Sarah Rugheimer

And I want to go to Mars.

I want to see humans on Mars in my lifetime.

And if we're going to get humans on Mars, we first need to go to our nearest little minor body, the moon, first.

Yes, a base.

Yeah, so I think there's multiple stages to this.

There's going to be this like a docking kind of orbiter station that we can have around the moon.

And this can help launch things, say, to Mars and have people go down to the moon more easily from that.

So there's a whole...

system that the Artemis missions are trying to accomplish over the next dozen Artemis missions.

And this is just one step in it.

So these astronauts are not setting foot on the moon.

They're just going further than humans have ever been in space.

So they're going on the far side of the moon and even further than we'd gone before and coming back and testing all sorts of systems, testing this Orion capsule and testing

The life support systems, making sure all that is good for hopefully humans landing in Artemis 4, I believe it is now.

And so there's a lot of components to do human spaceflight safely.

And, you know, it's been over 50 years since we've sent humans this far.

And there's just additional problems with that.

They're further out from our atmosphere, which means they're not protected, radiation, all sorts of stuff.

Yeah, Jeremy Henson.

Absolutely.