Taking A Walk In Space | September 13, 2021

hi i'm carl azuz we're happy to see you this monday and we hope you had a great weekend for the united states it was a weekend of remembrance on the 20th anniversary of the september 11th terrorist attacks which we covered in depth on friday's show ceremonies prayer services tributes moments of silence events like these were held all across the country relatives of 9 11 victims reflected on their loved ones survivors shared their stories of the harrowing day communities displayed flags in honor of the lives lost it was a national observance of a tragedy that changed the country and like the attacks themselves it brought together americans from all walks of life at dawn the unfurling of a flag over the side of the pentagon hit by a jetliner 20 years ago signaled the beginning of a day of tributes [Music] it's one of three sites where americans gathered in somber remembrance honoring each one of the 2977 people killed in the terrorist attacks on september 11th at the footprints where the twin towers proudly stood over lower manhattan president biden and the first lady were joined by the obamas and a sea of 911 families to memorialize those lost two decades ago at 8 46 a.m the first of six moments of silence marking the instant the first hijacked airliner struck the north tower mike lowe's daughter sarah was a flight attendant on that plane as we recite the names of those we lost my memory goes back to that terrible day when it felt like an evil specter had descended on our world but it was also a time when many people acted above and beyond the ordinary the tributes continued throughout the morning with the nation pausing five more times the moment each twin tower fell when the pentagon was attacked and the moment united flight 93 crashed into a field in pennsylvania it is truly an honor to be with all of you at this field of honor along with vice president kamala harris president george w bush who served as commander-in-chief in 2001 helped lead a memorial at that site the 33 passengers and seven crew of flight 93 could have been any group of citizens selected by fate in a sense they stood in for us all the terrorists soon discovered that a random group of americans is an exceptional group of people and at the pentagon general mark milley chairman of the joint chiefs honored the victims of the attacks and the service members who died of the subsequent war in afghanistan never forget those who were murdered by terrorists never forget those who rushed to save their lives and gave theirs in exchange never forget the sons and the daughters the brothers and sisters and the mothers and fathers who gave their tomorrows for our todays the sky over lower manhattan lights up again with the annual tribute and light it's a reminder of the nation's resilience and an iconic symbol honoring those killed in the nation's unbreakable spirit polo sandoval cnn new york ten-second trivia who conducted the first spacewalk which took place in 1965 alan shepard yuri gagarin ed white or alexei leonov while ed white was the first american to do it the first ever spacewalk was made by soviet cosmonaut alexei leonov [Music] according to space.com leonov originally thought he'd be a professional artist but his success in the soviet air force led to his selection for cosmonaut training and when he first stepped outside in space on march 18 1965 his government was supportive his family was not his father yelled at what he thought was leonov's misbehavior and said he should be punished and his daughter cried and said please tell daddy to get back inside leonov said he faced a number of life-threatening challenges doing that but he did get back to earth safely less than three months later astronaut ed white made america's first spacewalk and four years after that the space race between the u.s and the soviet union culminated in the american moon landing international space programs have come a long way since the 1960s but spacewalks are still considered risky even though nasa says they've been a crucial part of the construction and maintenance of the international space station the most expensive object people have ever built as an example of that maintenance two astronauts one from europe and one from japan took a walk outside the iss on sunday both have completed several space walks before their mission this time around was to set up support equipment for a new solar power unit which will be installed on a future space trip if you've ever wondered what it's like to work outside when outside means orbiting the earth here's your answer [Music] the airlock uh hatch came open immediately inside the airlock itself it was bathed in this beautiful color of blue it was a light reflecting off the ocean below and i saw saw planet earth and just my feet just dangling there and i thought to myself you know this is absolutely beautiful i can't believe that i'm here and then i said okay we got work to do okay and then at this point between the modules [Music] and danny once you have that fused tether in place uh before you vrt to the handrail process associated with actually going out the door begins months beforehand [Music] understanding the the the choreography of what's going to take place over an eight-hour period what are the technical challenges for that particular activity [Music] [Applause] [Music] you are your own self-contained vessel um you have your own oxygen system your own power supply your own communication system uh you have obviously all the tools that you brought with you you have the ability to reject the heat that you're building up as you're working inside the spacesuit so you have to kind of manage all that as your own little independent spacecraft out there and because we can rely heavily on our training that allows us to not be overwhelmed with the things that you just can't emulate here on the ground at the end of our first spacewalk i stopped on the trust just for a second and it was nighttime and i looked down below and i could it was i knew exactly where i was i was over the indian ocean because i could see the the lights along the the coastline which is such a an incredible feeling to to just be able to see that to take that in and kind of be able to be in that moment [Music] [Applause] not ready to come back down to earth just yet we're having a look at a new type of hot air balloon that would take well-paying customers to the edge of space or at least higher than 99 of the earth's atmosphere if space perspective flights get off the ground as planned in 2024 they'll rise 100 000 feet above our planet's surface technically space is defined as starting quite a bit higher than that but the balloon flight would still allow passengers to see the darkness of space it would be a relatively relaxing rise for as many as eight people at a time flights would last six hours and there will be a bathroom on board if you want to get on board the company is selling tickets in advance but they're 125 000 each which would leave a lot of space in your wallet if you know what i'm saying but if you need a lift you have a ballooning budget and you don't mind being accused of looking down on people this could put your head well above the clouds for a flight of fancy that defies and then depends on gravity dionza high school we see you watching from richmond california thank you for subscribing and leaving a comment on our youtube channel and of course that is the only way to get a school mentioned on cnn 10. i m carl azuz and i'm grateful to have you watching [Music] [Music] so [Music] you

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Published: Sun Sep 12 2021