 and your next stop, Outer Skulls. Welcome to beautiful Orlando, Florida. I'm here for 27 hours to watch the launch of tests. That's NASA's new Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. This is the first rocket launch I've ever witnessed. I've never been able to see a launch or something before. It's only my second time in Florida, so it's gonna be really exciting. It's gonna be an incredible day. I'm staying in an awesome place with a buddy, Ben Pope, who we'll see here in just a minute. If everything goes according to plan, we're gonna go get some breakfast. Then we're gonna go drive out to the Cape and go spend a bunch of the day at the Kennedy Space Center and then around three o'clock, I get my VIP access to the launch. So because I was one of the principal investigators, the PIs, of one of the very first test guest grants, I get VIP access. I get to be invited to the launch. The, my inner eight-year-old is like going absolutely bonkers right now. That's a good spaceman. Okay, we're here, we made it. We are at the Kennedy Space Center, this is Ben. Hey! Do you think rockets? Yeah, rockets are awesome and there's like a bunch of rockets over there and I'm just wildly excited about it. Oh my God, this is gonna be a great day. Yeah. I'm doing very well, because I mean, I'm at Kennedy Space Center and this is where they launch rockets into space and that's really cool. Say again, fellow. Hey. NSF fellow. Yeah. Science. Oh yeah, I understand somewhat of that. We're gonna get a gift shop and buy a bunch of NASA stuff. Yeah. I'm gonna come back with just two shirts and hoodies and jackets. Yeah. If you're on my Christmas list, we're getting lots of stuff this year. Yeah. This is all I'm buying, forever. This is my entire paycheck this far. All right, we made it in. We are inside the Kennedy Space Center in the fun tourist area, the rocket garden. Oh yeah, I don't know. You got my VIP ticket? I don't. We'll get it. We'll get you there. We'll figure it out. There, the astronaut training experience. That's us, right there. That sounds terrifying. That's what we should do. I don't know if I'd like to go into space. It sounds really scary and hard. Space shop. Yeah. I like coffee shops. And coffee shops. Yeah, my office. We should put a coffee shop in space. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I'd happily be the first barista in space. What? I'm buying so many t-shirts that's been up here. Yeah, this is going to be really cool. I have never seen a space shuttle. I've never seen an orbiter. Look. Look at this thing. All right, Ben. Yeah? Let's go to space. Oh man, I'm so keen to go to space. At least it's something that's been in space, like a space shuttle. It looks really cool and grungy the way that it's like. You really see that it's got all these scars on it. I think it's really been out of space, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's got beat up. It's been assembled by people. I love how little the windows are. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's it. I mean, you were complaining about visibility in the car this morning. This is like, you know. Well, this positively ranks as one of the coolest things I've ever seen. And I'd be lying if I said it did not bring a tear to my eye when those doors opened. It's an extremely dramatic moment. And we have re-entered back to Earth, terra firma. How cool is that? Just chilling with my BFF, Atlantis. Unbelievable. I don't know if it makes for good television, watching somebody just say, wow, and have all these childhood memories come flying to their head. But it's very emotional. This exhibit is awesome. Yeah, so I did that for science, actually. It was just an experiment in whether I could feel like a kid again. I've seen two. I've seen Enterprise. I've seen Atlantis. All right, we just got out of the Atlantis exhibit. It was spectacular. It was moving. There was an amazing memorial section commemorating the two shuttles that were destroyed. It was incredibly moving. Obviously, I'm not going to shoot any of that or including any of that, but it was very, very, very emotionally moving. And now we're going to get a quick bite. And then in about an hour, we're getting on the bus to go for the VIP tour. We're hearing sad news. The launch is scrubbed. We do not like scrubbed at all. I've been here for two other launches. Went on time. This one, no dive. This is your first scrub? Yes, this is my first scrub. Much sadness. You said sadness? I'm the bearer of this bad news? Yes, Jim, come on. Yeah, that dude just got scrubbed. They were on the bus. Yeah, we were on the bus and they told us. And it just got scrubbed. Oh, man. Well, the unfortunate news is no launch today. And it's scrubbed for probably two days. It sounds like there's problems with the GNC systems, the guidance, navigation, and control. So this is the system to make sure the rocket goes up and not down. I was a little disappointing. So now the big debate is, do I stick around for two more days? The launch is slated to go no earlier than Wednesday. Got to look at some numbers, talk to my family. The margin of error is so slim that they can't take risks. So we get it. So it's disappointing. I don't know. It's been a good day. We've had a good time. When your rocket doesn't launch, you're left with only one option, just eat ice cream.