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>>KENNEDY: We choose to go to
the moon in this decade and do

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the other things. Not because
they are easy but because they

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are hard! >>ARMSTRONG: That's
one small step for man...

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>>NARRATOR: One of humanity's
greatest achievements.

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>>ARMSTRONG: One giant leap for
mankind. >>NARRATOR: And one of

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humanity's greatest scientific
tools. You might be

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surprised to learn that the
Hubble Space Telescope and

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landing on the moon in 2024 have
a lot to do with each other. In

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fact, when you think of Hubble,
usually those gorgeous pictures

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first come to mind. But after
Jim Garvin’s 2005 research using

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Hubble, what have we learned
about prospecting the moon for

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locations to establish a human
presence for the 2024 Artemis

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mission? >>GARVIN: Hubble's one
little piece of that masterpiece

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we've been working on for 50
years, so that people can use

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the Moon as a special place, as
Mother Nature's great control

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experiment next door.

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>> "Hubble and Going Forward to
the Moon"

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>>NARRATOR: 340 miles above the
Earth’s surface, Hubble orbits

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over the distorting effects of
the atmosphere, enabling us to

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look deeper into space than any
ground based telescope. Hubble

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was specially designed to be
upgraded while in space. Through

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five servicing missions over the
years, astronauts have repaired,

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restored, and updated Hubble to
make it better than ever. The

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Hubble Space telescope has
taught us a lot about our place

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in the universe, but back in
2005. then NASA chief scientist

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Jim Garvin decided to focus
Hubble’s powerful instruments on

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something a little closer to
home. >>GARVIN: What if we used

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Hubble to do what it's best at?
Be a precision photometer in

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wavelengths where it's very
convenient, the Lunar soils

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light up like firecrackers if
they're rich in certain

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minerals. We know from Apollo
samples that some of the Lunar

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soils and rocks are literally
ore bodies. And so the idea of

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using Hubble with this exquisite
ultraviolet imaging capability

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with the ACS instrument at that
point, and then maybe later with

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others, to target the Moon came
alive. >>NARRATOR: Imagine,

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you’re 240,000 miles away from
Earth, yeah you’ll be getting

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packages from home every once in
a while, but you’re going to

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need to be self sufficient too.
And that’s where Hubble comes

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in… >>GARVIN: We realized that
some of the Moon rocks might be

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resources, and if they found
them on Earth we'd be mining

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them. So using the eyes of
Hubble where it has exquisite

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precision and resolution in ways
that go beyond our eyes, beyond

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normal spacecraft we fly to
orbit planets, was an

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opportunity to use an
astronomical asset, a historical

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one, a cathedral to the stars to
observe the Moon in a way where

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we could test, prospect for
these resources in three places.

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And we were spectacular beyond
success with the capability of

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Hubble to see things we couldn't
see, at finer scales. Hubble

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became a resource prospector to
light the way for following

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missions, Lunar Reconnaissance
Orbiter, to fill in the gaps, to

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paint the picture of the Moon
that we're going to go back to.

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We were attempting to be
catalysts, pathfinders, for how

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we might use the Moon in ways
that are more creative than many

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had ever thought it could be
used. What if we could live off

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the Moon's resources in ways
that enable us not to have to

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bring everything with us?

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[INSPIRATIONAL MUSIC]

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One object that's in our destiny
is the Moon. We've been there,
six times, 50 years ahead of our

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time with project Apollo. We're
ready to go back, women and men,

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for the long haul. And that
prime directive will put people

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on the Moon again in the year
2024. Hubble has been one of

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those pieces of the mosaic of
information to help us

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understand what the Moon offers,
what we could use the Moon for

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as we're there. So now we could
see our Universe, our solar

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system in a new light, and now
we're ready to capitalize on

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that. And that's what Artemis,
what Hubble, what the future of

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space exploration is about.
Let's capitalize on what we've

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learned. We're out of the dark
ages, we're coming into the new

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light, let's go!

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[INSPIRING MUSIC]

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