WEBVTT 00:00:00.100 --> 00:00:01.800 But to achieve our objectives. 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:08.400 I came here today to say that NASA must meet that new spirit 00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:13.200 with new urgency and a focus that it all deserves. 00:00:14.500 --> 00:00:15.600 Just a few moments ago. 00:00:15.600 --> 00:00:18.900 Buzz Aldrin was reflecting on his time in the Apollo program. 00:00:20.100 --> 00:00:22.400 You talked about that fabled Apollo 11 Mission. 00:00:22.400 --> 00:00:25.000 He said in 1962. 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:25.400 We hadn't objected. 00:00:26.700 --> 00:00:27.500 We had time. 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:29.900 But we didn't have a plan. 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:35.800 In space policy directive won the president directed NASA to create 00:00:35.800 --> 00:00:37.800 a lunar exploration plant. 00:00:38.700 --> 00:00:41.700 But as of today more than 15 months later. 00:00:42.700 --> 00:00:47.300 We still don't have a plan in place but administrator 00:00:47.300 --> 00:00:50.200 breidenstein. ER told me 5 minutes ago. 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:54.700 We now have a plan to return to the Moon. 00:01:02.400 --> 00:01:05.000 Truth is despite the dedication of the men and women who are 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:07.200 designing and building and testing the SLS. 00:01:08.600 --> 00:01:12.100 You all know the program has been plagued by bureaucratic 00:01:12.100 --> 00:01:12.300 inertia. 00:01:13.800 --> 00:01:16.300 By what some call the paralysis of analysis? 00:01:18.100 --> 00:01:21.200 A nation actually learned with great disappointment 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:24.900 in recent weeks that the date for the first flight for the SLS 00:01:24.900 --> 00:01:26.400 has been pushed back yet again. 00:01:27.800 --> 00:01:28.800 220 21 00:01:30.300 --> 00:01:33.600 You know after years of cost overruns and slip deadlines. 00:01:34.700 --> 00:01:37.900 We're actually being told that the earliest we can get back 00:01:37.900 --> 00:01:40.600 to the Moon is 20:28. 00:01:41.600 --> 00:01:46.700 Now that would be 18 years after the SLS program was started 00:01:46.700 --> 00:01:51.800 and 11 years after the president of the United States directed 00:01:51.800 --> 00:01:53.900 NASA to return American astronauts to the Moon. 00:01:55.500 --> 00:01:56.500 ladies and gentlemen 00:01:57.700 --> 00:01:59.000 That's just not good enough. 00:02:00.600 --> 00:02:01.400 We're better than that. 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:05.900 It took us eight years to get to the moon the first time 50 00:02:05.900 --> 00:02:10.000 years ago when we had never done it before and it shouldn't take 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:11.700 us 11 years to get back. 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:16.500 It has been 47 years since American astronauts last walked 00:02:16.500 --> 00:02:16.700 on the moon. 00:02:18.700 --> 00:02:21.900 And ironically America's first generation of space Pioneers 00:02:21.900 --> 00:02:22.100 new. 00:02:23.600 --> 00:02:26.100 But it would likely take time for the Next Generation to 00:02:26.100 --> 00:02:27.600 return to the Moon. 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:30.300 Including one of the founders of Rocket City. 00:02:30.300 --> 00:02:31.800 Dr. Wernher von Braun 00:02:33.300 --> 00:02:36.900 just as it took the development of the airplane for the United 00:02:36.900 --> 00:02:43.000 States Navy to reach the South Pole 45 years after an expedition 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:47.600 of Norwegian Explorer has made history and got there in 1911 00:02:47.600 --> 00:02:51.900 doctor Von Braun believed it would take what he called in his 00:02:51.900 --> 00:02:54.700 words and they belong technology for us to return. 00:02:55.900 --> 00:02:56.800 to the lunar surface 00:02:58.300 --> 00:03:01.000 that it might take just as much time to development. 00:03:03.500 --> 00:03:06.100 The good news is as we will hear from our distinguished 00:03:06.100 --> 00:03:12.100 panelist today. Those enabling technologies have arrived 00:03:12.100 --> 00:03:14.800 and we are going back to the Moon. 00:03:22.300 --> 00:03:25.900 Because of your work because of the Ingenuity dedication 00:03:25.900 --> 00:03:29.100 and entrepreneurial Spirit reflected in this room and throughout 00:03:29.100 --> 00:03:35.000 the American space Enterprise since the end of a bull breakthroughs 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:38.900 in our technology that allowed us to go further more safely 00:03:38.900 --> 00:03:39.800 in space than ever before. 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:44.800 We have the technology to return to the moon and renew American 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:47.600 leadership in human space exploration. 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:50.200 What we need now. 00:03:51.700 --> 00:03:52.600 Is urgency. 00:03:53.900 --> 00:03:55.300 I make no mistake about it. 00:03:56.900 --> 00:04:01.000 Where the Space Race today just as we were in the 1960s. 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:03.300 And the stakes are even higher. 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:07.900 Last December China became the first nation to land on the far 00:04:07.900 --> 00:04:11.700 side of the moon and reveal their ambition to seize the lunar 00:04:11.700 --> 00:04:14.700 strategic High ground and become the world's preeminent 00:04:14.700 --> 00:04:16.000 space-faring Nation. 00:04:17.100 --> 00:04:20.100 Never more than seven years without a viable human space launch 00:04:20.100 --> 00:04:23.900 program of our own Russia has been charging the United States 00:04:23.900 --> 00:04:26.100 more than 80 million dollars of seat. 00:04:26.100 --> 00:04:29.300 Every time an American astronaut travels to the International 00:04:29.300 --> 00:04:29.900 Space Station. 00:04:31.900 --> 00:04:35.500 But it's not just competition against our adversaries 00:04:35.500 --> 00:04:35.700 where? 00:04:37.100 --> 00:04:39.200 We're also racing against our worst enemy. 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:41.500 complacency 00:04:43.100 --> 00:04:45.000 the truth is we've been here before. 00:04:46.900 --> 00:04:49.600 Nearly 62 years ago the race for space began. 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:52.700 And the Soviet Union took an early lead. 00:04:54.200 --> 00:04:57.800 but the site of Sputnik blinking across the October Sky 00:04:59.700 --> 00:05:01.400 spurred the American people to action 00:05:02.200 --> 00:05:06.800 We refuse to accept a future in space written by the enemies 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:10.700 of Freedom. We found to claim my rightful place as the Undisputed 00:05:10.700 --> 00:05:13.700 leader in the exploration of the heavens and 12 years later 00:05:13.700 --> 00:05:16.400 the one giant leap occur. 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:22.600 We achieved our goal of American leadership in space. 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:25.300 Now more than 50 years later. 00:05:27.700 --> 00:05:32.800 We Gather here today to say that it's it's up to this generation 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:35.500 To meet the challenge of our time. 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:38.900 And with the recommendations of this National Space Council, 00:05:38.900 --> 00:05:41.300 the recommendations will be approved today. 00:05:42.400 --> 00:05:48.100 I believe that we are rising to meet that challenge head off.