Name: NASAはどのようにして月への別のミッションを打ち上げる準備をしているのか (How NASA is preparing to launch another mission to the moon)
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JUDY WOODRUFF: This summer will mark the 50th
anniversary of Neil Armstrong's first setting

基礎受動態

But ever since the space shuttles were retired,
there's been a renewed debate over what NASA's

As it turns out, what's old is new again.

There's a big push to return to the moon.

Miles O'Brien looks at those questions and
the man who tasked -- is tasked with overseeing

it for our weekly segment about the Leading
Edge of science, technology and health.

MILES O'BRIEN: One year into his tenure as
NASA administrator, Jim Bridenstine is a man

MAN: Please join me in welcoming Jim Bridenstine.

MILES O'BRIEN: It made him a star at the 35th
Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, the annual

JIM BRIDENSTINE, NASA Administrator: So many
in this room are familiar that we have been

given now a new charge, that we are going
to place humans on the surface of the moon

For a number of years at NASA, they weren't
really allowed to talk about going to the

And now they not only can talk about going
to the moon.

The idea that we're going to be there in five
years has everybody extremely excited.

MILES O'BRIEN: U.S. astronauts on the moon
by 2024, Vice President Mike Pence dropped

MIKE PENCE, Vice President of the United States:
Now, make no mistake about it.

We're in a space race today, just as we were
in the 1960s, and the stakes are even higher.

A private mission designed by Elon Musk and
SpaceX or also China, which landed on the

far side of the moon in January, and vows
to build a permanent encampment there in a

It's a time frame that invokes another race,
another era.

JOHN F. KENNEDY, President of the United States:
We choose to go to the moon in this decade

and do the other things, not because they
are easy, because they are hard.

MILES O'BRIEN: NASA delivered on President
Kennedy's audacious challenge 50 years ago

That moon race was fueled by rivalry with
the Soviets, the desire to honor the wishes

of a martyred leader, and a blank check from
taxpayers.

A lot of things just lined up perfectly to
make that happen.

MILES O'BRIEN: Do you see the similar ingredients
right now?

JIM BRIDENSTINE: So, it's a different era.

That kind of competition doesn't exist right
now.

But what does exist now that's unique that
didn't happen back then is all of the partnerships

MILES O'BRIEN: During the symposium, the former
Navy fighter pilot, who wasn't even alive

during Apollo, met with those international
partners.

U.S. space policy has shifted with the political
wind.

In 2004, President George W. Bush retired
the shuttle program and set his sights on

the moon, a program called Constellation.

But when Barack Obama became president, he
made it clear the moon didn't interest him.

So, in 2010, he canceled Constellation after
an independent committee determined the NASA

The agency was left with a vague underfunded
notion to go to Mars.

But in December of 2017, President Trump signed
Space Policy Directive 1, which put NASA back

NASA policy has been as dizzying as the stomach-churning
gimbal rig test endured by the first astronauts.

When you talk to your counterparts, as you
did earlier today, and you tell them, we're

going to be there in five years, we need your
help, are they kind of hanging on to their

JIM BRIDENSTINE: We are anxiously anticipating
the resources that come from these other countries.

But you're right, not every country will participate
at the same level, and we're OK with that.

MILES O'BRIEN: All the big spacefaring nations
were here, except China, conspicuous in its

What are your thoughts on whether China should
somehow be brought into this partnership?

JIM BRIDENSTINE: So, that goes above the pay
grade of the NASA administrator.

What I will tell you is that we follow the
law, and the law says that NASA is not going

to do any bilateral kind of cooperation with
China.

MILES O'BRIEN: So what will this international
sprint look like?

MIKE PENCE: The president has directed NASA
and Administrator Jim Bridenstine to accomplish

You must consider every available option and
platform to meet our goals, including industry,

government, and the entire American space
enterprise.

MILES O'BRIEN: Pence gave that address at
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville

Alabama, where they designed the Saturn V
rocket that carried Apollo astronauts to the

The even bigger rocket they and Boeing are
building now, the Space Launch System, or

Every rocket program in history has had those
challenges, but we're almost there.

And the problems that it has had historically
-- it's been under development now for 10

years -- we're getting those problems fixed.

MILES O'BRIEN: Elon Musk's SpaceX is in early
development of a huge rocket for missions

to the moon and Mars, but it is unlikely a
commercial alternative to SLS would be ready

Besides, politics dictates this rocket be
at the center of this program.

The powerful delegation from Alabama will
have it no other way.

When he came to NASA, Bridenstine was in his
third term as a Republican congressman from

He understands technology through a political
prism.

JIM BRIDENSTINE: There's two kinds of risk.

There's the technical risk and then there's
the political risk.

As a member of Congress, I can tell you, I
have seen it.

The technical risk is irrelevant if the politics
aren't right.

MILES O'BRIEN: Bridenstine has already gotten
a taste of the skepticism he is facing among