Ted Cruz

I know all four of them.

I was there when their astronaut class was selected to be on Artemis II.

Artemis four, by the way, is going to be the mission that actually goes and lands on the moon and puts another astronaut on the moon.

One of the reasons why.

Do you know why this particular set of missions is called Artemis?

I was going to ask you that.

Why?

Because I know you've been briefed on it.

Well, in Greek mythology, Artemis was the twin sister of Apollo, and so they were twins.

And in Apollo, that was the last time we landed astronauts on the moon, and we landed only men on the moon.

This mission, NASA said from day one, we're going to land the first woman on the moon.

And that's that's why they named it Artemis, because we're going to have a female astronaut in addition to male astronauts.

We're going to have both.

And I got to say, look, I'm as you know, I'm the father of daughters.

I have two teenage girls.

And I really like the fact that the plan is by 2028 we're going to land on the moon, and I like the fact that we're going to put the first woman on the moon.

That's something my daughters can be proud of, they can look forward to, they can say, look, I can do anything.

If I want, I can be an astronaut, I can land on the moon.

And you look back, you and I were not alive in 1969 when Neil Armstrong first stepped on the surface of the moon, but it inspired...

An entire generation of Americans, an entire generation across the world.