 Did anyone find that video of the moon that supposedly forced the government to shut down YouTube? No? Okay, must have been an elaborate hoax then. Moving on. Is it really just a coincidence that NASA have announced that they are to call for Lunar Surface Instrument and Technology Payloads that will fly to the moon on commercial lunar landers as early as next year or 2020? The agency is working with US industry and international partners to expand human exploration from the moon to Mars. It all starts with robotic missions on the lunar surface as well as a gateway for astronauts in space orbiting the moon. Now, some of you may be surprised to learn that we are not rocket scientists, at least me, Buzz Weaver. Yes, it is true, but we do have a certain degree of common sense about us and we suspect that all the activity and interest surrounding space and the moon at the moment is building up to something huge. Throughout history, there has been activity reported coming from the moon. We even thought there were volcanoes on the dark side that were spewing debris across the moon. For hundreds of years, we explained this activity as an active volcanic moon. It wasn't until we landed on the moon that we started suggesting there was something extraterrestrial up there and that it wasn't volcanoes. This came from eyewitness accounts of the astronauts and has led to the widespread theories we have today, like moon bases and alien watchers, some even suggesting that we were told not to come back by these beings. The United States has not soft landed on the moon since Apollo 17 and 1972. The moon has scientific value and the potential to yield resources such as water and oxygen and relatively close proximity to Earth to help sustain deep space exploration. It makes you wonder about the timing of this announcement in relation to recent events. Also, you may or may not be aware that there is another close approach of an asteroid. The giant space rock dubbed Asteroid 2006 TS-7 will make a close Earth approach on Monday, October 29. Based on NASA's calculation, the asteroid will come close to Earth around 12.59 p.m. UK time. Astronomers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California estimate that TS-7 measures somewhere between 492 feet and 1115.5 feet in diameter. Asteroid TS-7 will make a so-called Earth close approach, but the space rock will still be millions of miles from Earth even at its closest. On October 29th, the asteroid will come within 0.01930 astronomical units or 1.79 million miles from Earth. One astronomical unit is the distance between the Earth and the Sun and is used by astronomers as a reference point when calculating distance in space. In other words, Asteroid TS-7 will only come as close as 7.51 times the distance from the Earth to the Moon. The distance in question are still close enough for NASA and other space agencies to pay attention to the asteroid's trajectory. Because of this, NASA labeled the asteroid a near-Earth object or asteroid with an orbit closely approaching that of Earth's. Once the asteroid safely passes the planet this month, the asteroid will swing around the Sun and return for another close Earth approach on October 10th, 2019. We also have Asteroid TB-145 flying past on November 11th. The giant space rock last made an approach on the night of October 31st, 2015. You may remember our video on that back in the day, at the time the Skull Asteroid safely passed the Earth from a distance of more than 300,000 miles, nearly as close as the Moon. As a result of the asteroid's incredibly bizarre skull-like features and the date of its arrival, scientists dubbed the space rock the Halloween asteroid and a death comet. NASA has dubbed asteroid TB-145 the Great Pumpkin. The Skull Asteroid was first discovered by astronomers at the University of Hawaii in Haleakala, Maui, on October 10th, 2015. But the death comet's uncanny resemblance to a human skull was not revealed until it was scanned by the Autosibial Observatory in Puerto Rico. Radar images of the barreling space rock revealed what appeared to be three deep holes on one side of the asteroid, reminiscent of two eye sockets and a nasal cavity. This time around, the Skull Asteroid will pass the Earth at a much farther distance than three years ago. The asteroid will fly by from about 25 million miles, which is more than 100 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon. The distance might not be ideal for amateur astronomers hoping to catch a glimpse of it, but it could still offer valuable insight into the secret world of asteroids for astronomers with powerful telescope equipment. Thomas Muller, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute, said the Skull Asteroid will make a much closer approach near Halloween in 2088. The next slightly more exciting encounter will be around Halloween's Day in the year 2088 when the object approaches Earth to a distance of about 20 lunar distances. The encounter on Halloween's Day 2015 was the closest approach of an object of that size since 2006. And the next known similar event is the passage of 137108 on August 7, 2027. Later, 99942 Apophis will follow on April 13, 2029 with an Earth passage at approximately 0.1 lunar distances and even closer fly by or possible collision in 2036. Asteroid Apophis is still the one we should be concerned about, the potential world ender or extinction level event. Anywho, let us know below what you guys are thinking. As always, thank you for watching. This is the antenna cover from the Zvezda service module. Again, what we are looking at is the antenna cover from the Zvezda service module. This was identified by the Russian flight controllers earlier this morning.