Moon

“Where we play in the moon stuff is, we provide a lot of components and systems to other folks doing the moon stuff, and that's mainly because there's a bit of whiplash there, like, America's going to the moon, no, no, no, now we're going to Mars, now we're goi…”

“We're going to have American boots back on the moon in 28. We said we're going to have a nuclear reactor in space by 28. We're going to have the first elements of a moon base by twenty-thirty. These are like big, bold bets that take a decade to accomplish, and…”

“If SpaceX puts a city on, on the moon and then Mars, and enables, you know, becomes the British East City Company, the solar system, I think this will, those, there's a lot of hard engineering that needs to happen to go into all that. This will probably be the…”

“I think they're aiming for space ion nuclear-driven space propulsion by twenty-twenty-eight. And then they're talking about reactors on, on the moon's surface to, you know, create heat and power things.”

“I think the moon is more important than Mars in the near term, and I think the same thing I was talking about earlier, using the resources of space to offload the crush of resource on Earth.”

“He has. Yes, they pivoted to the moon.”

“It will cost less to move goods, manufactured goods, processed ore precious metals from the Moon to a specific point on Earth. It will cost less to do that than to ship it using any other terrestrial conventional method, whether that's a boat, an airplane, or …”

“I actually think there's probably a 15 to 30 trillion dollar a year Economic opportunity on the moon.”

“I put the over under at like, 15 to 20 years, which is about as aggressive as I could get.”

“Starship needs to be refueling in orbit, landing on the moon with and without crews, because you're probably going to need some humans up there, some robots and we need to start routine cargo flights to the moon. So this is straight up like three to five years…”

“You gotta be going 5000 miles an hour to escape the moon's gravity well, You have to be going 25,000 miles per hour to escape Earths. So, from an efficiency, an energy efficiency standpoint, it's much better to leave from the Moon than to leave from Earth.”

“I put the over under at like 15 to 20 years, which is about as aggressive as I could get.”

“Starship needs to be refueling in orbit, landing on the moon with and without crews, because you're probably going to need some humans up there, some robots and we need to start routine cargo flights to the moon. So this is straight up, like, three to five yea…”

“I changed, I'm going 30.”

“We're going to return to the moon before end of President Trump's term. We're going to build a moon base so we can stay.”

“The immediate priority is we want the ice. That's how we can do in situ research.”

“If asked, we will step up, and we will move heaven and earth to get to the moon first.”

“I don't, I think that in most companies, it's kind of destroyed the culture. I don't think that's going to be the case at SpaceX because SpaceX is such a mission-oriented company, and as I was saying before, the next five years and then five years after that h…”

“The Moon would be a great place for large phased array, like phased arrays, large antenna fields that can do a variety of electronic warfare schemes, radar tracking schemes”

“Warfare on the moon is probably going to be decisive, and swift, and catastrophic for everybody involved, until we get much, much, much better at building Building space technology.”

“They wanted to run this process in the moon.”

“Relax the outer space treaty in 2017 with the outer space, so the Artemis Accords, so we can go and kind of make a land grab on the moon, and then it turns out China's going to get there first.”

“I think there's a pretty strong sense now that China will get to the moon by the end of the 20 twenties, and America might not be able to get back to the moon.”

“So it's now probable that China will quote unquote beat NASA back to the moon this decade and win at least the initial heat of this new space race.”

“For 35 years, we said, we're going back and we spent over a hundred billion of taxpayer dollars saying we were going to do it.”

“And there's only a handful of clater craters on the moon today that are clearly known to have lunar ice.”

“Like, I actually think with a concerted concentrated effort, I think we can get boots on the moon again before, you know, Trump is out of office.”

“If you extend that to 40 years, I would put like P moon at like 98%.”

“And whoever gets there first and really decides we're going to actually We're not just going to plant a flag. We're going to apply. We're going to put down a fence base and we're going to say this is our lunar property. Like whoever does at first they there's,…”

“It's a convenient quirk of the scale of the objects in our solar system that if you make the earth a basketball, this is the earth, then the moon is a tennis ball. So in this scale, it's 24 feet.”

“If you like grow up on the moon, you probably just like can't come to earth because literally just your entire body system will just collapse because it has just not been built around a full one G.”

“Where it turned, Guy, was in 2018 the National Security Council and the National Space Council declared that the moon was now of strategic interest. China was coming on strong, and the U.S. Needed to set the norms and behaviors of how we live in space. And wor…”

“At the rate that we consume rare earth minerals and materials, we now have pristine areas that would have to be strip mined to find the last bastion of materials that we're looking for. We don't want to do that. We don't want to destroy our earth. So if there'…”

“The very recent history, it's only been India and China. India being the latest and the, and you saw the recent Russian mission to the moon failed on the way.”

“We can charge roughly a million dollars a kilogram to take those payloads to the moon, whether that's a government payload or commercial payload. So if you can do that, that's roughly a hundred million dollars plus of revenue that you can generate with each mi…”

“So if you land on the moon, you can bring back samples and own those samples per the Artemis Accords. It's not where they belong to the sovereign governments. They can belong to commercial companies.”

“You land, you own what they call a heritage site. And that means other countries or other companies that want to fly near you, if you're declared as a heritage site, need to coordinate with you before they land and damage any of the equipment that you have the…”

“And so I think it's twenty-thirty before we see boots on the moon.”

“The moon will need its own GPS system. You're on the lunar surface. You want to know where you are. Same thing as on the earth. You want to be able to just pull up, you know Google maps, navigate back to your lunar base, right? And then have that have that pos…”

“Now what we're doing with Moon Express is saying, how do you create the last mile solution to get, you know, whether it's satellites positioned or whether it's, you know, going to the moon and actually mining the moon for, you know, helium three or platinum an…”

“The revenue generated from Starlink is what can enable the of a permanently crewed base on the moon, which will be the next, you know, next step from Apollo”