NASA to announce nuclear reactor on the moon

Announced by Sean Duffy, current interim administrator of NASA (the highest ranking official at the agency) who's main credentials are being a former Real World / Road Rules participant and Fox News host with a degree in Marketing.

I would like to say this is inspiring, because if this dude could become head of NASA then anyone could including me. But holy hell that is low key terrifying.

- 'The first country to have a reactor could “declare a keep-out zone which would significantly inhibit the United States,” '

So it seems less of a plan for further space exploration and more in line with a territorial grab. If it's land they want to 'own' then I've got good news for them, I am selling prime Luna real estate at a discount(low hundred millions) they can buy and even get a fancy notarized paper certificate too!

I would be less surprised and less concerned if Duffy announced: Whalers on the Moon https://youtu.be/U8V2U7vTys0

The first steps so we can turn our moon into a smartmoon

If that is what ur up to Muricah, i say congratulations for the effort to start but as you do not seem to be aware of the fact this already been achieved. I would worry if i can trust the level of informedness at this level, But who "decided to pull all services back from the east.." now u guys flying into what you don't know what you cannot imaging the keks this is giving"

Yours.truly

The future of "space exploration" is a few more rockets blow up on the pad, followed by total abandonment of the whole idea.

I don't know enough about any aspect of this to make an intelligent comment, but commenting in hopes that those that do will.

might work out perfectly starship will land 220000 lbs on the moon as a human landing craft, and will likely do twise that as a one way freighter, more if the main booster is expended as well...

put it in a convienient crater, especialy good if it went into one permanently blocking sun light no shielding needed run it as hot as the materials will bear likely lots of optimisations that would be impossible on earth and whenever it needs fuel, the used stuff can be just pushed to the side throw in some solar , batteries the question is are they going big enough to start up a smelter to produce building materials on site?

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Given how most government projects run, I expect this project to be a decade late and about 10x whatever they estimate the cost to be today.