Ainsley, this is a Fox news Ainsley. This is a Fox news alert. We are just moments away from liftoff PETE. A live look right now in Cape Canaveral, where Nsas Rover Brian, take the play by play: go out to Phil Keating live at the Kennedy Space Center with the mission to the Red Planet, get there by February right now, its a beautiful July day, its a perfect weather day. No issues with that at all. Everything is looking for a go in just about thirty seconds from now Mars, two thousand and twenty. It is the fifth latest and greatest Mars. Rover ever sent to the Red Planet, two dollars and fifty cents billion admission big picture. It lays the groundwork for getting astronauts onto the red soil and planting that, U Dot S flag, looking live at the powerful atlas rocket. The rover is on top and packing all kinds of never before tricks sent to Mars from earth. The rover itself is a little bigger than a go cart, but packing serious scientific heat, its going to have two really cool cameras and a microphone,

and here goes blastoff any moment now supposed to go right now, but it has not. So let me continue here there. It goes take a look at that its going to be taking up a microphone. So for the first time ever, you will be actually able to hear what its like to be on the Red Planet, its going to land on the inaudible took four previous flights Ainsley its so loud. We can barely hear Phil Brian, I dont know if you can hear us whats going to be extraordinary about this, is we are going to be joined by the UAE and China going to be putting probes there? We should get there first and its the first mission that is explicitly looking for life present or past Ainsley. They are going to excavate samples and leave them on Mars, so that one day when we

return, we can bring those samples back to earth and study them and learn more about Mars, possibly life on Mars, Brian PETE. You have to know whether can you sustain life there if the goal is eventually to bring Americans human beings there, and you know the previous generation watched the space races with the Soviets, understanding the technological, but also military implications of that showdown. Here we are with the communist Chinese, as you pointed out Brian effectively, stealing and replicating our design trying to beat us there. You know it will be who can plant their flag first, we may be years away from that. Steps like this is a big one. Ainsley did you see the american flag on the side of this Mars Rover? It was a NASA symbol. Then there was the american flag. I saw and then the ATLAS symbol its nice to see an american flag and NASA with this launch today, Brian so Phil, I dont know if you can hear us now.

It sounded so loud there on liftoff right, thats, the best part about covering all these space rocket launches from NASA and Spacex and Boeing, so thunderous huge percussion as it gets up into the sky. I couldnt hear it was so loud whether you guys mentioned the fact that this is taking up for the very first time ever, a small helicopter, its kind of like a drone, its pour pounds, but its got five planned flights. Never before has a rotary air crafted flown on another planet, its going to basically scout out and look for places to land and also look for new discoveries on the red planet. Seven month mission, Brian seeing video on the split screen, they say it will be the first time we will have ears there. We will be able to hear whats going on so you know. Maybe if we do find life, we will find out if any music is playing laughter. Also, very importantly, there is a scientific instrument on

board called the moxie and its going to convert carbon dioxide, which is the majority of the atmosphere on Mars into oxygen. If everything goes well, that will be some good evidence for having some life sustainability for future astronauts in the 2030s Brian. The word is they want to let Spacex and private industry to go to the moon and let NASA focus on going to Mars, not just get there and arrive with food find a way to grow their own food and not depend on. I know it sounds strange, not depend on earth to live. This would be an important step. I kind of like that. The Chinese are doing this. They are forcing us to compete again because no one has been forcing us to do that and right before the Chinese launched the week before the United Arab Emirates launched from a launch pad in Japan. That is the first arab country to ever, get into the space race, Ainsley, Phil, sorry PETE, so Phil im reading that its

going to take seven months, they know its going to land on February 18th, two thousand and twenty one isnt that interesting. The reason everybody is launching right now in the two weeks mars and earth are, at their closest point, every twenty six months. Nows the time if you dont launch around right now, you have to wait another two years, basically because of time and Fuel PETE Phil to Ainsleys point. If its a seven month trip you cant bring enough oxygen and enough water and food you have got to be able to sustain it. There is that is that the overall effort of this find water create oxygen, as you pointed out, and so ultimately, you can take those next steps exactly right and also the likely plan, the likely scenario for not only when we go to Mars, which is planned for two thousand and twenty four I mean the moon and then eventually to

Mars, is to preposition a bunch of supply craft that would land first before these humans get there. So they have water and food and supplies, and then eventually, if they are going to actually live there like Matt Day Monday in the movies, they will have to have a greenhouse and grow lots of produce Brian. They always consult with space agencies to see the patrol car particular cattle. When you look at those movies, dont look at them as necessarily pure fiction. The rover has twenty three cram was as well there and it mission is going to be a mission is extremely important. I get the sense bill. You know this because you live it. I think the american people are much more zonsd in now they were pumped up by Spacex. They are getting intrigued again by this journey. We got bored with it, for while I dont sense that anymore, there is a bounce in the step of those working at Cape Canaveral dont, you sense it. I think you are absolutely right. Well felt it here two months ago, when the two astronauts blasted off Sunday, they are supposed to

splash down for the first time ever off the coast of Florida. We will be here, PETE, take as big mission to motivate people and Mars. Is that big one Ainsley Mars, Roman God of WAR red Planet.