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Shooting for the moon with Steve Altemus of Intuitive Machines

How I Built This with Guy Raz

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From Budget Cuts to Moon Missions

This chapter explores the impact of NASA's budget cuts on space exploration and how a walking robot on the moon became a goal within a thousand days. It discusses the formation of intuitive machines and their initial focus on solving problems in various industries. The chapter also highlights the shift in focus towards the moon in 2018 and the motivation behind returning to explore its unknowns.

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