We were wanderers from the beginning
the frontier was everywhere.
We were bounded only by the earth, the ocean, and the sky.
The open roads still softly calls.
[indistinct radio chatter]
[radio chatter continues]
There was never a nuclear war.
There was never any war against the United States,
and that is the greatest contribution of TRANSIT.
A lot of people put in so many hours and work getting a man to the Moon,
it was a problem that no one else could solve
and being able to see things on the Moon
I think helped the program immensely.
For nearly twenty-five years, onboard monitors have
provided early warning of impending severe space weather on Earth
We have begun our final breaking the new... [trails off]
I'm happy to report that the NEAR spacecraft
has touched down on the surface of Eros.
It's still transmitting from the surface itself.
It's very important for us to understand the thermosphere and ionosphere
as well as how space weather effects the upper atmosphere
that's so important for the Earth.
The STEREO missions sent space weather monitoring spacecraft around the sun.
We need to be able see other perspectives to do the right job to support a Mars mission.
We really brought Mercury up to the level of understanding of it sister planets in
the inner solar system for the first time.
The fact that the spacecraft and those
instruments have survived more than six years in the most intense radiation region that we
know is just incredible.
I think I was surprised most by how complex Pluto looks.
Who would've thought Pluto's atmosphere would be blue?
The nitrogen ice actually can buoy up giant blocks
of water ice forming mountains as high as the Rocky mountains in the United States,
sticking up like giant icebergs.
This truly is a mission of discovery we're going to go
closer to the Sun than any other spacecraft's gone before.
We're not going to do that once, we're going to do that twenty four times.
2014 MU69 is by far the most
primitive and pristine object that we've ever had the opportunity to fly by.
We believe that it is the closest we've ever been to something like a primordial
building block of the planets.
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test is pioneering the way
for this future planetary defense efforts.
The spacecraft is going to impact the asteroid and
that's going to deflect it sort of changing it's position and it's future path.
What we're looking to do is change the speed of the incoming objects by maybe a centimeter per second.
If you do it enough seconds in advance you could cause it to miss the Earth entirely.
Europa's surface is covered in ice. Beneath that there's evidence that there's a liquid water ocean.
The heliosphere has this barrier protecting our solar system from cosmic rays.
Studying it sheds light on what makes the Earth habitable.
Titan is similar to the early Earth. And that's why we propose Dragonfly.
We have the capability to search for detailed chemical compositions we also bring with us the ability to
search for chemical evidence of water based or even hydrocarbon based life were the chemistry
on Titan to have taken that step from chemistry to biology.
Exploration is in our nature.
We began as wanderers
and we are wanderers still.
We have lingered long enough
on the shores of the cosmic ocean.
We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.