(Part 2 of 4) NASA has selected eighteen astronauts to establish a sustainable presence on the moon with eventual trips to Mars.
Na nasa has selected 18 astronauts for a program that could establish a sustainable presence on the moon and prepare for future trips to mars.
Vice president mike pence revealed the list of new astronauts for the artemis program recently at the kennedy space center.
He said the first woman to walk on the moon will come from this group.
Mark strassmann looks at the candidates for nasa's first lunar mission since 1972.
Jessica watkins!
Make way, apollo era.
In 20, this is what the right stuff looks like.
The artemis generation!
Nasa's eighteen artemis astronauts range in age from 32 to 55.
They include flight test pilots... geologists... and a former navy seal.
Half have never been to space.
Half are women.
And nasa intends for one of them to become a space first.
I'm either going to walk on the moon or one of my friends is going to walk on the moon and both of those scenarios are beyond my wildest dreams when i was a kid.
It really just took my breath away.
We talked to artemis astronaut nicole mann.
She's currently training to fly boeing's starliner spaceship to the international space station next year.
And now the moon is on her horizon, too.
Would it be important for you to become the first woman to land on the moon?
You know, i would love to be the first woman to walk on the moon, but in reality, it's the bigger mission that's more important.
It's important that we get there as americans and we get there as a human race.
To get to there, nasa is developing a new mega-rocket and crew capsule, called orion.
But congress has not yet fully fund the trump administration's 2024 landing goal.
And the incoming biden administration has to agree with these excited artemis astronauts...that this moon mission matters.
One of the important things for a huge program and a huge endeavor like this is to have that continuity across administrations and i feel confident that we have that.
// this is the future of human exploration.
But if the goal here was to create moon excitement -- mission accomplished.
Mark strassmann, cbs news, atlanta.
If you want to know what people were thinking about in 2020 - ask google.
The search engine behemoth is out with its "year i search" data&which shows in 2020, americans were interested in everything from election results to sourdough bread.
Nancy chen takes a look at the top trends.
With trillions of searches each year&google knows what's on everyone's mind.
" 'why' wa searched more than eve 20's top trending searches reveal both the obvious&.
"election result and coronavirus .."
&and the unexpected: "the question 'wh were chainsaws invented?'
" in this pandemic year, many americans in lockdown encountered new challenges molly vandenberg is google's trends expert.
Á2:09 you have how to cut men's hair at home, how to color your hair, at home and also how to wash your hands.
///2:48 also where to buy toilet paper, where to buy facemasks "virtual field trips provided families with much-need escapes& &and sourdough's popularity rose to new heights.
I've found myself falling in love with sourdough.
Actually i have nothing to do!
And in case you forgot - 2020 actually began Ábefore the pandemic.
Shakira was the top-trending musical artist, thanks to her headlining halftime show at the super bowl... and racecar driver ryan newman topped the athletes list, after his horrific crash at the daytona 500.
"as he went on t talk about what the accident meant to him and how he was going to react as a result, people continued to be interested in him as a topic."
The top three "how-to-help search trends were for australia fires, black lives matter, and the coronavirus.
"there's so muc empathy and a lot of good in the world and people are looking for ways to help."
&offering some inspiration for what we might "google" in the n year.
Nancy chen, cbs news, new york.
Google's methodology calculates the greatest increase in searches over a sustained period in this year, compared to last.
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