This is John Batchel, speaking with Bob Zimmerman about the plan from Jared Isaacman, the new

administrator at NASA, to set a tremendous pace between now and 2030 for launching to the moon,

landing on the moon, robotic explorations of the moon. I asked Bob, can they keep up this pace? This is a SpaceX plus pace

from an organization that's been launching every couple of years. Bob's answer is in-depth,

is Bob on the ambition of Jared Isaacman and NASA. SpaceX can do it.

Well, this is, John, the launches, I think they could do it.

The launches, yes.

The landers is a different question.

Whether the three to five lunar landing companies that exist right now,

only one of which has successfully landed on the moon, whether they could

meet this pace, ramp up, I agree, is very questionable. Once again, this is an Elon Musk timetable.

His goal of 30 missions in three years from 27 to 30, he ain't going to meet it. But he's pushing

for that so that we can get to it eventually.

And so that's, I think, the thing. In conjunction with this, John, during this announcement,

and this is the next story, they announced that intuitive machines, one of those Lunar Lander

companies has won $180 million new NASA launch lander contract. This is for an additional mission to one contracts that have already existed.

And what I found most interesting, they released a graphic showing what their new lunar lander

would look like.

And if you remember, intuitive machines tried twice to land on the moon.

And both times I noted that, boy, their lander is really

tall. It's got a high center of gravity. I don't like that. And both times, the lander hit

the ground and tilted over, fell over. And that's why both missions were failure. It actually

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