WEBVTT 0 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:02.009 Very special hello to Artemis II. 1 00:00:02.542 --> 00:00:06.562 Today you've made history and made all America really proud, 2 00:00:06.650 --> 00:00:07.650 incredibly proud. 3 00:00:07.738 --> 00:00:11.866 We have a lot of things to be proud of lately, but there's nothing like 4 00:00:11.954 --> 00:00:14.946 what you're doing, circling around the moon for the first time in more 5 00:00:15.034 --> 00:00:18.522 than a half a century and breaking the all-time record 6 00:00:18.610 --> 00:00:20.922 for the farthest distance from planet Earth. 7 00:00:21.010 --> 00:00:23.670 I want to personally salute and congratulate 8 00:00:23.758 --> 00:00:27.698 Commander Reid Weissman, Pilot Victor Glover, 9 00:00:28.232 --> 00:00:32.512 mission specialists, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen. 10 00:00:32.600 --> 00:00:33.540 And I 11 00:00:33.628 --> 00:00:37.742 also want to thank the entire amazing team at NASA, headed 12 00:00:37.830 --> 00:00:40.732 by Jared, who's a very special guy, by the way. 13 00:00:40.820 --> 00:00:43.520 And you all made this day possible. 14 00:00:43.660 --> 00:00:47.020 You've really inspired the entire world, really. 15 00:00:47.360 --> 00:00:49.760 Everybody's watching. I find it incredible. 16 00:00:50.060 --> 00:00:52.200 I just watch you go to the back of the moon and. 17 00:00:52.902 --> 00:00:56.062 People haven't been there in a long time, but it's going to be more 18 00:00:56.150 --> 00:00:58.006 and more prevalent because we're going to be doing a 19 00:00:58.094 --> 00:00:59.616 lot of a lot of traveling. 20 00:00:59.704 --> 00:01:03.406 And then you're going to ultimately do the whole big trip to Mars. 21 00:01:03.494 --> 00:01:04.945 And that's going to be very exciting. 22 00:01:05.033 --> 00:01:09.746 So you look at we had no astronaut has been to the moon 23 00:01:09.834 --> 00:01:12.550 since the days of Apollo program. The Apollo 24 00:01:12.638 --> 00:01:15.598 program was also very special, but that was special. 25 00:01:15.702 --> 00:01:19.542 50 years ago. And at long last, America is back. 26 00:01:19.630 --> 00:01:20.190 And America 27 00:01:20.278 --> 00:01:23.146 is back in many ways stronger than ever before with the hottest 28 00:01:23.234 --> 00:01:26.426 country anywhere in the world. The Artemis 29 00:01:26.514 --> 00:01:29.730 crew flew in the most powerful rocket NASA has ever made, 30 00:01:29.818 --> 00:01:33.118 ever launched, traveled over a quarter of a million miles, 31 00:01:33.230 --> 00:01:36.970 broke the distance record set by the legendary Apollo 13. 32 00:01:37.442 --> 00:01:40.062 And America is a frontier nation. 33 00:01:40.150 --> 00:01:43.030 And the four brave astronauts of. 34 00:01:43.832 --> 00:01:45.572 Artemis, too, are a modern day. 35 00:01:45.660 --> 00:01:48.761 You really are modern day pioneers, all of you. 36 00:01:48.849 --> 00:01:50.482 And one of them happens to be a neighbor. 37 00:01:50.570 --> 00:01:51.572 You know that is right. 38 00:01:51.660 --> 00:01:54.400 You have a special person over there, a neighbor. 39 00:01:54.980 --> 00:01:56.460 And we like our neighbor. 40 00:01:57.482 --> 00:02:00.922 We'll plant our flag once again, and this time we won't 41 00:02:01.010 --> 00:02:02.010 just leave footprints. 42 00:02:02.098 --> 00:02:05.810 We'll establish a permanent presence on the moon, and we'll push 43 00:02:05.898 --> 00:02:06.898 on to Mars. 44 00:02:07.150 --> 00:02:10.570 Well, I have to say I spoke to a very special person, 45 00:02:10.789 --> 00:02:13.010 Wayne Gretzky, who I think you know, the great one. 46 00:02:13.122 --> 00:02:14.122 And I 47 00:02:14.210 --> 00:02:17.330 spoke to your prime minister and many other friends I have 48 00:02:17.418 --> 00:02:19.278 in Canada. They are so proud of you. 49 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:21.460 And you have a lot of courage. 50 00:02:22.152 --> 00:02:23.777 I'm not sure if they'd want to do that. 51 00:02:23.865 --> 00:02:26.112 I'm not even sure if the great one would want to do that, 52 00:02:26.200 --> 00:02:27.180 to be honest with you. 53 00:02:27.268 --> 00:02:30.400 But you have a lot of courage doing what you're doing, a lot of bravery 54 00:02:30.488 --> 00:02:34.448 and a lot of a lot of genius. But they're very, very proud of you.