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Launch commentator:
And liftoff of Artemis One!

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We rise together, back to the
Moon and beyond!

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[Rocket audio and music]

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[Music]

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Noah Petro: I’m not used to
talking about trees.

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I like rocks, which is easier.

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Seeds represent the most
optimistic of our species.

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Given our reliance on wood,
from raw material for a home,

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to a baseball bat,
and now a spacecraft,

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planting a seedling is an investment
in our future.

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The tree may not bring you fruit,
but it will bring

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future generations fruit.

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In 1962, President Kennedy
said these words:

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“We meet in an hour
of change and challenge,

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in a decade of hope and fear,

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and an age of both knowledge
and ignorance.

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The greater of our knowledge
increases,

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the greater of our ignorance unfolds.”

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Artemis I continued in the grand
tradition of what Artemis II astronaut

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Victor Glover suggested during his visit
to Goddard as vessels of humanity,

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that we take our culture
with us into the cosmos.

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That we should choose to take seeds
and plant them for future generations

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to enjoy, to remind us earthbound
explorers, that despite the problems

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we face here, we remain
connected to our future in space.

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I'm hopeful that our -

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all of our shared work on
Artemis missions

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will bring similar fruit
to future generations.

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[Music]