Institute of aeronautics and astronautics in las vegas. They talked about the importance of publicprivate partnerships and human robotics in the exploration of space. This runs an hour and 20 minutes. It is so awesome, so amazing. What i really liked is the james webb pictures. How i got into space is i was a little kid in tahoe looking at the night sky and i got a telescope when i was 11. One of the first things i looked at was saturn and there were rings around it. I had seen pictures in books but here i was and i could actually see the rings. I have been a space junkie ever since. I have worked in rockets over 30 years and now i have the pleasure of helping put this conference on together with aiaa. I want to thank everyone who has made this happen. It was not me. Our guiding coalition, collaborative and Technical Program chairs, over 400 speakers. I want to thank you all for giving your time and everyone is prepared. You will hear some really cool things. We also have our sponsor by privateer. We will be hearing from them over the three days. Our diversity scholars, 27 this year. We had about 12 last year. This video is a precursor of the things you are going to see. There are so many cool things on there will talk about them the next three days. We want you to connect. We want you to see each other, network. You will see the collaboration is what we are looking for. I talked about collaboration and i want to hear about where you are going. Thanks. Julie and i both have day jobs. My day job is the general manager of Lockheed Martin space. We believe space is just the beginning. It is what you do when you get to space that matters. It is the mission that matters. Lockheed martin protects with advanced weather sensing and Missile Warning. We connect civilians and military alike through Global Positioning systems and the Space Development agency exploration. We explore space for the benefit of all mankind. Those pictures of saturn and now jupiter, it is the next giant leap for Space Exploration with artemis. We are bringing the brightest minds together, like those in this room an online. We are rising to meet the challenge of our time. We are driving innovation to keep space at the forefront, inspiring our world. Those are what we hold dear at Lockheed Martin and that is why we are invested in the experiences we will have this week. Your comment on the brightest minds, i really like that. That is what we are doing here and that is what we want to do. The other part of that is it is not just smart people, it is a Diverse Group of smart people. We have representation across the industry, internationally, a number of demographics. That is a core value. We believe bringing people together who do not think alike and working on the hard problems will drive solutions to those challenges. That is why we are here. I really believe we are at the crossroads of history. We have an opportunity to shape tomorrow. The only way we are going to do that is by leveraging full diversity with the people we have here and online. Inspiring others to join us in this journey. That is what we are going to need if we are going to have innovation and drive to go with the speed we need to preserve our values and freedoms. Space touches every aspect of our lives and we all get that. We need to bring other people into that journey. We need to lean in hard whether you are representing academia or industry. How are we going to pull future leaders . Future scientists . Future engineers . Inspirational artists . Everyone who is part of this journey in space, how are we going to pull them together and move into the future . Julie i agree. It is not just getting to space and the technological accomplishments. We are going to be living and breathing and working in space and that is a different environment. We are writing history and you are helping create history. What we want you to do the next few days i am sure you are going to find something of interest regardless. There is so much to choose from. I will have a tough time of where to listen and participate but please, get involved. You need to have the conversations. We need your input. Participate in the roundtables and informal sessions. Creating the type of meeting the people you are going to meet and creating those new bonds and partnerships, that is what is going to drive us forward. I am looking forward to it and i hope to meet a bunch of you in the room and a whole bunch more the next three days. Johnathon thats great. Why dont we get this started . I am going to introduce the deputy administrator. She is a thought leader in her own right. She began her career as an air force test pilot and went on to become an astronaut and one of only two women to command the Space Shuttle. Among her vital activities at nasa, pam has been the lead on guiding the creation of a set of moon to mars objectives that will guide us on that path, with our partners, to go back to the moon and onto mars. Please join me in welcoming deputy administrator pam melroy. [applause] pam thank you, thank you. Thank you so much. Good morning. It is so exciting to be together again. I love the fact we are talking about collaboration because there is something magic that happens when we get in a room together like this. I want to tell you how excited we are about a decade of work or more that is coming to fruition. When we launched artemis i, that will be extraordinary. I want to remind you there is a lot of hard work still going on. We have work for artemis ii, iii, iv in the works. It is time to step back and ask, what is our strategy going to be be the flight tests of artemis i through iv . It was important to me and bill nelson when we came to the agency to be focused on thinking about that strategy and what we were going to be doing after we got through flight test. I think it is critically important whenever we talk about we are transparent and collaborative. I think you will hear not just in my description of a strategy but how we got to the strategy and how we are trying to execute and how that is important to us. One of the things that is very interesting to me is if you go back and you look at apollo, i think we learned something about ourselves. We learned if we said, we are going to do Something Big no one knows how to do, very aspirational, and you roll up your sleeves and do it, that it is possible. I think that is still very much a part of American Culture and nasas culture. That is really important. Apollo inspired my generation of scientists, engineers, aviators and explorers. Artemis is going to inspire that next wave. I want to mention it is important to us to prioritize the artemis generation. I am proud to give a shout out to to aiaa on the students to launch initiative. That is the opportunity to bring students in middle school to actually see the launch and be inspired. On our first artemis attempt, we brought students from all around florida to have that experience. And a few weeks later we had 40 students from tribal lands in montana and kentucky come to the Kennedy Space center for launch. When i look at the students i see the first crew to mars. That is why it is so important we show them what it means to be part of the artemis generation. Thank you for that partnership. My background not just as a test pilot but was as a physicist. I would like to go back to first principles. This is probably one of the most important messages that i give and that is why i give it every time i speak. It is interesting. We love space and we are embedded in it but we struggle to articulate to others outside our industry why what we do is a good thing to do. I am guessing every single one of you in this room has at least one piece you are really passionate about. But what i found is if you go out and ask americans, ask people around the world, what is the value of going to space for humanity and for our country and citizens . You will hear one of these three areas, sometimes all three. Let me unpack that. Scientists front and center, it is about exploration and understanding the universe. The James Webb Space Telescope telling us about the history of time which is the history of the development of our solar system and us. In addition, the exoplanet work we do, helping us understand the formation of the solar system, the biological science we do on the iss that helps us understand our own body. Of course, the work we do to try to understand the climate is critically important. That is the value space brings us. It exposes us to learning about ourselves and our universe. I think that is front and center. The next is national posture. Sometimes that is the only thing that resonates with people. And sometimes it does not resonate at all. But what it has to do with his leadership in science and technology. Why is that important . You can go anywhere in the world and people understand if you have strong technical base in science and technology, it is not just about space, it spills into aspects of all peoples lives. It improves economic situations and outcomes were human beings. In addition, space is a key enabler in International Partnerships because it is global. Finally, there is inspiration. I talked about the artemis generation. We need to inspire the next generation of stem students. In addition to that, what julie was talking about with the inspiration we get when we look at pictures from the james webb telescope. That is the human condition. It is what inspires us. For me, it is really important because we have a lot of stakeholders who some think only one is important, but even more think all three is important. If we do not approach that is ticking all the boxes, we might fail. We need to bring everyone together and be behind what we are doing. You may not resonate with one of those areas, you may strongly resonate with one, but it is our job at nasa that we provide benefits to all humanity, we address all stakeholders. That is what makes us different than the private sector. They have their own why. They may pick one thing and go all in, but we have the responsibility to address all of our stakeholders needs and bring them the value of space. We started with the why. The next step was to think about what are our Guiding Principles . Starting with an objective based approach, meaning we think about what is the goal we are trying to achieve . You go all the way out in some aspirational way and say, what is it we are trying to achieve at the highest level . And then you can say, if that is the goal, lets start with that and build an architecture backward toward where we are today. But as i pointed out we have hardware through artemis iv. We are not standing still. We have to execute from the left and bridge what we are doing today and make sure we are staying focused on that big goal. Critically important to stay with a consistent plan. A lot of heartache and sad stories with changing the plan over and over. That is a central aspect but in order to have a strategy that everybody agrees with, we have to be able to articulate a unified vision in consultation with all of our stakeholders. We need to talk about it. We need to make sure everybody understands. And then we need to communicate, communicate, communicate. That is how we think we will have political resiliency to stay with a consistent plan. So, the big picture all the way over to the right, the largest way we can articulate what we are trying to do is to create a blueprint for sustained human presence and exploration throughout the solar system. This is not about the moon. That is not our final goal. Mars is not our final goal. Humans throughout the solar system is our goal. We want to be able to do that in a thoughtful, repeated, methodical way. This is a tall order. The key thing to think about, what do we need to demonstrate on the moon so that we can understand how this blueprint should look . We are going to learn a lot on the way. We are going to discover, well, we should have done that and a different order. Or something important is not important. Or something we thought was not important is the linchpin for the blueprint. A key part of that was to call together the technical leadership at the agency, the federated board that bill and bob and i use. Bob cabana, our number three. We went across all the directorates, including aeronautics, and asked them to come up with objectives we needed to achieve to accomplish this blueprint but then build it on the moon and demonstrate it so we could practice it on mars. We came up with four general areas to think about transportation and habitation. You have to have a rocket and spacecraft capable of taking humans. You need to be mobile on the surface of the moon so you can accomplish your objectives. Science is very important. We are blessed to be guided by our survey but we are building a framework that goes beyond one decade. It should be two or more. That has been a challenge, so the consultation we had to think about that and look at our science objectives was important. Operations. This sounds kind of obvious but i can tell you having lived on the Space Shuttle and built the International Space station, the way we operated on the shuttle, short Duration Missions focused on a specific payload or a few major payloads, very fast operations focused on getting up, getting something done and coming down. We do not operate the space station that way. We have science going 24 7. The roles and responsibilities change. When we start doing short duration trips at first and then longer operations on the surface of the moon in partial gravity focused on science, we are going to learn again. We are going to have to reinvent human operations. Finally, let me comment about infrastructure. If we are really going deep into the solar system, weve really if we want to maximize the science of the learning we do humans are going to have to stay. It is fine for a test flight for us to send a crew six months to mars, spend 30 days, and six months back. But one of the reasons we built the space station was so we could do science 24 7, maximize the science you can get when a human is involved. We really need the infrastructure that supports humans for Long Duration in space. I will make a comment about that Tech Development. It is critical we do that development right now to prepare ourselves for the next decade of programs of record that will take us to mars. I am excited, and i hope you are too, about our mission directorate, which is an inflatable accelerator that will launch on the jpfs mission on january 1 to have human payloads land on mars. One of the big aspects was the consultation. We started with starting in nasa and then reopened it to the workforce. We opened it up to the public. We had an industry academia and nonprofit workshop domestically and then an international collaboration. This is so important to us. I love the theme of collaboration because we think a critical part of the resiliency of what we are going to do is to have those International Partnerships. To have everyone consult, come up with a consensus and go forward. In addition, by working on an architecture that goes out more than a decade, that allows our international and Industry Partners to begin to plan for the things we are going to be doing five years from now, 10 years from now. That not only helps our political resiliency, it helps our financial resiliency. We can be more efficient if we have a plan in advance. I am delighted to say we went from 50 objectives to 63. I will not read everyo one but i wanted to give examples. There were substantial changes to many but i will point out a couple. We had some objectives that referred to the term large. Like i did about large payloads. We need a range of payload sizes from small to large to accomplish our objective. That was a critical change. Field geology. That is one of the things that the Science Mission directorate calls a science enabling objective. We all know we have to prepare astronauts to do science on the surface of the moon. But in fact, no, we need to create a Training Program for mission specific, indepth Science Training for astronauts. Because when you get a human there magic is going to happen. You can get things done faster but if we are going to take advantage, they have to be fully prepared. Responsible use. This is kind of like a duh, but we kind of assumed. We just assumed that is how we need to behave. It was critical feedback to say, do not leave it as an assumption. Be as explicit as you can and call out everything that we do has to be responsible and sustainable. Finally, remotesensing. We were not really thinking about how all of these objectives play together and have science and other things we do actually support all the objectives. It is very important that we have remotesensing to support those human led science campaigns. These are a few examples of the changes you will find. I really believe and hope some of you in the room recognize yourself in these changes. We asked you and you gave us over 5000 inputs. I really wanted to say thank you for being part of the journey and going on with us. We think that is very important that we continue that. Let me segue to looking ahead. Where are we . We know our Artemis Missions are going to teach us a lot. That is going to influence every single time we fly the strategy ahead. Today we also know part of that communication is documentation. We need to explain the history of each one of these objectives and why we focused on them. We need to get out and talk about it. That is what i am doing today. But we need to have a continual cadence. This cannot be one and done. We need a plan where we are continuing to communicate and get feedback. The architecture is owned by our Exploration Systems Development mission directorate. You will hear from jim free later, the associate administrator. The architecture belongs to him. The objectives belong to the agency collectively through the federated board. Trying to figure out how we are going to do this cadence. The esd came up with an architecture and strategic analysis cycles. They in the progress of doing a review and it is an opportunity for us to look at the objectives and look at the architecture. We are looking for