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Neil Freiman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

They want to build up the political support for going back to the moon because it's a huge endeavor.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

And, you know, the support for spaceflight.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

Space travel had been waning over the past few decades.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

But I think what they've done is very smart.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

They actually hired someone called an imagery czar.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

This is Zebulon Scoville a couple years ago.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

And what he did is he put a bunch more communications apparatuses on these particular spacecrafts so we can beam down high-quality video and they can FaceTime with people.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

And that sort of communication strategy worked admirably well.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

And I think it really helped that these poets were โ€“ I said poets.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

These astronauts were basically โ€“

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

poets and they seem like the best people that you could possibly have as emissaries from space.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

So I think they absolutely had a huge PR victory here as well, which was maybe even more important than the technical aspects of the mission.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

We did promise what Artemis 3 and Artemis 4 to preview what they're going to do.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

So Artemis 3 is set to launch next year, and that's going to test whether the Orion spacecraft can dock with the lunar lander.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

And this is where the private sector comes in, because right now we got Jeff Bezos with his Blue Origin and SpaceX by Elon Musk competing for that lunar lander contract.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

So it'll be very interesting to see who ends up

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

actually serving as the lunar lander for Artemis IV, which is expected to land astronauts back on the moon in 2028.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

Let's do it.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

Not working with a financial professional is one of the biggest mistakes you can make.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

Yeah, that and sneaking up on a miniature horse.