Full interview with NASA's Moon Base Program Manager Carlos Garcia-Galan at Off World to discuss the agency's lunar roadmap. "We know that wherever we land spacecraft with jet engines that are spewing all the ejecta and regolith around, you can't be very close to that." "You can't put a habitation module close to that area. So we're thinking maybe a kilometer, a kilometer and a half away." "So the first thing we could do is can we mitigate that? Can we maybe build a berm or something, a wall, that allows us to get that closer?" "Cause every time you land, you're gonna wanna move people and logistics to where your base area is." "So perhaps the first set of construction we'll do is things like that." We covered: 01:59 - Lessons from Apollo 17 03:51 - Phase 1: access and ground truth 04:35 - Phase 2: power, comms, infrastructure 04:57 - Phase 3: permanent habitation 05:12 - What early habitats look like 06:33 - Roads, landing pads and berms 09:02 - Building with lunar regolith 11:18 - Starship and Blue Moon progress 13:25 - Flying 7-9 missions a year With @itsmoislam

Not many people know this, but SpaceX has already launched two American commercial spacecraft that successfully landed on the Moon First, Falcon 9 launched Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus Seven days later, Odysseus touched down near the lunar south pole, becoming the first commercial spacecraft to successfully soft-land on the Moon and returning America to the lunar surface for the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972 Then Falcon 9 launched Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Blue Ghost landed successfully, delivered 10 NASA science and technology instruments, and operated across an entire lunar day before continuing several hours into the lunar night Think about what SpaceX has restored to the United States: • Falcon 9 and Dragon returned human spaceflight to American soil • Then Falcon 9 helped return American spacecraft to the Moon Not once but Twice SpaceX restored capabilities America had lost, reopened the road to orbit and became the bridge carrying the country back to the Moon Now Starship is being built to carry the people, cargo, habitats and equipment needed to establish a permanent human presence there Falcon 9 brought America back to the Moon Starship is being built to help humanity stay there