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What the new policy directive does is,  it
places a greater emphasis on the Moon as

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the next step beyond low-earth orbit.  I
think it's time for us to move out and  get

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flying again. Engage our partners, engage
our international partners and look at

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the ways that we can do things
differently and still get these missions

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done. We've got a lot of people that want
to help us here.

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this is very different than what happened in previous major space efforts where it was really just

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governments. We want U.S. industry to be
leading and we want to do it with our

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international partners who've been such
great partners on Space Station.

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The space station of course is our
preeminent testing ground right now for

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anything we want to do.  It's the first
stop and low-earth orbit. We're using it

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today to test technology.  We're using
it today to get the human research done.

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We're also using it as a enabler for our
commercial partners.

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Today we need to train a new generation of explorers to be able to operate in deep space.

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SLS and Orion of course is gonna be
set up not only to just do the Moon but

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we're trying to be extensible to
Mars. We don't want to lose that horizon

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goal as we go forward.

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The Moon is the next feasible step. Mars remains an inspiring horizon goal that we

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need to be working toward.