To the Moon, literally.

NASA is spending billions of dollars to send robots and cargo to the lunar surface this year.

The Commercial Lunar Payload Services Initiative or Clips, enables science experiments and

tech demonstrations as part of the Artemis program to land humans on the moon.

Basically, NASA is buying lunar delivery services.

We're the winningest most contractor in the Artemis

program winning three missions to the Moon. Intuitive machines which went public

via SPAC in February

is one of the space startups touting clips contracts.

On this episode, co-founder and CEO Steve Altamus

talks about the company's literal moonshot

and the rocket ship rise and subsequent fall back to

earth of the stock whose ticker is lunar, LU and R, naturally. I'm Morgan

Brennan and this is manifest space.

So you recently went public.

I want to get into all of that and the details around that and why the decision to do that now.

But first, I guess a little bit of background on intuitive machines.

Yeah, we've been an engineering company, we've founded in 2013 and you know it wasn't until we were

inventing things for oil and gas for for health care system and for aerospace because that's those are the major

industries here in Houston. We jumped out of Johnson Space Center, NASA's Johnson Space

Center in 2013 and started the company.

And it wasn't until 2018 when the national policy

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