S8 Ep644: PREVIEW FOR LATER. Guest: Rick Fisher. Fisher examines NASA’s ambitious moon colony plan. Isaacman aims to secure political support by distributing spending across congressional districts, ensuring the program's momentum remains unstoppable for future pre
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🗓️ 26 March 2026
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PREVIEW FOR LATER. Guest: Rick Fisher. Fisher examines NASA’s ambitious moon colony plan. Isaacman aims to secure political support by distributing spending across congressional districts, ensuring the program's momentum remains unstoppable for future presidencies tonight. (1)
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchelor, speaking with my colleague Rick Fisher of the International Assessment and Strategy Center |
| 0:06.2 | about the plan just presented at NASA for not only a return to the moon, but for a colony on the moon, |
| 0:14.6 | permanent basis of a colony on the moon, staffing the colony, every six months restaffing it. It's a huge vision of the moon on the moon. Staffing the colony. Every six months, restaffing it. It's a huge vision of the moon, |
| 0:25.0 | Earth-moon system, but it also includes the Earth-Moon Mars system. And who pays for it? That's the part |
| 0:32.1 | that Rick here addresses as to how Mr. Isaacman, the new administrator at NASA, has arranged this program to make it very attractive to Congress in the years going forward. |
| 0:45.9 | This is a 10-year program beyond the presidency today into a presidency we can only guess at. |
| 0:53.4 | Here's Rick. Much more of this tonight. |
| 0:56.7 | Well, John, the presentations by Isickman and his NASA colleagues on the 24th made very clear |
| 1:07.0 | that the focus on the moon, the moon base, all the construction, is going to entail a wide |
| 1:18.8 | distribution of NASA spending. It is going to include rapid upgrades, investments in the NASA infrastructure, |
| 1:33.6 | in many places in this country. It's going to entail the mobilization of many |
| 1:42.3 | congressional districts. |
| 1:45.5 | If Isickman succeeds in getting this program rolling as quickly as he has to, |
| 1:53.5 | it is going to have a momentum, and at least politically, it's going to be very hard to stop. |
| 2:00.7 | It's going to be almost impossible for, let's say, an Obama-like president to come in and cancel this program as Obama actually did in 2010. |
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