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BONUS: NASA's Jared Isaacman on Ramping Up Space Missions & SpaceX

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🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman joins Bloomberg Tech to discuss the agency's plans for a so-called "Moon Base" that will eventually allow for a permanent human presence on the lunar surface. He says they're looking at 2027 through 2029 for phase one and 2029 through the early 2030s for phase two. He adds that SpaceX is hands down their greatest commercial space company.

He speaks with Ed Ludlow and Caroline Hyde.

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0:00.0

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0:43.6

NASA has selected Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace and other private space firms to deliver robotic landers, rovers, even drones to the moon, part of a broader push to establish

0:49.8

a sustained lunar presence before the end of the decade. We are talking about a base on the moon here to discuss is NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman.

0:59.7

Jared, it's good to see you again, and welcome back to Bloomberg Tech.

1:03.0

I think the question for most people is the timeline, right, and which milestones you've set the team,

1:09.6

the agency has set itself, from today to a future

1:13.5

where we have the first human landing on the moon for that base?

1:19.4

So great to be chatting with you again on a subject that I really enjoy, which is America's

1:25.2

return to the moon and building that enduring presence,

1:28.4

building the moon base. Now, we are very advantaged, which is why we can move so quickly,

1:33.2

because of programs like clips, like LTV, that have existed for some time at NASA,

1:39.5

now we're just turning up the wattage here. We're sending a strong demand signal to industry

1:45.8

instead of infrequent bespoke landers every couple years, maybe one rover every 10, 13 years,

1:54.4

which was actually a previous consideration to saying, let's get in a rhythm here.

1:59.2

So we put a strong demand signal out to industry.

2:01.0

We have a handful of missions that are going to launch to robotic missions, start building the moon base

2:05.1

later in 2026. But starting in 27, you should see a near monthly cadence of robotic landers on the

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