Tim Dodd

It's always been in the plan, actually, to do that first.

But it is a little bit of a shame that we are still a ways away from the Lunar Lander being ready.

And that's because the Lunar Landers only had about three or four years now since the contract started.

So, like, they have had this SLS rocket and Orion they've been working on for, you know, 15 and 11 years at snail's pace.

Yeah.

Because they're just, like, getting just trickling stuff.

just enough money to keep all the contractors happy.

And I'm happy to be frustrated with the bureaucracy of that program.

I don't think that's some grand conspiracy per se or a reason that we can't physically do it.

It's just the reality of like how Congress set up the, and kind of how NASA has to react to Congress's budgets and Congress's mandates about, again, like when Alabama, for instance, was freaking out that they're going to lose 40,000 jobs in their district.

when the shuttle program ended, of course, you're going to have, you know, members of Congress standing up for their their community saying this is going to gut our entire town.

You know, same with Titusville.

Titusville went from they lost 30,000 jobs in one day basically when the shuttle program ended.

I always thought it was I always thought it was Kennedy Space Center.

There's yeah, Alabama is huge with with

It starts with an M. Montgomery?

No.

Oh, my gosh.

Why am I blanking on this?

The town?