Where does the money for a moon base come from?

How much are the billionaires and Trump going to make on this boondoggle.

Musk, of course, also.

I wouldn't trust either of these to send people to the moon ---- and bring them back.

Just a bunch of rich people who get richer on the latest scam.

From the same place as it comes for his Great Arch, a reform of the Reflecting Pool, a grand ballroom and data center bunker underneath it. Plus all those banners which adorn the government building, just like in China and N Korea. We pay the cost, but reaping any rewards will be in what the conglomerates can make from it for us to buy.

I long for the days of Research for the pure unadulterated joy and discovery of research.

Source: The Guardian

Nasa selects Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin for first of three uncrewed lunar missions

Three lunar landings are planned for this year in preparation for the construction of a $20bn moon base

Richard Luscombe
Tue 26 May 2026 21.14 BST
Last modified on Tue 26 May 2026 22.19 BST

Nasa announced on Tuesday ambitious plans for three uncrewed lunar missions this year to kickstart construction of a $20bn moon base, and said it had chosen the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, ahead of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, to conduct the first.

The revelation by Nasa’s administrator, Jared Isaacman, at a press conference in Washington DC marked the first detailed public explanation of how and when the moon base will be built.

He said the three missions planned for 2026 would be followed by “more than a dozen” more in the coming years to test systems and equipment. He said the highly successful Artemis II mission last month that sent four astronauts around the moon for the first time since 1972 had been both a catalyst and incentive to advance the moon base plan.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/26/nasa-jeff-bezos-blue-origin

They will trash this planet and go to a new moon base.

and tell them to build it. Get them off our planet once and for all, IMO.

that were let unanswered by the limitations of technology 50 years ago, sample more than surace dust.

A permanent colony is many decades away, and might not be a good idea, at all.

We don't even know if the lava tubes the sci fi crowd are counting on exist after millions of years of bombardment. That might be a question for a moon landing if we can make ground penetrating radar small enough. In any case, there are just too many problems to solve right now, especially regarding logistics and the sheer expense of supporting such a massive endeavor.

Besides, we're looking at the next financial crash, first. I'm afraid Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberb, and all their buddies are going to find out Galt's Gulch is an alley with a full dumpster in it long before we're ready to set up a mink lined on on the Moon.

(I'm tempted to call it a Moondoggle, but I'm better than that)