The four-mission roadmap, from a 10 kg payload to the hotel

the most basic version of your technology works in the actual environment. you know, people can keep talking in circles about like, well, we need to do it this way, or we need to do it that way or whatever, but like, doesn't freaking matter until we actually go to the moon and do the thing, right? Like nobody has any grounds of saying that we have to do it this way or we can't do it this way if they haven't even tried or done it on the moon. And so for us, like that's what the machine is for, right? Well, what do need to do next as well? We're going to send that machine, that box to the literal moon and make film the world's first bricks being made. Humans first bricks being made on the moon. It's like the Stonehenge moment. And it's going to be insane. I can't think of any other milestone that is more exciting than this. And this is just the first step, you know? So, um, yeah.

Hmm. Like, the only, all I did. Yeah. ⁓ Are the bricks also the part of the inflatable model that you're working on? You said that you're going to put them around or as the first version, the bricks are not included in the first version?

So, um, oh, you mean like, is the first version, do you have the, oh, I guess, oh, you're asking if like, yeah, yeah. Um, so the first mission, mission one, so we have four missions generally planned. Mission one is we send around 10 kilogram payload to the moon. Uh, we make the first bricks on the moon and we deploy the inflatable. Mission two is we go to lunar cave base, right? Uh, and we do a bigger version of this. Uh, we scale up. Uh, lunar cave is the reason why is because It provides natural shielding from MMOD and radiation. It just means like you have to build less bricks, right? It's just cost. Mission 3 is a bigger version of this. So this is the first hotel.

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That's mainly going to be earth-based materials, but we're going to transition. I think that's the important part is in the science community, like, ISRU, people are always like, well, we have to do 100 % ISRU, like we have to melt and laser stuff on the moon. But that's stupid because that takes orders to maintain more energy than what you'd actually be able to do practically speaking, right? We don't have acres of solar panels and acres of solar radars out there. ⁓ The second angle is... And then the second half of the debate with ISRU is you've got people who are like, well, we got to use everything from Earth to the Moon. we got to bring it, ISRU doesn't make sense. Like, you know, we have to bring all Earth-based materials. The important thing is with GRU is we see the transition of humans going to the Moon and Mars. It's not going to be hinged upon either side of this polarized debate. It's a false dichotomy. We're going to need a transition of like, okay, like some percentage and some percentage, but working together.