Launching Soon: Artemis II

[00:06] Transmission is coming to you approximately halfway between the moon and the Earth. This is a beautiful, beautiful view. I was just a kid in grade school at the end of the Apollo program, and I remember watching those moon landings with my classmates. Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. Roger, Tranquility. We copy on the ground. [00:30] And being so intrigued, so curious, so inspired. That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. [00:42] Apollo made the world stop and look. And as we leave the moon in Taurus Littrell, we leave as we came, and God willing, as we shall return. [01:00] And I think that Artemis will do the same thing. The world will stop and look up in wonder, in intrigue, and will feel a sense of accomplishment. [01:19] And here we go. 10, 1... Hydrogen burn off... Pushing ourselves to explore is just core to who we are. It's a part of being a human. Four stage engines start. We want to know what's out there just beyond the horizon, and so the Artemis program is our opportunity. And liftoff of Artemis I. We rise together back to the moon and beyond. At a high level, the Artemis II mission launches out of Kennedy Space Center on the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft.

[01:46] and the crew will travel two orbits around Earth, and then head onto the Moon 250,000 miles from Earth. [01:50] There's only one primary goal of Artemis 2, is to prepare this spacecraft for Artemis 3 and for our NASA astronauts to go land on the Moon. Artemis is the twin sister of Apollo. That's intentional. It is to remind us that we're going to go do great things. Yes, we're going to put humans back on the surface of the Moon, but we're not stopping there. When you see us fly around the Moon on Artemis 2, that is just a snippet of the incredible things that are to come. We're going back to the Moon because it's the next step in our journey to Mars. [02:20] the moon there's vast regions of unexplored areas with the coldest darkest places in our solar system. From the time humans started exploring this was always in our future and in our fate. We were always going to the moon. In our lifetime we've looked at the moon knowing that people had been there and now in the Artemis generation kids will walk out and look at the moon going we are there we are there now and we are going further into our solar system. I'm Christina Cook. Jeremy [02:50] Wiseman. I'm gonna fly with Victor Glover, Christina Cook, and Jeremy Hansen. [02:56] around the moon and safely back to Earth. [03:03] NASA is making history. And we're bringing you the inside story. Get to know the Artemis II astronauts like you won't hear them anywhere else. [03:12] and meet the people behind the scenes, lifting them to space. Experience a special Artemis II series of Curious Universe,

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