U.S. Secretary of Transportation and interim NASA Administrator Sean Duffy joins Fox Across America With Jimmy Failla to shed light on the space agency’s fast-track plan to build a nuclear reactor on the moon.
“So the South Pole of the moon has ice. Ice means water, water means life. It also gets a lot of sunlight in the South pole, but you need a more reliable energy source, which is nuclear. I mean, this the final frontier in America, from the pilgrims to the pioneers, like, we have this explorer tenacity within us. And this is the next phase of exploration. It’s to the moon, it’s to Mars, it’s to beyond. And what’s important is that if we cede space to whether it’s the Russians or the Chinese or to others, you’re going to lose on Earth. This is truly the next frontier. And again, we have peaceful intentions. You’ve seen it’s what we do around the world. We love democracy, we love peace, we don’t have any ill will. I’m just not so sure what others think, what their intentions are. So I’d like us and our coalition to get there first. And, again, as we come into next year, it’s our Artemis program. We have Artemis 2, we have four amazing astronauts that are going out to the Moon, going around and coming back. Artemis 3, which is going to be about a year after that. We’re going to land on the moon. We’re gonna stay six days. And in the interim, we’re working on our rockets, on getting our assets to the moon, so when Artemis 4 and 5 happens, we have the infrastructure there to build out a base on the Moon, which we’re gonna learn from there to then get us to the next difficult phase, which is Mars.”
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Secretary Duffy also details the Department of Transportation’s ongoing efforts to modernize the nation’s air traffic control system. Listen to the podcast to hear the full conversation!
