Infrastructure

Artemis II’s astronauts are on their way home—a six-figure salary but no overtime or hazard pay awaits them back on Earth

Google, SpaceX, and OpenAI are racing to monetize orbital infrastructure—testing space data centers by 2027, plotting lunar cities, and creating space-based careers for the next generation.

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Fortune AIBY sys://pipeline

Google, SpaceX, and OpenAI are positioning orbital infrastructure as the next frontier for computation and work. Google plans to test hardware for orbital data centers by 2027, while Elon Musk targets a self-sustaining lunar city within a decade and Sam Altman predicts space-based careers for Gen Alpha.

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Billionaire NASA chief who’s been to space twice says critics of billionaire space travel are ‘outright wrong.’

NASA administrator Jared Isaacman dismisses UN criticism of billionaire space ventures, defending continued commercial space investment by Musk, Bezos, and Branson as creating infrastructure benefits comparable to cellular networks.