"I would be disappointed if we didn't have a settlement on the moon and [are] building a manufacturing facility on the moon within 10 years. Hopefully half that.”
Before Mars, Elon Musk’s SpaceX is now betting on the Moon as a new hub of computing and space infrastructure.
SpaceX president and chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell told TIME the company hopes to manufacture AI-powered satellites on the lunar surface, part of a broader plan to build data centers in space and partnership with NASA’s lunar Artemis program.
In 2021, NASA selected SpaceX to build Artemis’ so-called human landing system: the vehicle designed to land two astronauts on the Moon while two others remain in orbit aboard the Orion spacecraft. With the Artemis IV mission scheduled for 2028, SpaceX’s proposed solution Starship is still in testing.
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