Shooting for the moon with Steve Altemus of Intuitive Machines

Hello and welcome to how I built this lab. I'm Guy Raz. So December seventh, nineteen seventy-two, that was the last time humans landed on the moon. The Apollo 17 mission. Among the reasons astronauts haven't returned is because we thought we discovered most of what we needed to, and

The second is that It's really, really expensive. But it turns out neither of these things is as true today. The moon may contain vast deposits of important minerals. and getting to the moon could cost a fraction of the amount it did, just for inflation, of course.

Back in nineteen seventy two. Steve Ultimate is an entrepreneur who wants to make all of this happen. He founded a company called Intuitive Machines that plans to commercialize space exploration, particularly on the moon. Steve spent most of his career at NASA, and while he loved it, he was also frustrated by the bureaucracy and what he felt was the lack of ambition. And I was just getting frustrated because here I was in charge of an organization that was

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