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  • 50 years ago we pioneered the path to the moon.

  • The trail we blazed cut through the fictions of science and showed us all what was possible.

  • Today our calling to explore is even greater.

  • To go farther, we must be able to sustain missions of greater distance and duration.

  • We must use the resources we find at our destinations.

  • We must overcome radiation, isolation, gravity, and extreme environments like never before.

  • These are the challenges we face to push the bounds of humanity.

  • We're going to the moon to stay, by 2024.

  • And this is how.

  • This all starts with the ability to get larger, heavier payloads off planet and beyond Earth's gravity.

  • For this, we designed an entirely new rocket.

  • The Space Launch System.

  • SLS will be the most powerful rocket ever developed.

  • - And with components and production... - And more in testing,...

  • This system is capable of being the catalyst for deep space missions.

  • We need a capsule that can support humans from launch, through deep space, and return safely back to earth.

  • For this, we've built Orion.

  • This is NASA's next generation human space capsule.

  • Using data from lunar orbiters that continue to reveal the moon's hazards and resources, we're currently developing an entirely new approach to landing and operating on the moon.

  • Using our commercial partners to deliver science instruments and robotics to the surface, we are paving the way for human missions in 2024.

  • Our charge is to go quickly and to stay.

  • To press our collective efforts forward with a fervor that will see us return to the moon in a manner that is wholly different than 50 years ago.

  • We want lunar landers that are reusable that can land anywhere on the lunar surface.

  • The simplest way to do so is to give them a platform, in orbit, around the moon from which to transition.

  • An orbiting platform to host deep space experiments and be a way-point for human capsules.

  • We call this lunar outpost Gateway.

  • The beauty of the Gateway is that it can be moved between orbits.

  • It will balance between the earth and moon's gravity...

  • In a position that is ideal for launching even deeper space missions.

  • In 2009, we learned the moon contains millions of tons of water ice.

  • This ice could be extracted and purified for water and be separated into oxygen for breathing or hydrogen for rocket fuel.

  • The moon is quite uniquely suited to prepare us and propel us to Mars and beyond.

  • This is what we're building.

  • This is what we're training for.

  • This we can replicate throughout the solar system.

  • This is the next chapter of human space exploration.

  • Humans are the most fragile element of this entire endeavor, and yet we go for humanity.

  • They go to the moon and on to Mars to seek knowledge and understanding and to share it with all.

  • We go knowing our efforts will create opportunities that cannot be foreseen.

  • We go because we are destined to explore and see it with our own eyes.

  • We turn towards the moon now, not as a conclusion but as preparation.

  • As a checkpoint toward all that lies beyond.

  • Our greatest adventures remain ahead of us.

  • We are going.

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50 years ago we pioneered the path to the moon.

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