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We have a very diverse, very qualified
astronaut corps.

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Um, and it just so happens that Apollo had
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and Apollo's twin sister was named
Artemis.

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And Artemis happens to be the goddess of
the moon.

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So 50 years after Apollo, we have a new
program named after

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Apollo's twin sister.

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And in this new program, a sustainable
return to the moon, for

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the first time in human history, we're
gonna have the opportunity to

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send not just men to the moon, but also
women to the

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moon.

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We are living out the legacy of Apollo,
but the Artemis program

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is very different, and it's a program
whose time has come.

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We're looking at reusing as much of the
architecture as possible.

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That's why we're building the Gateway.

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It's a reusable command and service
module.

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And what we'd like to have is reusable
landers that go back

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and forth from the Gateway to the surface
of the moon.

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So what we're doing is we're going to
Mars, and the moon

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is the way to get to Mars.

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So there's a number of advantages to using
the moon to get

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to Mars.

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Chief among the advantages is that we can
learn how to live

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and work on another world, a world that's
not our own, utilizing

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the resources of that world.

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There are opportunities to have almost
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pole of the moon, which means that that's
power.

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It's electricity.

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Also on the south pole of the moon is
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resides in mass volumes.

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Water ice, of course, is life support.

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It's water to drink, it's air to breathe,
but it's also rocket

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fuel.

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Hydrogen and oxygen is the same rocket
fuel that powered the space

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shuttles, same rocket fuel that powered
the Saturn rockets.

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It's the same rocket fuel that will power,
uh, the Space Launch

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System, which is gonna be the largest,
most powerful rocket ever

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launched, and it's gonna be the rocket
that takes our astronauts back

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to the moon, in fact, the south pole of
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So the moon is the proving ground.

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It's not just about how to get there, but
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how do you live and work using the
resources of another world?

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And then of course, taking all of that
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that capability to Mars.

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That's the goal.

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This is not NASA doing this.

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This is the United States of America doing
this, this program, the

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Artemis program, and there are companies
all across our country that have

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a part in it, and there is excitement in
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those companies.

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And these aren't, uh, you know, these are,
are kids just out

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of college.

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These are senior managers.

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Everybody is excited about this.

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Everybody is talking about this.

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So there is kind of this wave of
excitement being generated just

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by saying we're going back to the moon.

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It's gonna benefit humanity in almost
every way.

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It'll be the small nuances from improved
radars, improved systems that

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are gonna be used on, uh, autonomous cars.

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Those are the things we need to land on
the moon.

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So I, say humanity right now is in a
transition.

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Cars are starting to drive themselves.

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Airplanes are starting to fly themselves.

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So now think this Artemis program will
take us that next step

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in proving out these systems.

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Our long-term desire is to be sustained on
the moon, learn how

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to operate on a, on a different celestial
body, and then head

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on to Mars and do the research there that
we wanna do.

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Uh, Apollo for sure, when you look back at
that program, the

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amount that we spent, uh, has been
returned many, many times over.

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And so when you're investing in people,
which we're doing, and when

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you're investing in technology, which
we're doing, you definitely are

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building infrastructure in our country,
you're solving problems, and the

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other thing you're doing is you're
motivating an entire generation of

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Americans.

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I was not alive during the Apollo program.

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That program motivated my entire life.

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There are millions of people in our
country that are like that,

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and when you go out and do something big
and bold and,

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uh, and solve new challenges, you're
definitely gonna moto- motivate the

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next generation.

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So we're gonna establish going back there
on a regular basis, and

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then we'll end up sending, setting up, um,
sort of a platform

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called Gateway.

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And we would launch to the Gateway and
from Gateway land on

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the surface of the moon.

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History is replete with

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a spark of innovation in one area of
science sometimes becomes

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revolutionary,

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not only in that field of science, but
maybe in a completely

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different field of science.

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And it takes this spark of creativity,
people facing challenges like, "We

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don't know how to do that, so let's figure
it out." And

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in the process of doing that, we stretch,
uh, the boundaries of

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what we know in technology.

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And by doing that, we create a better life
here on Earth.