SpaceX and its CEO Elon Musk have been vocal about sending humans to Mars. But what about a much closer celestial body? In this inaugural episode of Elonology, host Deena Garzik talks about human settlement on the Moon with our guest Michael Mealling, the COO of Starbridge Venture Capital, President of The Moon Society, and CEO of the WayPaver Foundation.

Music: "Air Hockey Saloon" by Chris Zabriskie from freemusicarchive.org

Editor's note: We had some minor audio issues with this episode, but we thought the content was too good not to release. (I want to make clear: Michael was not interrupting Deena; an issue with track syncing eliminated the gap between her questions and Michael's answering.) Audio issues cause us pain, and we're working hard to make future episodes sound as good as possible! Thanks for bearing with us.