Well, this is like the next step to getting us back to the surface of the moon and then building a permanent presence on the moon and hopefully building an economy on the moon. We did that in low Earth orbit. We launched the space station in the late 90s. It's been operating now. It's coming up on 30 years. We're planning to retire it in 2030. We're going to transition to commercial space stations. But what this Artemis II mission is doing is it's allowing us to check out the Orion spacecraft that's getting us back to the moon. (01:52–02:01)
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