Jared Isaacman

For the first maybe, I don't know, 10 years, it's going to look like a pretty cool futuristic junkyard with lots of landers and rovers around.

But someday, someday that will evolve as the cost to put mass on the lunar surface goes down into some pretty cool infrastructure.

So it will not start that way.

It's certainly not in the early Artemis missions when we are using an architecture that is extremely expensive.

But over time, yes, we will be able to undertake repeatable, affordable missions to the moon.

That's what the president envisioned with his enduring presence.

So there will be some crossover point where I can almost guarantee you that there will be astronauts living and working in lunar environment continuously.

Continuously.

So maybe five to seven years, hypothetically, on your-

I would say let's see what happens over the next decade.

A lot is going to depend on industry.

I mean, look, we haven't been back to the moon in more than a half century.

This is super hard.

You know, sending astronauts to the International Space Station in low Earth orbit, 1.8 million pounds of thrust.

Sending them to the moon, 8.8 million pounds of thrust.

That's complicated and hard.

We need industry to be able to do it for us inexpensively, routinely.

And then, yes, we can have a continuous presence.

I don't think we're going to put them underground in it so much as I wouldn't be surprised if we use rovers to try and cover some of our infrastructure in lunar regolith.

Basically, the materials on the surface of the moon.