Due To Budget Cuts Last Year, NASA Has Delayed The Return To The Lunar Surface

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning. Well, like every Sunday morning, we have Steve Kate, otherwise known as Doctor Sky and Steve, what are you going to do to enhance our minds this money?

0:12 Speaker 2 Well, John, we’re going to take you in the tour, not only from space, but out to the deep universe. As we say good morning to you and everybody listening around the world, John, we begin with another update on the Artemis NASA program to the Moon, and last week we talked about that there’s a delay. Everybody knows at

0:28 least by now, helium leagues and hydrogen leaks on the Big SLS rocket have forced it to go back into the Big House where they’re going to try to correct it. But here’s the latest information, and this is important. I don’t know if people know this. In twenty twenty five, NASA lost some twenty percent of its staff due to

0:45 budget cuts. So now they’re going to change the lineup. So Artemis two, which now hopefully launches in April, going around the Moon with four astronauts. Artemis three was supposed to be John the landing on the Moon. So now Artemis three twenty twenty seven, will test out systems like space suits, Rendez vue, hopefully with a future lunar lander.

1:07 And we’re talking about maybe no earlier, John, than landing on the Moon with humans at least NASA till twenty twenty eight. Lots of changes with the new administrator, mister Isiacman. And that’s basically an interesting story because they canceled out the Lunar Gateway project, which is supposed to be a space station around the Moon. So looks hope they got

1:27 it really refocused and on target.

1:30 Speaker 1 Well, I look forward to it. I mean it’s mind boggling. But what is it like sixty years later?

1:39 Speaker 2 Well, we’re almost approaching that, I mean, the last landing on the Moon. John goes back, and I remember it. Probably a lot of people do too, if they’re in our age group back in nineteen seventy two with Apollo seventeen.

1:50 And people say, well, hey, and here’s a question, John, and I know you and I will both be interested in trying to dig deeper. How did we do it so well back then? And how can we simply can’t do it now? And their answer is really not as easy as many people would think. What do you think

2:04 that’s amazing?

2:06 Speaker 1 I don’t know anymore. And I can’t believe it’s sixty years later or forty and oh my god. Okay, let’s move on. Let’s hope it.

2:16 Speaker 2 Happens another Yeah, we got something really interesting here to let the listeners know. We’ve all heard about black holes? What are they in space? Something that no light, heat, or energy can escape, but people may not know. Back in nineteen seventy four, the great physicist Stephen Hawking, he said that black holes necessarily do not necessarily pull everything in,

2:35 that they might also have some release or escape of material. Now that’s very, very controversial because even the classic scientists, the guy who discovered the concept of black holes, Prince and physicist John Wheeler, he said it a long time ago that block holes have no hair. What does that mean?

2:52 It sounds really ridiculous, meaning they don’t leak, there’s nothing coming out of a black hole. But Stephen Hawkins said differently, over the course of time, there’s something called Hawking radiation. John, what is that that black holes theoretically could leak over time and pop in and out of the universe. And that sounds like a Star Trek story, doesn’t it. When

3:12 black holes appear and disappear. Something to watch out for. If we’re going to travel into the deep cosmos.

3:18 Speaker 1 It is mind bottling. Like I said, like we always joke around. I watch a lot of Star Trek episodes. I’ve seen it on Star.

3:26 Speaker 2 Trek, absolutely way ahead of the time of where we are now. And John, the last one we have always is the big one. What is the big mystery of the week? And the question posed is this, what’s the fastest that humans have ever traveled so far? It’s interesting go back to May twenty sixth, nineteen sixty nine. But

3:44 Apollo ten, the astronauts came back from their orbit around the Moon. They attained a speed John of twenty four thousand, eight hundred and sixteen miles per hour. Now, lucky for them, they came through the atmosphere and slowed down with the heat.

3:57 You but guess what the Artemis two it does launch to the Moon, hopefully in April, it could break that record coming back at over twenty five thousand miles per hour. They use something called a skipping technique into the atmosphere.

4:11 But John, if they skip and bounce off the atmosphere, they have to do this precisely or else they’ll skip out into space. That’s amazing. John, imagine going that fast the pastes that humans have gone and maybe in the future we’ll find out like Star Trek, that that was just a tiny speed compared to the speed of light.

4:29 Speaker 1 At what point which one of our aircraft is going to do that in the future.

4:34 Speaker 2 We’re not sure, but we know from history the big Lockheed Skunkworks project, the SR seventy one, it was pushing Bok three and that’s technology of the sixties. But now, allegedly I can’t prove it, we can dig deeper into the story that we might have something called the Dark Star that goes upwards of Mack six, a replacement John

4:52 to the SR seventy one. I kind of think we got it, and I think both you and I believed that maybe we didn’t just figure this technology out ourselves, Right.

5:00 Speaker 1 John, I tell you it’s my bargain the doctor Skuy Steve. Thank you for expanding our minds and look forward to next week.

5:12 Speaker 2 Always John, good Sunday to you and the listeners. Always remember to keep your eyes to the skies.