I love this clip where the head of Arianne Space says that 'reusability is a dream':
https://x.com/esherifftv/status/1676777881349894146?s=20
In 2025, SpaceX completed 165 orbital launches, while Arianespace performed 7 total launches.
Posted on 08/05/2026 10:46:53 AM PDT by DFG
With America's support "double that of during the Kennedy era" for returning to the Moon, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said this week that we'll have a permanent lunar base within 20 years, and American astronauts living there full-time.
But that might not be today's biggest news from the entrepreneur-turned-astronaut-turned-NASA-head.
“If we do want to have that extraordinary future that many of us imagine, you have to have some sort of a space economy to fund it,” he said, adding that "We’re supposed to be doing what no other government agency, no company is capable of doing, no other nation around the world.”
While building a permanent lunar base in under 20 years might seem ambitious, SpaceX's Starship (still under development) could drive launch costs low enough to compress Isaacman's timeline. We might lack the will more than the ability.
But that's just the start. "Rather than treating the moon as a destination," Chris Pugh reported on Wednesday, "NASA views it as a proving ground."
Speaking with the New York Post's Lydia Moynihan, Isaacman said that while "The three most powerful rockets in the world are going to launch in a span of about a week," which he called "really quite cool," the coolest part might be his agency's renewed focus on nuclear-powered spacecraft that could put far more than just the Moon within practical reach.
Following a 2025 executive order by President Donald Trump to pursue nuclear propulsion, Isaacman said in March that "American space superiority" would be based in part on nuclear. This isn't some multi-decade maybe/kinda/sorta dream. NASA's Space Reactor-1 Freedom, a nuclear-electric propulsion rocket, is set to begin its voyage to Mars in December 2028.
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I have heard this somewhere before—oh yeah:
https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/infocus/space/
“Presidential Action
On January 14, 2004, President Bush announced a new vision for the Nation’s space exploration program.
The President committed the United States to a long-term human and robotic program to explore the solar system, starting with a return to the Moon that will ultimately enable future exploration of Mars and other destinations.
The President’s vision affirms our Nation’s commitment to manned space exploration. It gives NASA a new focus and clear objectives. It will be affordable and sustainable while maintaining the highest levels of safety.”
Let’s spend that money on making sure we don’t get nuked by some camel humpers first.
And you can bet, this time it won’t be Whitey On The Moon.
I know of $40,000,000,000,000 reasons against this.
“NASA’s Jared Isaacman Wants America Back on the Moon — and Beyond”. Dude, we’ve been to the moon, but beyond could be intriguing.
No return to the moon, eh? We have a lot of unfinished business up there. Apollo was just the beginning.
There’s a reason why the Apollo program was cut short, and there hasn’t been a human on the moon in more than five decades.
Democrats would rather hand money to riotous negroes residing in urban pestholes in exchange for votes.
It’s all about political power.
I want all DSA types on the moon - and beyond.
It has nothing to do with political power. There simply isn’t a sufficient benefit to justify the cost of such a massive undertaking.
🙄
Plus, who really wants to be slow-cooked well-done, through until a grisly too-early death, in the parts of space unprotected by Earth’s magnetosphere?
What’s the point? No resources. No strategic importance. Extremely expensive. We have been there, done that.
Exactly.
Thank you for your opinion. I do not find it to be supported by historical fact.
At least you’re not claiming that we never went ...
I love this clip where the head of Arianne Space says that 'reusability is a dream':
https://x.com/esherifftv/status/1676777881349894146?s=20
In 2025, SpaceX completed 165 orbital launches, while Arianespace performed 7 total launches.
Staging area for mining the asteroids. Don’t be so swift to say the moon has no economic mineralogical content. It may. I will have to research it. Anyway our sample size is very small and very localized.
Never happened and why did they lose Apollo information and can’t recreate it.
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