NASA

On Monday NASA named four astronauts who will fly around the moon late next year, including the first woman and the first African American assigned to a lunar mission.

"Houston, we've had a problem." Spoken by Astronaut Jim Lovell in real life, it was communicated to Col. Jack Lousma. Lousma, a native of Grand Rapids who grew up in Ann Arbor, was the CAPCOM recipient of the communication from space. CAPCOM is the acronym for Capsule Communicator.

New technology collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover can now allow us to hear what we would sound like on Mars.

According to NASA's description, this is a hi-resolution images from outer space of Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair. You can see the sediments swirl in Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair. "The photograph taken from Landsat 9 image of both Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, from Oct. 31, 2021. The Great Lakes serve as sources of freshwater, recreational activity, transport, and habitat for the upper-midwestern US, and water quality remains a high priority."

There might just be a couple over Michigan but that's nothing compared to the THOUSANDS covering the entire planet. We've got charts, graphs, numbers, and virtual models that will totally put your mind at ease. Totally. Trust us.

Look to the eastern sky Saturday night.

This one is for you space junky fans.

Currently NASA is watching an asteroid that could be as large as the Empire State Building.

Also - Michigan's astronaut, Christina Koch, reading children's books.

Encounter with cave-dwelling Martians? Oh, yeah - I've seen that movie.