I James Bridenstine do solemnly swear I James Bridenstine do solemnly
in these last few days I have heard numerous times welcome to the NASA family. I will tell
you it truly does feel like a family here, and I am very humbled to be a part of it.
first our NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, he's my dear friend and my boss
let me introduce Jim Bridenstine and now it's my honor to welcome introduce
NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine join me in thanking Jim Bridenstine
The next man and the first woman ever will be Americans on the surface of the Moon.
We need to go back to the Moon, we need to do those stunning achievements. We need to
have people emblazon in their minds those moments of history that are of greatness.
It is my pleasure to be here today to honor our newest class of astronauts. This is a very
exciting day not only for these impressive men and women, but also incredibly exciting day for
our nation and for in fact all of humanity. And this is my experience as the NASA administrator
everybody loves Artemis. All of our international partners want to be part of the Artemis program.
So these are our spacesuits for the Artemis generation.
We're going to go with international partners, and we're going to go with commercial partners we're
going to utilize the resources of the Moon, so that we can live and work on another world. We are
once again launching American astronauts on American rockets from American soil
and this is a big moment in time. It's been nine years since we've had this opportunity. I will
tell you it has been just a magnificent thing to watch so again congratulations to the SpaceX
team congratulations to the NASA team. Today was a great victory but it is just the beginning,
so today we are taking another big leap in this transformation and how we do human spaceflight.
What we're doing is we're transitioning from a test flight to operational flights.
I'm right behind you all right
Kathy Lueders, associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations at NASA Headquarters
Fundamentally the accords are about avoiding conflict, transparency, public registration,
deconflicting activities. These are the principles
that will preserve peace the administration and a bipartisan coalition in the congress
are committed to utilizing the great talents of this agency we call NASA
Thank you to all of the hidden figures throughout history that have made NASA such a successful
agency. NASA is an amazing little agency that does astonishing things every day, and now we're using
that capability to respond to this pandemic using the you know a whole of government approach. I
would say that space policy directive one is well underway, we've got a long ways to go,
but we're started and certainly we want to get back to the Moon as quickly as possible.
What are we doing with space technology to help us right here right now today and of course it's
agriculture and its endangered species and its conservationists and its hydropower, and of course
drinking water. We're going to demonstrate that we can fly across the United States faster than
the speed of sound without making that sonic crack that can be so disturbing to folks on the ground.
And all of that is going to happen right here at the Armstrong Flight Research Center since I've
been the NASA administrator. Everybody that works at NASA who are of age remember specifically where
they were when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon, and it inspired their lives
it changed their lives, and today they work in the aerospace industry doing absolutely
stunning achievements. This is the first time in history when NASA has dedicated a mission
to what we call astrobiology, the search for life or ancient life on another world. We're gonna
cache samples on the surface of another world for a future mission in 2026, to bring those samples
back to Earth. That will be the first time in history that we've done a Mars return mission.
It's an amazing day. I just saw the first images there of OSIRIS-REx touching down on Bennu
and it was every bit as beautiful as I thought it would be.
It's been the joy of my life to serve this little agency called NASA that does just amazing things.