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The importance of landing humans back on the Moon is we're going back in a way that is totally different.

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We've had almost sixty years of experience

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And we're taking every single ounce of experience we have

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And taking that with our international partners.
With our commercial partners.

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We've been working for the last year with three partners who will help us achieve the next human mission to the Moon.

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Because we know that this first step to the Moon will then lead us to go to Mars.

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And we know that the Human Landing System is one of the first steps to get us there.

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And so we've been working with Dynetics A Leidos Company,

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We've been working with Blue Origin, who have partners Draper and Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.

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In addition, we've also been working with SpaceX.

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This is a very very exciting time for the Human Landing System program.

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They've spent a lot of blood, sweat, and tears over these last couple years, getting ready for this moment.

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We're really excited to bring you the announcement of who NASA is going to continue to finish out the Human Landing System and take humans back to the Moon.

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NASA has chosen SpaceX to return us to the Moon

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I am so excited to partner with SpaceX in this fantastic endeavor for the Artemis suit of missions.

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So congratulations to the SpaceX team!

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The SpaceX design is a single-stage solution, using their Starship.

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It provides extensive volume for the crew with two airlocks and amble down mass capability.

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The SpaceX proposal included in space propellant transfer demonstration and uncrewed test landing.

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So now we've selected our partner and for the next phase going forward, we have to make sure the testing occurs, because we're not going to launch humans until we have a successful test.

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So we will be working to make sure that the design and everything that we have going forward so far is ready to go.

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So the Human Landing System is going to allow us to be able to access different parts of the lunar surface.

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But it also allows us to explore a new technology and capabilities that will help us when we're trying to figure out our next round of technologies to help us land on Mars.

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Or other planets out there.

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I'd like to thank the companies for the great work this past year. We've all learned a lot.

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I'd like to thank the NASA team because you have definitely risen to this challenge.