Posted on 06/11/2026 12:17:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman joins 'Mornings with Maria' to detail America's plan to beat China back to the Moon, build a permanent lunar base and pave the way for future missions to Mars.
SPACE RACE: Competition with China is MASSIVELY intensifying | 13:50
Fox Business | 3.35M subscribers | 69,513 views | June 4, 2026
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[FLASHBACK] Former NASA astronaut Harrison Schmitt discusses proposed plans by the space program to return to the moon by the mid 2020s and build a small space station.Are moon settlements feasible? Former NASA astronaut weighs in | 2:55
Fox Business | 3.35M subscribers | 2,568 views | July 20, 2018
[Quibble -- Cernan was the last person to set foot on the Moon, because he got back in the LM after Schmitt and takeoff. Schmitt was the second to last person to set foot on the Moon, because Cernan got out first as well. They used to have a good natured debate about that]
TranscriptStuart: NASA says it wants to go back to the moon and this time they want the astronauts to stay. Harrison Schmitt is with us, the second to last person to set foot on the moon. Welcome to the program, great to see you.
> Good to see you again. You are looking well.
Stuart: Astronauts are going to get there and stay there, are we trying to colonize the moon?
> It certainly could be done. I like to think of it as settling the moon. Very large settlements. Just about everything you need, you can make water, you can make oxygen, you can have power of various kinds including fusion power. There is fusion fuel on the moon, helium-3. Settlements are feasible on the moon and I suspect that is going to happen. I think it will be more an effort by the private sector infrastructure put together, but the private sector could be there as well.
Stuart: Do you think this is a space race, to get to the moon and stay there before China gets to the moon and colonizes?
> I don't think there's any question we are in a geopolitical race much like Apollo, but there is a strong commitment to be dominant in space and the free world led by the United States is going to compete that much more. That is the primary issue.
Stuart: Do you think about it? Do you often think about when you set foot on the moon?
> I think about it all the time. I am writing and speaking in terms of things. Is the last person to step on and stay there?
> The president and vice president's directives are out there. Committed to do that, to implement the president's directive. We have to wait and see how that works out.
Stuart: Great to have you on the show today, especially this particular day. Come and see us soon.
> It was a great day, I was in mission control when this happened 49 years ago. Neil was a great friend of mine, and it's just wonderful that you're acknowledging the day and celebrating it.
Elon Musk says “come with me if you want to live.”
China could beat us to the moon…
The race is not to the Moon. It’s to full reusability!
In Communist China or any other tyrannical government, you can force people to run those plants.
In Communist China or any other tyrannical government, you can force people to work at those plants.
In Communist China or any other tyrannical government, you can force people to work at whatever wage the government allows should be paid.
But, in Communist China or any other tyrannical government, you CANNOT force people to think and innovate.
In the end, they can and will steal the intellectual property of those like Elon Musk who think and innovate, and will put it towards their own uses. But they cannot force people to think, be creative, and be productive no matter how much they lie, cheat, and steal.
And because of that, they will never lead, but will always be behind "catching up".
Well, they don’t have patent, intellectual, property or commercial rights that the US does. In fact no one does. That’s a major reason why ppl come to the US to invent and start businesses.
Imagine inventing something just for a government functionary to take it and claim it as their own.
Hahaha!
"DING DING DING! What do we have for him, Johnny?"
Yes...you understand that 100%!
| Entity | Approx. active satellites (2026) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| SpaceX (Starlink + others) | 9,400+ | Largest operator on Earth by far |
| United States (all operators) | 10,000+ (estimated) | SpaceX makes up the majority of the U.S. total |
| China (all operators) | ~1,000–1,500 | Second place globally |
| Russia (all operators) | ~150–200 | Much smaller constellation |
| All other countries | Dozens to low hundreds each | Typically small national constellations |
| Year | Successful SpaceX Launches | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 96 | Rapid Starlink expansion; near-weekly cadence |
| 2024 | 136 | First year SpaceX exceeded 130 launches |
| 2025 | 167 | Record-setting year; highest annual launch count in history |
| 2026 | 15 (so far) | Through early February; on pace for another 150+ year |
Forgot to add that Elon’s SpaceX launches a whole herd of Starlink satellites with every SpaceX launch.
He also launches for NASA, DOW and other concerns.
China is a baby compared to him.
The problem with that is, thanks to the free traitors, we're funding China's space program instead of ours. They're paying for their space program with our consumer dollars, while we're paying for ours with borrowed money.
It is not a coincidence that both the United States and China are in a competition to get there first.
Just wait until SpaceX starts turning out boosters and rockets like they were chocolate chip cookies. They ultimately plan to build over 10,000 of the super heavy Starship. Literally no one can keep up with that, no company, no nation, no combination of nations. And they’re raising $75 billion tomorrow, a good chunk of which will be utilized to build those “chocolate chip cookie“ factories.
Old fashioned book First On The Moon by Jeff Sutton which I owned at age 12.
Helps when Red is the suit for Communists (USSR back then) so the American can shoot him.
Wikipedia: Sutton’s novel Apollo At Go (1963) was a look at the first Apollo crewed lunar landing that prophetically set the historic event in July 1969 although he did get the date wrong by a few weeks, July 8 instead of the July 20 date that the real Apollo 11 landed on the Moon.
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