make sure you miss nothing about is on the w travel. i hope you enjoy the trip here as much as i did. what about you? what's your opinion? feel free to write your thoughts and the comments 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 volumes of it, but until now, not a single german woman making the trip into a whole beach as a crew member on a privately financed flight. but they, a real good will be discussed more on that mission and others that have tools is more about the news coming up on tomorrow to day. these spectacular images from

a mission run by space that's caused quite a stir. they show the 1st stage of the giant star ship rocket being read 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 for him on board, the privately financed polaris don mission. the next space x 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, pictured on the left launch is slated for spring of 2025. bitcoin millionaire children long on the right is paying for the mission hog. i met him on an expedition to norway's arctic island spits beg, and we saw the polar research here was training for her mission in the u. s. during this interview on the future of commercial space, travel, the pool,

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. and that should 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. but to prove yourself, i'm looking to go to the emergency incidents, says 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 x and boeing on board to cut costs. as the technology improved, billionaire 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? before the people come to create the positive consequences, the tourism would be that the space travel gets cheaper. so more people can see how fragile our earth is put on the negative side. there's that with every 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 at one thing, and i think there's something through that. 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 the 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 to

break. but back to space excess starship rocket 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 intact like that used in special space suits tested by the amateur astronauts on the polaris don 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 east drive, the former east director general up the wall. and of course, that's an absolutely critical quote, was 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 will have to look out for another

planet and they are in a cup of 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, loomed and destroy the earth because we can just slide to another one. i think that's terrible reasoning. you see the guns limit, mclinden. 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 me, both private companies on nashville 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 they made it every 4 years now? so selects new astronauts from among thousands of applicants isa 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 a corrected 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 a level of learning are all important work days and space are packed to keep up. thank you. have to be both organized and focused perspective astronaut, have to complete the core training that includes parabolic flights. these provide a taste of what it's like to work in a wireless environment. in more advanced sessions trainings learn everything that they'll need to know on board the i ss which includes practicing to take space walks. 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 pro grounds astronauts train all over the world and work together in international teams. so applicants should also have an aptitude for languages. and

a background in geology now plays 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 celestial 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 that they were 20 or 30 years ago. the plans chinese moonbase could look like this. construction is slated to start from one in 2013 a chinese pro collected samples from the lunar surface in mid 2024. they are now being examined by geologist, but that's fall from the new material taken from our places. celeste,

you'll neva the 1st new rocks. what brought back to us decades ago? the up to now astronaut, some probes have brought nearly 400 kilograms of moon rocks back to us. where on the moon did they come from? and tell us they changed how we view of places celeste still neva. them one is to the moon, is a history book that allows us to look far back into the passcode. could this 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. no, mister flushed. the girl july 1969 apollo astronauts set off from the 1st mission to land

on the moon. the destination a luna plane on this side of it, the faces us. good right our data. there was no way to practice a landing with the spacecraft. touch down safely or sink deep into dust and tip of here alive. lambert's glam. 6. around 600000000 people watch the historic events on television. neil armstrong and buzz. aldrin spent 2 and a half hours on the newness surface. they carry down experiments and collected almost 22 kilograms of rocks to bring back to us. traces of the mission to still visible on satellite sites, take them today. nasa sent 6 crude space such as i know

the names face on the 1st flights the focus was less on collecting samples and more on landing, safely in slash areas. laser trip schools say target to the areas that were more difficult to reach the fitful, the apollo emissions landed on the near side of the main times to it's quite so just because it is supposed to be imagined. if you had to describe the earth's geology based on just a few landing sites, you wouldn't see much. and it's the same for us with the moon. the more landing sites and the more samples we have from different sites, the better it is in the end places high. what's going on on the opponent 15 mission expanded some reasons. it's afternoon. so able to explore extensively

for the 1st time with a new know reza per or and they collected much more involved in that we just, this is from a wide range of sites. the last mission in the series, apollo 17 was the 1st with the scientist on board. oh, wait a minute, geologist. garrison just means on our file. well, he made a surprising discovery, orange material, and midst all the gray, it was the groundbreaking insights, one in total. the apollo astronauts brought more than 380 kilograms of moving. welcome back to us from 6 landing sites. the. the largest chunk is nick named big muley. like most of the other materials from the apollo emissions. it's

a to nasa 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 it all into your color samples along list to look back about 4400000000 years or 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 prussia. china's chunk of fine 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 understanding gaps in what we already know. chunk of 5 landed in

a volcanic area and collected almost 2 kilograms of dustin 12. so that alone 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 rock scroll back 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 where the rocks were found. researches of developed and method to determine the age of luminous surfaces. the older, a landscape, the logic, i'm more numerous. it's creighton, the balloon or some post has given us insights into the

early days of all of the system. they can be used for instance, to reconstruct when the nascent tenants was struck by asteroids and comments unto heavy the bombardment was on us tectonic movements drives rocks underground, where it mounts in raising traces of our planet. sadly, history move to vegetation and at all. so alter the surface the samples collected even revealed the secrets as the origin of all moving in the borrower 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 positive us the,

all. the evidence indicates that more than 4 and a half 1000000000 years ago, a mas size celeste deal body grain style plants, hot materials from bodies bodies was held into space. this eventually formed the news. i'm looking for an all, especially at the thought that the cooling of the moon's crossed a certain deformation of its upper crust, happens very quickly. now, 50000000 years after the collision doctor, for this, your geologically, that's very fast for this. of course, these are dimensions that we humans can't really imagine the 1st thing. and it certainly days the moon was bon bonded heavily. the impacts left behind knowledge crisis, which relate to flow data by rising maxima, the, the rock cools and forms the dump 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, now, they may have actually discovered the oldest us roque as the meteor writes, possibly held it from the still young us towards the moon. 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 we've been around for an hour. if we were to assume that the water came from the earth, then it would naturally collect on the surface of the glass be not inside them as

in. so in this respect, we are very sure that we actually of water from the moon and these little glass beads, an exhaust condition. the volcanic eruptions brought no more to with the maxima to the means surface. in the frigid vacuum, the hot dropped plants instantly froze into glass beads, trapping the water inside the samples from the chinese pro chung of 5. also, he had some surprises, such as have discovered even more so in them than in the apollo rocks embedded 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 of these discoveries have made the moon interesting again for such is after

world war 2 is the most important results to crude space travel. so the moon only looks dry and dusty at 1st glance. the pulverized lunar rock, the blankets, its surface also contains water. lots of it and extracting that h to will play a key role in setting up permanent stations on the noun. i live in germany is working on the technology to do that. one day powder like this could quench an astronaut thirst for months. researchers at the technical university of bound 5 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 specialist and most of the vin is extract in 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 fell switched to the experiments require what's called a thermal vacuum chamber, which creates air list temperatures at around minus 200 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 will require not a teaspoon, but huge excavators. the spirit 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 that was on the issue 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 lou, this south pole, one area in particular on the fall side of the moon has interested planet tree geologist for decades. rocks from that and now allowing them to look even further back in times. in napa, the south pole 8 can base and is almost 2500 kilometers in diameter and about fuzzy in columbus has deep the it foamed mold in full

1000000000 years ago when a huge asteroid crushed into the mood that shot to dates crossed until it's material up on to the surface from deep layers of rock. it's material that could provide new insights into the us, the really good. 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 suddenly the maxima, 400 people, the apollo crate is located in the a can base and china's most recent luna pro chung to 6, retrieve some polls from this crater full robots work together to make that possible. the space pro reach the moon's obits 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. radios taking those comp reach the false side of the moon directly using a special digging device. and a drill the line to robot collected around 2 kilograms of rocks on polls, the a transpose, and then carry that precious call. go back to the probe which brought the rock to us, the geologist, several reggie, eagerly awaiting data, cannot afford 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 going on. that's what 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 how the moon was full and, and most of us looked like around 4 and a half 1000000000 years ago. the thought so this

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