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Transcript/ScriptTHE WEEK IN SPACE (TV)
HEADLINE: Private US Spaceflight Company's Moonshot Underway
TEASER: Can the United States land on the moon after more than 50 years? NASA sure hopes so
PUBLISHED AT: 2/15/24, 3:40p
BYLINE: Arash Arabasadi
CONTRIBUTOR:
DATELINE: Washington
VIDEOGRAPHER: AP/ SpaceX/ Astrobotic Technology/ NASA/ REUTERS/ NASA-TV/ ESA – European Space Agency/ Turkish Industry and Technology Ministry Handout
SCRIPT EDITORS: Reifenrath, sb
VIDEO SOURCE (S): AP/ SpaceX/ Astrobotic Technology/ NASA/ REUTERS/ NASA-TV/ ESA – European Space Agency/ Turkish Industry and Technology Ministry Handout
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TRT: 2:17
NOTE: PART NO OBSCURE LOGO
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[[Can the United States make a return to the surface of the moon? NASA and a private U.S. spaceflight company certainly hope so. VOA’s Arash Arabasadi brings us The Week in Space.]]
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Big news as we begin this week on a launchpad at Florida’s Cape Canaveral.
As usual, it was private spaceflight company SpaceX doing the driving while carrying a host of NASA experiments and a very special guest.
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Houston, Texas-based ((end courtesy)) Intuitive Machines created the Nova-C lunar lander.
It is set to land on the same region of the moon where NASA plans to send astronauts later this decade.
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No private spacecraft has ever landed on the moon.
If successful, the mission would see the U.S. return to the lunar surface for the first time since NASA’s Apollo program came to an end more than five decades ago.
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This latest attempt follows a failed landing in January by Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based Astrobotic Technology, where a fuel leak shortly after takeoff shattered hopes of a moon landing.
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Meanwhile, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Russia successfully launched a resupply mission to the International Space Station, or ISS.
The cargo spacecraft reportedly carried food and supplies to the orbiting outpost.
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It was from here that astronauts from Italy, Sweden, and Turkey said goodbye to their crewmates.
The trio spent nearly two and a half weeks aboard the ISS, having flown there via a commercial mission by Texas-based startup Axiom Space.
Before departure, Turkey’s first astronaut, Alper Gezeravci, ((pron. AL-per gez-zer-AHV-chee)) expressed gratitude for the opportunity.
[RADIO: Gezeravci speaking on NASA-TV as provided by Reuters.]
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((Alper Gezeravci, Turkey’s First Astronaut ((English))
“Very grateful to my country, Republic of Turkey, for their bold and determined decision to step into the manned space mission on our prideful centennial.”
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Gezeravci, referencing Turkey’s centennial year as a republic dating back to its establishment in 1923.
Retired NASA astronaut Michael López-Alegría led the crew of Axiom Mission (three) aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule as it splashed back to Earth off the coast of Florida’s Daytona Beach.
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Gezeravci had one more stop ((mandatory cg Turkish Industry and Technology Ministry Handout))
on his adventure, as he was greeted by children holding flowers in Turkey’s capital, Ankara.
Welcome home, Alper. And happy centennial.
Arash Arabasadi, VOA News.
NewsML Media TopicsArts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
NetworkVOA
Location (dateline)
Washington D. C.
Embargo DateFebruary 15, 2024 16:19 EST
Byline
Arash Arabasadi, VOA News
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