1 00:00:02,540 --> 00:00:07,060 [speaker_0] We have a very diverse, very qualified astronaut corps. 2 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:11,860 [speaker_0] Um, and it just so happens that Apollo had a twin sister, 3 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:15,200 [speaker_0] and Apollo's twin sister was named Artemis. 4 00:00:15,700 --> 00:00:18,640 [speaker_0] And Artemis happens to be the goddess of the moon. 5 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:28,200 [speaker_0] So 50 years after Apollo, we have a new program named after 6 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:29,500 [speaker_0] Apollo's twin sister. 7 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:33,260 [speaker_0] And in this new program, a sustainable return to the moon, for 8 00:00:33,300 --> 00:00:36,580 [speaker_0] the first time in human history, we're gonna have the opportunity to 9 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:39,380 [speaker_0] send not just men to the moon, but also women to the 10 00:00:39,420 --> 00:00:39,640 [speaker_0] moon. 11 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:48,720 [speaker_0] We are living out the legacy of Apollo, but the Artemis program 12 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:51,880 [speaker_0] is very different, and it's a program whose time has come. 13 00:00:57,180 --> 00:01:01,640 [speaker_0] We're looking at reusing as much of the architecture as possible. 14 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:03,560 [speaker_0] That's why we're building the Gateway. 15 00:01:03,980 --> 00:01:06,220 [speaker_0] It's a reusable command and service module. 16 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:09,459 [speaker_0] And what we'd like to have is reusable landers that go back 17 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:11,780 [speaker_0] and forth from the Gateway to the surface of the moon. 18 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:20,140 [speaker_0] So what we're doing is we're going to Mars, and the moon 19 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:21,480 [speaker_0] is the way to get to Mars. 20 00:01:21,700 --> 00:01:24,580 [speaker_0] So there's a number of advantages to using the moon to get 21 00:01:24,620 --> 00:01:25,060 [speaker_0] to Mars. 22 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:28,819 [speaker_0] Chief among the advantages is that we can learn how to live 23 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:33,080 [speaker_0] and work on another world, a world that's not our own, utilizing 24 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:34,520 [speaker_0] the resources of that world. 25 00:01:39,723 --> 00:01:43,623 [speaker_0] There are opportunities to have almost permanent sunlight on the South 26 00:01:43,683 --> 00:01:45,943 [speaker_0] Pole of the Moon, which means that that's power. 27 00:01:46,343 --> 00:01:47,163 [speaker_0] It's electricity. 28 00:01:47,743 --> 00:01:50,903 [speaker_0] Also on the South Pole of the Moon is where water ice 29 00:01:50,963 --> 00:01:52,583 [speaker_0] resides in mass volumes. 30 00:01:57,903 --> 00:01:59,823 [speaker_0] Water ice, of course, is life support. 31 00:02:00,283 --> 00:02:03,703 [speaker_0] It's water to drink, it's air to breathe, but it's also rocket 32 00:02:03,783 --> 00:02:03,983 [speaker_0] fuel. 33 00:02:04,103 --> 00:02:07,643 [speaker_0] Hydrogen and oxygen is the same rocket fuel that powered the space 34 00:02:07,683 --> 00:02:10,663 [speaker_0] shuttles, same rocket fuel that powered the Saturn rockets. 35 00:02:11,063 --> 00:02:14,043 [speaker_0] It's the same rocket fuel that will power, uh, the space launch 36 00:02:14,103 --> 00:02:17,863 [speaker_0] system, which is gonna be the largest, most powerful rocket ever 37 00:02:17,943 --> 00:02:21,403 [speaker_0] launched, and it's gonna be the rocket that takes our astronauts back 38 00:02:21,443 --> 00:02:21,863 [speaker_0] to the Moon. 39 00:02:21,903 --> 00:02:23,683 [speaker_0] In fact, the South Pole of the Moon. 40 00:02:29,303 --> 00:02:30,723 [speaker_0] So the Moon is the proving ground. 41 00:02:31,002 --> 00:02:33,983 [speaker_0] It's not just about how to get there, but once you're there, 42 00:02:34,303 --> 00:02:38,063 [speaker_0] how do you live and work using the resources of another world? 43 00:02:38,523 --> 00:02:41,002 [speaker_0] And then of course, taking all of that technology and all of 44 00:02:41,043 --> 00:02:42,843 [speaker_0] that capability to Mars. 45 00:02:43,023 --> 00:02:43,643 [speaker_0] That's the goal. 46 00:03:00,931 --> 00:03:02,352 [speaker_0] This is not NASA doing this. 47 00:03:02,492 --> 00:03:05,192 [speaker_0] This is the United States of America doing this, this program, the 48 00:03:05,232 --> 00:03:09,252 [speaker_0] Artemis program, and there are companies all across our country that have 49 00:03:09,332 --> 00:03:11,492 [speaker_0] a part in it, and there is excitement in every one of 50 00:03:11,512 --> 00:03:12,132 [speaker_0] those companies. 51 00:03:12,452 --> 00:03:15,332 [speaker_0] And these aren't, uh, you know, these are, are kids just out 52 00:03:15,352 --> 00:03:17,232 [speaker_0] of college, these are senior managers. 53 00:03:17,532 --> 00:03:18,872 [speaker_0] Everybody is excited about this. 54 00:03:19,052 --> 00:03:20,172 [speaker_0] Everybody is talking about this. 55 00:03:20,212 --> 00:03:23,292 [speaker_0] So there is kind of this wave of excitement being generated just 56 00:03:23,332 --> 00:03:24,812 [speaker_0] by saying, "We're going back to the Moon." 57 00:03:30,272 --> 00:03:32,392 [speaker_0] It's gonna benefit humanity in almost every way. 58 00:03:32,532 --> 00:03:37,172 [speaker_0] It'll be the small nuances from improved radars, improved systems that 59 00:03:37,192 --> 00:03:39,392 [speaker_0] are gonna be used on, uh, autonomous cars. 60 00:03:39,432 --> 00:03:41,292 [speaker_0] Those are the things we need to land on the Moon. 61 00:03:41,392 --> 00:03:44,312 [speaker_0] So I, I say humanity right now is in a transition. 62 00:03:44,632 --> 00:03:46,312 [speaker_0] Cars are starting to drive themselves. 63 00:03:46,412 --> 00:03:48,132 [speaker_0] Airplanes are starting to fly themselves. 64 00:03:48,472 --> 00:03:51,132 [speaker_0] So now I think this Artemis program will take us that next 65 00:03:51,212 --> 00:03:52,872 [speaker_0] step in proving out these systems. 66 00:03:58,272 --> 00:04:01,072 [speaker_0] Our long-term desire is to be sustained on the Moon, learn how 67 00:04:01,112 --> 00:04:03,852 [speaker_0] to operate on a, on a different celestial body, and then head 68 00:04:03,912 --> 00:04:05,772 [speaker_0] on to Mars and do the research there that we want to 69 00:04:05,812 --> 00:04:05,972 [speaker_0] do. 70 00:04:11,292 --> 00:04:14,032 [speaker_0] Uh, Apollo, for sure, when you look back at that program, the 71 00:04:14,092 --> 00:04:18,112 [speaker_0] amount that we spent, uh, has been returned many, many times over. 72 00:04:18,212 --> 00:04:20,732 [speaker_0] And so when you're investing in people, which we're doing, and when 73 00:04:20,752 --> 00:04:23,851 [speaker_0] you're investing in technology, which we're doing, you definitely are 74 00:04:23,872 --> 00:04:26,312 [speaker_0] building infrastructure in our country, you're solving problems, and the 75 00:04:26,372 --> 00:04:29,872 [speaker_0] other thing you're doing is you're motivating an entire generation of 76 00:04:29,912 --> 00:04:30,332 [speaker_0] Americans. 77 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:37,339 [speaker_0] I was not alive during the Apollo program. 78 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:39,540 [speaker_0] That program motivated my entire life. 79 00:04:39,700 --> 00:04:41,880 [speaker_0] There are millions of people in our country that are like that, 80 00:04:42,220 --> 00:04:45,240 [speaker_0] and when you go out and do something big and bold and, 81 00:04:45,300 --> 00:04:48,320 [speaker_0] uh, and solve new challenges, you're definitely gonna moto- motivate the 82 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:48,960 [speaker_0] next generation. 83 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:08,420 [speaker_1] So we're gonna establish going back there on a regular basis, and 84 00:05:08,460 --> 00:05:11,680 [speaker_1] then we'll end up sending, setting up, um, sort of a platform 85 00:05:11,779 --> 00:05:15,700 [speaker_1] called Gateway, and we would launch to the Gateway, and from Gateway 86 00:05:16,140 --> 00:05:17,440 [speaker_1] land on the surface of the Moon. 87 00:05:33,660 --> 00:05:35,140 [speaker_0] History is replete with 88 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:41,400 [speaker_0] a spark of innovation in one area of science sometimes becomes 89 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:42,540 [speaker_0] revolutionary, 90 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:46,200 [speaker_0] not only in that field of science, but maybe in a completely 91 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:47,460 [speaker_0] different field of science. 92 00:05:52,620 --> 00:05:58,200 [speaker_0] And it takes this spark of creativity, people facing challenges like, "We 93 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:00,940 [speaker_0] don't know how to do that, so let's figure it out." And 94 00:06:00,980 --> 00:06:04,600 [speaker_0] in the process of doing that, we stretch, uh, the boundaries of 95 00:06:04,660 --> 00:06:08,900 [speaker_0] what we know in technology, and by doing that, we create a 96 00:06:08,940 --> 00:06:10,200 [speaker_0] better life here on Earth.