Papa Mike McRoberts

Well...

The Artemis II program is costing around $55 billion U.S.

A lot of money.

Well, yes.

I love this stuff, Jordan.

Come on, give me a break here.

I know, I know.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

No, no, no.

So it does sound like a lot of money, but the NASA program around Artemis II also creates around $75 billion a year.

And 300,000 jobs across all 50 states of the U.S.

and Washington, D.C.,

in those 300 000 jobs it's 10 billion dollars in tax revenue for the us government so there is some payback but it's not so much anymore about planting a flag on the moon it's actually about creating an ecosystem of all the other things they can do linking up with some of the private contractors including our own rocket lab

so that they can measure things like communication, satellite systems, all of that sort of technology stuff.

And, of course, in the back of all of this is the wider picture of one day having a manned astronaut-driven mission to Mars.

So here's the rundown.

So there's another orbit around the Moon, I think, coming in the next year, and then 2028 is when they go back to the Moon.

Have we been to the moon before?

Oh.

You know, and we've been married three years, Heidi and I, and the first time she brought it up, this is a wind-up, this is a wind-up.