Neil Freiman
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They want to build up the political support for going back to the moon because it's a huge endeavor.
And, you know, the support for spaceflight.
Space travel had been waning over the past few decades.
But I think what they've done is very smart.
They actually hired someone called an imagery czar.
This is Zebulon Scoville a couple years ago.
And what he did is he put a bunch more communications apparatuses on these particular spacecrafts so we can beam down high-quality video and they can FaceTime with people.
And that sort of communication strategy worked admirably well.
And I think it really helped that these poets were โ I said poets.
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poets and they seem like the best people that you could possibly have as emissaries from space.
So I think they absolutely had a huge PR victory here as well, which was maybe even more important than the technical aspects of the mission.
We did promise what Artemis 3 and Artemis 4 to preview what they're going to do.
So Artemis 3 is set to launch next year, and that's going to test whether the Orion spacecraft can dock with the lunar lander.
And this is where the private sector comes in, because right now we got Jeff Bezos with his Blue Origin and SpaceX by Elon Musk competing for that lunar lander contract.
So it'll be very interesting to see who ends up
actually serving as the lunar lander for Artemis IV, which is expected to land astronauts back on the moon in 2028.
Let's do it.
Not working with a financial professional is one of the biggest mistakes you can make.
Yeah, that and sneaking up on a miniature horse.