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So it'll be dramatic.

You know, it may not be landing.

They can't land, but there'll be some drama anyway.

So they've been working on this basically for 22 years.

Yeah.

That's when then President George W. Bush gave a speech saying that NASA was going to finish building the International Space Station, retire the space shuttles, and then build a new vehicle to go to the moon.

So, you know, they've been working towards that ever since.

There's been some, you know, detours and twists and turns along the way.

But that's been the plan for kind of a long time.

And the other thing that's interesting about this mission is there's a lot of firsts involved in it.

So it'll be the first woman to go out to the moon, Christina Cook, astronaut Christina Cook.

And there's going to be the first person of color, Victor Glover.

And then there's the first non-American.

So in addition to these NASA astronauts, there's a Canadian Space Agency astronaut named Jeremy Hansen who's going.

So for a landing, you need a lander, right?

You need a vehicle that can actually go down to the moon and then get astronauts up off it again.

And that's in development.

So there's two companies working on it.

NASA has contracted with SpaceX and Blue Origin.

And the new administrator of NASA is this guy, Jared Isaacman.