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EXCLUSIVE: @NASA Boss Reveals New Artemis II Launch Plans And Details Ambitious 2027 Lunar Base Start Date; Says Manned Mars Missions And Humans Becoming An Interplanetary Species Within The Next Decade This week on Straight to the Point I sat down with @NASAAdmin Jared Isaacman at NASA’s DC Headquarters. In this exclusive interview, the head of the United States space program laid out the future of American missions to the Moon, Mars, the Orbital economy and beyond. @thelatmg @latimesstudios_ Straight to the Point: NASA’s Lunar Ambitions, Mars and Beyond 01:05 Artemis II Launch Window 02:45 Taking Astronauts Farther Into Space Than Ever Before 04:00 NASA Now On Track For Lunar Landing 2028 04:50 Breaking Ground On Lunar Base in 2027 06:20 Humans Become An Interplanetary Species 08:00 Mars Timeline: Within Next Decade 10:50 Nuclear Propulsion Technology Is Game Changer 11:30 China Is On A “Sprint” To The Moon 12:15 You Can’t Be Number #1 On Earth and Number #2 In Space 13:30 What Keeps NASA Administrator Up At Night 14:20 President Trump: Build Enduring Presence On The Moon And Beyond 15:25 Reusable Rockets Have “Ignited” Orbital Economy 16:42 Potential For Tremendous Wealth In Space 17:25 Data Centers In Space Next Five Years 18:55 First Meeting Elon Musk 20:05 What Makes Musk Standout: Takes On Most Challenging Engineering Problems 21:03 What’s Next With Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin 22:20 Space X Broke The Monopoly 24:50 Life Beyond Earth: President Trump Declassifies UAP and UFO Files 26:15 Justification for NASA Budget 28:18 “Ad Astra Per Aspera” 29:20 Independent Journalism

Let’s set the record straight here, since this OPINION story circulating doesn’t get the facts right. CLAIM: DOGE fired NASA employees and eliminated positions. TRUTH: DOGE didn’t fire a single employee at NASA. A total of 23 positions were RIF’ed following an executive order in February eliminating DEI and other positions. All other departures from the agency last year were voluntary. CLAIM: The Trump Admin is “talking a big game” about beating China to the Moon. TRUTH: The Trump Administration created the Artemis Program. The Artemis Accords that over 60 nations have signed. President Trump created the Space Force. And, President Trump enacted the Space Policy that will finally, after 35 years, return Astronauts to the lunar environment and begin construction of a Moon Base. CLAIM: NASA can’t intelligently work with industry without a chief economist. TRUTH: Pretty much every OIG report at NASA on commercial programs being behind schedule, over budget or outright cancelled was written during a time of a Chief Economist. Industry responds to common sense decisions, just look at the recent Artemis architecture update and the widespread, unanimous support from all the contractors. Not to mention the fact that the one person has funded the majority of commercial spaceflight to orbit is the current @NASAAdmin. There are currently more than 6 commercial companies looking to NASA to build a single space-station-as-a-service. It would appear that NASA is not the entity that requires an economist. CLAIM: DOGE was on a firing spree. TRUTH: Again, DOGE did not fire a SINGLE employee, let alone thousands. CLAIM: NASA’s being run on vibes alone. TRUTH: NASA is making common sense decisions to focus resources on the most pressing objectives in line with President Trump’s National Space Policy. The only thing running on vibes alone is this piece.

@SwipeWright Maybe White people came from outer space 🤷‍♂️😂