{"id":626056,"date":"2026-09-24T14:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/626056\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T14:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:12:12","slug":"isaacman-promises-artemis-acceleration-update-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/626056\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaacman Promises \u2018Artemis Acceleration\u2019 Update Next Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

HOUSTON, TX\u2014NASA will give an update early next month on the timing of its upcoming missions to return humans to the Moon, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said Wednesday at Payload\u2019s Off World.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of ingredients\u2014so many ingredients\u2014that need to come together for that landing, and we owe everybody an update,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s going to be an Artemis acceleration update\u2026sometime in early October. Maybe it might even coincide with the [ISS] Crew 13 launch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here are some of our other top takeaways from his remarks:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Race to the top: NASA can thank China for the urgency that\u2019s surrounded its lunar goals this year, Isaacman said. But, while both nations are investing in building lunar infrastructure on an aggressive timeline, what does winning that race look like?\u00a0<\/p>\n

For Isaacman, it\u2019s the flag on the suit of the next person to step foot on the Moon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe end state of who\u2019s got the base operational first, and who can actually get to what permanently shaded regions, and whose technology gets demonstrated on the Moon\u2026it plays out long before that,\u201d he said. \u201cYou come up short with who comes down the ladder first, the impact is felt around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luck of the draw: Isaacman is measuring NASA\u2019s success for the remaining two years of the Trump administration by culture change, not mission milestones. Whether or not he is able to drive NASA to establish a Moon base while leading the agency is \u201cluck,\u201d he said\u2014not the product of his personal leadership, but more a matter of the right policy, Congressional support, budget, and flexibility coming together at the right time.<\/p>\n

Isaacman is measuring NASA\u2019s accomplishments by two things he believes he can control:<\/p>\n

Focusing NASA\u2019s time and resources on tackling a few \u201cnear impossible\u201d missions.Giving the workforce the flexibility to work on things no one else is doing.<\/p>\n

Make it happen: 2026 has been a big year of change for the space industry. Isaacman said 2027 is the year of execution, and that industry shouldn\u2019t expect any other major pivots.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The only NASA focus that he said could see significant changes next year is the aeronautics portfolio. \u201cThere\u2019s work to be done there to bring us back to our glory days,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Lightning round: Isaacman also discussed humans living continuously on the Moon, whether NASA will still be sending astronauts to LEO in 20 years, and why he wouldn\u2019t say he\u2019s disrupting the space agency. Stay tuned for a full transcript of our interview coming out soon\u2026<\/p>\n

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Outpost Technologies Corporation, the reentry startup building shipping-container-sized Earth return vehicles, announced a new program today\u2014called Space Factories\u2014that will offer customers a way to manufacture goods in orbit, without needing to build bespoke hardware of their own.<\/p>\n

Each of the Space Factories is a standardized module that will give in-space manufacturers a way to produce products in space, including pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and advanced crystals, and get them back shortly after production wraps.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cNo company should have to become a spacecraft company just to find out whether their product is better when it\u2019s made in space,\u201d Outpost President and cofounder Amir Blachman said in a statement. \u201cWe\u2019re designing and building the hard, expensive infrastructure: the vehicle, the power and thermal systems, standardized manufacturing modules, the reentry and recovery; and we operate it as a service.\u201d<\/p>\n

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