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Artemis I is paving the way for us to\h
explore deeper and deeper into space.

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I think Artemis I is significant on so many levels.

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It is a new frontier to do science.

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So the primary objective is to test the Orion spacecraft integrated with the Space Launch System.

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And it is designed to carry out the boldest of the bold missions.

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But it's more than just learning how to travel in space.

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We're taking a lot of cool science along with us on this first mission to the Moon.

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So as NASA plans to go back to the surface of the Moon and then on to Mars,

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we want to spend more time there and that's riskier business.

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So the more we learn about the Moon itself and the environment where we'll be operating, the better we can prepare.

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We have 10 CubeSats, we call secondary payloads, which are small scientific spacecraft of their own,

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that will each be conducting their own scientific mission.

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All of these payloads, in some form or fashion, will help us going forward.

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They are going to be studying the Moon.

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And they're going to help us understand, what is the Moon made out of?

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What types of rocks? What types of regolith? What types of ice?

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What's mixed in with water that might be present?

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One of them is actually going to attempt to land on the Moon. They're going to be studying the Sun.

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Understanding and studying the space environment or the space weather.

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Some different propulsion systems.

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These novel ideas will ultimately turn into the technology and the systems that we want to use going forward.

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There's a lot of cool things going on between all these CubeSats that make up our secondary payloads.

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Additionally, inside the Orion we'll be flying an experiment to study space biology.

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Space biology is where we study the underlying changes that Earth-based biological systems undergo when they're in space.

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Or basically how does life respond to the space environment?

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The level of ionizing radiation that you experience when you go beyond the Van Allen belt,

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so you go beyond the protective magnetic sphere that we have around us,

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you then get exposed to higher levels of ionizing radiation.

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So we are flying several space biology experiments.

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We'll take a series of materials —

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plant seeds,

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fungi,

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the yeast cell,

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algae,

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and ride along the trip. And then when it comes home we can analyze how they responded to that environment.

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This research will help us thrive in space. It will help us to go further and stay there longer.

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In addition to space biology, we'll be learning about how to make astronauts more effective in the Orion in the future.

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An example of that is something called the Callisto technology demonstration.

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Lockheed Martin built the Orion spacecraft for NASA.

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And we'll be flying a secondary payload that's a demonstration payload called Callisto.

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So we took the technology from Amazon for Alexa and the WebEx technology from Cisco

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and so we built a digital assistant, if you will, a custom space-qualified Alexa.

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Alexa, how does the life support system work?

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Orion's life support system is the Environmental Control and Life Support System, or ECLS.

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And so this payload is the demonstration mission to show how astronauts in the future

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could use this technology as an innovative user interface.

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So there you have it. I hope you agree with me, this is exciting.

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I am just over the Moon excited for the Artemis I launch.

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The science we'll conduct on Artemis I lays the groundwork

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to ensure that we can safely conduct scientific activities at the Moon with our astronauts going forward.

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This really is the stepping stone for us as we take that next giant leap in space exploration.