00:00We're going to have an academy for what the people in this room love the most.
00:04That's exciting. That's really exciting.
00:08And I'm going to be choosing a location very shortly by embracing competition in the private sector.
00:16But it'll serve both the United States Space Force as well as NASA and the civilian spaceflight industry.
00:24And it'll attract, train, and graduate the very best of our nation.
00:29And our nation really has to offer.
00:31And this is going to be, I said, I'll do it.
00:36But it's got to be top line.
00:38It's got to be the equivalent of the others, which are great.
00:41But they're great people. They're great, great people.
00:44But NASA has already begun to work on the first ever nuclear-powered interplanetary spacecraft,
00:50which will launch in 2028 on a mission to Mars.
00:54It's going to be so incredible.
00:57They have to go nuclear because they have unlimited, essentially unlimited fuel.
01:02You don't have to fill up the tanks every so many miles, right?
01:10Okay.
01:12Better pick a good one. Pick a good pen.
01:32That's a good one.
01:34All right? Thank you very much.
01:36I think he deserves it, right?
01:38Okay.
01:49But the Congressional Space Medal of Honor, that's exactly what it says.
01:54This is a very rare thing.
01:56It's for courageous people, brilliant people,
02:00bestowed on astronauts who have distinguished themselves
02:03with exceptional service to the nation and all of mankind.
02:08Only 30 extraordinary men and women in a long period of time
02:12in the history of our country have received this extremely rare and distinguished honor.
02:18All you do and risking your lives.
02:21The crew of Artemis II blasted off from Kennedy, NASA's great space center last April
02:30and flew more than 250,000 miles from Earth
02:35in, very interestingly, our 250th anniversary year.
02:40Only Jared could have thought of that, I assume.
02:43I hope that wasn't just by luck.
02:45I hope they...
02:46But it's pretty good.
02:48They actually went far beyond what would be the normal target,
02:52the longest, the furthest anybody's ever been in space.
02:56They crossed behind the dark side of the moon
02:59and glimpsed sights never seen before, never seen by human eyes,
03:03and returned to Earth at 30 times the speed of sound
03:07and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, completing the flawless mission.
03:12It was absolutely flawless.
03:30By leading major science and observation tasks
03:33during the mission's seven-hour...
03:35...
03:40...
03:50...
03:51...
03:52...
04:08When we went around the far side of the moon, which has now been rounded up to 252,760 miles,
04:15we'll take it.
04:16Keep rounding it up.
04:18We got to talk to you.
04:20You gave us a call.
04:22And the one thing that really sticks out to us is you said how proud you are and how
04:27proud our nation is of the job that we had just accomplished.
04:31And for us, that is what we set out to do.
04:34We wanted to inspire this nation and inspire the world.
04:37And for us, that showed us we were on the right track.
04:39So thank you for that call.
