1 00:00:00,690 --> 00:00:04,730 By direction of the President of the United States, the Vice President gave a speech at 2 00:00:04,730 --> 00:00:09,259 the National Space Council that I think was one of the most historic speeches in space 3 00:00:09,259 --> 00:00:10,259 history. 4 00:00:10,259 --> 00:00:18,200 He said, “The next American man and the first woman ever, will be Americans on the 5 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:20,540 surface of the Moon within five years.” 6 00:00:20,540 --> 00:00:25,040 That is an extreme declaration and a charge that we are going to live up to at NASA. 7 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:28,780 Question is, and everybody here is interested, ‘how are you going to do that?’ 8 00:00:28,780 --> 00:00:32,539 The plan is still the same, but those things that we were going to invest in, in 2025, 9 00:00:32,539 --> 00:00:35,449 2026, 2027 – we’re going to move them up. 10 00:00:35,449 --> 00:00:40,809 Well number one – we need to get EM-1 off the ground in 2020. 11 00:00:40,809 --> 00:00:42,460 And we are committed to making that happen. 12 00:00:42,460 --> 00:00:48,850 Now that’s going to be a test of an uncrewed Orion crew capsule with the European Service 13 00:00:48,850 --> 00:00:50,570 Module around the Moon. 14 00:00:50,570 --> 00:00:55,999 And then as soon as possible thereafter, we need to get EM-2 off the ground, with crew. 15 00:00:55,999 --> 00:00:58,069 And then, what’s next in the architecture? 16 00:00:58,069 --> 00:01:04,870 Well, we need to accelerate – or keep moving forward very rapidly, as we have been on what 17 00:01:04,870 --> 00:01:06,820 we call Gateway. 18 00:01:06,820 --> 00:01:11,940 The first elements of Gateway are focused exclusively on getting humans to the surface 19 00:01:11,940 --> 00:01:12,960 of the Moon. 20 00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:19,080 We need that power and propulsion element, we need that habitation module, and ultimately 21 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:22,610 that’s going to be our reusable command and service module to get humans to the surface 22 00:01:22,610 --> 00:01:24,620 of the Moon as soon as possible. 23 00:01:24,620 --> 00:01:31,520 We’re going to have a commercial partnership – a public/private partnership for an ascent 24 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:35,570 module, for the transfer vehicle, and the descent module – all of those elements that 25 00:01:35,570 --> 00:01:38,390 get humans to the surface of the Moon in 2024. 26 00:01:38,390 --> 00:01:40,780 We’ve now divided it into two phases. 27 00:01:40,780 --> 00:01:42,990 The first phase is speed. 28 00:01:42,990 --> 00:01:45,830 We want to get those boots on the Moon as soon as possible. 29 00:01:45,830 --> 00:01:49,980 We don’t want to take away anything from getting those boots on the Moon – anything 30 00:01:49,980 --> 00:01:53,770 that is a distraction from making that happen, we’re getting rid of. 31 00:01:53,770 --> 00:01:57,950 And when we do CLPS, the Commercial Lunar Payload Services, which was one of my first 32 00:01:57,950 --> 00:02:01,880 initiatives as the NASA Administrator, we’re going to put small payloads on the surface 33 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:05,000 of the Moon by buying access commercially. 34 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:10,580 We are organizing NASA in order to achieve humans to the surface of the Moon as soon 35 00:02:10,580 --> 00:02:12,060 as possible. 36 00:02:12,060 --> 00:02:17,410 Phase 2: sustainability by 2028. 37 00:02:17,410 --> 00:02:23,330 This is another important capability, it is why the Gateway is so important. 38 00:02:23,330 --> 00:02:28,440 The Gateway is our ability to go the Moon fast, for sure. 39 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:31,880 We want to make sure we’re using things that already exist, or things that almost 40 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:34,930 already exist so we can get there soonest. 41 00:02:34,930 --> 00:02:39,760 And we have access – because of the power and propulsion element of the Gateway – we 42 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:43,470 have more access to more parts of the Moon than ever before. 43 00:02:43,470 --> 00:02:44,930 Why do we go to the Moon? 44 00:02:44,930 --> 00:02:46,569 Why is that so important? 45 00:02:46,569 --> 00:02:49,440 Well, because we’re keeping our eyes on the horizon. 46 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:53,540 The Moon is a proving ground , it’s the best place for us to live and work on another 47 00:02:53,540 --> 00:02:56,400 world so that we can ultimately go to Mars. 48 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:04,090 Know this: the new direction of putting humans on the Moon in 2024 is not an America alone 49 00:03:04,090 --> 00:03:05,240 effort. 50 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:07,819 We need all of our international partners.