#HOTEL MARS: MOON HABITATS BY 2028. AJAY KOTHARI, DAVID LIVINGSTON.

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#HOTEL MARS: MOON HABITATS BY 2028. AJAY KOTHARI, DAVID LIVINGSTON.
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0:00.0	This is CBSI on the world.
0:06.1	I'm John Batchel.
0:07.0	Hotel Mars, episode N.
0:09.5	David Livingston, Dr. Space himself,
0:11.7	the space show is here as my colleague and co-hosts and co-pilot.
0:16.2	And we're very pleased to welcome Dr. A.J. Kotari,
0:20.6	who is a man for two directions for us today,
0:24.7	too much so that we have to get right to it. First, not only a return to the moon, but also the
0:31.4	high frontier of Mars ahead of us, and then something exotic that is fresh information, the thorium reactor.
0:40.4	We begin with the moon, however.
0:43.2	Dr. Kotari, AJ, a very good evening to you.
0:46.5	Your article published earlier this year recommends returning to the moon without SLS.
0:53.5	Why so, AJ, good day to you. GoodLS. Why so, A.J., good day to you.
0:56.6	Good day.
0:57.3	Thank you, John and David.
0:59.1	Hello.
1:00.6	Well, the problem really is the couple of four.
1:05.7	One is that the SLS that we have cost two2 to $4 billion per shot.
1:13.5	And so being able to compete with China,
1:19.4	which China is probably going to definitely going to have tycoonauts on the moon,
1:24.5	my guess, is by 2028.
1:33.5	But, you know, before Trump's, President Trump's term ends. And we have, we cannot really sit around and not be on the moon before that or at the same
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