NASA to build nuclear reactor on the moon

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The acting NASA administrator. Do you know who that is?

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, buzz Aldron.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
The acting NASA administrator, was just announced within the past
couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Oh is it Duffy?

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Sean Duffy, very good, that's.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Right because he's the transportation guy. To h he is.
That's so wild that he's NASA And it took me
a minute to figure.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Marco Rubia, right, they get so many different jobs. You
can't keep tract of a buzz.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Aldron even still alive. Let's see here. Isn't that wild
that that's the first name I went there. It's like
buzz Aldron, first astronaut you think of? Who would you say,
buzz Aldron is still alive. He's ninety five years old. Okay,
if you were to say, tell somebody name an astron
right to be Neil Armstrong, Is that right? Yeah, it
would buzz Aldron be number two probably yeah, yeah, or
the Yeah, that'd probably be right anyway, Yes, because that

(00:46):
was crazy that the Transportation Administrator secretary or whatever they
call it. He's now the actor things going into space.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah. He issued a directive to accelerate development of a
fission based nuclear power source for the Moon.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Oh, right, that's gonna yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
They so the project is being prioritized due to national
security concerns and international competition, and it's an America first thing.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
So we're going to end up blowing up the moon.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
We want to be the first one on the moon.
So they've got a timeline for this. By August this
month here, NASA says they're going to appoint a new
executive to lead the efforts, so Sean Duffy can just
focus on transportation. By September, they expect proposals from potential contractors.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Oh, somebody's gonna get rich off of this. What do
you want to bet that person might have given money
to somebody in the government. What do you want to
bet case when we see won who ends up winning
the big golden ticket.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Now, by March of next year, two finalists will be
awarded contracts to build and install the system, and the
target launch date will be Fall of twenty thirty