We're sharing moments from the 2025 Humans to the Moon and Mars Summit.

This week on Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.

This week we're bringing you highlights from two powerful panel discussions recorded at this year's Humans to the Moon and Mars, or H2M2 Summit, in Washington, D.C.

Both were hosted by our senior communications advisor, Matt Kaplan.

We begin with a conversation about why space science is vital to U.S. national interests, featuring insights from James Green,

the former NASA chief scientist, James Garvin, chief scientist for NASA's Goddard Space Flight

Center, Brittany Schmidt, astrobiologist and associate professor at Cornell University,

and Nobel laureate John Mather, who's also the senior scientist for the James Webb Space

Telescope.

They'll explore how scientific discovery drives innovation,

strengthens international partnerships,

and helps us understand our place in the universe.

Then we'll turn to the power of diplomacy in space with the panel on the Artemis Accords.

We'll hear from Mike Gold of Red Wire,

Mark Yokomich from the German Aerospace Center, or DLR,

Adnan Muhammad Erraiz from the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center in the United Arab Emirates,

and Soher Salam Saber from the Hague Institute for Global Justice.

They discuss how international cooperation is guiding humanity's return to the moon and our journey beyond.

Then stick around for What's Up with Bruce Betz, our chief scientist, as we talk about what we'll lose if the Gateway Lunar Space Station is canceled, and how that impacts the plans for getting humans to Mars.

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