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NASA is set to return humans to the moon, and Artemis program astronauts visited the South by Southwest Conference and Festival to discuss how the U.S. plans to use the moon as a steppingstone for future missions to Mars.
Taking the SXSW stage Friday morning, Artemis II astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen spoke about the 10-day flight test mission that will orbit Earth and the moon.
"We want to get to Mars. We don't want to stop there," Wiseman said. "We want to get humans working off of our planet. And Artemis II ... is the first step in the Artemis campaign for humans on Mars. The moon is right next door, so let's go try out some of these systems around the moon. We've been working on the International Space Station for the last 25 years. We know how to live and work off of our planet. And now let's go extrapolate that out to the moon and then let's push on to Mars."
"As humans, we are naturally inspired to explore," Hansen said. "Not everybody wants to get in a rocket. ... But we truly want to go. And what we see is other people truly want to be involved, and they want to solve those problems."
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