Jared Isaacman

Make sure the integrated operations and the lander and the spacecraft work really well.

And then in 2028, before the end of President Trump's term, Artemis 4 will land on the moon.

And this time we're not going for the flags and footprints.

We are going to stay.

We are actually building a moon base.

Okay.

Well, here's an interesting tidbit that probably most people don't realize, but if you are 25 years old or younger, there isn't a time you have lived on this earth where we have not had American astronauts orbiting above you on the International Space Station.

We've kept human beings alive for a quarter of a century continuously on the International Space Station.

But I have to tell you this, if there was ever a safe place to keep astronauts alive in space, it's in low earth orbit or

where you have an atmosphere there as well as Earth's magnetosphere that protect you from radiation, from micrometeors and orbital debris.

So where is the next evolution of that?

The next evolution of it is to put the astronauts on the surface of the moon.

Why?

That's where they're going to be able to interact with the lunar regolith.

They're going to be able to test out mobility, power, navigation.

and most importantly in situ resource manufacturing working with the water ice that's on the south pole of the moon to make propellant and it's going to essentially become the proving ground for future missions to mars because in the not too distant future we are going to have the capability to send astronauts to mars the hard part is how do you bring them back home safely to tell us about it they're going to actually have to be able to make their propellant on the surface of mars better to test that three days away on the moon than it is nine months away on mars

so we can certainly talk about this all day i i personally believe the number one point is a lack of competition look it's uh it worked really well for us in the 1960s right i mean we were able to to mobilize the resources of the nation the best and brightest from across the country and concentrating on achieving something that many people thought

was impossible and sending astronauts july 20th 1969 to the surface of the moon and bring them back but after that in hindsight it turns out we had all the schedule margin in the world no humans have set foot on the moon since 1972 and it was only america so what did we do we started to spread out very thin we partnered with everybody we brought goodwill around the world

We indulged every stakeholder that imposed their projects on us.

We did a number of self-inflicted projects, I'll tell you, as well, some of them cool.