A speech on accelerating US space launches by consolidating FAA, NASA, and Commerce oversight to cut red tape. The speaker wants a nuclear reactor at the lunar south pole, faster Artemis missions, and a lunar base as a stepping stone to Mars.
Questions this video answers
The thousandth private space launch (the speaker said 'we just had today the thousandth private space launch').
35 years (the speaker: 'that took 35 years to get us to a thousand launches').
The speaker predicted the next thousand launches from the private sector in less than five years ('in less than five years').
60% ('we only have 60% of the launches right now in America').
A nuclear reactor on the moon ('We want to put a nuclear reactor on the moon').
Chapters
We just had today the thousandth private space launch. And so that took 35 years to get us to a thousand launches. We think with the CEO, in less than five years, we'll get the next thousand launches from the private sector, which is fantastic, by the way. We used to own all those private launches again, starting with Space X. We only have 60% of the launches right now in America. And the reason we don't have more launches is because, because of the rules, regulations and red tape that come around the launch. Right. We want to do things safely. And so with me at both dot, which has FAA and NASA, we have to work as one government. And what was happening was you have regulation from FAA and regulation from NASA and regulation from Commerce. And we want to speak with one government, streamline that red tape, reduce costs and allow all of the launches to happen in this country. We want American, American companies and foreign launching off of our, off of our pods and pads in America. And so we are going to streamline that approach. And again, you talk about how important space is. It is critical. And again, we want to drive peace. We don't know where other countries are going to be out in space. They could see a strategic military component to space, which we want to deter. The moon. You mentioned the moon. We want to put a nuclear reactor on the moon. Because at the south pole of the moon, I don't think a lot of people understand this. There's ice. Ice means water, which means we can inhabit the southern pole of the moon. You need an energy source, so some of it can be from solar, but the most reliable energy source is going to come from nuclear. Nuclear. And so we have fast tracked this approach. We're hoping by the end of this decade we're going to be able to get that reactor on the moon in at the first part of next year. Maria Artemis 2, that's our mission to go out and around the moon is going to happen and then Artemis 3 will happen, which we're going to land back on the moon and we're going to stay for six days. The longest before that was three days. And then we're going to start the process of building our base on the moon. That's important because to be on the moon. And what we learn on the moon is going to allow us to go to Mars. And what we're doing at NASA is again, they had this, I mean, a whole smorgasbord of priorities. We explore, we explore space. And so we're going to go to the moon, we're going to go to Mars. We're going to look at what do we do with our next low Earth orbit space station. Right, because the International Space Station has another several years of life before it comes down. That's important to us. But all of the, all the climate science and all of the other priorities that the last administration had at NASA, we're going to move aside and all of the science that we do is going to be directed towards exploration, which is the mission of NASA. That's why we have NASA, is to explore, not to do all of these Earth sciences.
