This was unexpectedly emotional. I can only imagine how people felt in the 60s when it was about to happen for the first time. These astronauts are inspiring.
Trust me. Same feeling. Our country was in turmoil back then, too, and those missions reminded us of who we really are and what we could accomplish together. I'm feeling the same way all over again and loving it.
I was 16 when we first went to the moon and it was totally awesome. I remember it well and looking up at the moon at night knowing people were standing on it. I'm now 70 and still excited about this mission. When she made those comments about looking down on the Earth, I am reminded of Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot. It brings home just how dependent we all are on each other on our mote of cosmic dust, just a tiny pale blue dot seen from Saturn and how silly we are to fight each other over political and religious power grabs.
As thrilling as the landing was in '69, I may have been even more excited during Apollo 8, when Borman and crew circled the Moon and returned. They had been the first humans to travel beyond low Earth orbit. I feel that same thrill now with Artemis II.
These are paid actors being interviewed by a celebrity paid actor, lol. Look kids, its not hard to send up the proper lens or adjust aperture on a camera....YET. 70 YEARS IN AND NO PICTURES OF STARS FROM A SPACECRAFT OR THE ISS. Total malarky!!! They can't snap a shot and let us triangulate where they are from the stars around them. Thats why they do not TAKE any star pics with a real time camera. They will be busted.
@Distant Echoes Ya, but all that genius, and they can't snap a picture of stars for us on Earth. Or snap one of Earth. (ALL Earth shots are CGI composites that look almost identical. And wrong in all the same places.)
I totally agree. What a great crew ! In this day of division and anti-science rhetoric and actions it's nice to see something positive that inspires our sense of wonder and desire to explore. It brings me back to the old days of NASA when we kids looked up to our astronauts and dreamt about traveling to the stars.
Wouldn't it be great if humanity could just get over it's greed and power grabs to see each other as equal. Imagine all the people living as one. That just reminded me of a song of hope. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YkgkThdzX-8.html
@Utha I believe we'll get there. I know more and more we have been getting there, especially with the internet. I hope our time, the future times, people can begin to rise above the propaganda of the power hungry that leads us to fight each other, and instead embrace. This is the song I'm reminded of, thinking about "the overview effect" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5PdttwnCRaE.html
@@myklelara absolutely! We need more icons of their knowledge and caliber. If we are to celebrate (celebrity) people, it should be these kinds of people.
This interview actually lifted me today, we now have a bunch of *space-faring humans ready to go! As an Engineer, having a background in physics, mathematics and mechanics as well as being into the cosmos and astrophysics as a child this is so nice to see again at my age of 34. I cannot wait for the crew of Artemis II to the next generation of voyagers. This is genuinely made me so happy to see today.
It made me roll my eyes in disgust as there are ZERO pictures of Earth from ANY spacecraft. Its all GGI generated stuff. Composites. Fakes Go confirm with your degrees or lying eyes. I keep hearing the tech to see stars is simply an aperature adjustment. VERY CHEAP TO DO. YET, 70 years in and ZERO pictures of stars. I know lots of book smart people with little street smarts to know when they are being conned. Your one more.
I thought of William Shatner's emotional response to his brief view of the Earth below and the absolute darkness above when he took his quick trip into space.
I was a child glued to the TV watching Apollo. As a girl (my dad was Air Force), I didn't see any female jet pilots... but on Star Trek and then for real on the first Space Station I saw there was a future for scientists in Space & I loved Biology so I studied that thinking one day I might go! Then, during my studies at the University of SC (GO Gamecocks), I was in the student center watching Challenger lift off with not only a scientist from SC but a female teacher... but then we know what happened. 😢 Everything was shut down & there was no chance. I went to work in labs and eventually teaching where I ended up as a science curriculum specialist in the very building where Dr. Ron McNair went to high school. It was now a middle school, and we had a celebration each year where his family and NASA astronauts and officials would visit. It was wonderful. The pandemic stopped all that but I hope we can begin again before I retire. I wish timing had been different so I could be on this mission or better yet eventually one to Mars! ❤🖖
You don't know how many young girls and boys that you were their Apollo- the light switch that made them love science, and go onto to do great things for their communtities or society! Women teaching STEM, being in a place of authority over the subject, is what shows both genders that women belong in STEM - you've opened doors in brains you may not be aware of, so please don't wonder what you could have been - teaching is so invaluable. I'm sorry the country doesn't see it that way.
@eatingketchupchips Thank you. Yes, I believe I ended up where I was needed. I've taught about 4k students everything from AP Bio, AP Env Science, Anatomy, & more. I've taught long enough to see some become dentists, nurses, PAs, pharmacists, teachers, vet techs@!+ etc... even a nuclear physicist... and we keep in touch. I also mentored many other teachers... so it ripples out. Not bad for a small rural town where, once Dr. Ronald E. McNair fell in love with science; watched Star Trek; and went off to college to study physics...
Thank you for all your hard work for girls, women, and all the mankind in consequence. I am not from the US but a female software supporter, and while I am still in my 30s I also have been influenced mostly by scifi media etc - because due to the Iron Curtain we've been very held back in some European countries. I had some good teachers though, especially the female IT teacher in high school, who showed me tech isn't as scary for girls in real life as my dad made it sound. I know he was just trying to protect me from the backwards society, but his little girl is stronger than that and she enjoys her job thanks mostly to her female teachers and the scifi media coming mainly from the US 😊 Wish I had more such teachers or one very influential so that I didn't waiver so much and accomplished more academically, but then again, I get to pass it forward to the next generations and help them do even better... And while I have some regrets, I also know it matters what I do, like how I help my younger colleagues when I didn't have an older IT female colleague to guide me (I was the first female IT employee in 15 years since the company started....) and it gives me a great feeling, which is definitely different that the awe of looking at the Earth from space, but still something I didn't know I would be feeling.
Carl Sagan has said this. And as well you don't need to go to space to feel this effect. It can happen at anytime. Your perspective is from your surroundings. Once you get out of your comfort zone you to can expierience this or just drop a Ton of shrooms and you will really get it.
Excellent crew. As an American who is a bit of a space nerd, I'd say it's only fitting a Canadian is going. Canada has been instrumental in providing technologies for the Shuttle and the ISS, like the various incarnations of the "Canadarm", the robotic arm for the Space Shuttle. He's also not the first Canadian to ride a U.S. vehicle. That title goes to Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau, who flew on the shuttle Challenger in 1984. Christina Koch's remarks echo Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" quote, published after Voyager took a picture of Earth from near Saturn. Most people quote the first paragraph, but I think the last fits here as follow up to what she said: "It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
She Explained that so well a tear came out my eye cause of how well she painted a picture in my head. I like how she said were a lot more alike then we think . Our universe is truly amazing. Who knows what gods plan truly is for us im just so thankful we got to experience it with our own eyes ..life .
Canada's been with us on most manned missions since the Space Shuttle program began, with the Canadarm robot systems. The first one saw 90 Shuttle missions, the second is the main manipulator on the ISS and the third is scheduled to be part of the Lunar Gateway, a planned orbiter of the moon with some similarities to the ISS. While there's something to be said for competition, we might well do our best work when we do so together, to help all of humanity move forward.
@@ivannano The Avro Arrow wasn't exactly a spaceship. The real reason the Arrow was decommissioned was the advent of ICBMs. The arrow no longer had a purpose.
@@gallopinggoose6891 The reasons were much more complex than that - but that's a different topic. But at least 31 Canadian top engineers and rocket scientists left Canada and became part of the very early NASA. They were the cutting edge at the time.
@@ivannano yeah, 31 is only a very small drop in the bucket though. Whenever a program is terminated that kind of thing happens. People left NASA after the shuttle got cancelled, and found employment elsewhere.
I almost cried when she was describing earth from space. I can almost picture the wonder and awe you must feel seeing how the earth and the universe is bigger than any one of us. Just incredible stuff
As a long time Trekkie, I was thinking the same thing. I remember reading how NASA studied Star Trek. Many of the things we have now (computer systems, communication devices, even color-coded computer boards (think of McDonald's cash registers back in the day) all featured on Star Trek. I always say, if someone can imagine it, someone will find a way to do it. 🖖
Remember many of the engineers that helped NASA get to the moon came from Canada after we decommissioned the Avero Arrow project. Nice to see us included. Jeremy comes from my hometown and we are very proud of him!
Hope. Absolutely. Remember what Christina said, when you are up there you see the very tiny earth with everything in it and there is no politics and no differences. And that my fellow human beings is what humility and being humble means
After watching both clips, we can see that they're going to work well together and enjoy time in space performing all the needed experiments to share the knowledge with us. What a selection of crew members!
Meeting an 'astronaut' is an honor. I met Mercury Astronaut Capt Malcolm Scott Carpenter, USN, at work in The MET Museum years ago. [H]e was impressed anyone would recognize him, and he saluted me. Awesome!
The overview effect is how WE SHOULD ALL be thinking about the earth ALL the time. No more fighting, no more wars, no more lines, no more power-hungry evil fools.
I'd happily have guests like these be the regular vs. celebrities and political figures. Thank you for bringing the light to these astronauts and the bigger-than-the-individual message they represent.
What a cool interview! Great to hear the astronauts just having a chat. This whole business freaks me out completely, so my admiration for them is tremendous!🌟🌟🌟🌟
Ever since I was a teenager, I’ve always thought the same: being a rockstar must be the 2nd coolest job in the world (without all the excesses). Best job ever: astronaut.
President Kennedy, Sept. 20, 1963, at the UN General Assembly: "Why, therefore, should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction, and expenditure? Surely we should explore whether the scientists and astronauts of our two countries--indeed of all the world--cannot work together in the conquest of space, sending someday in this decade to the moon not the representatives of a single nation, but the representatives of all of our countries."
When the day comes that all nations of the world can come together and support space exploration as a whole, we are doomed to repeat the past. Spending resources wisely, as a community, still needs to be realized. We could do so much for our world and all things within it, if we just worked together. So simple........
When I was a child growing up, the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts were the heroes of the time. We need more heroes today and this looks like a good bunch. God speed.
More more more. Please have them all back on before and after and again and again. Amazing people! We wish you all the best!!! Cant wait to see what you will accomplish!!
Pride. Not the destructive kind of pride that makes you defensive and act in self interest. Pride in something both greater than ourselves and in something that is representative of all of us. That is what space exploration is all about and wow does this crew engender that representativeness. Way to bring this to us all in the admiration and reverence that only Stephen Colbert can do!
Wow😮 this was super amazing. So great to see the crew of Artemis ll. I wish them only the very best of success and pray the mission will be a tremendous success for all humanity. Wishing them a safe journey to and back from the moon.🙏🏼👍🏼💯
The Astronauts are absolutely wonderful! Brilliant,open minded and brave, great looking too. Gives me faith in human nature to see and hear people like this.
Great interview-informative, inspiring and entertaining. Looking forward to their mission. Christina Koch's statement about the Overview Effect give you chills-good chills. I enjoy watching videos from the ISS. The videos themselves are awe-inspiring. But to be in space and see it firsthand? Wow.
Jose Hernandez, NASA astronaut and mission specialist on the STS-128 in 2009, described the Earth the same way Ms. Koch did. He said when you look at the Earth, you see no borders. Very powerful statement.
I haven't been excited about space travel in a long time. This is so cool and good to see. Glad to see people giving respect to astronauts as many of us as kids wanted to be one. This is an awesome step in the right direction. Humans have infinite capability to learn and advance. Too bad allot of people are focused on other things.
Clearly, this crew has the "Right Stuff." I watched both segments twice, the second time slightly slowed down which helps watching for their expressions and body language. I'll bet dollars to donuts that every one of them tested very high on IQ and other Cognitive Measurements. Sharp, observant, even witty (though, admittedly it's likely these appearances were rehearsed before hand). I suspect that they are in Olympic-levels of fitness evidenced by the way they moved and carried themselves. If success is possible, this crew will get it done and emerge on the other side victorious. I needed "a Win," and this crew (and NASA and supporters) gave me one (along with Colbert's nerding out, parma-grin of glee). I'm feeling rather patriotic 🙂
Wow, classiest, smartest group of people I've seen in a long time. Well done Mr Colbert. The caliber of people in NASA is hard to beat, from someone who spent 38 years in commercial aviation. You go!
Christina's concise and apt take on the beauty of looking at our planet from outer space is absolutely inspiring, heartwarming and - simply put - just true. If only every human being could have the chance to see the world through her eyes, humanity would very likely be in a better place. Sad thing is, that some leaders here on this planet are probably beyond saving in terms of their mental set-up. They'd probably just look at our planet from above and see what's on the menu...
What an inspiring group! Not just smart and articulate, but collegial. An essential ingredient is ability to cooperate and keep a cool head. Love the diversity, and being part Canadian, of course including Canadian genius;-)
I wish we could actually be like she sees us from space. What a beautiful observation! Best of luck to this crew. Wishing them a successful mission and a safe journey home. God bless America.
Hard to say this with all the excellent interviews that Mr Colbert has done..but l think this one was exceptional!!..God's speed for these incredible humans...
Dear Stephen, Your vast knowledge and expertise in various sociopolitical issues are truly impressive. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that you are also skilled in conducting engaging interviews with astronauts, asking insightful questions that captivate your audience. Your ability to educate and entertain the masses on a wide range of topics is truly exceptional. Thank you for your phenomenal contributions.