NASA

“People had come up with this at NASA, literally in the sixties and seventies, but the computational power hadn't existed, and the idea was just forgotten.”

“It's got five prime contractors, hundreds of subcontractors supported by a workforce at NASA, where we've probably over 50,000 between civil servants and contractors. 75% are contractors using different tools and systems.”

“We are going to get in a cadence of launching every 10 months. We are going to add a new mission. You know, Artemis III is supposed to land on the moon in, in, in, in, in twenty-twenty-eight. Not doing that anymore. We're going to launch Artemis III in twenty-…”

“Within, within years, we'll be able to send humans to Mars. It's bringing them back.”

“You go back to the space race across Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo, do you know how, what our average launch cadence was between missions? It was between three and four months.”

“First, I'm two months on the job yet. I haven't run into a single roadblock. Like, everybody wants to go out and achieve, you know, change the world in the air and space.”

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

“I didn't blame Boeing. I blamed leadership failures and poor decision-making at NASA to make sure our culture is going the right direction.”

“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.”

“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.”