Gateway is in of
itself a humongous technological marvel.
It is the first space station around the Moon.
It is going to be a very important part of our future exploration missions.
We know how to live and work in low Earth orbit.
But now it's time to go further.
Artemis is going to take us to parts of the Moon that we haven't been to before.
Going back to the Moon has to be an international cooperation.
The resources and the efforts required to make this happen
are just too much for any single nation to go on their own.
There's the old saying that if you want to go fast, you go alone.
If you want to go for a long time, you go together.
And so it's going to take a humankind effort to go to the Moon.
And then use that as a stepping stone to go to Mars.
To be able to
go and do lunar surface exploration missions and do sustainable missions,
be able to do long duration missions, go to the Moon
to stay rather than just to visit like we did in Apollo,
We need a space station and Gateway’s that station.
The international crews and the international astronauts there
to perform
these missions will be the first humans that are making their home in deep space.
Think about all that we’ve learned from the International Space
Station as a low-Earth orbit Laboratory.
Gateway will be an extension of that.
And continue that legacy of science and discovery.
We are going to be learning
about deep space exploration. When we're in low-Earth orbit
We're protected. When we are around the Moon.
We don't have that protection.
So it is going to affect everything.
We have the very unique ability at Gateway to study that radiation.
Gateway sounds so science
fiction, but it's real and we're building it.
And science will never be the same.