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So today we're going

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to witness
the landing of the Intuitive Machines

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Odysseus Lander
near the south pole of the Moon.

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So it's our first step

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to further our scientific
understanding of the lunar surface

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and also begin
our exploration of the South Pole,

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which eventually is where we'll land
humans under the Artemis campaign.

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Interested in the South Pole.

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So the South Pole holds
a great deal of resources

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in the form of water currently as ice.

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And we want access to that
because it allows us to obviously

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take care of humans with the water
and also allows us to separate

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into hydrogen and oxygen,
which we can use for fuel,

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which we can use
also to create power at the at the moon.

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Absolutely.

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So we have six payloads that all help us

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do radio astronomy from the lunar surface.

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Help us understand space weather,

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help us understand how our propellants
in the form of liquid

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oxygen and liquid methane,
how they behave and partial gravity.

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And then we'll also understand
how the technology that we need to land

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and avoid some of the
the boulders that are on the lunar surface

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as well.

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So I'm most excited
because when we hear those words

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we have touched down, it's our next step
to taking humans back to the moon.

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Understanding scientifically
how the moon formed, which reflects how

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the earth formed and eventually getting us
that that next move to land humans.

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Hopefully in 2026.

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So lunar

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economy is our way of getting investment
around and on the lunar surface.

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We've done that through the commercial
lunar payload services by sponsoring

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and asking we want these science
payload payloads on the surface,

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and that allows companies
to go get investment from other sources

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to fly other things to the to the moon
around the moon on the surface.

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And then NASA's
not the primary stakeholder.

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And that investment
then can grow into infrastructure

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that we can use for our human missions,
which will fly for crew for up to 30 days.

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So you can

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watch all the events of the landing
as at 530 Eastern, The

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the events start about an hour
before that at nasa.gov slash NASA's TV.