Jared Isaacman

Thank you.

We'll keep you posted.

I was glad to see you at the launch yesterday.

Thanks for coming on.

Thank you, Jared.

is back in the business of sending astronauts to the moon.

We arrived at this point through a sustained effort and national commitment and the work of thousands across the agency.

Sure.

So Artemis II is out at the pad right now.

We're already beginning to load propellant on it.

And this mission is the opening chapter in America's return to the moon.

So these four astronauts, in a matter of hours, are going to get accelerated to nearly 25,000 miles per hour under 8.8 million pounds of thrust.

We are going to send them out

past the moon, about 250,000 miles away from Earth.

These astronauts will travel farther from Earth than any humans have ever gone before, traveling faster than any humans have ever gone before.

They're gonna check out the spacecraft, put it through its paces, they'll do some manual piloting of it, and then 10 days later, they will splash down off the west coast of the United States.

This is Artemis II.

Artemis 3 will launch next year.

That's where we're going to take the spacecraft and dock it with the lunar landers in Earth orbit.

This is very Apollo 9-esque.