Nell Greenfield Boyce

He's a

wealthy entrepreneur, a private astronaut, and he's been pushing those two companies to speed up development of the lunar landers.

And he actually added a new Artemis mission next year that's supposed to test out one or both of them in orbit.

So, you know, Isaac Min has said that there could be a moon landing as soon as 2028, assuming those tests of the lander go well.

But, you know, people I talk to think that that seems pretty optimistic.

So NASA has said that it doesn't want just flags and footprints, right?

It says that it wants to establish a near continuous human presence on the moon, sort of like we have a presence in Antarctica, right?

So it's laid out this fairly ambitious plan that includes all these robotic missions, you know, development of a power station and a lunar base where astronauts could live.

And

You know, Jared Isaacman has said recently that the goal is that there would be lunar landings of various kinds on a near monthly basis.

The question is, is there going to be the money for that and the appetite for that?

You know, I mean, they're saying they're going to do it cheaper than the days of the Apollo program because they're going to use commercial partners and stuff.

But still, I mean, he's got a three phase plan and phase one alone would cost like, you know, $10 billion.

Wow.

Well, it's hard to come by those numbers, but it's the best I can tell.

There was a projection from NASA's inspector general office a few years ago, and it said through 2025, it was projecting total costs for the program of like 93 billion.

And that was just like so far, you know, I mean, every every launch of one of these big rockets like the one I'm looking at, it costs several billion dollars.

It's interesting.

You know, leading up to this, I would talk to people.

A lot of people just weren't even aware that NASA was working to putting people back on the moon, you know.