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🗓️ 22 March 2025
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0:00.0 | Well, some of you may have seen it and some of you haven't, but back in 2019, I did a 50th anniversary of the Apollo program, four-part series for Daily Wire, called Apollo 11, what we saw. |
0:10.3 | I think it's the best work I ever did, and it's impossible to watch that without feeling the love and affection I had for NASA in the 1960s, and I've lost that love and feeling. |
0:23.6 | Hi, everybody, I'm Bill Whittle here with Steve Green and Scott Ott. The good news is it looks like Butch and Sonny are safely back on Earth. |
0:26.9 | Better news. |
0:27.9 | They came down on a very reliable, virtually unheard of inexpensive vehicle called the Dragon, |
0:35.9 | which is a privately owned space capsule. |
0:38.9 | The government subsidized NASA Boeing Starliner capsule that they went up on, |
0:44.4 | which had been delayed again and again and again, was deemed unsafe for return after billions and billions of dollars of spending on a capsule. |
0:53.1 | A capsule. |
0:54.1 | This is what we did rather well back in |
0:56.0 | 1960, I guess, for the redesign of the Apollo command module. |
1:02.9 | Steve, oh, I'm Bill Whittle here with Steve Union Scott out, by the way. |
1:07.9 | The current plans for manned spaceflight, as far as NASA is concerned consists of the following |
1:12.9 | we're going to create the Starliner capsule so that we have a second way to get to the |
1:16.7 | space station that was jettisoned from the space station as space junk re-entered the atmosphere |
1:21.2 | had some problems was deemed unsafe for human spaceflight after god knows how much money and |
1:26.3 | years and overruns and so on. |
1:29.2 | NASA also has plans to go back to the moon with the Artemis program, which probably should |
1:34.7 | have been called the Dionysius program, because they are having a bit of a problem. |
1:42.3 | They sent an unmanned Orion capsule, which is also looks like |
1:46.9 | was built by apes when compared to just the dragon capsule that, that SpaceX put out. And |
1:53.8 | there's plans for a four-person crew to go next year, April of 2006, on a mission around the moon, this time man mission |
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