NASA Chief highlights SpaceX’s key role in building America’s Moon base: “A lot of the roads go through McGregor, Texas. So you think about building out the moon base. A lot of the landers, the rovers, a lot of the scientific equipment, the test equipment that's going to build out and establish a moon base will be launched on a Falcon 9 rocket, the stage of which and the Merlin engines are tested here in McGregor. But we'll take that even farther. The vehicle that has a great chance of returning astronauts to the surface of the moon, whether it is on Artemis 4, is the HLS, which is powered by the Raptor motor that's been developed and tested here at McGregor, Texas. So you're talking about everything from the infrastructure for building the moon base to what has a very good shot of returning the astronauts to the surface of the moon come through McGregor.”