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Research for example, instead of funding grant proposals, we might identify brilliant researchers and give them long term grants to let them explore new ways. that will be much more collaborative because they won't be fighting every minute for the next grant to fund their lab and i think more creative ways of disbursing funds to foster collaboration is very important. if you have a limited pot of money and only, say, one in six, one in eight grants gets funded, you do create competition, cutthroat competition and kill collaboration. >> all right. we'll look ahead to this speech. this moon shot...

President John F. Kennedy made one of his most famous speeches 60 years ago at Rice University, calling for rapid progress in space exploration.

Push its orion capsule toward the moon for a three-week orbit before it returns splashdown in the pacific ocean. a 42-day flight covering 1.3 million miles. nasa's most ambitious moonshot since the apollo era. no one was hmoonwalked since 1972, the half century since apollo 17 ended lunar landings for americans for anyone. >> when this mission is over, you'll have a much better sense of what these guys went through. >> yes, absolutely. a whole new appreciation for it too, i'm sure, because i know it's not going to be easy. >> reporter: at liftoff, rick le bro takes charge of artemis i as its l...

Are successful at influencing, i think the reverberations around the globe will be positive. kennedy said in 1946 we would get a man on the moon because it's hard. in 1969, we did it. i think you have to lay out these ambushes goals. >> but he did not say "i have to get an electric capsule on the moon, i just have to get to the moon." >> is this a moon shot? >> green energy is not the answer. china is filling our demand for the batteries, the solar panels, for the wind turbines. that's what they don't want to talk about: their coal powered energy plans. china is building more, india is buildin...

Notably, the results of the competition were declared on August 10 on the website of ISRO, where Deka made it to the top of the list.