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watching Apollo footage of astronauts

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doing geology on the surface of the Moon

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is a really great way to think about

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preparing for Artemis for putting people

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on the lunar surface once again

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we learn a lot in how they did science

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operations on the Moon and what it's

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like to work on the moon you see them

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doing geology you see them taking Rock

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samples putting in a drive tube to take

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a core sample you see them bouncing

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along the surface of the Moon on the

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lunar rover that they used in Apollo 15

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through 17. so it's a great way to help

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Drive technology development for the

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next generation of spacesuits and

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geology sampling tools there's these

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facilities that help us train like we

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are on the lunar surface you know these

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16g offload systems or putting people in

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the Aquatic environment are great ways

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to train the mobility part right like

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what can you do and how different does

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it feel to be in 16g and do these tasks

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we've been training astronauts in

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geology and geoscience for decades now

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the Apollo Astronauts had literally

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hundreds of hours of training in geology

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before they flew to the moon it's often

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said that the Apollo Astronauts had the

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equivalent of a master's degree in

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geology by the time they flew the

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in the intervening decades since Apollo

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we've been training astronauts who fly

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to the International Space Station

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because when they're on the ISS they

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spend time observing the Earth looking

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out the window taking pictures of what

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they see on the Earth's surface now that

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we're looking at putting astronauts on

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the surface of the Moon we also take

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them into the field we take them to

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field sites here on Earth that resemble

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field sites that we expect them to see

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on the moon that's the reason why we

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take them out into places that are

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unique like volcanic Landscapes or

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places that are analogous to the lunar

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surface to train them on the scale and

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Fidelity of science that you just can't

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recreate in these facilities and so by

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combining this classroom and field

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training we're able to prep them for

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fundamentals of geology the major

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driving lunar science questions that we

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have that we hope to address with the

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Artemis program and teaching them how to

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do field work in relevant analog

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environments for just science aspects of

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developing new spacesuits can it get you

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to where you need to go and then once

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you get there can you do the cool

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science that you need to do and so

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that's can you move effectively and

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efficiently in the suit to be able to

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collect the samples or use the tools or

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the instruments for the visibility it's

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like can you make the necessary

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observations that you need to or does

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the suit have the lights on it that it

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needs to to illuminate the surface and

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make the observations you need to

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the lunar South Pole holds tremendous

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resources that are going to allow us to

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continue to explore this is this is a

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place that we've never been before

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there's so much to be learned from

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getting boots on the ground and

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exploring a unique place that challenges

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us so that humans and also helps us

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develop technologies that make our

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everyday life that much better we think

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there might be volatiles present at the

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South Pole by using these volatiles

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we'll be able to do things like create

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drinking water create rocket fueled

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launch astronauts back to Earth and so

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by harnessing the power of the land

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we'll be able to help astronauts

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establish that long-term sustainable

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presence

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[Music]

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nature to explore pushing our boundaries

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and exploring our universes I think just

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one of those things that's just stuck in

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our human nature and that we need to do

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it in order to understand the world

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around us including our Earth and our