SpaceX is preparing what is expected to be the largest IPO in history as NASA sends up the first Americans to the moon since the last Apollo flight in 1972.

"It's one thing to land on the moon; it's a whole other thing to colonize it." Rep. Mike Haridopolos joins Just The News to highlight the upcoming NASA Artemis III mission, its historical significance,

Forget futuristic glass domes filled with plants and high-tech infrastructure, Jared Isaacman, the head of NASA, says of humanity’s first space colonies. In reality, because of the cost of travel, they will most likely be scrappy bases surrounded by garbage.

It goes without saying that we shouldn’t take everything Elon Musk says too seriously. There are whole websites dedicated to those times when he has ‘talked the talk’ but failed to ‘walk the walk’ — as well as those times when he has been factually untrue.

Experts say building a lunar colony within the next decade, as NASA and Elon Musk want to, will require finding solutions to problems we don't yet fully understand.

"It's the goal of our country to get back into space, go back to the moon, and then use that as a jumping-off point to Mars." Congressman Mike Haridopolos says America is leading in space again, with frequent rocket launches,

NASA's Artemis program aims to return humans to the Moon by 2025-2026 and establish the Lunar Gateway, a space station in orbit around the Moon. NASA is developing the Human Landing System (HLS) in partnership with SpaceX.

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"NASA is committed to achieving the near-impossible once again, to return to the Moon before the end of President Trump’s term, build a Moon base, establish an enduring presence