i think that's going to be key when we start getting even more complex missions for artemus and startutting all of those major pieces together that somebody has to oversee and make sure they all work well together. >> reporter: so boeing along with north american aviation and douglas aircraft were really the biggest contractors on the sat turn 5 rocket that took humans to the moon for the first time since then, boeing has aacquired both of those companies. currently, nasa says that sll will be the rocket that takes astronauts back to the moon, including a lunar orbiting space station, something that's going to be called the gateway, of which there are five companies that are competing those companies, bigalow, nor northrup grommond. a lot of this is going to come down to cost sls is not reusable. it's already billions of dollars and years overschedule and as we heard from the nasa administrator, jim bridenstine just yesterday, if they're going to pull this off, especially in the next five years and do it to the tune of only, maybe an additional $20 billion over that time frame, that's

the vice president will come here to make a major announcement about artemus, the trump administrationastronauts back on the moon by 2024. it is a rapidly accelerated timeline but nasa is confident they can to pull it off if congress gives them the money to do it. it is estimated to be 20 to $30 billion. president trump was in the oval office with the nasa administrator and two apollo xi astronauts, mike collins and buzz aldrin, despite the promise of artemus, buzz aldrin was disappointed it has taken so long to get back. >> 10, 15 years, we have the number one rocket now in the u.s., we have the number one spacecraft and we cannot get into lunar orbit with significant maneuvering capability. >> right. >> that is a great disappointment. reporter: now tomorrow i'm going to be digging into that sentiment a little bit deepwer buzz aldrin and the vice president. i'm going to be hosting a two-hour special from 12 to 2:00 live at the kennedy space center. we're going to be broadcasting from inside of the room where buzz aldrin, mike collins and neil armstrong suited up right before heading o

planet but artemus will be important going to the moon will be you know and important 1st because we need to test some of the technologies that we will need for a mars mission i'm talking about life support systems of talk about propulsion systems i'm talking about health care delivery systems when we go to mars someday and i'm looking forward maybe 15 years now we'll be setting the 1st crew to mars this is a no kidding mission the risks will be the ultimate and we need to make sure that we're confident in our systems and in our astronaut training before we go do you think the problem in terms of funding such a project. well i think that the environment today has changed back you know allows a child it was individual countries the soviet union united states that were putting a lot of these magnificent space programs space projects we don't do that anymore today it's all about international cooperation on the canadian i'm a member i was a member of the canadian space agency astronaut corps we do things in collaboration with our other spacefaring nations the united states russia severa

moment are you already getting that sense from visitors to the museum that artemus 2024 could be another such moment for all of humanity i think one of the things to keep in mind is that the late sixty's were such a contentious moment in the united states around the world europe everywhere and then in that moment around apollo 11 people really did come together to watch this and i think that we might have an echo of that with so much contention in our world politics where at the same time i think if we see a human being standing on another body on moon on mars people are going to be just as excited about that what do you think it would take to really get the public psyched that that we saw during the apollo missions there was the complete especially during the space shuttle era that we all sort of took it for granted it i think that the regularity of spaceflight has made it a little bit less notice than we would like it to be as you mentioned there was a soyuz mission today we've got 3 astronauts who are heading to the international space station that's been continually occupied since th

it's being called artemus. she happens to be the godes of the moon.ogram we're going back to the moon and onto mars with a very diverse, highly qualified astronaut core that includes women. when we talk about the agenda, remember this. president trump and vice president pence have said we're going to put the next person on the moon will be an american and it will be either the next man or the first woman, but we will put the first woman on the moon as the united states of america. >> jim, big goals, big mission. we would love to see the u.s. flag on mars. >> absolutely. >> thank you very much for joining us. >>> it's a great straw debate, paper or plastic, president trump weighing in. >> i do think we have bigger problems than plastic straws. but what about the plates, the wrappers and everything else that are much bigger and they're made of the same materials? >> good point. now the trump campaign has its own answer to the left's push for paper. >> uh oh. >> this is going to get me in trouble at home. ♪ i want it that way... i can't believe it. that