Episode 1003: America 250 – The Future of NASA and Space Travel with Jared Isaacman
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Newt talks with NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman about America's renewed push into space. Isaacman, a former commercial astronaut who led the Inspiration4 and Polaris Dawn missions, discusses how the Artemis program is advancing toward returning astronauts to the moon, with Artemis III testing lunar landers from SpaceX and Blue Origin ahead of a 2028 lunar landing on Artemis IV. They explore NASA's strategy of partnering with private industry to drive down costs through reusable rockets while NASA focuses on harder problems like nuclear power and propulsion for deep space travel. Their conversation covers building a permanent moon base at the lunar south pole, growing competition with China in space, the challenges of orbital debris, and the emergence of a commercial space economy. Isaacman reflects on the patriotic significance of his role and shares his hope that future generations, including his own daughters, will travel to the moon and beyond.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to New World Podcast on the IHeart Podcast Network. |
| 0:12.2 | The Greatest American Inventions. |
| 0:15.2 | Today's invention is one most Americans use every single day without thinking about it for a second. |
| 0:21.6 | And it was a gift, a deliberate, expensive, strategic gift from the American government to every person on Earth. |
| 0:30.6 | GPS. |
| 0:32.6 | The global positioning system is a network of 31 satellites orbiting 12,500 miles above Earth. |
| 0:41.3 | Each broadcast a continuous radio signal containing two pieces of information, |
| 0:47.3 | the satellite's precise location and the precise time. |
| 0:52.3 | A GPS receiver picks up signals from multiple satellites simultaneously. |
| 0:59.0 | By measuring the tiny difference in arrival times, it calculates its distance from each satellite. |
| 1:05.9 | With signals from four or more, it pinpoints its location in three dimensions, |
| 1:12.7 | latitude, longitude, |
| 1:15.2 | altitude, to within a few meters. |
| 1:19.2 | The timing has to be accurate to billions of a second. |
| 1:26.0 | The satellites carry atomic clocks, and GPS receivers must account for effects predicted by Einstein's general relativity. |
| 1:28.5 | Clocks in orbit tick at a slightly different rate than clocks on the ground. |
| 1:34.6 | GPS is, among other things, a daily practical demonstration of Einstein's physics. |
| 1:41.8 | The system was developed by the Department of Defense beginning in the early |
| 1:45.5 | 1970s. First satellite launched in 1978. Full constellation operational in 1994. Total |
| 1:53.8 | development costs, roughly $12 billion. Designed as a military system for precision navigation and weapons guidance. |
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