00:00I cannot wait to hear their voices when they get to the far side of the moon and I can
00:05hear them talk about seeing the moon out their window.
00:09I try to imagine it now and just like tear up thinking about it.
00:14Oh, now I gotta hold on a second.
00:22We have human eyeballs connected to wonderfully smart brains our astronaut friends have.
00:27They are going to be able to observe the moon in multiple different ways.
00:30They can use their eyes, they'll look through their camera and snap pictures and just looking
00:35out the window getting that human experience.
00:37But during Apollo, the astronauts were so much closer to the lunar surface, our astronauts
00:43are going to be doing a flyby at a higher altitude so they're going to be able to see the
00:47whole
00:47moon as a lunar disk on the lunar far side.
00:50That's a brand new unique perspective that humans haven't been able to look at before.
00:54We are doing a lot of lunar geography training with them.
00:58They have study sessions and quizzes they can do that are assigned to them.
01:03You know, even if you're an astronaut, you still get homework.
01:05We actually get in the mock-up.
01:07In that enclosed physical space, we have to think through the hardware that they have,
01:12the cameras, the computers, their microphones to make these observations.
01:16There's four windows up front.
01:18Through one of those windows, one of our astronauts will be using a Nikon D5 camera.
01:23With an 80 to 400 millimeter lens, so something that allows them to zoom in really far and
01:28actually take more detailed observations of the surface.
01:31It's almost like looking through a pair of binoculars as well.
01:34It's just like being a geologist out in the field.
01:36They're going, they're telling us what they're seeing, looking for colors, textures, different
01:41morphologies.
01:42And comparing the region that we're having them look at to the regions that are around them.
01:47We have a science team that is planning the targets that are going to be observed, putting
01:53them all on the timeline of how they're going to be observed, and then taking the first look
01:57at the data when it comes down.
01:59The Apollo astronauts were only on the moon for 300 hours total.
02:03And they only went to the equator.
02:05That's like going to places that were safer landing sites.
02:08And they only saw so little, 300 hours total.
02:12And so we have so much more to explore and so much more to learn.
02:16And we are the beginning of the next generation that gets to start being a part of these discoveries.
02:22Bye.
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