NASA Artemis 2 Moon Mission, Cislunar Space Terminology
NASA's Artemis 2 mission launched four astronauts from Kennedy Space Center, marking a significant step in the renewed space race to establish a lunar base. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman emphasizes a shift toward a monthly launch cadence and repeatable missions to "cislunar space," a term describing the area between Earth and the Moon. The mission serves as a strategic signal of American technological superiority to geopolitical rivals, specifically China.
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00:00 To the moon, Alice! To the moon. To the moon! And broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region Number 6, In The Morning everybody. I'm Adam Curry and from Refinery Row up here in the North San Francisco Bay...I was gonna say to the moon. I'm John C. Dvorak We gotta coordinate these. No, we can't coordinate these things I was gonna add Alice Yeah so throw in one of your trademark no-one understands what JCD is talking about references Exactly Alice Is that from the Honeymooners? From Jackie Gleason? You remember Barely
00:59 Apparently. To the moon, Alice! To the moon! Was that how much he loved her? Is that what the deal was? And as always... He's threatening to punch her No he was not What? What do you think it meant? No, he's... no! He meant he loved her. Didn't want to punch her Are you kidding me?! He only said that when he was mad at her and he had his fist in a ball and he was swinging it around And he was gonna say To the moon one of these days Well Shoji this is exactly what I mean. No one understands these references It's okay. I think they're suppressed! Well, they should be it's completely misogynistic you can't have that kind of stuff anymore He never hit her But this is the threat and the threat is violence by itself Yeah yeah silence is too
01:49 Listen to this foamer girl on NPR with the rocket going to the moon. NASA says the Artemis 2 moon mission is proceeding as scheduled following yesterday's launch of four astronauts from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NPR's Nell Greenfield Boyce was there for lift-off. The rocket is just arcing up into the sky, there's a tremendous noise and just a bright bright star like the sky as it goes up and up. The sound was like physical, you could feel your body shaking and there's a long straight cloud white cloud coming down from the rocket which is still very visible high up in
02:31 astronauts on board and it's amazing to think that they're on top of this thing. And it's just going up and up enough that we can still hear it, like a very loud flag flapping sound and all eyes are on this thing." That's NPR's Neil Greenfield voice the astro. I love her! Does she know that we have television these days? the theater of the mind you know what it's a flapping noise and I can't believe that on top is this thing has a white trail behind it yeah we're watching it on television NPR girl. It was, well there you go. That's big rocket! Is a big rocket and of course they launched it on April Fools Day look pretty real to me though. A lot of work to make it not real all those people witnessing
03:21 You know, that thing's still not as big as Saturn 5. I watched most of this coverage The thing is huge but Saturn five is still a few feet bigger Well it's not the size It's in the motion of the ocean And they're going to slingshot this thing around the moon This is big deal...I got a couple clips Do you have anything on the rocket? No No, why? What was there to re... Well. There's no controversy. Well. We found something good. There is always something well let see yeah actually got the
03:58 I got Isaacman, he's the administrator of NASA. That guy with the ears? The guy with the ears! He could fly to the moon just with his ears! Holy mackerel Here is... hey you know this is serious man we're in a new space race for the Moon base So this is the opening episode but you're gonna start seeing launches to the moon almost on a monthly cadence. A lot of uncrewed vehicles are going to go there as we start to build out the moon base, you're gonna see crewed vehicles with astronauts going at some point every year eventually getting down to six months vehicle architecture will change until you've got repeatable affordable missions going to and from the Moon yeah okay and you know how they're gonna do that?
04:42 They have moon partners. that are building our lunar landers, SpaceX and Blue Origin incorporate some degree of on-orbit assembly or on orbit cryogenic prop transfer. These are going to be game changing capabilities for the United States so we are moving in that direction for sure. It's a little entremont here this came in this morning as the astronauts are talking to Houston and they had a little bit of a problem they thought mission control could help them with
05:25 Yeah, go for it. And then I also see that I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working if you want to remote in and check Optimus on those two outlooks That would be awesome Why did they? What? They said... Okay wait stop the show clip of the day Microsoft Outlook crashes I'm telling you. Yeah, give me 10 points for that the whole thing's worth it. Let's listen to that one more time. Can you remote in is even worse than that? Just yeah just this. That's the worst from mode in thought that was great
06:15 Okay, we're sending these guys to the moon and they're using Outlook. I wonder if they are on... Do you think they upgraded to Windows 11 so they have support? They better! Anyway this whole thing is obviously about national security When America returns to the moon builds a Moon base that returning to the Moon this time to stay it sends a message It sends a message every one of our adversaries or geopolitical rivals around the world of what we are capable of doing. It sends a message what were capable of doing across every one of the most important emerging technological domains I will tell you it is absolutely erased right now success and failure on the moon is going to be measured in months not years Success or failure as months, not years And this my friends You may think would just blowin money on rockets blowing on a moon base Uh-uh This is a critical piece
07:10 of your golden dome. We're going higher. We're going into cis lunar space, we're sending American astronauts back to the moon. What? Cis lunar space did he... Did I hear that correctly? It sounded like you said sis. Sis yeah it's what i heard too Like trans or cis. Yeah cis, cis lunar space Some sort of sexual thing Higher! We are going into cis lunar space. Yeah cis lunar space Well I wonder what cis... We've..I think we've looked this up Do we have a couple times and never makes any sense really.
08:02 to We're going higher, we're going into cislunar space. We are sending American astronauts back to the moon... Listen listen you can hear the laughter. ...of satellites. We are going higher, we are going into cislunar space. We are sending American astronauts back to the moon... We are sending them back to build a Moon base so there is no doubt our adversaries are trying to counter our capabilities in space but this why President Trump signs a national space policy calling for the continuation of American superiority in the high ground of space
08:42 Cislunar space, the high ground of space. These are new terms we should be learning these terms. That's a show title. Cislunar space? It was a little long. Yeah or just cis lunar maybe. Had a bit here, as we apparently are still racing the Chinese. I think have the Chinese... Have they only banked stuff into the moon? Have they crash landed or have they had anything land successfully? I don't know. I think all it is was to crash lands. I think that just crashed landed. For all the complexity care and frankly rocket science that goes into this moment
