Private companies led by Bezos and Musk aim to land humans on the Moon by 2026-2027, building permanent infrastructure instead of one-off visits. New U.S. policy allows lunar mining, which could trigger an economic boom similar to gold rushes. But Speaker B warns we need rules to prevent visible damage to the Moon's surface from Earth.
What's your feeling on this decade being the decade of space?
Leaving aside what you want. Yeah, we will get to the moon, the next humans on the moon, through a private development, right? Government will fund part of it. Yeah, but Bezos and, uh, and Musk, uh, will, will get humans on the moon The original target was 2024. My guess is that will slip by 2 or 3 years, '26, '27. But once it— but different than last time, once we do it, we will have a regular capacity and capability. It's not flags and footsteps, which was like a mad dash to get there and leave no infrastructure behind. This time it's being built with a full stack to get there on an easily recurring basis. And once we're on the moon, the moon is, you know, energetically two-thirds of the way to anywhere. And so it's, it's beautiful because the moon is— what we just saw was the Trump administration, uh, approved something that I've been dreaming about for years, which is you could mine the moon. You can get minerals from the moon. And the only way the United States— for the Americans here watching, um, or is the only way the United States opened up was because of land rights, because of railroad rights of way, because of gold mining, and so forth. The economic interest, I call it an exothermic economic reaction, like being able to build stuff that gives off more money than it consumes. Then it just like poof, it's going to happen regardless. Now we need to put some good regulations on not to destroy the moon visibly from the Earth, but— Right, you don't want to see giant holes, more holes than like— yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't want to see the Pepsi logo, you know, across the night sky.
