Welcome back everyone. Time for our good to know
headlines yesterday, NASA announced the astronauts will fly around
the moon next year. It's the first moon crew
in 50 years and it includes the first woman and
the first African American assigned to a lunar mission.
The four astronauts are pilot Victor Glover Commander Reid Wiseman
mission specialist Christina Hammock Coke and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen
NASA says the Artemis three mission will not land or
even go into lunar orbit, but rather fly around
the moon and head straight back to earth. Now
, if this moon fly by goes, well,
NASA aims to put two people back on the moon
by 2025. That'd be the first time since 1972
. Very exciting, but I still can't understand why
we haven't been able to go back to the moon
after so many decades, but still very exciting.
Especially knowing that there's someone of color and a woman
on on this uh crew. Yeah, Hannah.
And this is actually paving the way for landing on
the moon. Once again, the South pole of
the moon mission coming up. That'll be the next
installment after that. Um I do wanna point out
um you know, Hammock Coke, the woman astronaut
on board. She was one half of the first
ever all female spacewalk back in 2019. I remember
that she was in the space station for the longest
stint ever by a woman which was about 328 days
. This just really makes me excited because I as
a little girl wanted to be an astronaut, ended
up not pursuing stub. Clearly, it's not too
late cloe, it's not too late. It just
makes me really happy that other little girls can see
this because we didn't have that growing up as a
woman or a person of color. So you're right
. I can just open so many doors for so
many people. Yeah. Also interesting relationship between the
US and Canada happening here with this first Canadian orbit
. So exciting stuff here. All right, let's
talk about Walmart. It's getting a digital makeover starting
this week. Customers who use the app or websites
will notice some differences. Photos will be bigger and
glossier and there will be social media inspired content.
Well, the company says the makeover is to make
shopping more engaging. The design has drawn some comparisons
to Amazon, one of Walmart's biggest competitors and the
new looks come as consumers are slowing down when it
comes to purchasing things like clothing and electronics. So
, Hannah, do you think you'll be more likely
to purchase on Walmart dot com and their app?
If it looks a little bit more like a social
media feed. I've said this before. I love
Walmart. I have no qualms about Walmart and I
, and you and I covered this during the pan
, Walmart was one of those big box retailers that
did well, those, you know, those lower
cost uh, places or shopping places do a lot
better. I think I would shop at Walmart regardless
, but I do think this is brilliant for them
, especially if they're competing with Amazon and to get
those younger influencers, maybe more involved in Walmart as
opposed to just Amazon and tiktok. Absolutely. I
think personally that Walmart does not have the most user
friendly website I found in competing with Amazon and introducing
a target place setting. Yeah. Yeah, it's
, it's hard to figure out what's from Amazon,
what's from a third party seller. So I actually
do think a digital revamp will go far for them
. So I'm really interested to see uh what it
ends up looking like. And if it really does
have the effect of boosting sales because I've heard commentary
from experts and my fellow shoppers like that Walmart is
not the best experience. Are you, are you
, do you shop at Walmart? I do occasionally
. Not for quite some time though because the online
, it's just not my bad. Yeah, absolutely
. I will say that remember during the pandemic,
there was all these um supply chain shortages. Walmart
was one of the few that was still delivering on
time. And I never forgot that I just thought
they were really good with that. But this is
another step towards, uh, the future for Walmart --> .