GoKawiilA view of Earth, partially hidden by the Moon, photographed through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT (22:41 GMT) April 6, 2026, just three minutes before the Orion spacecraft and its crew went behind the Moon and lost contact with Earth for 40 minutes before emerging on the other side during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon.
People will be living and working on the moon within the next decade, according to the boss of space tech company Voyager Technologies .
"We'll have humans on the moon by the end of the 2020s, and we'll have some lunar base — it'll probably be an inflatable habitat with some life support," said the firm's chairman and CEO Dylan Taylor, speaking on a panel at CNBC's CONVERGE LIVE in Singapore on Thursday.
"Deeper into the 2030s, 2032, 2033, you'll be able to sit on your porch in upstate New York and look at the moon, and there'll be lights on the moon, because there'll be people living and working on the moon," Taylor said.
The U.S. is "by far" the global leader in commercial space, according to Dave Cavossa, president of the Commercial Space Federation, while the "moon economy" is about to boom, per a Deutsche Bank note in February. Elon Musk's SpaceX is this week courting analysts, sources say, ahead of plans for one of the most anticipated IPOs in history, and the company is now focused on "building a self-growing city on the Moon," which could happen in under 10 years according to Musk in a February social media post.
Meanwhile, Blue Origin announced in January that it would pause its suborbital space tourism flights to focus on establishing a "permanent, sustained lunar presence."
"Space has never been hotter," Taylor said on the sidelines of CONVERGE LIVE, describing the sector as "just getting started," in light of an anticipated "windfall" of funding from the U.S. government.