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

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Speaker 2: Well, buzz Aldron.

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Speaker 1: The acting NASA administrator, was just announced within the past

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks.

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Speaker 2: Oh is it Duffy?

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Speaker 1: Sean Duffy, very good, that's.

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Speaker 2: Right because he's the transportation guy. To h he is.

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Speaker 2: That's so wild that he's NASA And it took me

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Speaker 2: a minute to figure.

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Speaker 1: Marco Rubia, right, they get so many different jobs. You

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Speaker 1: can't keep tract of a buzz.

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Speaker 2: Aldron even still alive. Let's see here. Isn't that wild

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Speaker 2: that that's the first name I went there. It's like

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Speaker 2: buzz Aldron, first astronaut you think of? Who would you say,

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Speaker 2: buzz Aldron is still alive. He's ninety five years old. Okay,

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Speaker 2: if you were to say, tell somebody name an astron

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Speaker 2: right to be Neil Armstrong, Is that right? Yeah, it

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Speaker 2: would buzz Aldron be number two probably yeah, yeah, or

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Speaker 2: the Yeah, that'd probably be right anyway, Yes, because that

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Speaker 2: was crazy that the Transportation Administrator secretary or whatever they

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Speaker 2: call it. He's now the actor things going into space.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. He issued a directive to accelerate development of a

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Speaker 1: fission based nuclear power source for the Moon.

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

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Speaker 1: They so the project is being prioritized due to national

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Speaker 1: security concerns and international competition, and it's an America first thing.

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Speaker 2: So we're going to end up blowing up the moon.

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Speaker 1: We want to be the first one on the moon.

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Speaker 1: So they've got a timeline for this. By August this

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Speaker 1: month here, NASA says they're going to appoint a new

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Speaker 1: executive to lead the efforts, so Sean Duffy can just

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Speaker 1: focus on transportation. By September, they expect proposals from potential contractors.

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Speaker 2: Oh, somebody's gonna get rich off of this. What do

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Speaker 2: you want to bet that person might have given money

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Speaker 2: to somebody in the government. What do you want to

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Speaker 2: bet case when we see won who ends up winning

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Speaker 2: the big golden ticket.

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Speaker 1: Now, by March of next year, two finalists will be

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Speaker 1: awarded contracts to build and install the system, and the

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Speaker 1: target launch date will be Fall of twenty thirty