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Speaker 1: Now NASA is planning to build a base on the Moon.

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Speaker 1: The NASA administrator says, once the basis completely, wants to

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Speaker 1: see two moon landings a year, and he wants to

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Speaker 1: see astronauts living in the base semi permanently. It apparently

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Speaker 1: cost about twenty billion dollars in the next seven years.

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Speaker 1: Josh Araki is an astronomer at Stardom.

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Speaker 2: And is with us.

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Speaker 1: Now, Hi, Josh.

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Speaker 2: Filder, is this realistic? Oh? I would love to say yes.

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Speaker 2: I think the goals are very realistic. I think the

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Speaker 2: budget is very unrealistic. What more than that, Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: mean it's that, you know, you've got to look at

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Speaker 2: the wider pictures that since the Apollo missions, you know,

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Speaker 2: NASA has said they want to go to the Moon, right,

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Speaker 2: they want to go back, they want to be sustainable,

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Speaker 2: they want to have a long term presence there, and

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Speaker 2: they kind of haven't really solidified plans for for decades really,

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I think, you know, their big announcement of

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Speaker 2: wanting to build a Moon base I think is good

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Speaker 2: and they should want to do that. I think having

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Speaker 2: solid plans is awesome. But you know, there was also

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Speaker 2: no announcement of extra funding of new resorce of how

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Speaker 2: they're going to do this. So it seems like a

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Speaker 2: bit of a bit of a fever dreament at this point.

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Speaker 1: Now, why should we want to be on the moon?

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Speaker 1: What's the point?

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Speaker 2: I think there's no one answer. You know, I could

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Speaker 2: talk about the you know, the human element of you know,

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Speaker 2: we're explorers and we're very innately curious, and you know,

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Speaker 2: we're always driven to do these things. You know, why

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Speaker 2: do we climb the tallest mountain? So I think we're

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Speaker 2: always going to want to do them. But I think

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Speaker 2: for you know, NASA specifically, there's a it's not just

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Speaker 2: the scientific gain of going to the Moon. There's a

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Speaker 2: lot of politics that plan to it. Space explosion is

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Speaker 2: incredibly political, and there's huge amount of national pride. And

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Speaker 2: China has been on America's heels for the last few

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Speaker 2: years and there's kind of proven time again that they

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Speaker 2: are if America doesn't step up, they are going to

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Speaker 2: be a leader in space explosion. I think America doesn't

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Speaker 2: want that to happen.

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Speaker 1: Now, tell me, honestly, Okay, every time you hear Elon

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Speaker 1: Musk say anything about what he plans to do in space,

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Speaker 1: do you roll your eyes or Josh, do you think yep,

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Speaker 1: that man, he's a thought leader here, he's going.

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Speaker 2: To do it. Yeah. I mean, look some of his ideas,

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Speaker 2: I think, yeah, absolutely, that's awesome. But I mean, you know,

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Speaker 2: back in twenty eighteen, Elon must said that we were

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Speaker 2: going to be in the moon in twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 2: which was three years ago, and we're still not there.

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Speaker 2: So I think if you add ten to fifteen years

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Speaker 2: to anything that Elon slash NASA Evan says, I think

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Speaker 2: that gives you a much more realistic timeframe.

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Speaker 1: Love it, Josh, Thank you very much, mate, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Josh Alducky Stardome Astronaut, Hither We're not going to Astronaut Astronomer.

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