in 2013 a chinese pro collected samples from the lunar surface in mid 20 to 24. they are now being examined by geologist box that's fall from the only material taken from our places celestial neva. the 1st new rock split brought back to us decades ago. the up so now asked for notes improves, brought nearly 400 kilograms of meeting. welcome back to us. where on the moon did they come from? and tell, has they changed how we view of place is celeste steel neighbors? the more it is to the moon is a history book that allows us to look far back into the passcode could,

to some post from china's 2020 full moon mission, to throw out new mysteries. it's my guns here. the moon is still good for a surprise or 2. we know a little scientist, appetites have been wedded, but lunar research still has a long way to go. for the july 1969 apollo astronauts set off on the 1st mission to land on the moon. the destination and luna plane on the side of it but faces us good rate or data. there was no way to practice a landing with the spacecraft. touch down safely or sink deep into dust and tip of the land and the amount

6 around 600000000 people watched the historic events on television. neil armstrong and buzz aldrin spent 2 and a half hours on little luna's surface. they carried das experiments and collected almost 22 kilograms of rocks to bring back to us. traces of the mission to still visible on such a light side, toes take them today. nasa sent 6 crude space officers and all of the names fixed on the 1st flights the cyclist was left on collecting samples and more on landing, safely in slash areas. for laser trip schools say target to the areas that were more difficult to reach the and that full, the apollo missions landed on the near side of the main times. 2 is quite easy

to suppose to be the imagine if you had to describe earth's geology based on just a few landing sites. you wouldn't see much edits the same for us with the moon's, the more landing sites. and the more samples we have from different sites, the better it is. and yeah, and this is hi, what's going on on the opponent 15 mission expanded some reasons. it's asked to know. so able to explore extensively for the 1st time with a new no rosa and they collected much more than that please just this is from a wide range of sites. so the last mission in the series, apollo 17, was the 1st with the scientist on board. oh, wait a minute. geology harrison just makes or borrow well. he

made a surprising discovery, orange material amidst all the gray. it was the groundbreaking insights grew one in total, the apollo astronauts brought more than 380 kilograms of moving rock back to us from 6 landing sites. the, the largest chunk is nick named big muley. like most of the other material from the apollo emissions. it's a 10. that's the facility in houston labs. samples the stored in nitrogen to protect them from moist. yeah. the, the lunar samples give her such as glimpses into a fall distant past that yeah, cuz i'm going to put all of the apollo samples, allow us to look back about 4400000000 years. this is not a time, of course, very close to the formation of the planets. we think earth formed 4500000000 years

ago, so that means we're very, very close to saying what happened in the beginning from prusio. china is chung define flu deprived, launched in november 2020 its mission to bring some pulse back to us around 5 decade south to the last depaula emissions the the targeted location was specifically chosen to provide missing data on spinning gaps in what we already know. chunk of 5 landed in a volcanic area and collected almost 2 kilograms of dustin drugs for the loan. jenny has its success. a chunk of 6 was launched at the beginning of may 2024, to collect trucks for the 1st time from the fall side of the moon. geologists have been eager to have them for decades.

the moon rocks, bro, bought by the apollo missions have been analyzed precisely to determine the age and composition. microscopic details reveal how the rocks have developed and changed the times by linking xact data with information on whether rocks were found. researches of develop some method to determine the age of luna surfaces the older a landscape. the nausea more numerous states created the balloonist pulse, have given us insights into the early days of us over the system. they can be used for instance, to reconstruct when the nascent plants was struck by asteroids and comments unto heavy the bombardment was on us tectonic movement drives throughout underground where it mounts in re is in traces of ops on it, certainly history, mussa vegetation, and also alter the surface the

samples collected even revealed the secret as the origin of all moving in the bar it tree. it turns out that the moon rocks with very similar to terrestrial rocks. the until then there was several series about where on the came from. now it's rocks revealed. this, it was actually pos of us the, the evidence indicates that move in 4 and a half 1000000000 years ago, a mas size celeste deal, body grain style planted materials from both bodies was held into space. this eventually formed look at different always 50. i thought that the cooling of the moon's cross distorted the formation of its upper crossed, happened very quickly. now,

50000000 years after the collision of the quote is your geologically, that's very fast to this. of course, these are dimensions that we humans can't really imagine 54 cent credit. and it certainly days the moon was bombarded heavily. the impact left behind knowledge crates as which relate to flooded by rising maxima. the, the rough cools informed, the doc crate is that gives the moon its face the decades off to the apollo emissions researches retrieve the samples from the archives and examined them using new methods. in this number, they may have actually discovered the oldest as well as the meteor rights

possibly held it from the still young this towards the main where it fused with this woke in another impact another groundbreaking discovery was made in the orange colored material collected by apollo's 17 glass beads containing lu now most have been under for knows if we were to assume that the water came from the earth, then it would naturally collect on the surface of the glass be so not inside them as in. so in this respect, we are very sure that we actually have water from the moon in these little glass beads and in class condition turn volcanic eruptions pro no more to with the maxima to the means surface. in the frigid vacuum, the hot drop plants instantly froze into glass beads, trapping the water instantly. the

samples from the chinese pro chung of 5 also had some surprises were such as have discovered even more so in them than in the apollo rocks imbedded in glasgow bills that were formed during meets your rights impacts. they full more to release it again and might even drive luna water cycle all these discoveries have made the moon interesting again for such is after world war to is the most important results to crude space travel. so the moon only looks dry and dusty at 1st glance, the pulverized lunar rocks, the blankets, its surface also contains water, lots of it and extract seeing that age to us who will play a key role in setting up permanent stations on the noun a live in germany is working on the technology to do that one

day powder like this could quenching astronauts thirst for months, researchers at the technical university of bound fide and the german aerospace center. they've been working on how to filter water out of artificial moon dust. the aim to one day enable, permanent bases on the moon is less often, most of the vendors, extracting water on the moon is important because we want to transport as little material from earth as possible and you like it. it'll make rockets lighter and cheaper if we extract water on the moon to supply astronauts or to produce fuel extra steps or so. the experiments require what's called a thermal vacuum chamber, which creates air list temperatures at around minus $200.00 degrees celsius. in a water is evaporated and cool, causing it to condense and mingle with dust. filtering it count late or leaves fewer drinking water. the researchers process 90 kilos of dust to produce just 3

leaders of it. so supplying a whole lunar station, we require not a teaspoon, but huge excavators. the spirits of the next to the next logical step is to further develop what we've now tested into loud, advancing the technology so that we can later take it on an usa or nasa and moon mission. and it was that takes you to be misleading with water and hydrogen. lunar astronauts would have life giving liquid an essential element for growing their food and fuel for future emissions. the nasa has planned its next crude mission to the moon for 2027. china is also making plans to send site to know its the by 2013 regardless of who ultimately wins the race, both planning to land in a particular region. neither knew this south pole. one area in

particular on the fall side of the moon has interested planet tree geologists, the decades rocks from that. and now allowing them to look even further back in time. the nasa the south pole 8 can base and is almost 2500 kilometers in diameter and about slashing kilometers deep the it foamed mold in full 1000000000 years ago when a huge asteroid crushed into the mood that shot to dates crossed until its material up onto this face from the palais as of rock its material that could provide new insights into the us. the mission could now i don't know exactly what the 1st rocks on earth looks like, nor do we know exactly how old the earth is. and only the moon could tell us that more. that means looking into the past. and if we have manual material from the

moon, then we also know what magnet was composed of right at the very beginning. but back when the earth was very young and the moon formed in some of the maxima, 400 people, the apollo crate is located in the a can base and china is most recent, luna, pro, chunk of 6, retrieve some polls from this crater, full re box work together to make that possible. the space pro reach the moons old, which in early may 2024. it took just on the 3 we seeks to touch down at its destination and drop off the land. a robots which reach the luminous, faced on june the 1st, the months in advance. a relay satellite was positioned and luna obits to transmit the data to us. radio signals comp reach the false side of the moon directly using

a special digging device. and a drill the line to a robot collected around 2 kilograms of rocks. some polls the a transpose, and then carry that precious call. go back to the probe which broke the rock to us, the geologist, several reggie, eagerly awaiting data for it. of course, as a lunar geologist, i'm delighted that we finally managed to bring back samples from this area. but i'm also a bit skeptical. it's very little too close, isn't much, and it's not entirely clear whether that's really enough to find the right material . but i'm assuming that it will be so exciting that we'll go back and get some more nonsense to notes, have been training for years to collect samples on the moon. well, scientists and engineers develop tools and transport containers to prevent any

contamination on the way to the bar at trace the full if the major space faring nations. now have luna times in the coming decades stations that to be billed to the south pole. crude missions will reveal in even more detail housing, even with phones. and most of us looked like around 4 and a half 1000000000 years ago. the thought sol this time around and tomorrow's day, we hope you enjoyed the show. so you again assume the visa topics that we talk about private data isn't

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