Humans have an innate desire to explore.
It's been part of our survival for thousands of years.
And We need to be curious about what's over the horizon.
the Moon is definitely over the horizon.
Mars is well beyond the horizon.
HAATS,
which is essentially in-flight, lunar simulation.
It's an analog to flying on the on the moon,
At HAATS,
we are practicing, with helicopters, to land in extreme environments
The extreme environment we have access to is mountains in Colorado.
There's thinner air, jagged terrain, lots varing wind conditions
These are ways to help us get ready to land people on the Moon
as part of the Artemis program.
(radio chatter) All right. Yep.
Take it up to power tower. Climb a little bit
The vehicle we fly, the, UH-72 Lakota
also has a rigid rotor system.
it's control response is very quick, almost like a thruster firing.
And then we we're flying with very thin margins
in the way of power and energy and momentum.
(radio chatter)300. Now that's more power
Got all the. Power right there. Thank you.
Nine forward 200.
Now 70% 12ft 10, 9, 8, 7.
Artemis is about going back to the moon.
Not just to touch it, but to stay.
So Artemis, for us, is building architecture
as an international community, to go to the surface of the moon,
to build the foundations for us as a civilization, to go to Mars.