NASA's administrator says SpaceX is essential to landing Americans on the Moon and building a lunar base. He calls Elon Musk the greatest entrepreneur and engineer in recent history and warns against betting against him, citing SpaceX's engineering talent and financial resources.
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In terms of orbital data centers, you know, if Elon and SpaceX are betting on this right now, there is no reason to believe this will not come into existence. Never, ever, ever bet against Elon, right? 100%, right? And never bet against an extremely well-capitalized Elon. So people ask, you know, in my position as NASA administrator, what do I think of, for example, SpaceX as an IPO? Like, first of all, I'm thrilled with any of our partners that are essential to undertaking and achieving our mission, like again, number one national space policy objective, return American astronauts to the lunar surface, build the moon base out. We can't do it without them. So the fact that they're extremely well-capitalized right now is a fantastic thing, not to mention the engineering talent that's in there. And I think without question, you know, the greatest entrepreneur and engineer in recent history at the helm. So I think that's all very good. No doubt it will come into existence.