Skyler Chan is the 22-year-old founder and CEO of Gru. He's also, possibly, the most ambitious person in the space industry right now. And he's building a hotel on the moon. If all goes to plan, the first paying customers could be there as soon as 2032.

This episode covers:

Gru's answer to pressure and temperature: an inflatable structure that ships flat from Earth, deploys on the lunar surface, and holds a human being alive
Gru's answer to radiation: a brick, made on the moon, from the moon, using a geopolymer process mixed with lunar regolith
Nobody has ever made anything on the moon. Mission one, targeting 2029, makes the first brick and inflates the first bladder
Why the cost per kilogram to the moon is $1 million today, why SpaceX says $100,000, and why Gru is betting on neither figure lasting
This is not a technology problem. It is an operational problem. We went to the moon in 1969 with less computing power than the phone in your pocket
The hate mail, the haters, and why Skyler thinks none of it matters

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Chapters

(00:00) Trailer

(02:19) Building a Hotel on the Moon

(06:06) The Logistics of Space Travel

(06:47) Economic Considerations for Lunar Ventures

(10:03) Merging Technologies for Lunar Habitats

(10:59) First Mission: Building the First Brick on the Moon

(13:15) Changing Perceptions of Space Projects

(16:25) The Human Spirit and Interplanetary Exploration

(19:40) Responsibility of Being an Interplanetary Species