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GRU Space

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GRU Space is building permanent lunar infrastructure to make humanity interplanetary within our lifetime, starting with the first hotel on the Moon. In just 6 weeks, we built the world's first Moon factory: patent-pending hardware that turns lunar regolith into bricks and inflates modular pressurized habitats designed to withstand lunar temperature

Founded 2025Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

GRU Space is building permanent lunar infrastructure to make humanity interplanetary within our lifetime, starting with the first hotel on the Moon. In just 6 weeks, we built the world's first Moon factory: patent-pending hardware that turns lunar regolith into bricks and inflates modular pressurized habitats designed to withstand lunar temperature and pressure extremes.

Our first mission lands on the Moon in 2027 to demonstrate in-situ brick manufacturing and habitat deployment. A second mission lays the hotel's foundation inside a lunar cave, and a third opens the first lunar hotel, targeted for 2032.

We don’t stop at Moon hotels. GRU’s long-term plan:

1. Build the first hotel on the Moon. GRU solves off‑world surface habitation.

2. Become the Moon Base Company of America: build roads, mass drivers, warehouses, and physical infrastructure.

3. Repeat on Mars and build the first cities there.

4. Own property on the Moon and Mars as these economies grow.

5. Reinvest profits into resource utilization systems on the Moon, Mars, asteroids, and beyond—reaching our final form: Galactic Resource Utilization.

GRU Space is backed by investors in SpaceX and Anduril, is part of Nvidia's Inception program, and our launch generated 1B+ views across 60+ countries, earning invitations to the White House, Senate, and Pentagon.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Previously Galactic Resource Utilization Space, Inc.

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Skyler Chan

Founder/CEO

Skyler (Founder & CEO) graduated early from Berkeley EECS to make humanity interplanetary in our lifetime. Previously, Skyler built vehicle software @ Tesla, built a NASA funded 3D-printer launched into space, and authored at the world’s largest space conference. Air Force-trained pilot at 16, aspiring astronaut since 3.

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5team members reported
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Location · source statedLos Angeles, CA, USA
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