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(music throughout) I cannot wait to hear their voices
when they get to the far side of the moon.

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And I can hear them talk about
seeing the moon out their window.

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I try to imagine it now,
and just like tear up thinking about it.

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Oh, now I got a hold on a second. (laughter)

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we have human eyeballs connected
to wonderfully smart brains,

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our astronaut friends have,
they are going to be able

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to observe the moon
in multiple different ways.

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They can use their eyes, they'll, look
through their camera and snap pictures

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and just looking out the window,
getting that human experience.

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But during Apollo, the astronauts
were so much closer to the lunar surface.

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Our astronauts are going to be doing
a flyby at a higher altitude, so they're

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going to be able to see the whole moon
as a lunar disc on the lunar far side,

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that's a brand new, unique perspective
that humans haven't been able to

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look at before.

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we are doing a lot of lunar geography
training with them.

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They have study sessions and quizzes
they can do that are assigned to them.

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You know, even if you're an astronaut,
you still get homework.

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we actually get in the mockup.

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in that enclosed physical space,
we have to think through the hardware

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that they have, the cameras,

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the computers, their microphones
to make these observations.

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there's four windows up front.

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through one of those windows,

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one of our astronauts
will be using a Nikon D5 camera.

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with an 80 to 400 millimeter lens.

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So something that allows them to zoom
in really,

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far and actually, take more detailed
observations of the surface.

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it's almost like looking
through a pair of binoculars as well.

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it's just like being a geologist
out in the field.

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They're going
they're telling us what they're seeing,

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looking for colors, textures, different
morphologies and comparing the region

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that we're having them look at to
the regions that are around them.

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we have the science team that is planning
the targets that are going to be,

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observed putting them all on the timeline
of how they're going to be observed,

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and then taking the first look at the data
when it comes down.

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The Apollo astronauts
were only on the moon

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for 300 hours total,
and they only went to the equator.

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That's like going to places
that were safer landing sites.

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And they only saw
so little 300 hours total.

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And so we have so much more to explore
and so much more to learn.

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And we are the beginning

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of the next generation that gets to start
being a part of these discoveries.