Ariel Ekblaw

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StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw · 29 May 2026 podcast

Benefiting who's them?

That's the trick.

It's actually better than just it being science fiction, like going to die on Mars.

It's about infrastructure on Earth and where are they selling?

It's Earth-based markets.

It has to come back down and be of pragmatic use to someone on Earth for it to make sense.

So I think that there's a nuance there.

It can benefit life on Earth.

It is.

I mean, NASA has this playbook with the International Space Station where they got SpaceX to begin doing commercial missions to ferry crew and cargo to the ISS.

It worked incredibly well.

People give SpaceX a lot of credit, but really it was that NASA model shifting and the government contracts that enabled SpaceX

SpaceX's amazing growth today.

They were able to build a cult of personality around SpaceX because they got people engaged in the iterative prototyping and the failure.

But yeah, NASA was never given the space to do that, and that is a tricky dilemma there.

And so that same playbook that worked with SpaceX for the International Space Station, NASA's doing for the moon called CLPS, Commercial Lunar Payload Services.

They're getting commercial companies to provide the transportation and the landing infrastructure for NASA to then be able to go out and do the science.

And I think that there's a tension between watching NASA cede some of these activities to private enterprise, but what it's allowing NASA to do is what NASA does best.

Let's free up NASA from the bit of an albatross of the International Space Station.

Let's let NASA go figure out if there's life on Europa.

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