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Taking their first steps outside for their historic test flight.

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Four brave explorers ready to ride the most powerful rocket.

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NASA has ever launched.

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Reid, Victor, Christina and Jeremy.

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We are going for our families.

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We are going for our teammates.

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We are going for all humanity.

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Engines lit.

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Booster ignition.

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And liftoff.

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The crew of Artemis II, now bound for the Moon.

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Houston. Integrity.

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Great view.

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This is a test flight, and so every single system aboard Orion is getting tested by humans for the first time.

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That is Earth in the center of your screen from the Orion spacecraft looking back at all of us.

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Houston is go for TLI.

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With this burn to the moon we do not leave Earth. We choose it.

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The four of us have looked at this Moon our entire lives,

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and the way we are responding to what we are seeing out the window it's

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just like we're a bunch of little kids up here, just we cannot get enough of this.

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That is something we have never seen before.

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It's hard to wrap your mind around, like, I mean that sincerely.

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It really bends your mind.

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As we prepare to go out of radio communication, to all of you down there on Earth and around Earth.

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We love you from the Moon.

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It just seems like, there's mountains to the north.

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You can see Copernicus, Reiner Gamma.

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It's just everything from the training, but in three dimension and absolutely unbelievable.

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Copy. Moon Joy.

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Superlative thumbs up.

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This is We just went sci-fi.

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I think there is enough for all, the purpose of humanity is joy and lifting one another up, creating together.

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This is a whole bunch of nothing This thing we call the universe.

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You have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist together.

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Well, I'll tell you.

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I mean, after ignition to me, the moment that I'm going to be most excited

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for is splashdown, there's no question about that.

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Good chutes coming down off the West Coast.

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And there go the first series of parachutes.

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Houston. We’re visual two drogues out the window.

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Main chute deploy.

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We most importantly choose this moment to challenge this generation and in the next

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to make sure this record is not long lived.

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This is a relay race.

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It takes an army to pull a mission together like this,

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right, across all ten of our centers, all of our commercial partners, the international partners that come together make this possible.

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Go Artemis!