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what President Kennedy said was we

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choose to go to the moon and do other

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things not because it's easy but because

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it's hard the cost of failure is much

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higher than the cost of scrubbing we we

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have an obligation to get this right

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this is a whole new vehicle a whole new

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technology a whole new purpose

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of going back to the Moon in preparation

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it's hard

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the countdown to T minus zero starts

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approximately two days before lunch

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teams inside the launch control center

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have been working around the clock

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powering up each section of the rocket

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and configuring the launch pad to

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support the 8.8 million pounds of thrust

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our moon rocket will generate at liftoff

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it is a new creation it is a new rocket

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in a new spacecraft to send humans to

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the Moon

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on the very next flight

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today we make history

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with the launch of the most powerful

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rocket the world has ever seen we are

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taking the first step in Humanity's

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Return To The Moon I can tell you

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there's an energy and there's an

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excitement around the Kenny Space Center

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I would say across the agency and all

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around the Space Coast as we get closer

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and closer to this launch

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this Mission will validate that the

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rocket and capsule do perform as

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expected before future Artemis missions

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send astronauts to the lunar surface

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we have worked really hard to get here

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the team has done an absolutely

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outstanding job and we're up to the

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challenge and I'm really looking forward

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to a successful test flight

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you are looking at the world's most

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powerful rocket and Orion spacecraft

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live on Launchpad 39b Artemis 1 embodies

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the hard work of thousands across the

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world determined to explore for the

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benefit of all I'm Megan Cruz and this

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is or not Caleb Aaron when I first

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walked up and saw the view from the desk

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here I was just blown away this is the

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moment when it comes to the countdown

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you know and then tension starts and

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well less Crossing us everything works

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well yeah tension is rising and we are

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fully excited here over the past few

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years teams have put in thousands of

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hours performing simulations and

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rehearsals to ensure that they are ready

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for this moment is our Zero Hour

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approaches for the Artemis generation we

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anticipation and there's definitely

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excitement amongst the team members

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we've noticed just the overall mood and

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focus within the team is is definitely a

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positive one

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now with all systems configured

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correctly the launch director gives the

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final go for liftoff

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on behalf of all the men and women

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across our great nation who have worked

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to bring this Hardware together to make

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this day possible and for the Artemis

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generation this is for you

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at this time I give you a go to resume

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count and launch Artemis one

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this Mission goes with a lot of hopes

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it's the Artemis generation

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that brings a whole new world of

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space launch system is now counting down

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and here we go okay hydrogen burnoff

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Artemis one launch our first step

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towards our next adventure into deep

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nation is returning to the moon and we

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worked hard as a team for this moment

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it is not by chance that you were here

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today so I want you to look around look

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around at this team and know that you

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have earned it you have earned your

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place in the room you've earned

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earn your place

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the successful launch of SLS is just the

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beginning Orion will spend the next

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several weeks journeying around the Moon

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sending flight data back to teams here

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during its Mission Orion reached speeds

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this dramatic

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video of the Earth Moon Transit that

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the fact that we were pressing away from

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our home planet to a distance of some

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268 thousand miles away from Earth

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further than any human rated spacecraft

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had ever traveled

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for a spacecraft designed to return

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humans to Earth eclipsing the mark set

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after several weeks of flight it was

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century later NASA's newest moon

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barreling its way back home after

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circumnavigating the moon and Beyond in

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now less than two hours away from

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of Baja California to complete its

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high temperatures during re-entry of

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a journey that began with the power of

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shoots descending towards Splashdown

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these parachutes help slow the crew

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module to a much more manageable speed

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from Tranquility base to Taurus litro to

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the trifling Waters of the Pacific the

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latest chapter of NASA's Journey to the

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moon comes to a close Orion back on

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that is a human rated capsule that went

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around the moon and returned and is now

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part of something so monumentous and

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capsule well we knew at Nasa really is

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that they were ready Melissa Jones the

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recovery director just uh came from

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outside the ship's control center where

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managing her team in the midst of this

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recovery so Melissa thank you for being

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mission for a while and we've done a ton

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of training and every time you do

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parachutes you don't you know hear it

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booms and all that kind of stuff and

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every day looking ahead to the next

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flight to see how we can improve on

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where we are today so that we can fly a

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safe and successful Mission with our

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once stabilized the team secured the

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spacecraft with hardware and rope

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assemblies and towed it to the Navy ship

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the dive team then connected Orion to a

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series of ropes from inside the back of

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the ship known as The Well deck to

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with Orion safely secured inside the

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ship teams made their way to Naval Base

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achieving the goal before this decade is

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out and said that we were going to

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achieve what we thought was impossible

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of Landing a man on the moon and

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returning him safely to the Earth many

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we were going back this is the the

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program of going back to the Moon to

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learn to live to invent to create in

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order to explore Beyond oh it's it's a