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orbit the moon with astronauts board and artemis iii for 2025 will land people at the moon's south pole. joining me now is kristen fisher live at the kennedy space center in florida. i love the nod to the program, calling this artemis. what's the significance of this mission if we've been to the moon before? >> reporter: you know, a lot of people say that. the reason nasa wants to go back to the moon with the artemis program is two reasons one they want to leave behind more than flags and footprints. they want to build a base on the moon. one that astronauts can live on permanently. ...

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Including ten cube sats. i had the opportunity to speak with the chief exploration scientist, jacob bleacher about his favorite experiment that's on board of these ten cube sats. take a listen to what he had to say. >> it's hard for me to point at one but we're going to learn about ice on the moon. we're going to learn about the environment through which our astronauts and other hardware are going to need to fly. we'll learn how to navigate. we'll take high resolution images. together the amount of information we're getting from the separate cube sats is tremendous. >> reporter: i know jacob w...

In just a few days until NASA's historic Artemis launch. It's the largest rocket ever launched by the U.S. and will help establish a permanent presence on the moon, scientists say.