April 3, 2026 • 5 mins
Humankind is returning to the moon.
NASA launched its first manned mission to the moon in over fifty years earlier this week – sending four astronauts on the Artemis II on a ten day journey to circle the celestial body.
And though many young kids dream of being an astronaut one day, Kevin Milne isn’t sure he could hack it.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
That'd be it's Kevin Milner's with us this morning. You
to Kevin, you a Jack.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
It's a plenty old thing. Actually, my daughter spent last
night and I presume she's not far from it now
the dockhart on mound over.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yeah? No, no, for each other. Yeah, yeah, we should
have actually just cut through to her. You're going to
talk to her from up there?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, oh how good. No, we we pushed a little
bit higher than the dock hut just for you know,
because we had it still had legs. And actually it's
amazing to me. You know, you think, oh, well, it's
not an off Broadway tramp by any stretch of the imagination.
But it's probably not. It's not the heavy, it's not
a great walk. And yet you know, on a Wednesday,
(00:57):
you get there and the hots ebbsltly pumping, and there
are kiwi's, there are people who are traveling from overseas.
It's great to see. I always am always delighted to
see him. People enjoy, you know, getting out there and
you know, savoring. So hopefully Tommy's had some good weather
like we did, Kevin. But you were captivated by another
excursion another this week, and it's fear to say it
(01:17):
is probably slightly more adventurous than mine.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Well, what a thrill it was on Thursday to watch
the launch of Artemis two, the US rocket taking four
astronauts on a journey around them around the Moon. There's
no other site like a launch. Really.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
The sheer power nearly four million kilograms of thrust, seventeen
percent more than the rockets that were on Apollo, what,
of course, provides the drama to the launch.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Four people at the tip of that rocket being blasted
into space. Not only did I fear for them, my
heart went out to the families of the astronauts presumably
watching live, though I think probably a few not. I'd
hate to watch any of my family being blasted into space.
Damn risky. And if I were offered the opportunity to
(02:09):
join the astronauts as an observer, I would decline. I
suspect Jack, you may differ in that regard or having
a baby made you more cautious.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Do you know I would love to do it. If
I didn't have a young family, I would leap at
the opportunity, but I don't think I could do it
something like Artemis and good faith, knowing that they were
all sitting there on planet Earth looking up at me,
holding their breath. I don't think I could put them
through it. Maybe when my son's a little bit older.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Because I wouldn't do it myself doesn't mean I didn't
sit back and watch that launch with huge respect for
the astronauts. I guess they see the Jenny as a
sort of freakish opportunity, really but an odd thing. I
was in full mouth, wide open or thirty seconds after
the launch, the commentator told us Humanity's next great voyage
(03:04):
has begun, and then added, Adamus two is three miles
high and traveling at twelve hundred miles an hour. My
son Jake looked at me and said, haven't you gone
faster than that? And I had a board Concord. Concord
flies at thirteen hundred and fifty miles an hour and
eleven miles high, But of course there's no comparison. I
(03:26):
was flying not up and down, but across, and I
sure as hell was not sitting atop a frightening flare
of combusted rocket propellant. Besides, adamis two was just warming up. Really,
I have gone faster than that, Jake, I said to him,
and I left it at that. Jacket's important for sons
(03:49):
to think their fathers are heroes.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
This is nothing, you said. This is rocket change, this
is call us an adventure.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Yeah, do you know what?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
You know what I thought? I as I watched it
blast off into space. In my gosh, it was spectacular,
wasn't it. You know what I thought?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I thought. I thought that that these are the actions
of an organization who bought their fuel before the Straits
of hor moves.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yes, yes, yes, it.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Really is something. It'll be amazing to see. I'm really
looking forward to some of the images that come back. Already,
they've released a couple of overnight of images overnight because
very rarely do we see the Earth from a distance
beyond the International Space Station. It's not very often these
days that spacecraft go beyond the International Space Station. And
(04:42):
the thing about the International Space Station is it's still
so close that you can't see the whole of the
Earth and frame, you know what I mean. So you
have to travel further away from the Earth to actually
be able to see it in the kind of context
of space, and so they sent the first images from
Artemis to last night, showing the Earth in space as
a full sphere, and yeah, it's just I mean, I
(05:05):
just imagined that the astronauts are just sitting there the
whole time, just steering out the window all day. Imagine
trying to go to sleep knowing that it was there,
Like it would just be, Yeah, one amazing thing. So
now I'm looking forward to watching it over the next
couple of days, like you are.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Yeap, very much, very good.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to News Talks' b from nine Am, saturday or follow
the podcast On iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
That'd be it's Kevin Milner's with us this morning. You
to Kevin, you a Jack.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
It's a plenty old thing. Actually, my daughter spent last
night and I presume she's not far from it now
the dockhart on mound over.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yeah? No, no, for each other. Yeah, yeah, we should
have actually just cut through to her. You're going to
talk to her from up there?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, oh how good. No, we we pushed a little
bit higher than the dock hut just for you know,
because we had it still had legs. And actually it's
amazing to me. You know, you think, oh, well, it's
not an off Broadway tramp by any stretch of the imagination.
But it's probably not. It's not the heavy, it's not
a great walk. And yet you know, on a Wednesday,
(00:57):
you get there and the hots ebbsltly pumping, and there
are kiwi's, there are people who are traveling from overseas.
It's great to see. I always am always delighted to
see him. People enjoy, you know, getting out there and
you know, savoring. So hopefully Tommy's had some good weather
like we did, Kevin. But you were captivated by another
excursion another this week, and it's fear to say it
(01:17):
is probably slightly more adventurous than mine.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Well, what a thrill it was on Thursday to watch
the launch of Artemis two, the US rocket taking four
astronauts on a journey around them around the Moon. There's
no other site like a launch. Really.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
The sheer power nearly four million kilograms of thrust, seventeen
percent more than the rockets that were on Apollo, what,
of course, provides the drama to the launch.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Four people at the tip of that rocket being blasted
into space. Not only did I fear for them, my
heart went out to the families of the astronauts presumably
watching live, though I think probably a few not. I'd
hate to watch any of my family being blasted into space.
Damn risky. And if I were offered the opportunity to
(02:09):
join the astronauts as an observer, I would decline. I
suspect Jack, you may differ in that regard or having
a baby made you more cautious.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Do you know I would love to do it. If
I didn't have a young family, I would leap at
the opportunity, but I don't think I could do it
something like Artemis and good faith, knowing that they were
all sitting there on planet Earth looking up at me,
holding their breath. I don't think I could put them
through it. Maybe when my son's a little bit older.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Because I wouldn't do it myself doesn't mean I didn't
sit back and watch that launch with huge respect for
the astronauts. I guess they see the Jenny as a
sort of freakish opportunity, really but an odd thing. I
was in full mouth, wide open or thirty seconds after
the launch, the commentator told us Humanity's next great voyage
(03:04):
has begun, and then added, Adamus two is three miles
high and traveling at twelve hundred miles an hour. My
son Jake looked at me and said, haven't you gone
faster than that? And I had a board Concord. Concord
flies at thirteen hundred and fifty miles an hour and
eleven miles high, But of course there's no comparison. I
(03:26):
was flying not up and down, but across, and I
sure as hell was not sitting atop a frightening flare
of combusted rocket propellant. Besides, adamis two was just warming up. Really,
I have gone faster than that, Jake, I said to him,
and I left it at that. Jacket's important for sons
(03:49):
to think their fathers are heroes.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
This is nothing, you said. This is rocket change, this
is call us an adventure.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Yeah, do you know what?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
You know what I thought? I as I watched it
blast off into space. In my gosh, it was spectacular,
wasn't it. You know what I thought?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I thought. I thought that that these are the actions
of an organization who bought their fuel before the Straits
of hor moves.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yes, yes, yes, it.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Really is something. It'll be amazing to see. I'm really
looking forward to some of the images that come back. Already,
they've released a couple of overnight of images overnight because
very rarely do we see the Earth from a distance
beyond the International Space Station. It's not very often these
days that spacecraft go beyond the International Space Station. And
(04:42):
the thing about the International Space Station is it's still
so close that you can't see the whole of the
Earth and frame, you know what I mean. So you
have to travel further away from the Earth to actually
be able to see it in the kind of context
of space, and so they sent the first images from
Artemis to last night, showing the Earth in space as
a full sphere, and yeah, it's just I mean, I
(05:05):
just imagined that the astronauts are just sitting there the
whole time, just steering out the window all day. Imagine
trying to go to sleep knowing that it was there,
Like it would just be, Yeah, one amazing thing. So
now I'm looking forward to watching it over the next
couple of days, like you are.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Yeap, very much, very good.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to News Talks' b from nine Am, saturday or follow
the podcast On iHeartRadio
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