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Mars and beyond. and tomorrow is the big crucible test with the biggest rocket we have ever built. >> so, first big step hopefully will happen tomorrow during that two-hour window. im just fascinated by, you know what happens, once we do bring the first woman and the first person of color on the moon, in 2025. i was reading about this base camp with the lunar cabin and the mobile home and a rover. it just sounds like science fiction, i dont think it will be. youre pretty hopeful this will happen...

Systems. so for artemis ii, were ready to fly a crewed mission to fly to the moon. and the first woman and the first person of color on the moon and get there -- their boot prints there. >> there are so many cool aspects to that, first woman, first person of color, rocket scientists can even achieve a feat like this is just mind boggling to me. so, when we talk about the goal, janet, so 2025, not that far away, right, to get someone on the moon. but there is also a plan to get an artemis base ca...

Pad 39b, the rocket, nasas most powerful yet, taller than the statue of liberty, 55 engines and motors will lift in the nearly 600 million pound rocketed skyward on a historic mission, a first step to eventually return americans to the lunar surface. >> so, how real is this, going back to the moon? >> oh, its very real. we definitely going. were gonna actually live there. we will have landers go to the moon. well have rovers on the moon. eventually, will have a base camp on the moon. >> reporter...

Not reusable. only the orion spacecraft will return to earth after it orbits the moon. no human will be on board for this first test. >> well only be about 60 miles from the surface of the moon. >> reporter: the hope, to build a moon base to explore deep space. >> were planning to set up a base camp there on the surface of the moon and develop technologies and operational practices that will set us up to go further on to mars. >> reporter: from there, orions trek back to earth will reach speeds ...

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