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>>KENNEDY: We choose to go to
the moon in this decade and do

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the other things. Not because
they are easy but because they

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are hard! >>ARMSTRONG: That's
one small step for man...

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>>NARRATOR: One of humanity's
greatest achievements.

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>>ARMSTRONG: One giant leap for
mankind. >>NARRATOR: And one of

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humanity's greatest scientific
tools. >>LECKRONE: The world's

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most brilliant astronomers do
miracles with this observatory.

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>>WISEMAN: Hubble is profoundly
significant, I think, for

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humanity. >>NARRATOR: You might
be surprised to learn that the

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Hubble Space Telescope and
landing on the moon in 2024 have

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a lot to do with each other. In
fact, when you think of Hubble,

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usually those gorgeous pictures
first come to mind. But after

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Jim Garvin’s 2005 research using
Hubble, what have we learned

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about prospecting the moon for
locations to establish a human

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presence for the 2024 Artemis
mission? >>GARVIN: Hubble's one

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little piece of that masterpiece
we've been working on for 50

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years, so that people can use
the Moon as a special place, as

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Mother Nature's great control
experiment next door.

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>> "Hubble and Going Forward to
the Moon"

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>>SAGAN: Space Telescope is,
in a way, a little like

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Galileo's first telescope.
Whereever

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Galileo pointed his telescope he
made major new discoveries. Look

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at the Moon, you find mountains
and craters, look at Saturn, you

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find rings, look at the Milky
Way and you find it is littered

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and composed of stars. Every one
of these discoveries are things

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that people had not known
before. I think it's going to be

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very similar with the Space
Telescope. >>NARRATOR: 340 miles

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above the Earth’s surface,
Hubble orbits over the

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distorting effects of the
atmosphere, enabling us to look

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deeper into space than any
ground based telescope. Hubble

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was specially designed to be
upgraded while in space. Through

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five servicing missions over the
years, astronauts have repaired,

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restored, and updated Hubble to
make it better than ever. The

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Hubble Space telescope has
taught us a lot about our place

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in the universe, but back in
2005. then NASA chief scientist

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Jim Garvin decided to focus
Hubble’s powerful instruments on

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something a little closer to
home. >>GARVIN: What if we used

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Hubble to do what it's best at?
Be a precision photometer in

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wavelengths where it's very
convenient, the Lunar soils

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light up like firecrackers if
they're rich in certain

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minerals. We know from Apollo
samples that some of the Lunar

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soils and rocks are literally
ore bodies. And so the idea of

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using Hubble with this exquisite
ultraviolet imaging capability

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with the ACS instrument at that
point, and then maybe later with

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others, to target the Moon came
alive. >>NARRATOR: Imagine,

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you’re 240,000 miles away from
Earth, yeah you’ll be getting

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packages from home every once in
a while, but you’re going to

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need to be self sufficient too.
And that’s where Hubble comes

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in… >>GARVIN: We realized that
some of the Moon rocks might be

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resources, and if they found
them on Earth we'd be mining

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them. So using the eyes of
Hubble where it has exquisite

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precision and resolution in ways
that go beyond our eyes, beyond

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normal spacecraft we fly to
orbit planets, was an

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opportunity to use an
astronomical asset, a historical

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one, a cathedral to the stars to
observe the Moon in a way where

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we could test, prospect for
these resources in three places.

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And we were spectacular beyond
success with the capability of

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Hubble to see things we couldn't
see, at finer scales. Hubble

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became a resource prospector to
light the way for following

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missions, Lunar Reconnaissance
Orbiter, to fill in the gaps, to

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paint the picture of the Moon
that we're going to go back to.

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We were attempting to be
catalysts, pathfinders, for how

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we might use the Moon in ways
that are more creative than many

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had ever thought it could be
used. What if we could live off

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the Moon's resources in ways
that enable us not to have to

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bring everything with us? We'll
use the Moon as the springboard

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in confidence to go onto Mars.
>>NARRATOR: But establishing

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ourselves on the Moon is just
the first part of NASA's goal.

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There are some bigger plans in
store for the future, and you

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can be sure that Hubble is a
part of that next journey as

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well. >>COLON: I'm very excited
about the Artemis mission, but

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even beyond that the whole idea
is to go to Mars. So this whole

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process is about making sure we
can get back to the Moon safely,

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and extending that to be able to
journey to other planets, like

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Mars, in the future. And Hubble
gets to study these objects in

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the solar system, including
Mars, it studies weather on Mars

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regularly and being able to
monitor at great levels of

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detail these storms helps us
better understand the surface of

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Mars and where it's safe to land
for example, for humans to

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visit. So Hubble's really been
able to help be a part of this

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journey as humans get to go from
the Moon to Mars in that sense.

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>>CEPI: It's about newness, it's
about challenge, it's about

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going out there in the forefront
of technology and breaking

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through. And Hubble represents
that to the greatest degree I

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can think of. Because it allows
us to do it in a big way and in

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a small way. It allows us to do
it in detectors, it allows us to

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do it in computer technology,
and optical fabrication, and

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optical polishing. But it also
gives us this big picture, it

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gives us this great challenge of
making things better. >>WISEMAN:

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People everywhere look up at the
same sky and say 'we're all part

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of something together, we're all
citizens of planet Earth, and

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we're all part of this
magnificent Universe.' And

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having some kind of constructive
presence around the Moon, I

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think it will be very exciting
for people around the globe. So

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we are excited about that, and
we're excited about the way

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science missions, and
satellites, and probes, and

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telescopes can compliment human
spaceflight to give us a full

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suite of information, whether
it's trying to understand how

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humans can survive off planet
Earth, or whether it's just

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basic curiosity about how did
the Earth and the Moon form, and

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how does that compare to planets
outside our solar system? All of

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these information gathering
missions are very helpful to our

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understanding of who we are as
human beings, and to our quest

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for exploring space. >>GARVIN:
One object that's in our destiny

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is the Moon. We've been there,
six times, 50 years ahead of our

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time with project Apollo. We're
ready to go back, women and men,

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for the long haul. And that
prime directive will put people

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on the Moon again in the year
2024. Hubble has been one of

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those pieces of the mosaic of
information to help us

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understand what the Moon offers,
what we could use the Moon for

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as we're there. So now we could
see our Universe, our solar

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system in a new light, and now
we're ready to capitalize on

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that. And that's what Artemis,
what Hubble, what the future of

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space exploration is about.
Let's capitalize on what we've

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learned. We're out of the dark
ages, we're coming into the new

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light, let's go!

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[INSPIRING MUSIC]

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