Shooting for the moon with Steve Altemus of Intuitive Machines
Dec 21, 2023
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Steve Altemus, co-founder and CEO of Intuitive Machines, discusses the logistics and economics of sending commercial spacecraft to the moon. He emphasizes the potential resources and benefits of exploring the moon, including finding rare materials and water ice. Altemus also highlights the challenges of landing on the moon and the importance of learning from failures to improve rocket reliability. Intuitive Machines aims to be the first private space company to land on the moon.
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Intuitive Machines aims to commercialize space exploration by focusing on lunar landers and commercializing space technologies.
Despite previous missions, there is still much to learn about the moon's composition, resources, and potential commercial value.
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Commercializing Space Exploration
Steve Altamis aims to commercialize space exploration by founding Intuitive Machines, a company focused on lunar landers and commercializing space technologies.
The Potential of the Moon
Despite previous missions to the moon, there is still much to learn and discover about the moon's composition, resources, and potential commercial value.
Challenges of Landing on the Moon
Landing on the moon poses significant challenges due to the complex navigation, rough terrain, and lack of infrastructure. However, with multiple attempts and iterative improvements, success rates are expected to increase.
The Future of Lunar Exploration
Intuitive Machines is aiming to be the first private company to successfully land on the moon and plans to develop capabilities for lunar transportation, infrastructure, and eventually, human missions to the moon.
Our modern way of life requires more resources than ever before — resources that are becoming increasingly scarce and environmentally taxing to extract.
Intuitive Machines co-founder and CEO Steve Altemus believes a solution to this problem could be waiting in the cosmos.
This week on How I Built This Lab, Steve breaks down the logistics and economics of sending the first-ever commercial spacecraft to the moon. Plus, an overview of today’s newfound global space race, and how Steve embraces failure as part of working on hard technological problems.
This episode was produced by Carla Esteves with music by Ramtin Arablouei.
It was edited by John Isabella with research by Carla Esteves. Our audio engineer was Neal Rauch.