So today we're going
to witness the landing of the Intuitive Machines
Odysseus Lander near the south pole of the Moon.
So it's our first step
to further our scientific understanding of the lunar surface
and also begin our exploration of the South Pole,
which eventually is where we'll land humans under the Artemis campaign.
Interested in the South Pole.
So the South Pole holds a great deal of resources
in the form of water currently as ice.
And we want access to that because it allows us to obviously
take care of humans with the water and also allows us to separate
into hydrogen and oxygen, which we can use for fuel,
which we can use also to create power at the at the moon.
Absolutely.
So we have six payloads that all help us
do radio astronomy from the lunar surface.
Help us understand space weather,
help us understand how our propellants in the form of liquid
oxygen and liquid methane, how they behave and partial gravity.
And then we'll also understand how the technology that we need to land
and avoid some of the the boulders that are on the lunar surface
as well.
So I'm most excited because when we hear those words
we have touched down, it's our next step to taking humans back to the moon.
Understanding scientifically how the moon formed, which reflects how
the earth formed and eventually getting us that that next move to land humans.
Hopefully in 2026.
So lunar
economy is our way of getting investment around and on the lunar surface.
We've done that through the commercial lunar payload services by sponsoring
and asking we want these science payload payloads on the surface,
and that allows companies to go get investment from other sources
to fly other things to the to the moon around the moon on the surface.
And then NASA's not the primary stakeholder.
And that investment then can grow into infrastructure
that we can use for our human missions, which will fly for crew for up to 30 days.
So you can
watch all the events of the landing as at 530 Eastern, The
the events start about an hour before that at nasa.gov slash NASA's TV.