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For NASA's upcoming Artemis missions, we're going\h
to have a long-term sustained presence on the\hMoon.

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In order to do that, we're going to need\h
to access the water. The reason we're focused\h\h

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on excavating and hauling and using the water\h
that can be found on the Moon is because if we\h\h

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can use the local resources then we won't have\h
to ship tons and tons of those resources all\h\h

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the way from Earth to the Moon. NASA's Break the\h
Ice Lunar Challenge is so groundbreaking, pun\hintended,

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because it's going to advance\h
technologies for digging and excavating\h\h

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icy regolith and for transporting those materials\h
in order to support our long-term human sustained\hmissions.

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And the lunar environment that these\h
robots need to operate in is very extreme.\h\h

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At the lunar South Pole it's very dark, it's very cold\h
and it's a complete and total vacuum.

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So in Phase 2, Level 1 of this challenge, what we've asked\hteams to do is to design a robot on paper and to\h\h

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design a system for excavating icy regolith and\h
transporting that icy regolith on the surface of\hthe Moon.

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We've been really impressed with all the\h
ideas that we've received in Phase 2, Level 1.

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The teams have really come up with some innovative\h
and really out-of-the-box ideas. We are really\h\h

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hopeful that some of the winners of this challenge\h
will go on some day to fly their robots all the way\h\h

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to the surface of the Moon and we think that\h
some of the technologies that are invented in\h\h

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this challenge could also be used here on Earth.\h
The winners of Level 1 are going to move on\h\h

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to Level 2 where they will actually build the\h
robots that they've designed and then they will\h\h

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test them in simulated lunar conditions and they\h
will test them for long durations.

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I am really excited to announce the winners of NASA's Break\h
the Ice Lunar Challenge Phase 2, Level 1.

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Winning Teams. Aurora Robotics, Fairbanks, Alaska. Cislune Excavators, Alhambra, California. Ice Busters, Olathe, Kansas. Ice Diggers, Golden, Colorado. Lunar Wombats, Seattle, Washington.

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Moog Inc., Elma, New York. Moon Industry, Inc., Netherlands. MTU-PSTDL (Planetary Surface Technology Development Lab), Houghton, Michigan. OffWorld Robotic Mining Team, Pasadena, California. Redwire Space, Jacksonville, Florida.

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Space Trajectory, Brookings, South Dakota. Starpath, San Francisco, California. Team Chandra, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. Team xTrac Planetoid Mines, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Terra Engineering, Gardena, California.

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Congratulations to all of the Break the Ice\h
Lunar Challenge Phase 2, Level 1 winners.\h\h

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We look forward to seeing your technologies\h
being used on missions to the Moon and beyond.