NASA has a Moon base program executive. His name is Carlos Garcia-Galan, and Administrator Jared Isaacman publicly dubbed him the 'Lunar Viceroy' at the Ignition event in Washington, DC this Tuesday.
Garcia-Galan is a career NASA engineer now leading the agency's lunar surface base initiative. He has not been a public-facing figure until now. Ars Technica sat him down for a full interview on implementation, not just vision.
The transcript is lightly edited and covers how NASA actually plans to build a permanent Moon base. The implementation details are what make this worth reading, not the headline nickname.
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