that we eat. Not that we don't have enough dumplings and noodles on a weekly basis. Lunar New year, really, I love doing all the auspicious foods with my kids, dumplings, meaning like a gold nugget.You're going to get rich if you eat more dumplings.
mission and some of the cool development work that we're doing so first of all uh with respect to lunar volatiles this has been a topic uh that has existed for a few decades butI'm I'm featuring some of the notable missions that really help to steer where we are today the Clementine Mission
About a year ago, McKinsey threw a big party for a hundred of its top corporate clients to show off the new acquisition that it acquired, Lunar Design, a very distinguished engineering plus design organization based in San Francisco, about 70 people.And they had asked me to MC the event.
We flew it twice on Endeavour, and it was just a lot of fun. Lunar Rover to explore for volatiles at the poles.
propane tanks the latter that the astronauts used to descend onto the lunar surface is a ladder from the hardware store I make big efforts to useeveryday things in this so that there's no so that when you're confronted with the object you're not threatened by
it's a hybrid this this model of the lunar module that was built by NASA and many other things that was built by myspace program we replaced a lot of that
We can eat all the best things, but if we don't absorb it, it almost doesn't make any difference. Lunars . Anyone know what your lunars are?The lunars are like the little half-moons.
The engineers called it a free return trajectory, and that nicely captured it. A lunar orbital mission would be a whole different beast. It would require the astronauts to fire the main engine at the back of their spacecraft at least twice, once to slow them down enough so that they would
was worried that it wouldn't behave the way that we thought it would and um I was very delighted to find that it Google lunar X prize where are we on that sure so um shortly after uh Larry
So without further delay, that is a picture of Apollo 11 on the lunar surface. Are you surprised at the color of the dirt? Because the Moon's gray, right?
Lunars . Anyone know what your lunars are?The lunars are like the little half-moons. So just look right at the bottom of your nail beds.
you'll realize that now the Earth is in between the sun and the moon. So you get a lunar eclipse. So you get a lunar eclipse, which means every time there is a solar eclipse, it is accompanied by a lunar eclipse either two weeks before or after.
So you get a lunar eclipse. So you get a lunar eclipse, which means every time there is a solar eclipse, it is accompanied by a lunar eclipse either two weeks before or after. Oh, that's so cool. Yeah.
And you kind of have to balance that out with something. My parents knew every Lunar New Year, you'd put it on. There would be the festival show and it would always be there's this guy who he always played a folk hero in all these sketches and there was that.
of the sci-fi ones that it would be cool to do before I started really thinking of what seriously important world-saving things you could They already have a lunar program that they're pursuing.
Even though I personally think that the taste and the flavors and the process of making it is quite intensive, too. And every Lunar New Year, my grandma would make bánh chung, or the Vietnamese square rice cakes that you wrap in banana
I remember-- Oh, yeah. It's basically Lunar New Year central.
And right now, our team is en route to the moon. There's a lunar colony. It's, like, 250 people.
Artemis. Translunar Shuttle 1093. Curt's call to lunar mission control sounded as calm as if this wasn't his first landing. TLS-1093, Artemis. This is Deana Whitney on CAPCOM.
So that stuff is, in many ways, easier because it's just working around stuff that's very known. Designing the lunar base was harder because there isn't one for me to riff off of. There's a lot of designs of potential ones, but there's not an actual base yet.
And, like, I just, I really enjoyed it. Just straight-up crushed lunar rock.
The full moon lunar eclipse that's happening today.
Sometimes you get a lunar eclipse.
Now there were just 16 months to go before the 1960s expired, and only a fool would believe that America could stick a lunar landing in the time that was remaining. Just the year before, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee had died in a launch pad fire locked
It would require the astronauts to fire the main engine at the back of their spacecraft at least twice, once to slow them down enough so that they would be captured by lunar gravity and enter orbit and once more to speed the ship up again so that they could break free of the orbit and come home. The Apollo spacecraft's engine, which is the red bell at the bottom of the ship, was a big, roaring blunderbuss thing,
It would become a matter of history, too, that on Christmas Eve at about 9 PM East Coast time, they would point their camera back out the window and beam images of the lunar landscape crawling slowly beneath their spacecraft to a television audience that this time measured an estimated 1 billion people, or nearly one out of every three human beings on the planet.
It was the lunar new year of that particular year.
First to lunar orbit, deep space, in the 2020s.
and the lunar module for the Apollo lunar landings in the '60s, how they were designed, how they were engineered.
They were all basically lunar .
And because 12 lunar months came a few days short of the full solar year, he inserted intercalary months"-- so these are extra months to correct the calendar--
It has a lunar rover carrying the Regolith and Environment Science and Oxygen and Lunar Volatile Extraction payload.
And the European Lunar Symposium that we also help, and that is in Rome, Italy-- Frascati, which
I know more about Lunar Orbiter than anybody at NASA.
And then here the lunar module is the part that flies down to the other world with two people inside, and so on and so forth.
One is measuring the lunar dust environment.
Classic example is the lunar landing this is-- the last 200 pages of my book are all about the design of the last 10 minutes
moon and building a lunar habitat that their grandchildren can move into.
away started visualizing lunar exploration.
moon with the lunar lander.
of Americans watched the lunar landing on, invested massively in its own simulations inventing such things as green screen technology for the purposes of effectively communicating
detail stuff just run up there grab the mic and and let's have a conversation it's full-size lunar module made out of plywood and steel there no exotic
Nike swoosh always has to be facing going right but I argued that when they step onto the lunar surface as the footprint goes into the soil or regolith e- will have a swoosh for millions and millions of years they didn't care but
expert so in our demonstration the astronauts descend onto the lunar surface make the first step on the moon secure the area deploy the the the
And fish replicate on a Lunar cycle.
What does-- That means happy Lunar New Year or happy ..
You can tell them a lunar architect is a legit job they could plan for.
I think going to the lunar surface first is a great way to test a lot of hardware and development procedures.
And any favorite memories from Lunar new year that you've had in the past?
We'll also put the lunar ascent and descent module on the Gateway, that they'll then crawl in and then go down to the surface and then come back to.