00:00We just launched our first mission to the moon in 54 years.
00:05And that's the kind of timeline that brings with it a few questions.
00:08Namely, why in the world did it take us 50 years?
00:11We did it before. Why couldn't we just copy that and do it again?
00:16Well, the short answer is money and manufacturing.
00:20But the long answer is that after the space race,
00:24when there was all kinds of pressure to beat Russia to the moon,
00:28it kind of fell off the priority list.
00:32And over time, budgets were slashed and investments in manufacturing went down.
00:37And there's components from the Apollo missions that we simply don't know how to make anymore.
00:44So we basically had to start from the ground up.
00:48And we have finally been able to do it.
00:51The ground up approach gave us the SLS rocket, the space launch system,
00:55the Orion capsule, and the Artemis mission.
00:59Artemis mission is going to be several phases.
01:01The one that launched most recently is Artemis 2.
01:03There's not going to be a landing.
01:04It's just a slingshot around the moon, and then they'll be coming right back.
01:08Artemis 4 should be the landing.
01:10And then the end goal of the mission overall is to establish a permanent moon base
01:16that eventually we want to use to launch humans to Mars.
01:21Full interplanetary species mode.
01:23The end goal of the project vorberebar.
01:23Good point.
01:23See you next time.
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