None of this finishes in one career. That is not a problem with the plan. That is the plan.
We are not doing outreach. We are recruiting early, and we are telling you the same things we tell the engineers we hire this year, because you will be working on the harder half of it.
Run the dates. You are not early. You are on schedule.
If you are fifteen this year, you finish an aerospace or engineering degree around 2033, and you are three years into real work by 2036. Look at the list further down this page and notice that none of it will be finished by then. Not because the industry is slow, but because the work is genuinely that large.
That work is being handed to your class on purpose. The people building this company now are building the instruments, the measurements, and the first flights. The settlement that runs on them belongs to whoever shows up next, and we would rather that be people who chose it at fifteen than people who wandered into it at thirty.
Five problems nobody has solved. Pick one.
These are not exercises. They are the actual blocking problems between a lunar outpost that gets resupplied forever and a settlement that makes itself. Each one is somebody's career.
Power that survives the night
The lunar night runs about 354 hours. Every watt of solar generation stops, and the hardware has to still be alive on the other side of two Earth weeks in the cold.
Nobody has operated a commercial system through a full lunar night at the pole.
Oxygen out of the ground
Roughly forty percent of lunar regolith is oxygen, locked into oxides. Getting it out at useful rates, with power budgets that close, is a chemical engineering problem sitting on top of a thermal one.
It has been demonstrated in laboratories. It has never been run as a utility.
Pads that get used twice
Landing throws regolith at velocities that sandblast anything nearby. A surface that can take repeated landings is the difference between visits and operations.
There is no lunar construction industry yet. Someone has to be the first crew.
Structures made from what is already there
Everything shipped from Earth costs its mass in launch. A settlement that grows or prints its own structure from regolith and local material changes what is affordable by an order of magnitude.
The materials science is early, and early is where careers get made.
Proving any of it works before it flies
There is still no way to fully qualify hardware for the lunar environment on Earth. That is the gap this company was founded to close, and closing it is the beginning, not the end.
The measurement chain we are building is the instrument the rest of this list depends on.
We might not be the ones who finish it.
Companies like this one fail more often than they succeed. We are not going to pretend otherwise on the page where we ask a fifteen-year-old to plan around us. If you build your life around one company, any company, you have made a bet with worse odds than the one we are asking you to make.
Here is the better bet. The measurements outlive the company that took them. A method that gets adopted outlives the team that published it. Somebody has to go first, and the work survives whether or not the name on the building does. We intend to be the name on the building. We are going regardless.
Come and prospect with us.
Nothing about this requires our permission.
Learn to measure something precisely and prove your measurement was right. That single skill is the whole of what this company sells and most of what the problems above are made of. Build things that fail, and write down why. Read the papers, including the ones you do not understand yet.
When you are ready, and you will know, our door is the same one everyone else uses. There is no junior version of it.