Jared Isaacman

You get a lot of protection there from radiation.

You get a lot of protection there from micrometeors and orbital debris, right?

because at that altitude, it starts to decay and burn up in the atmosphere quicker.

So meaning we have kept astronauts alive in an incredibly harsh environment of space, but literally in the safest place you could have put them, right?

The moon changes the game.

You're not an hour and a half away from being in the water if something goes wrong.

You're days away from coming back to being in the water if something goes wrong.

There is no atmosphere or magnetosphere there to protect the astronauts from solar events like radiation that could,

be really horrific.

So the moon gives us an environment to build out, you know, habitation that can keep our astronauts alive in a far more demanding environment, gives us the opportunity to work with resources away from Earth for in-situ resource manufacturing and refining.

We can make propellant out of ice, things that we're going to need to do to get to Mars someday and bring our astronauts home from Mars.

So it's a next level proving ground.

Okay, so this is a good question because people ask me this, and sometimes we have a habit of jumping to the dream state, you know, this amazing dome, right, with all this, like, you know, vegetation being grown inside it, right?

It's going to look like a junkyard for a while.

I mean, just set expectations here.

We are going to land lots of low-cost rovers and landers and set up comm antennas.

Those rovers are going to burn out after, you know, maybe a single lunar night.

And that's okay because we have to learn and we have to learn in an inexpensive way to get the data to inform our future architecture.

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