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Apex is vertically integrating propulsion. Why? Because the electric propulsion industry was built around specialized spacecraft programs, not the production rates and schedules of a high-volume spacecraft factory. Electric propulsion technology itself is mature and well proven, but the traditional approach often relies on complex designs, specialized manufacturing processes,...

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🚨 BREAKING: Jared Isaacman was just SWORN IN as President Trump's NASA Administrator, and he's already talking about setting up shop on the Moon and going to MARS Let's go! 🔥🇺🇸 "A return to the moon. For sure, we want to do that before 2028. In fact, we have a mission, Artemis II, that's set to launch in the very near future. It will be the first time we send American astronauts around the moon, more than a half century." "We want to follow that up with a landing and perhaps, you know, one of the most important parts of this new space policy is when they get there, it's not just to plant the flag and pick up some rocks, but establish the infrastructure, establish a lunar base and all the other things like our nuclear propulsion and nuclear power investments so we can set up missions beyond moon and to Mars." "We're not just going back to the moon the way we the way we did, you know, more than a half century ago, the president says, get there, establish the infrastructure so we can stay this time." "He said, make investments in nuclear power, nuclear propulsion, so we can launch missions, not just to enable commercial industry and American astronauts to go to Mars, which is part of the president's vision, but go beyond it." Jared Isaacman is the man for the job!
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🚨 BREAKING: Jared Isaacman was just SWORN IN as President Trump's NASA Administrator, and he's already talking about setting up shop on the Moon and going to MARS Let's go! 🔥🇺🇸 "A return to the moon. For sure, we want to do that before 2028. In fact, we have a mission, Artemis II, that's set to launch in the very near future. It will be the first time we send American astronauts around the moon, more than a half century." "We want to follow that up with a landing and perhaps, you know, one of the most important parts of this new space policy is when they get there, it's not just to plant the flag and pick up some rocks, but establish the infrastructure, establish a lunar base and all the other things like our nuclear propulsion and nuclear power investments so we can set up missions beyond moon and to Mars." "We're not just going back to the moon the way we the way we did, you know, more than a half century ago, the president says, get there, establish the infrastructure so we can stay this time." "He said, make investments in nuclear power, nuclear propulsion, so we can launch missions, not just to enable commercial industry and American astronauts to go to Mars, which is part of the president's vision, but go beyond it." Jared Isaacman is the man for the job!

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