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Crews from earth to gateway and then to the lunar surface. >> reporter: already, the gateway components are coming together at this facility in houston. eventually four or five of these modules will be linked together, orbiting the moon, with crews spending on average 30 days on station. those astronauts will then use a lunar lander to descend to a moon base for six-day stays. >> when astronauts come on board, the goal isnt to stay here the whole time, its to get prepared to get in the lander an...

Will happen and why its important. why is it important to go back to the moon? >> well, you know, the cynics would quote from yogi berra that this is deja vu all over again. weve been there, weve done that. but, no, this is different because back in the 60s it was, beat the russians, beat the russians. thats all it was. now were talking about a permanent presence in outer space. a permanent moon base, a permanent satellite going around the moon. and on to mars. so, were talking about a second er...

Pool to recreate the conditions on the lunar surface. with one 60 gravity of our. >> they have to try to replicate what is like on the south pole of the moon. where the sun is very low. right in your eyesight. but everywhere, else it is pitch black. >> on the moon south pole, ice could provide the water nasa needs for a future moon base. >> we want to stay on the lunar surface. so we can get the most science and know how we are going to go to mars. >> our thanks to tom costello for that report. ...

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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...

And something apollo did not have, underneath my feet, a -- >> nasas also testing out a new astronaut suit for future missions, replacing the suits worn by shuttle astronauts. the new suit designed to keep astronauts alive for 144 hours, should theres bishops not only lose cabin pressure. >> there is a little food port here, were using a specialized bag design, you can put liquid nutrition in, think of like a protein shake in there, and then the carmaker can turn their head in the helmet, be abl...

There. and the crew member can turn their head in the helmet, be able to drink that, so they have the proper nutrition. >> how is it in there? is it hot? >> it feels good. nice and cool, sir. >> cool? >> yes, sir, i have a cooling garment underneath that keeps me nice and cool. >> even on a hot houston day. >> yes, sir. >> reporter: if this uncrewed artemis mission goes well, an astronaut mission will follow, then a lunar landing in 2025 and a moon base. returning from its mission, orion will re...

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 ...

Earth." theres a lot in that book. professor frank, always good to see you. your notes to our producers about this mission had three exclamation points. how excited are you? >> as i said in those notes, finally, right? its been almost 50 years since we had anybody get beyond low earth orbit, which is basically like, you know, our porch, right? we havent even been able to get anybody across the street, space-wise. so, this mission is is the beginning of really what will be the real leap, the gian...

The Space Launch System rocket, with the Orion capsule on top, is scheduled to launch on August 29 and take a trip around the moon.