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🗓️ 18 October 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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0:00.0 | Houston, we have a podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson |
0:05.4 | Space Center. This is episode 114, the value of the moon. I'm Pat Ryan. On this |
0:11.4 | podcast we talk with scientists, engineers, astronauts and other folks about their |
0:15.8 | part in America's space exploration program and today we're going to talk about the target |
0:20.7 | of a lot of our current efforts, the Moon. |
0:24.0 | NASA's Artemis program is focused on returning American astronauts to the Moon by |
0:28.6 | by 2024 through the use of the Space Launch System rocket, the Orion spacecraft, the gateway |
0:34.4 | lunar outpost, and a new lunar lander, and to do so in a sustainable way, that is to go to the |
0:40.9 | moon to stay, to learn how to support astronauts in that environment and in |
0:45.8 | the process get ourselves ready to go on from there to Mars. |
0:50.6 | As a part of that mission, we mean to make the best use of the natural resources on the moon, |
0:55.0 | and that's very different than what the Apollo program set out to do 50 years ago. |
1:00.0 | It also prompts an echo of President Kennedy's question, why the Moon? |
1:06.6 | Well, today we're going to start scratching the surface of answering that question by talking |
1:10.7 | to the self-described cheerleader in chief for the moon. |
1:14.4 | Dr Samuel Lawrence is a planetary scientist |
1:18.0 | in the Astro Materials Research and Exploration Science Division |
1:22.0 | here at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and he is the lead |
1:25.0 | is the lead lunar exploration scientist at JSC. |
1:29.0 | His research is focused on using Petrology, |
1:32.0 | which is the study of rocks and the conditions |
1:34.9 | under which they form. I know because I looked it up. His research is focused on |
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